WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2020
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Amber-Hubby is 1/2 Native American 1/2 mutt and I’m 1/3 native american and 2/3 mutt.Oldest child has dark straight hair and blue eyes,son has blonde curly Afro and blues eyes youngest daughter brown eyes blonde hair and she could pass for Hispanic.The picture of your two is Beautiful.
Debby in Va2 -
JR got the brown eyes brownish hair. Daughter Copper hair greenest cat eyes you’ll ever see.
Amber Tx
Inviting a friend to the group hoping she’ll come. She’s serving our country (USA) as a nurse has a 2yr old late in life like me. She’s in a divorce process feeling low needing friends to encouragement.Hoping she accepts cause many of us has been where she is. Good diets hard to accomplish for maximum energy to feeling good when surviving motherhood alone with a toddler,older age,y work that can be long hours. She’s a gentle hearted Woman she deserves friends.7 -
Flea - sorry for the cack-handed help! I know you, and should have known you had investigated all the information available.
Later y'all,
Love, Lisa
Oh, no. Not at all, Lisa. I appreciated the information. I wish I had more information or experience. So far, the state is not being very forthright with information (they are not responding to me), but I think they must talk to my husband -- he is the heir. Sometimes I don't think they realize that even though they do this every day, we have never done it before, so we have a lot of anxiety about the process. The letter just very onimously says that the lien must be satisfied "in a timely manner." Or else . . . what?
Flea
Willamette Valley, OR2 -
We had a fun Valentine's Day line dance class. Two people brought candy and there was more than enough. They sent the left-overs home with me to give to Jake. Here are some of the dances we did--"Te Quiero Mas", "All My Ex's Live in Texas", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "Seduced", "Love, JoAnn", "Come Back My Love". Lots of us wore red or pink shirts.
Barbie in NW WA9 -
Congrats Lanette!! Great job with the IF. I have been doing OMAD and my window is 12 noon to 3. I'm usually done by 2:00 pm but I nurse a coffee til 3:00. On the good side I had a coffee black today. It wasn't bad! I do like my 1.5 to of truiva sweetener, but that's slowly going down. I used to take my cup with 3. We had leftover spaghetti, and two meatballs so I had that at 12:30 today. Next time I will have the sauce but take the time to cook my veggie pasta.
Gone from 236 to 229.8 lbs. I feel a lot more clear headed these days.👍
💖Rebecca5 -
Happy Valentines day to each of you! My band of awesome ladies! An Athena Valentine with all its pink bow cuteness!
💖Rebecca10 -
Happy Valentines Day to all: I am a happy camper today. We have a new stainless steel electric water heater as of 6:00 pm yesterday. Able to do laundry and dishes today with hot water. I am not sure how my pioneer ancestors did it without indoor plumbing. Lots of hard work I guess. The new water heater does not need a vent and as luck would have it the roofer starts on Monday and will be able to remove the old vent and roof over the hole. Yay!
Rebecca - that picture of Athena is a perfect valentine. Thanks.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA8 -
Not much to contribute today. Meeting went well. Made it back to office and dealt with a few issues. Finished off with gym. Very pleased to have noticeable improvement in strength of left leg. Balance and stability show noticeable improvement.
Start off my Saturday with blood work and an echocardiogram (have one every year to check on aortic aneurism). It hasn't shown any change in years. Then I'll hit grocery. Want to get in a long walk outside tomorrow since it is supposed to be sunny and warmer. Hopefully will get an hour in. Then work on the basement clean out. Seeing if handyman from church can come by Monday to measure for doors I want replaced (getting white doors to replace the 1956 pine that have really served their duty!).
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio2 -
Sue in WA, no matter what anyone says about candy, flowers, or jewelry for Valentine's Day, I think a new working water heater is far better. Congratulations.
Barbie in NW WA5 -
Went to the pot luck. Interestingly, not a lot of the things were store bought. You can usually tell. Homemade soup, the spanakopita was bought, even a lot of the desserts were homemade. I probably went over on the calories, I felt I had to be nice and try a lot of things. Unfortunately, this also included some of the desserts. But I think on the whole I’ve been pretty good down here so it’ll all even out. I do have most of my food ready to go and logged for tomorrow. Only dinner, which I know will be something pretty light.
After the pot luck they asked me to play canasta. I did. But you know what? I’m getting a bit tired of cards all the time. I’d like to do something in addition to the cards. Maybe I’ll ask someone to play rummikub or Mexican train
JR - I hope your friend comes here. She’ll enjoy herself. Fantastic that she’s serving.
There isn’t a lot of the shrimp orzo salad left. I’m thinking that I’ll buy a small dish and take it to my cousins when we see her later next week. Or maybe I’ll give it to my one neighbor here. I think that’s a better idea. As it is now, I’m taking chocolate chip cookies and a grapefruit pie to her. But I’ll need to buy a small dish, maybe at the thrift store or else at the dollar store. Glad I took the spoon down that I did, they must have taken it. But that’s OK, it was just something that I got at the Salvation Army, so what did I lose? 50 cents?
