WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020
Replies
-
Michele - I couldn’t believe you were paying that price for Cream of Tartar in the states. I checked on Amazon here in Canada and it’s gone up exponentially here too! I don’t use it often but man it’s pricy!
Machka - Is today you’re husbands birthday? If so, happy birthday to him.
I have made a few photo books now using London Drugs and Costco. They are fun to make. I think that is what I’ll do to make books for my girls for Christmas. I need to get at that project. Maybe I’ll start working on it tomorrow.
Dlfk202000- I was having that issue with my husband as well for a lot of years. I felt very used. I am so grateful that he finally started listening to my concerns a couple of years ago. I am happier now than I had been for a long time. I hope you have the same soon.
Julie - I would have left too. I find it very odd that she would leave him there when you were the only guest. I hope you have a great time on your next adventure.
Faye - I love romance novels, I like the escapism of them. I also like a nice mystery and biographies. I’m be often thought about writing but never bring myself to try it.
Lisa - I found music again this year when Covid struck. I got so anxious listening to the news after working in the thick of it that in the evenings I started watching all of the live concerts that performers were doing. Watched a lot of YouTube concerts and just turned on music on my phone. It’s so nice to just sit back and listen.
Machka - I am currently an Aspiring Book Lover, I don’t read as much as I used to. My daughter is a true book lover. Has been since she learned to read.
Faye - in Ontario they have made it legal for women to go topless in public.
My work - about 5 of us have been trying to come up with a way of notifying the board of our issues without risking our jobs. We believe from a meeting we had that if we put a complaint in to the board they show her the complaint. So one of the gals is working on creating an email to send anonymously to all board members. Asking them to please investigate and give some of the behaviour without any specifics. She is creating an email and has a VPN blocker so it can’t be traced. It is a very stressful situation.
Tonight I am going for a pedicure with my girls and my cousins daughter. Her Grandfather and I were actually first cousins. Her mother and I were the same age though and I babysat this girl when she was young. She is the same age as my youngest daughter.
Well I should get up and do something. So far this morning I’ve made a coffee, had toast and sat here on my phone.
Tracey in Edmonton5 -
Kim: Happy Birthday. 🎂🎈🎁0
-
Happy birthday 🎂 Kim!0
-
I've seen all the birthday wishes for Kim and didn't know it was her birthday, but if it is - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND!!!!
Love Heather UK XXXXXX1 -
Peachy: I’ll try this two ways. The first will be in color, the second will divide the marks to keep it from showing in color. Use a backward slash after your colored word [ color /= red ] to stop the color I added spaces so you can see the commands better. I hope it helps.
Peachy [ color = red ]
Peachy [ color = blue ]
Katla in Beauftiful NW Oregon
1 -
THANKS1
-
0
-
0 -
Happy Birthday Kim0
-
Happy Birthday KIM!💖🎂🎁🎀0
-
Did a 10 Minute Tighten and Tone Pilates DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Hillard Method Total Body Workout. This is a new one so we shall see.
Barbara – yes, $11.71 for cream of tartar. A 1.5oz container. You would think it was saffron, huh? Well, they bought it from Amazon and resold it to me. They added their markup. So if people use their home delivery, just look out for how much you are charged and where the item is coming from. We always have someone come into the house to take care of the cats while we’re away even for one night. Well, Loki needs his med which is why we need someone to come even if we're away for one night.
We have to take Loki to the vet. They’re going to work us in. He started limping yesterday. We have no idea why. Jess looked at him and thinks it’s his leg
I like to keep my hair somewhat long right now so that I can pull it back for the soup kitchen
Lisa – the biggest problem I have with making bread is that I am not good with yeast. But I used to make a lot of bread in the breadmaker
I’m applying for a job at Food Lion. Need to go there Monday at 1:30 for what I would say is an interview. At least I can earn the money for the landscaping and I don’t have to listen to Vince commenting all the time about how expensive it is.
Tracey – Cream of Tartar isn’t that expensive in the store. I think it’s around $3. If you divide the price for 6 from Amazon, it works out to around $3 for each container. WalMart made some profit off me, that’s for sure!
