WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2020

pipcd34 wrote: »

sh0tzz99 wrote: »

Machka and Pip—Thought of you with this.

Tina

I like it!

Me too!

dlfk202000 wrote: »

It is going to be great to drive a car that is basically brand new and not have to worry, especially when I am making the extra trips to see my parents like I am planning on doing.

Debbie
Napa Valley,CA

Congratulations!

Good evening all:

Caught up reading the last couple of days-it is becoming a Friday wind down habit!

SuziQI will be interested to hear how you handle the gathering-I probably wouldn't go, or if I did, take my own beverage and just drop in for a short time.

Allie-glad you are resting. We only got about an inch of snow here in Ohio, but it certainly seems like the east coast made up for it.

Julie-if the table isn't too far off, could you perhaps put some felt or cork on the leg cut to the shape to level it out? I would try something like that if return is a hassle. That is the problem with some of the on-line furniture. Your idea of hiring someone to help is a good one. I can put most things together, but it is difficult at times without another set of hands.

Machka-Congratualtions! You look very happy and your husband looks to be bursting with pride!

Debbie-nice car! Nothing wrong with the lease turn ins, especially with some brands and low mileage they aren't really broken in yet.

Heather-glad you got your grand daughter's present worked out. I sent my grandkids presents to their house well ahead of time. If something got messed up with adult presents arriving, I can deal with that, but I would hate to mess up with the grandkids.

Food pantry last night. It was snowing lightly the whole time. After I got home from that our choir had a zoom party. It was nice seeing everyone and getting caught up. Took most of today off (have to use vacation time or lose it). Got in a good workout at gym.

Had several sneezing bouts today and feel like a cold may be coming on. Of course, these days you feel strange you worry about Covid. I'll just wait and see. If nothing tomorrow, could just be some allergy symptoms.

In terms of vaccines here, I am not certain that after hospital workers and those in nursing homes how well other groups will be broken down other than by age. It would be very difficult to separate everyone out. Perhaps there will be something for doctor's to provide that could bump a younger person with significant health issues ahead. I am 66 and would fall into the "old group" that may come after medical personnel, emts, nursing homes, etc. but would not fight if someone younger with serious health issues got in line before me. I guess I will just sign up when they say I am eligible.

Got bone density scan today. Haven't had one for awhile. Since I have had both hips replaced they did my spine and my forearm. Have to stop by gyn office next week to pick up pessary-hopefully they have results then. Getting second shingles vaccine in between Christmas and New Years-health things should be taken care of.

Off to watch some Ancient Aliens and get a good night's sleep.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

My dad got hacked by ransomware and he gave his banking info to the "tech support" number that showed up. I got him to call the bank but they wanted a password that he doesn't have so they wouldn't talk to him. We are so vulnerable and now he feels bad so he is hoping the whole thing will blow over. My stomach is in knots. This part of caregiving is terrifying.

Can you go to the bank in person?

Also, you need to call the police and report it.



M in Oz

Question for Faetta or Machka or anybody else who may know: how do you know how many disagrees you have? Do they count your hugs and likes for you, too?

Thanks to all who gave well wishes for my mom. Hopefully time will heal her.

Machka: You look delighted and gorgeous. Congratulations!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

Well, we made progress. Called the bank back, started with the words "fraud scam" and got the account frozen. Then we called my Dad's real tech support, and they convinced him to rescan his computer and not to call back the scammers. So we have a fighting chance now. Kudos to Steven who pushed me into confronting my Dad instead of letting the whole thing be.

Annie in Delaware

Glad to hear it! You still need to contact the police though. They need to be made aware of this so that they can have a fighting chance of shutting people who do that sort of thing down. If people remain silent, they can't do anything at all.

Did a body pump video today. Ken & Lynette are coming over for dinner, I’m just going to make a lasagna. Then TSO is going to have a video stream concert so we’re going to watch it. Know how I used to go every year? Well, this will just have to do. It’s certainly better than nothing.

I have been trying to wear my boot less and less in the house mainly so that I get used to bending my ankle and toes again when I walk. I usually wear it at work since I’m on my feet so much. I think I may wear it tonight.

Speaking of work. This should be interesting. I need to run to Food Lion before the soup kitchen. I guess I’ll see how “important” the job I do is – will they have someone there when I’m not? If they do, will that person be outside? When I worked yesterday, it, literally, took me until around 5 to warm up totally.

Exercised, then made chocolate bran muffins now having a piece of sourdough bread. I do wish that I’d softened the butter, but oh well..

