WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2021

Machka9 wrote: »

Getting To Know You ...

How many pillows do you sleep with?

Do you have any recurring dreams?

What's the longest you've gone without sleep (and why)?

What’s The Funniest/Oddest/Most Unusual Place You’ve Ever Fallen Asleep?



Machka in Oz

Hello, thanks for the questions Machka

I sleep alone in a double bed of course and i have ....four pillows!
If i have overnight guests on the sofa bed i try to keep at least 2 so i can half sit up to read online.

I'm sure i have recurring dreams but i don't remember much these days, unless i make an effort to. i maybe will try to.

i think i went 2 nights without sleep once when i was about 19, prepping for final presentation of something.
maybe also last year when finishing an application for qualification. i think i remember telling a colleague that i hadn't slept 2 nights, which i hadn't done for 30+ years.

Funniest, oddest, most unusual place i fell asleep:

choices:

in the order that they come to mind, almost all in my youth (i'm laughing as i remember):
1) on the stony beach in Cannes, midnight till 5 am. i had checked into youth hostel but got mixed up on train to get there after spending an evening at a festival. last train stopped at cannes. i was 19 and backpacking. rather than use emergency money for taxi or hotel (which i would most definitely choose to do now) i slept on the beach. it didn't seem super-rassuring since there were the street and people drinking and sometimes causing trouble nearby.
there were about 6 guys sleeping on the beach. i instinctively when to put my sleeping bag next to a guy who seemed safe figuring people woudl think i was with him. he got it and we didnt talk but i think he nodded and no one bothered me; it was not my best night.
2) as the "little kids" in a family of 7 when my cousins (a family of 6) came over for a night or a few days me and my little sister would sleep top of on a ceder chest in a nook in the hallway. i must have been 4 or 5 or 6. it was so tight that we had to bend our knees a bit and had to sleep on our sides and be facing the same direction. there was a serious risk of falling off!
3) When teaching! 2 times. one time, i was giving private classes and my student would always talk about the same stuff for years, and i dozed an instant in while listening. The other, i had jetlag. had gotten back from the usa the day before. as i we were having class discussions that were really interesting, i dozed for a moment. the class dynamic was very good so they were forgiving. now i plan to get back 2 days before teaching if possible.
4) in a woodcutter's cabin on the Appalachian trail. i wanted to hike a week but starting at the top (in maine) it was only possible to do 10 days (no way out in first 10 days). i was tired, and my bag was heavy and i'd had enough by 7 days (you have to bring all your food, water filter, tent, etc). around day 7 i saw some wood cutters in the forest. i asked if they could give me a lift to "civilization". yes, but the next day. i had some kind of i stayed in the woodcutters place. i don't remember if it was a dorm or a private or semi-private room but no one bothered me.
5) In a car (not my favorite)
6) In a tent on top of a van, in the men's hamlet in a meditation center.
7) in a military barracks in Germany. at 19 traveling, at end of long long trip, i somehow got last minute inspiration and a lift to the remote military town where a close friend from high school was stationed. i showed up at the vast military place and asked for my friend. He was away for the night so somehow they had me sleep (totally not allowed) in the women's barracks. and then i went to wake up my friend early the next morning.
ha ha! crazy youth!

Well ladies
The nose bleed stopped after i pinched my nose for 10 min. Then had to take Alfie down to vet when Tom said he was playing with a larger dog at Homers birthday party.. dr thinks its just a sprain,so anti inflammatory with a meal.. Tom paying the vet bill ,since it happened under his watch..
Even though it wasnt to busy a day im tired,i did get a pretty good nights sleep.
I have a boatload of pillows ,im a side sleeper and trying to get comfortable with the scar and the darn life vest battery..
No really reacurring dreams

Heather - I agree that people who are lonely seek comfort elsewhere. I'm sure there is a lot of unknowns in our family history.
I want to do my husband's side because his Mother has a very interesting history and we don't know much about it. Her Mother had been married and had 5 children, her husband passed away and she remarried had 1 son, and then my husband's mother with the second husband. When my MIL was 6 months old her Mom died. The first 5 children were all put out for adoption. My MIL was raised by an Aunt for a while and then the oldest of the first 5 married and started raising my MIL until she was 9 when she ran off and left her with her Brother in Law and three nieces and nephews. My MIL was forced to quit school and raise the children, she did that until she was 19 and moved out.

Peach & Rebecca: I also scrub russet potatoes with a brush and microwave them. We eat them, skin and all. Sweet potatoes are also favorites in our family. We scrub and peel them, cut them into slices and microwave or saute them after peeling. I’m not fond of baking them because I don’t care for mushy sweet potatoes or their skins.