Kim – happy birthday
Went to the Salvation Army. Got a shirt that I don’t know if I need. Then went to Food Lion to see if they got my application. I would have sworn that they didn’t but they did. Supposedly I was to get a confirmation, but I never did. Then stopped at the dollar store to see if they had any yarn. They only had small things of this really thick stuff. Then went to Dollar General who doesn’t sell any yarn but I got a few more dishtowels. Then home and in the pool. Oh, early this a.m. we took Loki to the vet. He doesn’t have anything broken, they think it’s probably just a sprain so we’re TRYING to keep him from jumping. You try keeping a cat from jumping….good luck
Michele NC
2 -
I"m finding it so hard to get motivated with quarantine and not having friends to work out with. Anyone up for virtual workouts?
2 -
Happy Birthday KIM0
-
"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: T’ai Chi, pick up pooches,Altruistic August
Bonus: sanded platform on top Aunt Elsie’s stove and applied first coat of OSPHO.
Get to do: clean something, practice new dances (Turning Tables, Nothing but You, Shake it like that, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right); transplant bean, make garlic almonds for Barb and Dan; prep potato area and raised beds for beets, carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes and sow; finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine. Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments. Sunday board meeting reminder, board meeting prep,
8: Give to help a local charity: H20 to SDA soup kitchen Sunday. Monday make appointment to drop off stuff at Humane Society Thrift store.
Rebecca ((hugs))
Welcome @Germank106 !
Machka when you find a source for that social distancing enforcer, please let me know.
Faye enjoyed your Hotel Swanky story, too bad you didn’t get second (and third, fourth, fifth if need be) opinion on your novel How many rejections has Steven King had?
Annie “spray [you] with mint water”? Wow! Googled your resort and took two virtual tours, now I’m craving umbrella drinks and mint sprays
Barbie enjoy your dancing!
Margaret
Lisa , and was it Yvonne ?, you gals who regularly bake bread for meals have my admiration. Have neither the energy nor the knack.
Tracy I’m with whoever (was it Vicki?) who suggested that someone should let the board know. Hard that you have no HR to field/investigate such complaints. Would the gal who’s resigning consider sending an exit letter to the board?
Debbie I’m not a lover of tomatoes, but will borrow your breadless BLT substituting avocado, cucumber for the slimy red stuff and put on a bed of romaine. Thanks!
Rori
Michele, I’m not much of a people person, but the few I like, I really like. Not being able to hug is the hardest thing for me. $11.71 for cream of tartar? No way!
Katla I am so with you about perms. Never again!
Pip your boss was still at the carwash all these years later? Wow!
The pooches survived their first night away from us EVER with no obvious scars. Joe and I have been tippy toeing around each other as he was completely opposed to using a pet sitter, wanted to board the babes at the vet. I was insistent to try as it would be a more homelike environment, and I have hard memories of my first dog catching distemper when boarded at the vet’s in 1960. Back in the day we didn’t know to immunize our dog, and the vet didn’t tell us. It still hurts. Now of course the vets require immunizations to board, and it would have been an ok fallback option, but I’m glad I stuck to my guns despite his opposition. I think he was afraid if something bad happened I’d blame him as it’s his surgery that makes us need to board them. He finally relaxed enough to make a joke, that I pretended to take well ;}. Later he even selected a dvd he knew I’d enjoy and came into the house and watched it with me. That was a pleasant change, we’ve been retreating to our own spaces for most of the past week. I took it as a peace offering, and am much relieved.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
August: better than July.
daily: steps>5491=2816 vits=8 log=7 CI<CO=6 CI<250<CO=4 Tumble & Shadow 5=5 mfp=7 outside=2 up hill=2
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3=3 rx=1 dance=1 clean 30 mins=
mnthly: board mtg= grant=1 20for20=
bonus: AF=4 play= sew=
He is the owner. , the guy under him is still there too, that guy trained me. He was on vacation so I didn’t see him that day. The running joke was That everyone That quit or left always came back. When I left there to move to San Jose, they said. You’ll b back, I said, uhh no I won’t. Yesterday when I saw my boss, I told him I moved back. We chatted, and b4 I left I told him, no I won’t apply, not coming back, he laughed3 -
0
-
Machka - I thought of you when I saw this. I know you do delivery but still.3 -
The coolest room in the house is 82° at 10.30 pm. I am upstairs with the fan blowing over my naked body.
