WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2021

LisaInArkansas wrote: »

My words for the year are "still" and "no," and can be used together or separately. "Still" is passive, to me:

• noun: quiet, peace
• adjective: undisturbed, calm, tranquil
• verb: quieten, moderate, compose
• adverb/conjunction: nevertheless

Happy February,
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

That's interesting. When I read "still" I thought of something else. I think of it as "continuing". We're still dealing with my husband's injury. We're continuing to deal with my husband's injury. I'm still cycling even though it's been 30 years ... I'm continuing to cycle even though it's been 30 years.

So I guess it could also be used in the sense of developing good habits. I'm still exercising most days ... even when I don't entirely feel like it! I'm continuing to exercise!

M in Oz

Michele- If you measure the circumference of your sweet potato, you can use these timings.



Yes, just buy a small tub of yoghurt for your chilli.

I just Google things I want to know for the IP. I don't have the book myself, but you can 'Look Inside' on Amazon. I decided I knew most of it.
I have a long IP bookmark list from when I did all my research in the early months. That's where the sweet potato came from. Some very hard working and intelligent people have researched almost everything.

Taking a day off from writing and have had a short nap. Just a mild jab reaction. I managed to get through my exercises. Having haggis leftovers tonight so I need the calorie burn.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

It was hard convincing myself to ho out in the snow to get in the hot tub, but I did it! I love morning in it as I stay warm for awhile. Might have to try for early evening.....can't be too late or too hot to sleep.
Stayed up until 2 am finishing a book. It is going to be a long day!

🤪
Kylia in Ohio

Michele- Freeze your chili as is; and like the others suggest, add the yogurt as you pull and re heat portions. Unless you want to double the recipe, dairy is the best way to calm down the heat.

Machka9 wrote: »

I was nearsighted from the time I was about 10 years old. As I have gotten older, my eyesight has actually improved ... sort of.

I can now read without my glasses and hold the book about a foot away from my face rather than right up close. In fact, it's easier to read without my glasses.

I got progressives two or three years ago ... two sets. One gives me distance down to about arm's length away, the other pair are desk glasses and they give me about arm's length away to fairly close. I wear the first pair for cycling and driving and the second pair most of the rest of the time.

M in Oz

I have no experience in progressives or reading glasses. I was thinking different pairs might be helpful for different things; I was thinking reading only might possibly be more comfortable for screen time at home, with no-one around.

bananasandoranges wrote: »

actually I think you can get cheap (and possibly ugly) reading glasses at the pharmacy. I think my correction is about 0.5 for reading. possible to do without but a little bit tiring maybe.
actually it's getting darned hard to read tiny food labels; I can get it just barely most of the time.

When you can, go to an optometrist!

Having the right glasses has made a big difference to me ... less eyestrain, tiredness and headaches.


M in Oz

auntiebk wrote: »

Favorite scents: baby puppy milk breath, cloroxed laundry, baking cookies, sauteeing garlic, Christmas trees....
Julie “. . .more high and fast when I'm stressed. . .” ditto.
Dee safe travels. Know you’ll knock ‘em dead!
Tracey ((hugs))
Debbie in Napa Valley would you share a pic of your airfryer? Can you use it for everything for which you used the toaster oven?
Michele dairy helps cool hot chili. Sour cream, cheese. Boiled potatoes might help too. If you can fish out any of the chili peppers’ seeds or whitestuff that’s where the really hot stuff lies.

@auntiebk i can enjoy smell of garlic (to you and heather) though it's not top of the list, cloroxed laundry : definitely not! some aversion to the strong chemical smell. But some other chemical smells evoke nice memories (smell of train tracks in countryside...) it's funny how some love garlic and other smell and others really not.

To COOL DOWN CHILI
I got in the answers someone made too hot chili. Been there. made a massive pot to bring to a friends' for a potluck. To know: for certain fresh peppers, it depends on the individual pepper! when comparing hotness of two peppers of same hotness, one can by massively hotter than the other.This one, in tiny dose set quarts of chili aflame. Added dairy but also pineapple was recommended, and lemon. I just read nut butter, olive oil, vinegar and wine can also help. I halved it and rebooted and added pineapple and dairy and it was still flaming but somewhat edible; in France post people do NOT like very spicy food. (in Indian restaurants its as tame as can be).

