WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020
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Thanks for starting us off Barbie.
I forgot it was a new month and just posted this in May. (Same post)
@Sharon Monkey mind is "unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_mind I had more of the anxiety and the other woman alone said she couldn't stop her thoughts was always busy busy in thought even when alone in confinement.
@Margaretturk I'm so sorry you and your son had to go through that with the police. That seems horrible to me. When I was a teen lived in a working class mostly white neighbourhood and it was known that the police would often beat up and possibly worse, working class white teens they caught drinking beer. People said most of the police were trouble makers when teens and just went to the other side of fighting. Here I have a friend who's s.o, is a policeman from the West Indies. I think it was probably just one option of job for someone not into school. he's very kind and was able to take early retirement at around 55, and now drives a van for handicapped people. he seems to be very good at this more caring profession and is glad not to deal w the stress of being a cop.
@Machka and @Suzi I would not do a phd at this point if not working in higher ed or some other specific goal. it's stressful. and a lot of work. and in a few decades we'll no longer be there. there is something to be said to be moving up the ladder to become director (thus a possibly interest in phd for you), women are often hesitant to do so, but then if you are introverted I wonder if that would make you happy. I have most definitely heard that phd is not seen as a plus for some jobs. I have a friend who's an artist and cameraman for weddings etc, and she does NOT put her phd in her cameraman CV/resumé. also in sciences it can make person look more abstract and less pragmatic, (im told) and in arts also it can make artist look like researcher and not artist (I'm told by artist w phd who's a tenured teacher). Like what famous visual artist has a phd? (writers, surely there are many; and people in all sorts of sciences including political sciences). I have some friends who have said their Phds had not served them at all. I'm not sure if it's so black and white. funnily enough we don't use the phd letters and I'm a bit adverse to that. definitely ill at ease, about resentment from family about me having a higher degree
@Heather thanks for understanding how hard it is for solos (or some of us) at present. I have a couple of solo friends who love the confinement, one is introverted and often tired and has too much travel at her work and is intending to change jobs soon ; and the other is big into meditation so loves the sort of more introverted situation of most everyone. She regrets the move to partial deconfinement, but she is 65, has been retired since before 40 (sold jewellery and then retired very early) spends weeks in hermitages and things like that.
bumps/rash, I'm thinking it might be spider or other little bug bites. I live in a 500 sq meters on 6th floor w long balcony and wall of 2/3 window-doors giving onto the balcony. I keep them open very much of the time, so with a few plants inside and outside it's quite conceivable and probable that some bugs get in. it doesn't seem to be spreading like a rash usually does. Also I went to parks 2x this weekend, on Sunday I lay on the grass. I'll keep an eye on its development. since I had bumps during confinement and my GP thought it could be serious and I had an online appointment with dermatolist at her suggestion who prescribed medication (3x a day for a week, but have to start very fast for effectiveness) in a rush for shingles and then lab test of bump showed it not to be shingles....I'm hesitant to run to the dr again. When older there is always this or that to check out. I'll keep an eye for now.2 -
@Sharon actually I did procrastinate yesterday! I realised today (Monday) is a holiday here and thought maybe it's not necessary to send doc for this morning. in fact it's sort of a semi holiday here: optional. Today is another day.
A friend told me about a tongue and cheek book that talks half jokingly half seriously about the pros of procrastination (learning about stuff while surfing on wikipedia, etc).
Yesterday I went to the park, read, walked a bit, bought a pastry, went to on AWESOME online buddhism class. I was feeling: it's Sunday, I need to kick back.
I went to 3 of the tiny nearby neighborhood parks. usually you would have mostly more working class people there: the more middle class people and wealthy will be away for weekend, or in a museum or a class, or in country house, or visiting friends or in a restaurant or café. I LOVED the diversity: clearly all sorts of people were in the parks. I am pretty sure local outdoor life will have increased after confinement. previously you would very rarely see people sitting on a bench in the street chatting. now it's normal (since cafés are closed and parks were closed for several weeks in phase 1). I love that. I went to Italy some decades ago and people would be sitting on benches till late (10pm at least), even little old ladies, just chatting together. Before the parks opened many people took too finding the comfortable curb, step, etc, to sit on on quiet greenish sidestreets which became like mini-parks. people were still using them yesterday even if the parks were open.
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QUESTION: do you track all your food every day? Exercise ? weight ?1
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I was in two minds whether to go running this morning because of my stiff knee, but I strapped it up as the sports physio had shown me and got myself out of the door by 8.05 am. I am so glad I did. The Hoveites had reclaimed the promenade and the beach. Just the locals out there, running, walking, swimming, canoeing. Blue, blue, sparkling calm sea. Cooling breeze.