Otherwise the day was OK. I didn’t do any bonus afternoon exercise, for obvious reasons, but I'm still well within calories. The pork chop was toughish, but OK for me. DH finds chewing tough meat very difficult, even if it's no problem for most people. It used to make going out for a steak a bit of an ordeal, especially as he never learns from experience. I did a great job on the mushroom sauce though and finished with a portion of stinky, runny cheese.
This evening I watched a German film. Really enjoying my German.
HOT again tomorrow. Hope this is over soon.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
MICHELE ~ I think the idea of you working at Food Lion would be excellent for you. It would get you to be around people and you will have contacts to interact with.
Carol in GA3 -
Hot here and I'm cooking chili for dinner...thank the Good Lord for AC.
Carol in GA2 -
To clarify, I am a storyteller, not a writer. I don't have the command of language it takes to be a great writer. I can verbalize a story and make it interesting, but trying to convey the emotion in written words requires skills I don't have. I once wrote a 500-page novel in 3 weeks. Now it would take me 6 years. I might still write a novel loosely based on my life.
How long of a novel do you avid reader prefer?
Heather What is your pen name?
2 -
Debbie I’m not a lover of tomatoes, but will borrow your breadless BLT substituting avocado, cucumber for the slimy red stuff and put on a bed of romaine. Thanks!
[
Lighter, lovelies!Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
August: better than July.[/quote]
daily: steps>5491=2816 vits=8 log=7 CI<CO=6 CI<250<CO=4 Tumble & Shadow 5=5 mfp=7 outside=2 up hill=2
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3=3 rx=1 dance=1 clean 30 mins=
mnthly: board mtg= grant=1 20for20=
bonus: AF=4 play= sew=
Barbara- I love home grown tomatoes- I have had to resort to planting mainly yellow or orange ones as they have less acid in them. My mouth gets terrible sores during the summer from all the tomatoes if I only eat the red ones. My yard is very small compared to what I grew up with(my parents have 3 1/2 acres and an acre of that has always been garden) and when I was married the first time we had a nice big garden. Here, I have two 8'x4' raised beds that my parents built me- one for tomatoes and one for cucumbers- everything else is in big pots and a drip system I set up. I HAVE to have a garden. My husband complains about the water bill but I tell him that is my only real hobby and the water bill is not all from my garden(house and lawn use up a lot too) and he spends a whole lot more on his model kits or what ever else he is working on(got into 3D printing and now has 3 of them). I love eating veggies right in the garden. The one thing I have never had any luck at all with here is squash/zucchini- need to find a different spot, larger pot/tub next time- they are not the priority that tomatoes,cucumbers and added this year, catnip. Love all my herbs- basil is doing great so have made four batches of pesto so far. Looking forward to the hot peppers getting ready for some pico de gallo- sadly the cilentro came on first so had to buy tomatoes and peppers, now, the cilentro is gone and the tomatoes and peppers are coming on.
I have never heard tomatoes being called slimy- have heard that about okra(another thing I really wanted to do well this year but not yet, and only one of the four pots is doing anything at all. LOVE fried okra in the air fryer.1 -
bananasandoranges wrote: »HAIR
I've had all lengths: very short (not 2 inches all around), waist length, and more often shoulder length to upper back length. now I have just below chin length and I love the ease and also how it looks. It washes and dries faster.I'm not sure if most people like it but I don't care.
A WAY TO POSSIBLY HAVE NATURAL CURLS/WAVES
I have always had straight hair. I went to this horribly expensive hairdresser a few years ago and he showed me that if I always finger comb my hair an never brush or comb it it will be more wavy. He said to wash hair only 1x a week. He then used his own product which included salt and ... but recommended the I put an aloevera styling product in it to keep body. And, if time, dry with a diffuser to enhance/create waves. Now I always have little waves whereas I always had straight hair. it makes it much easier to get a good cut. I get it slightly layered on the bottom (whether shortish or mid-long) which helps the waviness. Now I can go to a cheap but good hairdresser and keep the same tricks.
I will have to look up aloe for my hair- I have a bunch of really large old plants(got the original way back in '84. I only wash my hair once a week. My usual was Saturday night so it looked it's best Sunday morning for church. Wash at night, put a small amount of product in it that is a curl activator-leaves it curly and no frizz- Some times I don't brush it for almost a week-just dampen and scrunch it. By the end of the week, usually in a braid until I wash it again. My hair is dry, never has been oily at all. Now that we don't have church to go to(online only) I do it Sunday night or ??