have tracked food today.
also went for 30 slowish walk
got groceries (shops closed at 6pm now)
for lunch steamed/boiled (steam in pot w about 1/2 inch- 1 inch of water) cauliflower, cauliflower leaves, 2 eggs, tiki masala sauce. easy and yum.
TO DO:
1) meditate 15 min
2) declutter 15 min done by 3:30/4pm
3) still to do: uploading online test. a must for today; deadline (1-2h max)
4) 4h on thesis (or at least 1 minute as noted above) evening.(not ideal to start so late, I know but we're developing new habits, and we're on day 1 and my time off with project to finish thesis begins next week cause I knew I'd have tons to wind up this week.
5) send doc to insurance

AH also saw ted talk about performance time and learning time. how we tend to spend much work time on performance (things we already do well) and less on learning. (things we do less well and have less good performance on, but which will hopefully improve our performance long term). about how it's good to have balance. easier said than done. but that validates choice to work on thesis, regardless of results. I will hopefully be learning some.

thanks for listening.

Bananas and Lisa - I buy my cheap reading glasses in bulk sets from Amazon. ×2. They are fine for me and I have a pair in every room. Nice bright colours. For my handbag I have a thin pair in a purple metal case, just for reading menus etc. It's only tiny print that I can't read, everything else is fine. My long distance is much better than DH'S, even with his very expensive progressives. I never get headaches or eye strain, even though I'm on my tablet a lot. You can test what you need at a shop that sells them by reading a label. I used to have excellent eyesight until I was 45.

Just cut DH'S hair. He has a no 3 shave, so it's easy. Eyebrows are trickier, but I use a comb and hairdressing scissors. Then the ears! I need a good light and my glasses on! I hate, hate, hate hairy ears! Only once have I caught the skin. No blood!

Waiting to hear back from my son about Netflix. It looks as if he already has log ons.

Must go and do some bonus rowing. Dragging today.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Barbie thanks for the new thread.

Machka thanks for your thoughtful response. Unfortunately I have little influence on my mother, so I can't lead her to do anything. I am forever the child, while she used to be a registered nurse. She is especially stubborn about healthcare.

We only have a few inches of snow, but it has a firm crust on top. We have delayed shoveling, hoping it will rain enough to wash away the snow and ice. We aren't going anywhere!

Annie in Delaware

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Allie: Keeping my fingers crossed that you get to go home as soon as possible. :flowerforyou:

Machka: Thank you much for posing the abc challenge for this month. I was actually excited to exercise today as it is just something fun and different.

Our weather here is wet snow right now so not great weather for outdoor exercise, sadly. So I had to really challenge myself to come up with my idea for my A exercise challenge. My first thought was to go to the airport and walk in the terminal. I like to watch planes take off and think it is fun to imagine all the places people are going, but given COVID and the fact I am not near to getting vaccinated, I decided that was probably not a great plan. I live in a rural location so not to many places to pic from. So, here is what I came up with. I found a virtual hike for the Angels Landing Hike in Zion NP. I have never been there, but this hike is famous and the video was pretty great for scenery. However, there was not music or sound of any kind and I knew I would keep pace with the walker in the video which would not be a fat burning pace. So, I set up the video to cast to the TV to enhance the beauty of the scenery and I pulled up Pandora on my cell phone and I listened to the first act of Hamilton while I was walking. To challenge myself I just threw in a bunch of the moves Leslie Salone uses in her walking videos. All in all it was fun and I worked up a sweat. Pacer app gave me credit for 68 minutes of exercise, said I walked 3.1 miles, and gave me credit for 277 burned calories. Here is a link to the hike if anyone is interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jn0p9YpMCI I would love to hear if anyone has done this hike for real. I am sure you would have burned WAY more calories than I did with this video, lol. But I thought it was a fun and different way to meet the challenge. I am looking forward to seeing how others have fulfilled the A challenge.

Happy February! from snowy Ohio
dee

Heather like you I have a number of reading glasses spread throughout our home and a pair at Son's. They are so reasonable that I find it easier to do that then wear them around my neck. I was nearsighted when younger and now it is flipped. I see better far away then I did 15 years ago. Because they are so cheap they do break eaisly so I do have to replace them.

We dodged the bad snow storm that hit out east. Icy sidewalks are better. I still wear tracks because still unpredictable when you come across ice. Next storm and then cold Thursday. I did order some more harness coats for Drew so I can get the ones she has in the wash more reugularly. They are getting heavy use as of late. Still good to get outside daily.

Best friend of niece published great picture of my niece on Facebook today. It was good to see her looking so happy. I picture her riding horses with my sister and surrounded by her dogs. She had a number of dogs throughout her life.