Rebecca – you couldn’t have given a better V Day gift
Michele now in FL
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My broken foot is keeping me awake at night. It's the foot that broke at the same time that I broke both ankles while sight seeing at Mesa Verde National Park. It's been seen by 3 orthopedic specialists and a podiatrist. All say it's the kind of fracture that can't be pinned back together surgically, and my best bet is to give the natural tissue time to grow and bridge the bone fragments and tendons together. Because it's not painful during the day, I tend to forget and engage in wrong activities or wear softer soled shoes, which just aggravate the situation. Grrrrr.
Rori
Just enjoying the beauty of NOW
Colorado Foothills
Has the podiatrist suggested a type of shoe to wear?
I have to wear very stiff-soled shoes with toes that come up in front a little bit for my situation and it sounds like stiff-soles shoes might be the way to go for you, but of course, you'd want to check.
Because it would be a pain to go out and buy all new shoes, I opted to get carbon fibre insoles. They don't bend! I've got both orthotics and the carbon fibre insoles in my most commonly used pair of shoes and my plan is to use those shoes until they're "done" and then move on to another pair ... rather than buying more shoes. But the combination of the orthotics and carbon fibre insoles means that the shoes are very stiff and my feet do like that better.Michele: “Went and played canasta. Tomorrow is the pot luck. Someone at canasta was talking about how they got a cake at the local grocery store which she thinks looked good. I just hope everything isn’t from a store." Food from the store might very well be safer than some people’s homemade food. :flowerforyou:
Yes!! When we have morning teas, I tend to go for the store-bought food more than the homemade food. Unless I know who made it.
And I usually bring store-bought food in case people are like me and feel uncomfortable with homemade.My doctor advised me to drink a glass of red wine nightly. It is NOT sitting well with me and I’m going to stop. I end up with acid reflux and late-night bathroom visits. :grumble:
You'd probably be better off eating a handful of grapes instead.OregonMother wrote: »Flea - sorry for the cack-handed help! I know you, and should have known you had investigated all the information available.
Later y'all,
Love, Lisa
Oh, no. Not at all, Lisa. I appreciated the information. I wish I had more information or experience. So far, the state is not being very forthright with information (they are not responding to me), but I think they must talk to my husband -- he is the heir. Sometimes I don't think they realize that even though they do this every day, we have never done it before, so we have a lot of anxiety about the process. The letter just very onimously says that the lien must be satisfied "in a timely manner." Or else . . . what?
Flea
Willamette Valley, OR
Sounds like it would be a good idea to talk to a lawyer.
Machka in Oz2 -
My husband is doing some harvesting ... he brought in a decent-sized cucumber and some lovely lettuces so I had a cheese and cucumber and lettuce sandwich for "breakfast". And I'm thinking of having another one!
The cucumber is really sweet ... not bitter. Sometimes they can be quite bitter but this one is nice enough I don't have to use salt.
Machka in Oz4 -
Stats for the day
MANUAL TREADMILL-walk/some sprints- 16.21min, 119ahr, 150mhr, 1mi= 122c
apple watch- 139c
STAIRCLIMBER- 20min, 122ahr, 131mhr, lvl6, 1080steps, 75floors= 159c
apple watch- 172c
ELIPTICAL- 15min, 10incl, 10resist, 1900strides, 142mhr, 1.37mi= 123c
apple watch- 131c
Total cal 4042 -
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Last day for the beast
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My friend made it now lol has to find the group.I added her on my account. Met her while gaming for fun found out we’re same age catagory with a 2yr old!
Taylordebraa8007 is her account.
Amber Tx2 -
Luci in WNC: I hope you make your 50th.
Barbie: I love Bad, Bad Leroy Brown! I wish I could have seen your group dancing to it. :bigsmile:
Sue in WA: Congrats on your new water heater!!! :flowerforyou:
Machka: I’m working on meeting my doctor’s instructions. I dribbled a bit of red wine into a big glass of sparkling water. So far, my tummy is okay with it. Grapes are a good idea.
Our 50th wedding anniversary is coming up in March, but we’re going to save the celebration until summer when our kids can come. We want to visit the place we got married with them and our grandchildren. It is a state park on a cliffside overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In due time, hopefully a long time from now, we hope to have our ashes scattered from there. Our kids have been there with us when they were still in school. They will have to be the ones to scatter our ashes, so they need to see the place again. The day we were married was magical. It was sunny with a very gentle breeze. We could see whales migrating north for the summer. There are lots of good memories— Among many other good things, my cat attended the wedding on a leash. :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon4 -
"Todo"s and "done"Done: carry over 10 mins cleaning Dining Room, Living Room, BB&B, Freddie’s, Post Office, Library, recycling, Pancho’s, line dancing.Carol ((hugs))
Bonus: 18 mins deep clean DR, ½ load laundry.
ToDo: make rum frosting for mini cakes, invest 10 mins cleaning Office, carry over 10 mins cleaning Master & Guest Bds, Master Bth, dog group, follow up for DEXA scan appt, install iCloud for Win 10, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, bake bran muffins, call Carolyn D. Next week Shadow to Mini Pet Mart to shop for crate, get Shingrix vaccine. Reward: inventory seeds, plan garden, order replenishments.