Picture from a comic book convention a few years ago( chubby faced before I started the diet)
Debbie
Napa Valley5 -
Happy Birthday Kim!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island0 -
Snowflake1968 wrote: »Michele - I couldn’t believe you were paying that price for Cream of Tartar in the states. I checked on Amazon here in Canada and it’s gone up exponentially here too! I don’t use it often but man it’s pricy!
Dlfk202000- I was having that issue with my husband as well for a lot of years. I felt very used. I am so grateful that he finally started listening to my concerns a couple of years ago. I am happier now than I had been for a long time. I hope you have the same soon.
Tracey in Edmonton
Thank you Tracey- I talked to him a few years ago, things changed slightly for about a week but back to the old way. Next year we will be married 28 yrs and I have put up with this for 24yrs of that- For most of it, I thought that is all I should expect out of it,/that is all I deserved/thought it was my fault then my former hubby contacted me twenty years after he left and explained WHY he left and asked for my forgiveness- all those years he was gone I thought it was my fault(he left with no explanation)- we are now very close/best friends and it was great to get answers.
One of these days I will speak up for myself again but doubt things will change- have lowered my expectations so it doesn't hurt as much. Have to find a way to make myself happy because he doesn't seem to have any interest in changing things.
Debbie3 -
Just checked my messages to find I was indeed confirmed for the first round of yearly cancer test. I have to go to Eastern Washington and wait a month, but worth the wait, travel, and expense to get this done finally.
Faye upriver Or
3 -
Hi Gals,
Rebecca – thinking of you!
Tracey – could you send a anonymous snail mail letter to the president of the board of directors?
Newbies – welcome!
Karen – Thanks! And to Margaret, Carol, Katla, Rori, Annie, Heather, Rebecca, Tracey, Michele, Evelyn thanks so much and a special thanks to Lisa who texted me this morning.
So yes today is my 62nd birthday, and I know the last few weeks I have not been here much, but with the length of the Covid situation and the fact that living in CA we are still in modified lock down, I have been working of a strong pivot of work to keep the lights on and the mortgage paid. I’ll share more of what I am doing later. But for now I have mom here for a couple of days and I am doing all the cooking and coordinating for a birthday dinner, so I better scoot if I want cocktails, dinner and dessert.
Book Lover’s quiz - I’m a 13
Smiles from the older gal from California!
Kim
5 -
Hi Gals,
Rebecca – thinking of you!
Tracey – could you send a anonymous snail mail letter to the president of the board of directors?
Newbies – welcome!
Karen – Thanks! And to Margaret, Carol, Katla, Rori, Annie, Heather, Rebecca, Tracey, Michele, Evelyn thanks so much and a special thanks to Lisa who texted me this morning.
So yes today is my 62nd birthday, and I know the last few weeks I have not been here much, but with the length of the Covid situation and the fact that living in CA we are still in modified lock down, I have been working of a strong pivot of work to keep the lights on and the mortgage paid. I’ll share more of what I am doing later. But for now I have mom here for a couple of days and I am doing all the cooking and coordinating for a birthday dinner, so I better scoot if I want cocktails, dinner and dessert.
Book Lover’s quiz - I’m a 13
Smiles from the older gal from California!
Kim
happy birthday Kim from CA
from Debbie from Napa Valley CA 1 -
Happyyyyy bdayyyyyyyy kim0
-
:-)1
-
Peachy: I’ll try this two ways. The first will be in color, the second will divide the marks to keep it from showing in color. Use a backward slash after your colored word [ color /= red ] to stop the color I added spaces so you can see the commands better. I hope it helps.
Peachy [ color = red ]
Peachy [ color = blue ]
Katla in Beauftiful NW Oregon
You can also go into a whole variety of colours using the hex codes.
I use this site to find the hex codes: https://www.color-hex.com/
Dark Green ... [ color=#065535 ]
Light Green ... [ color=#5AC18E ]
Kind of a faded purple ... [ color=#664C6D ]
If you quote me, you can see the codes.
M in Oz1
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.6K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.3K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.5K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 431 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.6K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.8K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions