WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2020

There have been so many posts there is no way to catch up and comment on all of the goings on. I have been keeping up daily, but for my own sanity, have been skipping over the covid-19 panic posts and only have been reading the sound advice.

It’s very sad here. The beach cleanup scheduled for next week has been cancelled. I am still trying to figure out why since it was taking place in a huge beach park and everyone there would be able to keep a safe distance from each other. There has also been a notification the gleanings will probably stop until covid-19 passes. I keep thinking how are the food banks and soup kitchens going to keep up with demand which will certainly increase since many more will be without pay? I am fortunate, I can work remotely. The Florida workforce is mostly service-based so many employees must physically be at work.

I am certainly sending positive thoughts and prayers out to the world. I am hoping the precautions we are all taking stops/slows the virus and we can get back to normal.

Michelle – I hope your doctor is able to assist with getting your prescription added to your insurance. They can contact them and say it is the only drug that works for you and the insurance companies will make a exception so you can pay a reasonable price.

JanetO – Sorry to hear about the delay of your anniversary trip. Like many others are finding it is better to be safe. Most of the schools here are actually starting spring break a week early and will be looking how to incorporate distance learning until things go back to normal.

Tere – Sending positive thoughts the dermatologist is able to figure out what is going on with your skin and the current treatment is giving you some type of relief.

Allie – Sorry about your tax bill. Please note the IRS does have payment plans and working through one isn’t too bad.

Machka – Congratulations on completing the course. You’re almost there! Funny about cleaning your work office area. When I worked for a rather fast-growing software company I was move 14 times in a year and a half. I learned to keep it light including printed paper. I could pack my desk and fit it in to one standard paper box.

Mary from AZ/MN – I agree 100%. We are over informed and it’s causing much panic and craziness. Many people around me are starting to show signs of depression too.

Lisa – Oh, little Levi – how adorable is he! Haley is a cutie.

Heather – I agree with Okie – 100% now is better than maybe 125%. The cake is adorable. Bea looked very reflective in her birthday picture.

Karen – Lilly is adorable. She is growing so quickly.

Terri – The watercolor is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Margaret – I love the honeymoon picture. The two of you look so happy together.

Karen – I love the picture of Oliva and Phoenix.

Barbie – I love the Linus blanket. Thank you for sharing.

Lanette – I was just thinking about a rice/bean salad for my lunches next week. So sorry to hear about your brother and his family’s health challenges. Glad to hear everyone is on the mend. Poor baby a gallstone under two!

Samand – I think the Prediction Meme is probably going to turn out to be true. LOL!

I signed up for Prevention’s 5k Virtual Walk which is scheduled for May 2nd. It’s interesting I was a total couch potation a mere six months ago and am now signing up for 5ks!

Hugs to all and prayers for those in need.
SuziQ – SFL

Lanette - Sorry to hear about your brother and family woes. I love my brother so much. He is diabetic 2 and seems to have other frailties. A little bit worried about him. He said they were coming to see me now that the weather is better, but I guess that's off now.
DH sat out in the car for 45 mins with the engine running to get the battery charged up. He will have to run the car more often.
DDIL is going ahead with birthday plans for her 40th, but my guess is it will be truncated. She is quite sanguine. We are game for anything.
Just hope we don't get total lock down, but it may happen. The au pair wants to get back to her parents in Spain for Easter, but I'm not seeing it.
DDIL's father is having to pay a huge bill on Monday for their whole family holiday in Malta at the end of May. He is hoping the credit card company will foot the bill if it doesn't happen. Who knows? He seems resigned and hopeful it will be over by then.
Enjoyed our day, especially our evening blinis and Prosecco.

Son not sure about how secure his new job is, AF drinks and hospitality industry. He might have to lay a rep off next week. My son says he has funding for a year, but all is so uncertain. My DDIL can do a lot of psychotherapy consulting from home on Skype.
Che sera sera.

Settling down with repeat of Midsomer Murders. :drinker:

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Since our library is closed for a month and I've gotten Elly Griffiths fever now, (Thank you Carol, Betsy, Heather and Karen!) I just remembered we have a huge used bookstore in town that I'm sure will be open. I'll head in there next week and see if he has any Elly Griffiths on the shelf. They are usually $1 each.

I'm nearly done with the new Ann Cleeves book.... I tend to race through them so I can see how they end. Hope to get it done tonight.

Saw Women Rowing North on my bookshelf and might give that another read (Betsy).

SuziQ - how strange they are stopping the gleaning over this, but better safe than sorry I guess.

I see my little bistro mentioned earlier is now offering "curb side" service. Great idea! If nothing else, folks are using their noodles and being creative. Love small business owners!

Heather - I'm currently re-watching Season 15 of Midsomer Murders! Every night I take my little tablet to bed and get in another episode.

Karen in VA - great Christmas present idea!! One of my girlfriends got the cutest little mini pit-bull. I asked her how much it cost in toilet paper rolls. The new currency, right?

Kylia - great photo of you and your granddaughter. I keep thinking you should be in the 40 year old MFP group. Glad to hear business was good today! Bet it will do fine, and I think people will start feeling better soon.

Lanette
SW WA State

Took a small nap this morning and now still wide awake.. trying to figure how to work this whole thing

Hi Gals,

Karen in Vir. – hope the time with your grandson went better than expected

Travels - hugs to all who have had to cancel; it is always a bit hard to give up something you were looking forward too.

Terri – your watercolor is amazing!

KJ – I love your airport people watching commentary!

Allie – good job to just leave, this is a work chapter that is good to leave behind.

So an interesting week, the camp I work for provides outdoor science camp for 4,5,6th graders (about 9-11 year olds) well the schools are being closed so they are cancelling their camp reservations. And that runs downhill, no camp monies no staff needed (or at least less staff needed) They are not laying us off but giving us a few unpaid days each week and having us work on other projects around camp. So Wednesday is a work in the garden day – there will be 7 of us for most of the day. That’s nice. At this point we are off for most of the next 2 weeks. It’s a tough thing for all of us. It is also a very quiet time in the embroidery world. I spent some of today working on an embroidery newsletter, an email to some garden club members to see if anyone needed embroidery and some canning – I turned a frozen chicken carcass into broth and froze my jars of broth, and made up 2 batches of marmalade from oranges and grapefruit I was given.

Kim from N. California

I do want to share some good news too. DS son called me from the hospital today. He has not been able to have a reasonable converstation with me since November 19. I cried. What he has suffered in the last twelve years with his illness is a testament to what we can survive. He asked me if I have ever been tortured. I reponded yes. What I didn't say to him at the time because he was not in a place to understand. Watching what happened to him was torture. The fact he still has faith after everything he has been through humbles me.

So yes I do understand how an illness can be a marathon and not a sprint. So yes I know these are unsettling times.
Yes, we will grow through this.

Margaret

It's just been announced that there's a good chance my nose repair (severely deviated septum) and my husband's hernia repair may have to wait.

I do understand and I have been breathing with one nostril for most of my life.

Which reminds me, I read something about the symptoms of COVID-19 which said that you'll feel like you can't breathe and are drowning and I had to laugh. That's me with every single cold since I can remember. Everyone else is there at work with a small case of the "the sniffles" and I'm there wheezing and gasping for air, blowing my nose, hacking up gunk, taking handfuls of medication to try to open a small air passageway somewhere.

I was hoping to get my deviated septum fixed so I could breathe during my next cold, but ... it'll happen later.


M in Oz