Cheri: We have been isolating at home, except to shop for food and necessities. Everyone in the community wears masks in public. Our county has lower CoVid cases than most in western Oregon. We had our first Covid vaccinations on the first of March for DH and the second of March for me. We each have appointments for the second dose at Walgreens on March 30. We are taking the Pfizer vaccine. The headache after the first dose took days to go away. :ohwell:

Okie in TX: Congrats on having water!!! :bigsmile:

Michele: I am sorry to see that you are sad. Keeping my fingers crossed that you get to see SpaceX launch. We’ll be seeing it on TV news.

Machka: I sleep with my head on one pillow, but I read in bed with a huge pillow as a backrest and a smaller pillow behind my lower back. :bigsmile:

Barbara: DH planned to go into the military & joined the navy at the end of high school. Blood tests revealed diabetes. That ended his military career. In childhood he was exposed to polio at a local swimming pool. Since then he’s also had other autoimmune diseases. :ohwell:

Dr Katie: I hope things go well for your DH.


Today is our dog’s visit to the groomer. We take him there every two weeks. The groomer is a wonderful woman. I need to get him there. Have a great day.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

I have so many recurring dreams and often wake up exhausted from all the tension. It's a relief to wake up.
Often I am having to organise things and people in big meetings.
Sometimes I am travelling by train and everything is going wrong. Miss the train, can't get tickets etc
Often I am driving and the brakes won't work.
Phones never work in my dreams. They are often the old fashioned kind, sometimes in a phonebox, or all the wall.
Water figures heavily. Floods in a house, or threat of complete inundation from outside.
Teaching, or acting dreams. Never in the right place and never have stuff prepared. Often late, or can't get there.
Taking my school exams. Haven't prepared the right answers, or not studied at all. Despair.
Can't find a toilet. Going up and down loads of dangerous stairs to try to find one in a huge building. Fear of falling.

Waking up is a relief. I sometimes shout out or scream if I am being attacked and DH puts his hand on my shoulder to wake me up.

I don't find sleep very restful! :laugh:

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Vickil57 wrote: »

QUESTION-what footwear do you wear when pottering or working at home? I take my shoes off the miute I set in the door at home. Most the rest of the time I wear skecters, I have like 5 pairs and I wear them at work and eveywhere else. I do change them each day, so not wearing the same ones all the time. I do have a pair of boots for riding the motorcycle, but I forget to wear them most the time.

I wear these because I have plantar fasciitis and stupid wide feet. If I could wear them everywhere, I would.

Machka9 wrote: »

Getting To Know You ...

How many pillows do you sleep with?

Do you have any recurring dreams?

What's the longest you've gone without sleep (and why)?

What’s The Funniest/Oddest/Most Unusual Place You’ve Ever Fallen Asleep?



Machka in Oz

How many pillows do you sleep with?
at least four, sometimes more

Do you have any recurring dreams?
Not anymore

What's the longest you've gone without sleep (and why)?
In school pulling allnighters before exams or papers due

What’s The Funniest/Oddest/Most Unusual Place You’ve Ever Fallen Asleep?
Oh gosh I can sleep just about anywhere... maybe on top of a horse?

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

I sleep with one flat pillow and I keep a second backrest pillow nearby.

I dream about being unable to find housing, or living in some strange place that doesn't work out.

I had a really bad migraine while my company was giving a conference in Las Vegas. I took a nap ( collapsed!) In a closet in the conference center.

I stayed up all night to study once or twice, and with my baby once or twice but my memories of that are fuzzy.

Annie in Delaware

Hey Annie!
I can absolutely relate to that recurring dream of yours. Mine is about not remembering where my current apartment is. Probably because I moved too many times and still don’t feel like “home”. Belonging is a big thing. I remember those dreams got less panicky for a while. They come and go.
Hugs!
Bri

Did a DVD by Shawn T. No formal exercise tomorrow as we’re leaving (boo boo boo)

Allie – Vince is on coumadin, has been for the last 30 years, and he always gets nose bleeds. Sometimes they last for hours.

Barbara – last we heard the launch was scheduled for 3:30 tonight. They changed AGAIN. There is no way I am going to get up at 3:30 in the morning. Well, maybe next time we’re down here we can see a launch

I usually sleep with two pillows

KJ – safe travels

drkatie – hope everything goes well for your husband

pip – very appropriate shower curtain for you and Kirby

katla – I’m always sad to leave, but I have already made plans for next year. I know that we’re going to go to lunch at this nice Mexican place across from the condo. Just not sure who all is going. At least Mary Lou and maybe others and myself are going to go to this thrift store in Mims. Mary Lou says it’s big and nice. So first things first...I’ll be counting down the days until I can use the pool (you can bet that I’ll be after Vince to get it opened once we get home). Like I told Barbara, we didn’t get to see the launch and I’m not about to get up at 3:30

Anne DE – I really haven’t put off any appointments because of the pandemic. I do try to make them short, tho

I know Vince wants to start loading the car and the first thing to go in the trunk is the laptop so I’ll post this. I may be able to post from my tablet tonight.

