WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2021

I have enjoyed your responses about spending $10k. I first thought a used car dealership, but having just gone through that, it takes longer than an hour to buy a car even when you do the legwork ahead of a physical visit.

Then I thought windows were a good idea, but it would be far more. Then I thought a tile store because we want to build a screened in patio, but I don’t think it will be $10k. And now, Heather is right. I’d spend it on me and go for travel. Morocco or a Rick Steves tour or both.

Another possibility would be a nice carbon fiber electric bike. Though travel is always my first choice.

TINA in cold, but sunny CA

Allie: It is good news that the hospital has a bed for you. I hope everything goes very well and that the doctors manage to get your health back to excellent.

Betsy: So far, no glasses. I called the optical shop & was told that it would go to the post office the next day. I still haven’t seen them. Perhaps they’ll be in today’s mail. I don’t have much confidence. :grumble:

Meg: It is wonderful to see your post! I’m sorry to hear that you lost a cat. I think our fur-babies are important parts of our lives.

Pip: What a remarkable quilt top!

Heather: Cornwall instantly puts King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table into my thoughts. I would love to see it in person someday, but I doubt that is very likely. :ohwell:

Sue in WA: I hope you’re able to get your vaccination in the near future. We’ve had no specific date for vaccination and there is nothing scheduled so far. We stay home and wear masks in public when shopping for groceries. I’m not delighted about the “roll out,” to say the least. :grumble:


Yesterday we paid off our car!!! YAY! If only my glasses would come. I called them yesterday and they claimed they would put it in the mail today. NOT holding my breath. When I next get new glasses, I’ll look somewhere else. I am very much inclined to complain to my eye doctor, although I don’t know whether that is useful. I would like to get some advice on the situation if any of you has a suggestion.

Katla in NW Oregon

hi I've been pretty active and on top of things, relatively speaking but today is a bust.
wierd stuff going on at work.
it exhausted me.
long to explain.
thank goodness classes went well.

totally avoiding reading email since this afternoon. I needed a break.
after classes, walk around the neighbourhood, easy heated up lunch, then sooooo tired. I was in bed a moment and had the shivers/chills for a good while but no fever. not sure what that is about as I had not been particularly cold. I eventually fell asleep and that passed.
and then since late in afternoon I have been escaping online (watching dumb videos and playing online spades a the same time).

I feel like I need the break. I was working on mails pretty much all day yesterday and also a good part of the insomniac night so it's fair balance, but not totally balanced;

one of the many subjects my students were talking about was sleep being out of sync. about half of us, me included said our sleep was out of sync. or something like that.

students are really going through a hard time. It's almost like a therapy sometimes. The majority talk to some degree, about how lonely they feel, how many are are depressed, how they are having trouble being motivated to do good work, and how they are unsure if they want to continue studies, and so on. We try to move the discussion into a more constructive way but it seems to be weighted to a regular discussion about how challenging things are. One mini-conclusion by one which made us all laugh was, "life sucks".
I generally try to be positive and encouraging. But it's been a year and though I did try to bring the mood up a bit, sometimes its also ok to let people express the reality of their experience.

after short break I showed a video clip for humour to shake up the mood, which seemed to work ok. This one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ht1ZnXiIBc0


and the very very first minute of the poet laureate from the inauguration (explaining what a poet laureate was and so on) suggesting they look it up and listen and read the text in English and it's translation (since it's not SO easy to get everything without translation.).

We did then move into more upbeat subjects to change the tone.

Tracey: my heart goes out to your cousin... what an ordeal! I'm so glad you are there for her.

Bananas: sorry you're having an exhausting day...thankfully the classes went well. The video did have me laughing!!

Heather: a zoom singing group with elderly people where everybody is muted and nobody can hear anybody else, just strikes me as funny for some reason. But that's a cool idea for everybody to be able to see each other! DH and I attend our church on zoom on Sunday mornings. They mute all of us too, so I guess it's SORTA the same thing. Lol.

I thought about a car, but I’d need more than $10,000. Then I thought about furniture but I don’t think I need that much furniture. Then I thought if the Apple store. I could get tablets for both of us, phones for both of us, a laptop for me, a desktop for Dave and a new printer. Accessories for all. That ought to take care of the $10,000 and I could do it in an hour if I planned before I went.

@drkatiebug ah good idea for the apple store! powerful desktop (top one is 5000 dollars), MacBook Pro (top one is about 1700) 2 laptops, , high memory iPad mini (400), earphones, speakers, and if extra money left over an iPhone or 2 for a friend or 2 who could use one...realistic and easy and useful.

Stats for the day-

Walk w/family- 2hrs 26min 51sec, 186elev, 3.42ap, 85ahr, 119mhr, 8.41mi= 754c
Strava app = 1018c
Zwift bike trainer- 29.45min, 138ahr, 158mhr, 200elev, 20.2amph, 10.02mi= 280c
Strava app = 235c

Total cal 1034

Whidislander wrote: »

Its Athena Lovin Time! A photographer asked if she could have Athena do her Valentine's promo sitting ad. The result.💖💕💟💌

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Rebecca
missing my Athena!

Oh. My. Goodness. She is so grown up. So beautiful!

Flea
Willamette Valley, OR

Her eyes are mesmerizing huh?!!💖