Debbie CA – fabulous new car. Congrats! I always like 4 door cars that have a “sporty” look

M – doing a happy dance for you. Fantastic to watch while eating my sourdough bread. You looked wonderful! You’ve overcome some so much to get to this point. What an inspiration you are! Yes, that is where the bike path is in the museum. I would have had to look it up. I thought at first that it was the Louvre

Kate UK – I’m one of those that almost never uses those buttons on the bottom of the posts. Another reason is because many times the posts are mentioning different things and you’d have no idea what thing they were “liking”

Barbara – I really don’t know how much longer I will work. I’m thinking that every time I turn around, there’ll be something else that I’ll want done. I also want things like new chairs for the counter. The ones Vince wanted are stained and I really don’t want to be bothered recovering them. Also, when my mother died, she left me this really nice diamond watch. Well, 60 years ago watches were a big thing (she’s been dead over 50 years). I would like to have that link where the watch is taken out and a new link made to go there. They can use the diamonds in the watch link. And I know that having a piece of jewelry custom made is going to be expensive. Another thing – the automatic start on the bbq doesn’t work. Vince will use a match to light it, but there’s no way I will. He’s (for some reason) been resistant to getting it fixed yet he can’t find a utube video for that exact same bbq. I would like to get that fixed so I can bbq. I would do it early in the day before it gets too hot. I know Vince doesn’t like the heat. Good luck to Joe!

Barbie – It’s not so much that I NEED to work. I feel very blessed in that I know that I’ll do my best and if that isn’t good enough, so be it. The mortgage will still get paid, the food will still be bought. There are some things that I’d like. But if I don’t have them, I certainly won’t fall apart. I really do enjoy talking to people. With this pandemic and all the “stay at home”, this being able to interact with people is good for me. I just get unhappy about this recent development where I’m supposed to have the customer see me cleaning carts. I don’t mind being outside, but I do mind being outside in the cold. In some ways, this being outside is a blessing in disguise for me since I still have interaction with the customer but for even less time. There are some people who are so very nice. Of course, there are those people who just ignore you so I just say “have a good day” and let it run off my shoulders. Today I had to go to Food Lion to get some oranges for our Christmas tomorrow. The girl who was doing my job was inside the whole time. I never saw her once clean a cart. The only thing I saw her do is go outside to get a cart to give someone and then come back in the store. Well, one set of workplace requirements for one person and one set for another person – isn’t that discrimination? So I’ll just stand inside Monday

Fae – dear (((HUGS)))

Anne – I agree with Tina. Don’t drop this. Document, document, document. Go up and up and up the ladder to speak to someone, but don’t let this go.

Allie – I didn’t realize that you were on a blood thinner! Is this recent?

Came home from the soup kitchen today and Jess announces to me that Amanda and Andy are coming (Amanda is her friend from VA who moved down here). I did invite them for tomorrow but Amanda never got back to me. Since Andy had a kidney transplant and his mom (who lives with them) is over 65, I figured they felt uncomfortable so I didn’t push the matter any. Ken and Lynette are supposed to be here for dinner. Now I’m hoping I have enough food for everyone. And are Amanda and Andy coming for dinner? What time are they going to be here? Jess just said “after work”. I don’t think we should be eating when they come. Well, what will be will be. Thinking of Heather who this would really bother. I’m somewhat annoyed, but we’ll manage. I just like to have things done ahead of time and they won’t be . My concern is "do we have enough food". Jess' answer is "of course, this is you ma". Great.

Rebecca – for a few years I sent out my Christmas cards in January. In a way I prefer to get cards then. It seems that in December you are so rushed that you really don’t get a chance to fully appreciate the cards. But things die down in January, almost a lull, so it’s nice to get a “picker-upper”. Plus…sometimes (especially when the kids were little) things were rushed around the holidays and this was one less thing I had to do before Christmas.

Flea – you got me thinking now. I’ve denied guys as friends. I’ve never even looked to see if any of my posts got a “disagree”. Maybe some of those guys did and I didn’t even know it???? I’ll have to check sometime (that is…IF I remember to do it….lol)

Heather – I’m so glad Johnny called his aunt!

M – you have 148 disagrees???? Wonder how many I have???? Wow! I have 17 disagrees!!! Wonder what for??? Whatever….. I don’t even know what half of those badges mean (not that I really care, either)

Watched the TSO livestream. It really wasn’t a livestream. It was prerecorded. Honestly, I was disappointed. I was expecting at least what a concert is like. There wasn’t any video in the background, no pyrotechnics, and it kept freezing. Many many times we had to pause the stream then start it up. It’s available until midnight Sun so we’re thinking that we’ll watch it again, and hopefully it’ll be better because not so many people will be on at that time. And the quality of the picture was pretty poor. Like at the end they listed the names in the credits. Well, there was only a candle in the background and it wasn’t even flickering, just still. So it was just the text. But at one point it got so fuzzy you almost couldn’t read it, then it cleared up. I bet the company who put it out gets an earful!

Amanda and andy came over. We had enough food but just barely. Jess did help a lot. It was very nice to see them. They stayed until about 11. I went downstairs to watch the livestream and they stayed upstairs where I know they wanted to visit with Jess and Colby. Evidently, Jess mentioned that they’re still considering if they’re going to go to Idaho or not. Amanda said that Jess secretly hopes they don’t, too. I thought she was the one pushing this, not Colby. I mentioned that deep inside I did hope they don’t go since they’ll be in an airport and on an airplane but that I wasn’t about to say anything to them one way or the other.

Now going to get to bed.

Michele NC
Who just realized that she forgot to get potatoes for tomorrow night so she may have to go to Food Lion for them and milk.