WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2021

Hi Gals,

Lisa – ok I really don’t think of you as a princess, not nearly high maintenance to be a princess.

Allie ((((((((hugs))))))))))))))

Meal I want to many things so I am thinking a number of small tastes…. Smoked salmon cream cheese pinwheels with champagne, then a nice salad, butternut or pumpkin ravioli with brown butter sage sauce and a skewer of roasted veggies with a shiraz, then a raspberry or lingonberry pie…. Oh I might not be able to stuff all that in!


Travel Where - Montana, great barrier reef, Boston, Country Cork, Puerto Rico, Miami, Tuscany for a cooking class

Travel how – camping road trip, fly and stay with friends or AirB+B

I have this ancient wall heater it’s gas and the thermostat works somehow or another without any power..well with the electrical power generated by a spring… oh it’s all above my interest level, but suffice it to say that it broke before Thanksgiving and I have put in 3 since then…. And not a one of them is of high enough quality to last more that a few days… the current one decided to give up today and I have created a jumper (like a jumper cable but only with roach clips and 8 inches of wire) and have MacGyver’d it. I have with the help of an electrical engineer neighbor figured out what’s wrong it’s a weird unstable solder but so tiny that it is almost unfixable… so I’ll bend wires or use my jumper for a while.


Kim from N. California

I'm taking our Christmas decorations down today.

Seems to me someone mentioned something about allergies and Christmas trees.

This year we did something different with our Christmas tree and I have loved it! It probably does collect some dust but it doesn't have that dusty smell the other trees did.






M in Oz

The rainbows the last couple days.
Green - the rain has greened things up.
Our roses.
The bay.
The bees!

Hi everyone I’m back at it again to lose weight and keep it off . I got up to the highest in my life and decided I just don’t want to feel bad about myself anymore . If anyone would like support please send me a friend request. Happy New Year to all

Oh, I am determined to get caught up! 😊

Tina – So glad you had a nice Sunday hike and found a place not overrun with people. The newer cars are so good on gas. Mine is not a hybrid, but I averaged 42 MPG during my drive to my friend’s home which is an hour north of me. Betsy the Beast averaged 28 MPG on her best days. Your cover remover seems to be looking at the camera and saying, perv, watching me take a bath. LOL!

Heather – It appears Nelly has already stolen her forever family’s heart. She is a cute dog. And, Edie’s face!

Alle – Oh, no. Can they use a baby needle to draw blood.

Babysitting – I must say I am a little taken back that it’s dismissed as a first job. I was babysitting in the 70s and clearing $50-$100 at 12! Hm, much more than many were making at “regular” jobs. 😊

Kylia – My microwave went kaputz over two years ago. At first I kept going to use it to warm things up but have adjusted to not having one.

Machka – Honestly, if I saw any animal chained, leased, tied to a balcony all day I would call the humane society. What they are doing is abusing the animal.

Rori – I hope you are able to take an hour (or two or three) to have a little celebration for yourself. Is the day caretaker still coming?

Tina – Hoping you are able to find that quiet space so you are able to untie your troubles.

RVRita – Hugs.

Vaccines – US – There is no magic supply. Hm, troubling yes. As stated early on it will take approximately two years to produce, transport, allocate, and administer shots to the world. FL is now having to ban those who do not live here. Apparently people are driving to states with some supply and are getting them.

Heather – Every time I read about your desire to throw pots I envision the scene in “Ghost”…..It’s one of my favorite “sexy” scenes in a movie. 😊

Meg – Welcome back!

Debbie – I am so incredibly sorry about your dad’s passing. Please take care of yourself both in body and spirit. Sending prayers to you and your family.

Tracey – I feel for both of your daughters and am every so thankful I work in a business-to-business outfit. I call consumers “gen-pop”. Since I am quite aware of how nasty gen-pop can be I always go out of my way to try and brighten those front-line worker’s days. People are mean and ugly.

Cathy – Like TX, FL is very organized in its distribution. People call in or go on-line, make an appointment, get to a distribution center, and receive their shots via a drive-through. One does not have to get out of their car! Our drive-through testing centers are being converted to drive-through shots. Of course the climate in FL makes this very easy.

Lisa – It sounds like you’re slowly adapting to your next phase. Love the view. Beautiful and so very relaxing. Oh, that was just one half of a Christmas tree. Yes, very scary and really confirms my view on cut trees as decorations.