The only small downside was that the weekend tourists, grrrrrr, had piled their trash up beside the bins and the breeze had blown it across in some places. Most of it had already been cleared up though.
I was so happy to be out there and I don't think my knee was any the worse when I got back. I then did half an hour of rowing to top up my calories and will add a couple of hundred after lunch.
What a great start to the day, month.
The car is being serviced today. We don't have to have an MOT at the moment because of the crisis, but they are doing the services now. Because DH opted for the 5 year service they come and collect the car, do the service, valet it, and bring it back. We have not used the car since Dec 31st, except for running it once a week to top up the battery and driving a short distance to unstick the brakes. It just sits there burning money. If DH didn't need it to get to the cricket (one day ) we could get rid of it. I haven't driven since we moved here.
Thank you Barbie for keeping me sane and to all of you I have been here nearly 8 years now.
Welcome to the new people. :flowerforyou:
Well, on with my memoir. Sending love and hugs to all.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5 -
bananasandoranges wrote: »QUESTION: do you track all your food every day? Exercise ? weight ?
Exercise ... yep!
Every single day I have exercised since April 29, 1990.
Machka in Oz4 -
Happy June everyone! Thank you, Barbie for keeping us going!
Welcome Sue, Meghan and welcome back Sandhillsmombananasandoranges wrote: »QUESTION: do you track all your food every day? Exercise ? weight ?
I exercise daily- 20 minutes of yoga and 60 minutes of some type of cardio (sometimes it is a 30/30 min split of cardio and strength) IF...I want to be successful in staying with a food plan, I have to log everything. Otherwise it is too easy to "treat" myself and forget that I already "treated" myself. I weigh once a week, for now. More than that, and I find I am obsessing about my weight/food intake. I don't like where my head is at when I obsess about anything; so once a week is enough.
We have had a couple of protest marches in neighboring towns this past weekend. The one in Grand Rapids (25 miles away) ended (after the protesters went home) with rioting in the streets, car fires, businesses broken into and vandalized...That happened Saturday evening. The protest march in Muskegon, changed their Sunday march time to mid afternoon. After the march someone on a loud speaker thanked the protesters for the peaceful showing and encouraged them to disperse. Not sure if the troublemakers showed up in the evening and caused trouble. According to police interviews, the violence and destruction is coming from a coordinated group. They have an app that notifies them of marches, they have ear pieces that they wear and headsets to communicate and coordinate, they even have military grade gas masks. Some people say Antifa, some people say hate groups; but the police have identified one group in particular. I personally think that for every peaceful movement out there, there are people who don't want that and will make it their mission to "sew discord" to keep peace and peaceful change from happening.
Well, I better run. I have Baby Ayla starting today! My 100th child in my care and my 1st, second generation baby (I watched her mama when she was young). Hugs to all that need them! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)7 -
Happy June to all. The flower you asked about is a Clematis vine. Here is another one,diff color like we had for many years at our old house.What a show stopper it was,as it tried to go over the roof.
BETH IN BUFFALO,nice to see you too. It ‘s been too long.
Hope all goes well with your son’s drive to Nashville.
Plan today is no TV,seeing a dermatologist,visiting DD.....on her porch,staying 6’ apart,
starting a paper back I don’t remember having,no TV,maybe a nap &
Just enjoying this day of no TV.
Someone mentioned not getting masks they ordered. Same here.
The co says things are so busy etc,etc.
Why are they still taking orders when they can’t fill orders now?
Thinking my money is now their money,boo!
So many scams out there........Still it’s a beautiful,sunny day! Enjoy
Pat in Oh
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Thanks for giving us a fresh start again this month Barbie!
Okie in the TX Hill Country1 -
Happy June!
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Thanks, Barbie! Well done on remembering to post the link, LOL!!!
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Ah Pat!!! This is so pretty!
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I am going to an orthopedist with my spouse for follow-up after her December Achilles tendon surgery. She has had complications from the surgery; especially, we think, from the general anesthesia. Also, a large part of her foot is still numb more than 6 months after the surgery. The surgeon has yet to address any of the complications, not surprisingly, but today I am going to advocate for my spouse to negotiate the signing of disability forms, pin down the plan for evaluating the numb foot, and discuss her delayed improvement secondary to disruption of her Physical Therapy by the pandemic. It's too bad we can't meet with the anesthesiologist who presided over the medical aspects of the surgery, but that is not traditionally done in the USA, so her post-anesthesia syndrome will have to be evaluated by another doctor, her neurologist, who does not have an appointment open until September. I don't expect the orthopedist to be patient while I drone on about all of these issues, most of which he will not address, so I am making a punch list to hand him and tell him what we need from him. I have filled out almost the entire disability form, all he has to do is sign it and tell us when our next visit is. I hope he will sign it as I have written it, but he may refuse. Wish us luck!