NYKaren your “to do”s sound just right!
Welcome MauraTex!
Marianne, I can’t imagine caring for 2 girls 5+ hrs/day, 5 days a week, especially since they don’t listen to you. ((hugs))
Pip Last day for the beast? Are you selling your Suburban?
Too tired (but it’s a good tired) to comment further.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMODFebruary: better than January.
daily: steps=7662 vits=11.5 log=14 CI<CO=11 CI<250<CO=9 Tumble 5/10=9 mfp=14 outside=9 clean 10 mins=9 up hill=14
wkly: BB&B x3=6, rx=2 dance=4 pack walk=2
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Expecting Storm Dennis today and tomorrow. Edie is coming over for a 1 to 1 tomorrow, so they might get a bit wet running from the car! I'm very sorry for the communities up North who are expecting flooding for the second time in a week. Our neighbour's fence is leaning, so it might go over this time.
Marianne - I can't imagine doing that amount of child care, especially as it doesn't seem to be giving you joy. I adore my grandchildren, but only in small doses. I don't even do much of it as my DH is fantastic at keeping them happy. If it causes you difficulties I would have a quiet word with the parents about their behaviour and maybe a family get together where you can all work out rules together round a table. They can take part in the discussion, make suggestions, and you can draw up a Bill Of Rights between you. Pin it on the wall. Penalties apply if they don't keep their side of the bargain. And rewards if they do.
Of course, you can always decide to resign from your position. Are they paying you a good salary? Child care like that is fiendishly expensive!
Seriously though, I hope you can work something out with your son. I'm a very selfish person and I'm good at saying NO. I realise that family circumstances can make things difficult. But your happiness is important too. Good luck!
My cleaner has hurt her back falling on someone's stairs. Oh well. I will do a quick surface clean of the public areas, otherwise it will be a month to next weekend. Luckily this is a clean house with not much dust etc. We are tidy and always do the kitchen anyway.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
Heather My 10 year old granddaughter's birthday is the same as my sister's (the one who committed suicide). For years after my sister's death, her birthday was a source of guilt & grief for me because I hadn't called her on her birthday. I always called her on her birthday! I punished myself over it every year. When my granddaughter was born it helped me to move on. Now it's mostly her birthday I'm thinking of.
Carol What a pain that both the car & the garage door are on strike. And so sad for you & your husband still 29 years later. Crushing to lose his parents both at once, even all these years later.
NYKAREN I like your list of important stuff! Have a great week! You so deserve it.
Marianne Children that age can be impossible, and 25-30 hours a week is a lot. I vote for the family meeting. Ditto what Barbara said, and Heather's suggestions are spot on.
Katla I seem to remember that you made a conscious decision not to have alcohol at some point in your life, and it is currently giving you heartburn. Don't drink it. Your doctor just mentioned it because you were doing everything right already & she couldn't come up with any other suggestions. You can get just as much resveratrol from grapes, blueberries, & raspberries. Your wedding day sounds so very lovely, and left you with such amazing memories.
Tracey Twins but a generation apart! Photos of your girls in the same dress: priceless.
Rori Yea for financial windfalls!
Lanette Isn't that weird about the diverticulosis? I got the same news from my recent colonoscopy, and yet the one 10 years ago showed very few diverticuli. And I eat fiber. So what's with that?
Amber Ick. I guess JR will be keeping your chimney flue emptied out from now on. Good little man. Love the picture of your daughter sneaking a snuggle with her brother.
Lisa I, for one, would find sarcastic greeting cards irresistible. That card company missed out on that opportunity! You could probably print them yourself. And sell them online. I'd be one of your customers.
Debby in VA Gorgeous photo. Love the matching jammies.
Flea "Timely". Ha. From a bureaucratic government agency.
Barbie The Valentine's Day line-dancing sounds like it was really fun. And Jake got a goodies windfall!
Michele I'd be cautious with keeping & gifting a leftover seafood dish, especially if it sat out for very long. It sounds as if you were pleased with most of the food that was brought for the pot luck.
Rebecca Melting heart. Thank you for the Athena Valentine. What a dolly.
Sue So satisfying to have that new stainless steel hot water heater and a nice hot shower.
Machka Envious of your fresh garden produce. I love a sweet cucumber.
Pip That car looks new. What a detailing job! Geez! The Beast looks Fab!
And…Yogi is the bomb.
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Yesterday (day 1 of a 3-day meet) my granddaughter improved 2 of her swimming times, but was still disappointed in her performance. She is trying to qualify for the state championships in the 11-12 age group because she will turn 11 soon. Swimmers who age up between the district & state meets face this challenge. I love watching her. She is the mother hen and life coach of the other girls on the team. But she doesn't want anyone to talk to her before she swims. She walks away from her mom (a swimmer) before she races.
Two photos from years past showing how she is before a race:
Karen in Virginia9
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