KJ – Love the snow day pictures! The grands are adorable. So happy – finally inspection!!

Finally saw my first update post. Still have 8 more pages to go. I am determined! LOL…..

Bananas – Oh, but I must catch up. I miss too much when I do not. It really was a good weekend and we are planning a trip for mid-February to visit another dear friend. It will be a long road trip. One hour north from me to pick up my friend and then another four hours northwest to the hotel. FL is a huge state. I am pissed for you! They lost part of that test – I would be furious! Kim, I do not ask the person to put things in writing, during call/meeting I say I will email you with what we just discussed. In the email I ask them to put in anything I “may” have missed. I copy myself and keep an email folder for those “types”.

Machka – I considered getting a PhD. After calculating the cost (approximately $120k) and how many working years I have left, I decided there would be no ROI. From a personal perspective I would love to have those 3 little letters at the end of my name…… Love the pictures of you and DH canoeing – you both look like you are in your glory.

Kylia – Wow, you are amazing……I find work studying and tests are very different than those we choose to do. 😊

Barbara – No woodworking friends, but I have created a workable puzzle table using foam board bought at the dollar store! So, for $1.07 with tax, I have something I can move around the house (although I have to be very careful). Once the credit is applied to my account I will search for something a little lighter and mobile. The one I originally ordered was 18 pounds! Not very easy going up and down the stairs since it was quite large. Isn’t it amazing how much we can store in all of those places! I have organized things under the kitchen sink on trays and in plastic shoe containers so it’s easier to see what I have and clean out from time-to-time.

I am up to page 42. I may be able to catch up today! I must run and get ready to run some early morning errands. I prefer to be in the stores as they open versus after gen-pop has made a go of it. I am fully disturbed watching people’s habits……they touch things and then scratch their faces without cleaning their hands! I shudder!

Until my next visit I am sending prayers and positive thoughts to you all.
SuziQ – SFL – Where the sun has not yet risen.

Meg- ended up with open heart surgery to repair a leaky mitral valve,then ended up in hospital again with pneumonia and they checked my heart again, the valve still leaky after the surgery they are doing evaluation for heart kidney transplant... ive been put theoigh the ringer ,but dont really have a choice..

Saturday -- We went shopping and ordered new life jackets and picked up a few extra bits and pieces for canoeing! 🙂

Hopefully the life jackets will arrive quickly but we're not planning to go canoeing for a little while yet (and did not go today). The weather is just not nice right now.

Came home and worked on taking the Christmas decorations down. Not my favourite thing but it makes the next phase of cleaning and organisation easier.

Massive indigestion tonight and tired.


From last Wednesday ...




M in Oz

barbiecat wrote: »

700 people got vaccines yesterday. They plan to vaccinate 600 more tomorrow. We plan to go early on Tuesday

We have 650 approximately in our district next week. (population 135,000 of everyone). very small number. Here, they are starting with people over 75, and with health care workers over 50.

@Machka9 I wonder if you could write to someone in insurance, registered letter, explaining the lack of logic about it, and the problem it's causing you.
It may well not work but occasionally an explanation helps get through horrible red tape, hoops and so on. When I had asked for my 10 year residency card, decades back at the time I was living with my then boyfriend at 34 or so, in an apartment that his mom had left empty for years (just in case she broke up w her long term guy), while he retook up and finished his serious studies. We also had an old spare car that his dad had left (when he moved to the city where car is kind of impossible to use). So we basically had to pay for food and gas and car repair and not much else. we would just picnic, go for walks, go to the beach every couple of weeks, cook all our own food, split a pizza every 2 weeks for "eating out" and so on. The guy calling about the residence card was questioning whether I could live with my modest income (slightly less than the monthly minimum wage) and I yelled at them (after many months and years of red tape) that I don't NEED more money. And after yelling at them, they said, OK we'll give you your residency card. I was astonished. Also here for taxes if you write to or go see them and explain things, often they are understanding. Maybe you have already tried, but just in case- having a documented written explanation, explaining your situation and details and logic, and request be enlightening for them. Of course these things don't always work...