Karen in Virginia
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Hi Barbie! I’m new to the community and look forward to getting to know everyone. I fell off the wagon, but I’m climbing back on today.
Happy June!
Laura-Missouri6 -
I made jam this evening!!
Some of you may recall that I was debating what to do with the multitude of apples we have ... well, I decided to make jam.
I used this recipe, but I added a bit of brown sugar too because it was quite sour. The apples from our tree didn't sweeten like I had hoped they might.
It made 2 jars which are currently sitting on the counter and cooling. Later tonight I'll pop them in the freezer and quite possibly on the weekend I'll give one a try. But they are setting up nicely.
We did not use all the apples (my husband helped me core and peel them), but did use at least a third of them. So if the jam is nice, I might make more.
At least with jam, I only use a bit at a time on toast etc. ... unlike an apple crisp of which I would eat a much larger quantity.
https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/apple-freezer-jam/dc746a1b-78ed-4e63-8efc-3aadb3e6453b
Machka in Oz2 -
Retired for the second time & facing my 58th birthday. I want to go through retirement lean & lively, so here I am again trying to lose those stubborn 10 pounds.
Dee - Alabama8 -
@lkds68 - Laura-Missouri
@2016goalreached - Meghan - Denver, CO
@sandhillsmom
@SueMiconi
And any other newcomers ...
Just join into the conversations wherever you feel comfortable.
Machka in Oz
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Karen - You must be that orthopedist 's worst nightmare. You go girl!
My friend with the sliced tendon in her toe had a similar catalogue of problems. Grrrrrr! She was a senior midwife uni teacher, so was able to give them a hard time. She didn't want money, just to give them feedback and get them to improve.
Duck legs tonight with roasted cauliflower. My Tricolore salad was HEAVENLY. One of my favourite things.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
Logging - Yes, I have logged every day apart from on the cruises. I log my regular morning exercise as Copy Yesterday, , but not my bonus. I log all my food, but often use the Add Calories option and add up ingredients in my head. I take those shortcuts as otherwise it would be too complicated. I don't track macros as I know I'm eating well.
I eat the same breakfast, same dessert every day, so that's easy copy.
If I don't log it all goes to h..l in a hand cart.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Barbie - thanks! Can't believe it's June already!
Nothing to report for last month other than onward and upward.
Glitter stuff - appears to be good news, but please skip if overwhelmed by the past several crazy months:Here's an article in NPR.... pretty eye opening. Hopefully a sign that work and businesses can open up without a lot of worry. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/28/863944333/antibody-tests-point-to-lower-death-rate-for-the-coronavirus-than-first-thought?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social
Welcome new ladies! Let's make it a fabulous week!
Lanette
Sunny SW WA State
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bananasandoranges wrote: »@Machka and @Suzi I would not do a phd at this point if not working in higher ed or some other specific goal. it's stressful. and a lot of work. and in a few decades we'll no longer be there. there is something to be said to be moving up the ladder to become director (thus a possibly interest in phd for you), women are often hesitant to do so ...
3 of the 5 directors I've had in the last 6.5 years have been women with a doctorate and most higher-ups in my overall Department are doctors of the PhD variety or of the medical variety.
And in asking around it seems like just about everyone else on my floor has a Master's degree and has had since their 20s or 30s.
However, in my immediate area of 8 people, when I get the Master's I think I'll have the highest level of education!!
As I mentioned, first I'll finish my Master's ... then I'll rest from all education ... then, when the time is right, I'll focus on skills. But I've got a lot to do after I finish my Master's and I want to get on top of things before I take on anything else. I've been putting things off for a long time.
Machka in Oz4 -
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Morning ladies
I cant tell you how wonderful it feels to sleep in my own bed.
Its a chilly day here for the first day of June and i am just relaxing and having my tea
Then i will get up and get moving.but enjoying tea ahhhhh
Im not taking care of Faith for 4th of July as they are worried about how it will be taking her up north ..
My birthday is the 30th of the month and yes I will be 60..
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Thanks Barbie for the new month, can't believe we are into June already.
I've not logged my food for months, I really should start again. Had a Tuna salad for lunch today, quite enjoyed it. I'm not a big salad lover to be honest, so many things I don't like - tomatoes, cucumber, peppers (good job I like lettuce )
Challenging myself to log all food for the whole of June. Let's see if I can do it.
So sad about the troubles in the states Keep safe those of you in the trouble spots.
Things are slowly moving here, I'm a little concerned it may be too soon, but we'll see. I know some of the schools have re-opened today and some shops are opening too. Vulnerable people have been advised to keep to the lockdown until the end of the month at least.
Welcome newbies
Take care and love to all
Viv UK
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