Michele
who hopes we leave early

Any quilters out there? My mother gave me a quilt that her grandmother made, and I have loads of questions. Specifically, I am wondering how quilting bees worked in the 1930s. Was there something called a "friends" quilt (that is a phrase that my mother's cousin used yesterday).

The quilt is a Sunbonnet Sue pattern, with one suspender/overall Sam in the center. Each quilting square has someone's name on it -- most of them my great grandmother's and her children (including my grandmother), and her son's first wife. However, three squares have two other names that are not family related, as far as we can tell. I think I found one of the names on the 1930 census from their small town (only six pages of names), so I am going to assume she was a friend. But why would she be included on this "family" quilt -- unless she was a "worker bee"? The second person is "Aunt Cody." A total mystery. My mother and her cousin don't know of any Aunt Cody.

Anyway, I have tried to research a little about quilting bees, but most of what I've read is protocol and etiquette for how to do them today, not in the 1930s.

I haven't figured out yet how to get a picture of it because it is rather large, but maybe I'll try to take a picture of one of the squares.

ETA -- so I was rambling a little, I think. Would it have been common for the quilter of a square to "sign" her name or initials in embroidery somewhere on that square? I am hoping you say yes, because two of the squares have my grandmother's name on them, and it would be amazing to think that she quilted those squares. She would have been about 13 years old at the time.

Here are the patterns -- she didn't include any flowers or hearts, just the characters.

Anyone have any experience to share?

Flea
Willamette Valley, OR

Dreams - When I have managed to get to dream sleep, I have a recurring dream about our rental property. The inside is reconfigured in the same way every time in a way that is not at all how it really is. I have had this a few times now. Makes no sense to me.

I also have many dreams in which I have to pee, at which point I get up and go pee whether I feel I need to or not. They are not recurring, as they are not the same each time.

Potatoes -- I don't have baked potatoes very often, but if I make them, I scrub them and eat the skin if it is crispy. If it isn't I don't eat it. It tastes a bit like the texture of paper at that point, which I don't find appealing. I think all or most of the fiber is in the skin.

Well, I'm still fighting the knee pain, so am trying to stay off my feet and rest it this week. I have no idea how it happened, but I'm very annoyed by it.

Tina in CA where it is a rainy, dreary day

Doc appointments - I have not put them off. In fact, they are so careful here that I'm usually the only one in the waiting area and I often don't see anyone in hallways. At the dentist, I've been the only patient in the office 4 of the 5 times I have been in over the past year. They wear double masks and shields at my dentist's office.

I prefer video calls when there is really no need to go anywhere (such as a follow up), but that's my preference outside of COVID conditions too. It just wasn't available before.

Tina in CA

Sleep ... that’s a topic! Don’t get much of it ... starting the blue nytol tonight!
I agree CityLondon - Joan Hickson was the best Miss M!

Michele & Allie: My dad had heart disease & took coumadin for many years as a deterrent to blood clots. I think they helped.

Flea: I quilted two pillow tops for my kids years ago. There was a wonderful fabric store in Tualatin where we lived at the time. The owner led quilting bees. My friends and I made pillows as our first project. We also made teddy bear Angel Christmas tree toppers as our second projects. I gave one of the Angel tree toppers to each of my adult kids a year or so ago. We moved away from Tualatin 20+ years ago. I have no idea if the store is still there. :flowerforyou:

Heather: We watched Doctor Who for years, travelling willy-nilly through time and space. Our son still loves the show.We bought him a Tardis Christmas ornament a few years ago. I decided after a while that I’d prefer going on the Star Ship Enterprise with Captain Kirk. Scotty could beam me down to the place I want to visit, such as my daughter’s house to see the grandchildren, or my son’s house to see his little boy. Scotty could beam me up and take me home when I was ready. Wishful thinking, but fun. :bigsmile:


We heard from our daughter-in-law today that she’s had the second vaccine dose. YAY!!!!! I know my daughter has also had the second vaccination. Good News! We’re next for our second vaccinations at the end of this month. :bigsmile:

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

I have put off some appointments(used the excuse of the virus but really, just didn't want to go) but am doing them now. I went online to schedule my PAP- was surprised when one of the options was the video call- of course, can NOT do that appointment over the phone, but did give me a big laugh thinking about it.
I will be doing that appointment on Friday- am over a year(or maybe two, can't remember) past due so can't put it off any longer. Dentist I have an appointment but may reschedule for next month. I haven't decided yet- If I put it off a month, then I can be back on track for 2 cleanings a year, if I do this one now, they will want three and insurance only covers 2.
Debbie