WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2021

HI everyone. Wow there are a lot of posts to read! I cannot find out what happened with Allie, can someone fill me in please?

Allie: what ever is going on that I have missed, my prayers are with you. It seems you need healing! So my best healing thoughts are coming your way.

Rory: So nice to see you! How is DH? And your brother? We will have to figure out a way to continue our occasional lunches!

Well the snow has stopped but the wind still is howling outside. We got about 3" but with 50-60 mph winds, it was total white out conditions this morning. I couldn't sleep at all last night, so slept in really late today and will have to make up some time doing real work tomorrow!

Boy, I'm having a hard time thinking of ONE meal. It might be: My mac & cheese...a whole baking dish full. Or, more reasonably: rib eye steak, king crab legs, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, Caesar salad (with the anchovies, of course), and tiramisu. A good stiff gin and tonic before hand and a nice pinot noir with dinner. Then someone would cart me out in a wheelbarrow!

I've had no ill effects from the vaccination; my arm isn't even sore!

Today my phone calendar popped up with "OUT DATE!" Today was DH's original out date. I'm so glad he got to come home early and that he didn't have to try to fly here in the blizzard! We are blessed. Over 3/4 of the inmates in his prison have been diagnosed with Covid. We have only heard of three who were taken to hospital. But still...

Take care ladies. I have missed you all!

Did 30 minutes of HIIT today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Denise Austin’s fat blasting Yoga DVD

Barbie – how disappointing! At least the policeman told you before you sat in line for hours and hours. I understand that’s what happened in FL. People sat in line for hours and hours only to be told that they ran out of vaccine

M – (((BIG HUG))) You and Rori are unbelievable

Oh, I’m so thrilled. They are now giving the vaccine to anyone 65 and older. I just got thru to make my appointment (after MANY tries) and I’m going Tuesday!!! Then getting the second shot on Feb. 9. Vince gave me a look and said “in FL?” No, I don’t care. I want the vaccine. We’ll still have time to get there. The race isn’t until the 13th. So if we have to leave on the 10th, so be it. But I’m getting the vaccine!!! To me, even if we had to miss the race, I would rather do that and get the vaccine. But we won’t have to. Oh, Tuesday can’t come soon enough for me. Other people who have gotten it at the same place I will have said that there wasn’t much of a wait at all, things went pretty well. I think this is the first time ever that I’ve been excited to get a needle. This pandemic has produced lots of first. First time I’ve ever been glad to be older….lol

PLUS...I am working next Thurs (the day I was supposed to go to the dentist but mistakenly went yesterday). Well, I called to cancel the appt and they had an opening at 9:30 on Tuesday! So it was a blessing in disguise that I made that mistake

Picked up my inserts. The one felt funny, like it was rubbing against my shoe. So the MD made an adjustment and now they feel fine. Then went to the Salvation Army. I didn't realize they closed at 5. Boy, were there a lot of people there buying a lot! Then went to Kohl's thinking that the pants I ordered from Amazon and need to return should be shipped at Amazon, only it's a UPS shipment. So I'll probably take them to UPS tomorrow.

Barbara – It may be a while before I get to the macramé. I probably want to do one or two ornaments first just to get it down. But I’m thinking that’ll be something different.

Where would I like to go? Most any place. I haven’t been able to do a lot of traveling. Vince traveled a lot for work while I was home with the kids. Now he doesn’t want to travel. That’s one of the reasons we got the pool. If I don’t get to go away, at least I have the pool.

Pip – I hope you get the condo

Katla – how wonderful that they could give you an actual date. I called yesterday (before they lowered it to 65) and they told me that they have no idea when it’ll be lowered. And then it was lowered to over 65 that afternoon.

Flea – congrats to your husband. That’s the first time I’ve heard of a vaccination card. Wonder if everyone gets it? He got it when he got the first shot?

Jomc – welcome

Vince is taking down the trees. The Star Trek tree came down today. I packed up all the Christmas linens. Honestly, there weren't nearly as many out this year since we didn’t have as many people here.

Michele NC

Rori-Low key can be very good. After my husband died, I admit I felt a bit bad I didn’t have him around to buy me stuff for birthday and Christmas (even if it was just me telling him what to get). I now buy myself for those events that I think he would have like to get for me.

Barbara-Shingles vaccines gave me a very sore, hot arm for a few days. Also just general feeling of blah for a few days. A bit like a mild flu. Not intolerable but glad I got them over long weekends and didn’t have to work!

Julie-slow movement is better than no movement!

Debbie-So sorry to hear about your father. Glad you and the rest of the family are improving.

Kate UK-I had a 65 minute walk Sunday and it said 447 calories. If you go under exercise you should be able to tell it to recognize walk of longer than 15 minutes and set exercise goals for the week. I don't know if that is really accurate, but I typically don't eat all of them back and my weight does ok.

Machka-sorry to hear about your husband’s assessment. However, it can be good to have confirmation and not question if you are imagining things. I hope he is coping with it.

Allie-continued prayers.

Very busy this week and had evening zoom commitments to boot.

Food—Actually, I would cherish my mother’s homemade chicken and noodles and one of her cherry pies. The steak, etc., I can always get-but mama’s cooking? Nope. And while I can make very decent chicken and noodles when I choose to—hers were truly magnificent.

Places to travel? I would like to go to Ireland and Scotland and do a more detailed visit to England (mainly stayed around my son’s base RAF Lakenheath0, got to many of the small villages, Cambridge and London-but would like to see more. Right now—I could go for anywhere out of town that didn’t have restrictions!