Did Denise Austin’s Fat Blasting Yoga DVD. I don’t know if it was just my mind or what, but I realized that I was on my toes doing things like a down dog and I thought I felt my foot feeling “funny” so I stopped doing that. Now to figure out a modification. The plan for tomorrow is to do Kathy Smith’s Ultimate Sculpt DVD

Jess left around 6 this morning to go back. She left early so that she’d avoid a snowfall on her way there. I think I’ll make baked rigatoni for Vince for next week. Got a loan of laundry in the wash. Want to wash a sheet that I think Colby used on the bed downstairs and the towels Jess used in addition to a few things of ours. Yea for me, I threw out the bagels she’d bought. Yes, they had a “best by” date that had passed, but with all the preservatives it was probably OK. I like bagels, but I threw them out. I also gave her her cereal, high sugar stuff.

Viv – I hear ya “the less I do, the less I want to do”. That’s why even with my foot, I at least did the body pump videos/DVD’s and why I’m now trying to do even just a little

Lindablueeyes – welcome!

Barbara – oh no, the vaccine is unavailable to you! That’s terrible

SuziQ – oh no, FL is banning travel by people who don’t live there! Hope that gets changed to people who don’t live there and haven’t had the vaccine. What do they do giving the vaccine to people when it rains? That’s good that you document things said in your meetings. Vince always said to me “document, document, document” in addition to “communicate, communicate, communicate”

I’m going to go over on calories today. I do want to finish up things that I’ll eat that Vince won’t that neither Jess nor Colby ate like the taco shells. Can’t return them since half of them were eaten. I do need to return a chicken fajita that Jess never ate. I would eat it, but it was never opened so I’ll return it.

Michele NC

travel:
the idea seems so FAR AWAY. I had a hard time getting my head around the idea. And no ideas in mind. I tend not to plan distant travel as it's not ecological (big carbon footprint) and I figure living in Europe and needing to see my family of origin or home country at least every 2 years minimum most times, I'm already way using up my share of carbon footprint. I generally fly to the usa every 2 years or so (sometimes every year) and to Italy every 2 years or so. and otherwise trips in France by train (and recently by rental car).

After a while the idea of travel sounds nice. Presumably I can go somewhere new some day! At least to one presumably. I would probably start with Italy and Greece since not too far, and not too expensive relatively speaking. I do travel there by plane, unfortunately for the environment. By land it takes days- so : costly and tiring. When (if) I retire I can maybe travel more slowly, if health and budget permit.
If money were not a question, would stay in moderate priced places, maybe a high rated budget places with an occasional night or two here or there in luxury place. I tend to eat 1 meal per day out, looking for local moderate prices (or top quality budget) and picnic 1 meal, and picnic breakfast, and many teas and coffees out in cafés. Walking around tons. Maybe driving a bit in southern Italy, in Ireland, not sure about Rhodes. no car for Bilbao and Madrid I think...no car for Asia...Road trip(s) for the usa...in the usa i's surely visit old friends family here and there...

But carbon footprint notwithstanding:

visiting family in usa
there are many places in the usa that I have not been to that I would like to discover:
georgia
New Orleans+
see the presidents carved in the mountains,
old faithful at Yellowstone, +
maybe Alaska (brrrr),
Nashville, ++
Texas. ++
(Those places in the middle south sound very exotic to me.)
Seatle
maybe Portsmouth...
maybe see almish country in Pennsylvania as is possible, and mormon vibe in Utah...
maybe Vancouver

Europe:
Ireland++
Denmark+
Naples area+
Southern Italy, including Sicily +
Bilbao
Porto
Madrid
Grenada

Some greek islands:
Rhodes+

Asia
Japan+
China :
Tianjin (I think this is the city my grandma was an English teacher in 100 years ago!)
Xian

Kenya- was a school teacher there for 7 months at about age 21. I would love to go back to see what's up where I was.

In France:
Strasbourg
maybe Lilles

I believe Suzi meant non residents were banned from getting vaccines in FL, not that travel to FL was banned.

Okie in the TX Hill Country

Good things done
Grateful
Only 3 H left before 6pm curfew. some people, understandably prefer lockdown to curfew. don't know. With lockdown, you could still go out to buy food or other (or work), or go for a walk till 9pm (or regular closing time), or later. Now all is closed at 6pm and we are not supposed to go out except if one has a DOG to walk! anyway. going out now to get food and to walk a bit.

😊🙂🌝😁