Vaccines-starting 80 and over here next week. My age group (65 and older) tentatively scheduled for February 8. Of course, it all depends on how much is sent out. Also heard today that the reserve doses they said early this week they were going to send out have already been sent so there is no large infusion coming. Don’t know what that does with everything. Nothing to do but to wait.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio

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Flea – congrats to your husband. That’s the first time I’ve heard of a vaccination card. Wonder if everyone gets it? He got it when he got the first shot?

Michele NC

Yes. They called it his "golden ticket." It has the date for his second shot. If he doesn't have the ticket, he doesn't get the second shot.

I am glad to hear some of you are beginning to get the vaccine. This is good news all around.

Flea
Back in the Willamette Valley

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Flea – I wonder if I’ll get a vaccine card? That would be nice to have.

M – I wonder if your husband understands what the assessment really meant. It’s good if he doesn’t and continues as he is…looking forward to a bright future.

What I wouldn’t give to have my babci’s (grandmother’s) punchiki, crusciki, and babka (?sp). No matter what I do, I could never replicate hers

Michele NC

Good news!


Australian MS researcher is “excited” by vaccine discovery
Scientists are hopeful an “accidental” miracle cure for multiple sclerosis has been revealed during COVID-19 vaccine trials.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/australian-ms-researcher-is-excited-by-vaccine-discovery/news-story/722f0ec9b430e83b7ecce64ac0918440

Happy Anniversary Barbie

Sue Glad to hear your family are doing okay and recovering from Covid.

Had a Zoom catch up with my friends last night, we started last Friday but I had a few problems working out how to put the audio on. They could see me but not hear me, then they could hear me but not see me Managed to get it sorted out but didn't have long to talk as the free hour goes quite quickly. Last night was much better and we had a good catch up. We are all missing seeing each other in person, but this was a nice way to keep in touch.

Going back a bit now, but my first job was a Saturday Job working in Woolworths - to save up for my holiday with mum and dad - I was about 14yrs old. My first full time job was working as an office junior in a building company. I did typing and filing and oh my goodness stencils for the forms for the builders to complete. I had to put them on the printer (by hand very messy) and roll the drum around to make copies and fill the drum up with ink! After about a year I moved on to working in a Solicitors office working reception, typing Wills and Contracts etc. One of the solicitors specialised in divorce and when his secretary was on leave I helped out by typing some of the statements - very racy for a naive young girl

The weather is still icy here so not venturing out too far (if at all) so I did a Lesley Sansone DVD yesterday as walking is the only thing I can manage exercise wise. Even that was uncomfortable, but feel I need to start trying to get back to normal - I can get lazy very easily the less I do the less I want to do!

Time for breakfast. It is raining so hopefully most of the ice will have melted and I'll be able to pop and see mum later this morning.

Take care

Viv UK

I'm up at 1:51 am. I woke up worrying about vaccinations. I saw an interview on TV last evening with a man in charge of the health group that includes our doctor. He said they would be able to vaccinate. I hope that turns out to be true. Going to a place where we've had our health care and other vaccinations makes me feel more safe. Right now, I need to go back to bed. Best wishes to all.

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s
Pip Fingers X’d! Oooh a pool! Is it near any trails?
Rita was right there bingeing with you yesterday. Did NOT need those 4 cookies and piece of toffee. Today is a new day.
Allie Lord indeed. 10 vials??? ((hugs)
Katla the governor’s news today about UNavailability of promised Federal vaccines is devastating. Also confusing/frustrating is that https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/le3527.pdf says you and your DH are Sequence 1A, group 3,
But all the news talks about 65+ as a 1B (groups 2-5) sequence with educators (group 1). Even more frustrating for those of us in underpopulated, remote, rural counties is the prioritizing of centralized, mass vaccination “events.” Can’t you just see our medically fragile seniors driving 4+ hours over narrow twisting roads for a chance at a vaccine? What could possibly go wrong?
Welcome @jomc20 from Central MT! Would you let us know what you’d like to be called?
Rebecca Fingers Xd.
Lisa your “best by date” comment made me grin. Alas, I’ve been smelling funny for quite awhile.
Kylia that was one heck of a trial period!
Meg “my mac’n’cheese” Mine too
Barbie good luck Tuesday!
Ginny you reminded me how much I loved Mama’s chicken and dumplings, cooked in an old fashioned pressure cooker. Never was able to make them taste like she did.
Machka your train comment reminded me of another travel bucket wish: across Canada, especially the Rockies, by rail. Had my first birthday on a train and it’s still my favorite mode. Brava for keeping your DH's spirits up and taking the extra trouble for activities like the canoeing!
Flea I was thinking something like the vaccination records we had as school children, but that “golden ticket.”
Kim atta MacGyverGal!
Viv Brava for getting back to walking indoors despite your injuries. Hope the discomfort eases soon.
Welcome @lindablueeyes21 ! Would you let us know what you’d like to be called and your general locale? This is a great thread for support and motivation, but many of us don’t do the “friend” thing, just chat with each other here. Jump right in, the water’s fine!

Procrastinated/struggled all day with the fire hall minutes. Did invest time decluttering the keyboard (half done) and scrubbing the porcelain in Joe’s bathroom. Anything but get down to work. Finally done, but can’t print, even black and white, because the blue ink is out. Pfaugh!

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD