WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2021

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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Cheri— I love “Pumpkins of a Certain Age.”
  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,903 Member
    My doctors appointment went well. Its not an internal issue, but more muscle spasms because of the fact that my hot baths help them. If it was internal, I wouldn't be wanting to do that. So I have some exercises to help me. He was a young kid of a doctor, but I thought he listened well. The frustrating part about my episodes, was that they weren't all food triggered, so it wasn't like we could blame the sauerkraut, because I had the sauerkraut from Arbey's and tolerated that just fine.
    Husband asked if I wanted something from the bakery and I said yes. Earlier in the year I had an Italian cream filled donut that was excellent. So I went in with that in mind. They didn't have them so I didn't get anything. It frustrated Lee, but I told him, he should be happy I just don't get whatever. I call that appetite correction!
    Rebecca
    Whidbey
    Washington
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,295 Member
    Annie You rejected him to be safe. Wise move!
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,793 Member
    Annie - He's not even a good seducer! Whatever happened to 'grooming'? What a loser! :p

    Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    <3
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    :)
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,153 Member
    Afternoon ladies
    Went to the Dr ,saw one that I usually dont see so the did an EKG ,normal for me and we chatted... both of us figured it is anxiety and im going on a small dose of anti anxiety meds but will wait until i get back from my trip it takes about a month to kick in anyway..
    Then went and got my hair done.. that always makes me feel better.....
    Tomorrow is doing laundry and finishing up packing . Was up early today.. but no nap I want to be able sleep tonight,i might try taking 1/2 an adivan tonight just hoping that will help me sleep.
  • sh0tzz99
    sh0tzz99 Posts: 973 Member
    Annie-I agree with others. That guy was not a good guy. You were not rejected. He was and is obviously childish. You don't need him.

    Tina in CA
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Allie glad you were able to talk to the doctor and at least getting some answers. It sounds like you had a good day :)
    Annie I think that you really were lucky that guy sounds like a character out of CSI show! I would fear for the worse with him!

    <3 Mary from Minnesota/ Arizona
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Barbara – I enjoy gardening, even though I have very limited space. I wanted to grow mint for my tea but knew that it can be invasive. I planted a chocolate mint plant in a fairly large pot and put it on the outside ledge of our deck, about five feet above the ground. It is doing well and staying in its pot. :heart: The deer that ate my beans a year ago are still in the neighborhood. I planted tomatoes this year and they were not bothered by the deer. One is in the ground & I protected it with a wire cage & a net. The other tomato is on the inside our fenced deck. Neither tomato plant was as productive as I’d hoped. I may try something different next year. Our hanging fuchsia died in the heat last summer. I replaced it with a hanging geranium that has done well and is still flowering nicely. :smiley:

    Allie – Good news that you had a positive visit with the doctor. :star:

    (((Machka))) – You have had a day filled with emotion. It seems like there was a lot that is good and helpful. I have seen bits of Canada along the west coast and Vancouver Island. British Columbia is one of my favorite places. :heart:

    Rebecca – Good luck with your doctor visit. :star:

    Heather – We had our Pfizer booster shots on Saturday. We both felt great afterward. By Monday, DH was not feeling good & he is still not feeling very well.

    I had a visit with my doctor about a knee injury caused by a fall. The knee feels great sometimes and painful sometimes. He recommended that I get some physical therapy & I plan to give it a try.

    Katla in NW Oregon
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,074 Member
    :)
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,557 Member
    Worked so no formal exercise but I did go for a walk around the block. Same for tomorrow

    After work stopped at Food Lion to get Vince milk, then went for his allergy shot, then stopped at the Salvation Army then stopped at Michael’s to get some shells for the mermaid.

    Barbara – yup, I only get one shirt from BK. That’s all I got at Food Lion, too. Back when when Vince and I worked at Gino’s (remember them?) we got two uniforms. Of course, that was 40 years ago.

    It does seem that I’m not getting in as much water now that I’m working. I used to routinely get in over 100oz/day, now I get only around 80-90. Still not a bad amount

    Heather – when I first saw that view of yours, the first thing I thought of was “what a pretty jigsaw puzzle”. What a view! Is it hard to find gas over there? I wouldn’t think people wouldn't use as much since it’s so expensive so there’d be a lot to be had. Maybe I’m wrong

    The other day after work I went to get my pocketbook out of my trunk (where I keep it while I’m working, need my license to drive but I don’t want to take my pocketbook in with me), there was this “stuff” on the back of the car. It looked like liquid egg. So I just took the hose to it and it washed right off.

    When I was young, I didn’t like mushrooms; now I like them. Same for spinach.

    Anne DE – That guy unfriending you...no loss, that’s for sure. Things will get better.

    Cheri – thanks for that smile

    Bought 6 heads of cabbage at Food Lion. It was on sale for 49 cents/lb. I’ll make some sauerkraut (more like a lot) with only using the Tbs of salt.

    Rebecca – why does the number 4 in Japanese culture represent bad luck? Tell me more about this.

    Went to Belk and got a king size sheet set for $11. Think that’s pretty good.

    Ceramics tonight. In about 2 weeks I should have the mermaid done. Then to wait for Vince to put the shells on.

    Michele NC
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,259 Member
    :)Today was our adventure filled day---Walgreens drive through to get a prescription, library to return and check out a book, Taco Time drive through to get lunch (I got a taco salad).

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Kylia, I hope you have a nice day off on Saturday.
    If you want time away from your DH are you able to take a weekend to get away? (retreat, yoga camping ?)
    I used to early in a relationship ask my SO go out for a couple of hours sometimes because I needed to have a little bit of time home alone. Later it was less of a need. I would find I needed to be more "on" early in the relationship before the SO felt totally familiar like family.

    I am alas feeling physically exhausted a fair bit of the time, on and off! That's one thing that is pretty hard to gage.

    Barbara I think Rhodes are very resistant and hardy. Bears so close to home sound scary to me, but it sounds like you are very used to them.

    Machka That is a difficult and moving day.

    Annie it sounds wise for you to not meet a guy at a hotel at night. It's actually you who turned him down. He sounds like an uninteresting person (poor behavior to ghost you for not going to a hotel), so - yes - no loss at all. I'm sorry that it's upsetting though. Can you still ask their arrival time for your guests today?

    Beth a shower is worth a lot! Good for you!
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Getting to Know You Question


    Have your ever disliked something and then changed your mind?

    I liked to eat almost nothing as a kid : didn't like, salad, fish, beans, tomato sauce, pizza, spicy food (on occasion), curry, to name a few that come to mind. Now I like them all.
    Other things I didn't like but now I do:

    - green tea
    - coffee
    - veggie juice
    - long meals (common here) chatting ...sometimes (I used to find long meals unbearable but now I enjoy the long bantering sometimes .... like on a Sunday or an occasional evening...
    - raised bed (I used to prefer futon on ground!)
    - recumbant bike - I thought it was too boring to bike inside
    - sushi - the idea seemed gross, to eat raw fish, but I loved it when I tried it
    - the beach - I used to find it boring but now I like it
    - watching videos - I had no videos no VCR no tv between ages 18 and 40- ish, used to not like them - found them kind of boring - but now I do like them (liking them is not necessarily a plus).
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,361 Member
    Stats for the day- housework done at moms house and washed and dry moms dog

    Walk w/family- 2hrs 18min 39sec, 53elev, 81ahr, 96mhr, 7.20mi= 657c
    Strava app = 870c
    Other- clean inside windows, clean shudders, laundry, 1hr 5min 30sec= 298c
    Other- wash dry dog, pick up dog poop front and back- 40min 50sec= 188c

    Total cal 1143
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,708 Member
    B)
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,694 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    Heather – when I first saw that view of yours, the first thing I thought of was “what a pretty jigsaw puzzle”. What a view! Is it hard to find gas over there? I wouldn’t think people wouldn't use as much since it’s so expensive so there’d be a lot to be had. Maybe I’m wrong

    Michele NC

    There's a fuel shortage in the UK.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-28/why-is-the-uk-experiencing-a-fuel-petrol-shortage/100496438
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,074 Member
    <3
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,620 Member
    "Get to do"s and "chose well"s
    Chose well: : take BP, dogs to powerline, practice WBW, DM, SWTD,
    Bonus: streamside hike and beachwalk with T, Grocery Outlet, recycling.
    Just one thing: prepped hanging basket for transplanting dolphin flower plants
    Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, practice WBW, DM, SWTD, review SL, learn the right GDLL, backup files, then call pc guy to schedule tuneup, text C, fire district: research NFPA, grant NIMS requirements, input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, likewise Lee skills/tasks, ask for boots donator contact info, appreciation letter or certificate to boots donator, index mutual aid files; start Part D research with new rx info, watch STAS Day 20, declutter sideboard, learn new dances (Tequila Little Time, Homesick, Nothing but You, A Little Less Broken, Blame it on my beating heart, Do Your Thing, practice dances: All Night, TGIF, I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat), One Margarita, I’m so used to being broke); finish mulching flowerbed, invest another 10 minutes in prepping living trust, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine, find and configure a screen time popup, figure out where to plant the last of the naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove, ask Te about GB’s FD firetruck tax levy – contacts, media, advocate???, Sunday: call S, Reward: inventory seeds, plan this fall’s garden, wishlist replenishments (Milena F1 orange peppers and beit alpha cukes next year).
    Reminder: Weekly: Mon=15 mins SWSY. Tues=30 mins line dance at home. Wed=30 mins T’ai Chi & 1 hr pack walk. Thurs=15 mins BB&B. Fri=30 mins T’ai Chi. Sat=1 hr pack walk. Sun=15 mins pilates, yoga or wii balance games.
    October
    12: Look out for positive news and reasons to be cheerful today. https://youtu.be/XmcSh0GdPlc

    Lovely long walk with T. Half hour standing chat with long-missed D. Grocery shopping and recycling. Over 10K steps left me too pooped to line dance for 30 mins. Maybe tomorrow in between fire district grant research and board meeting prep.

    Heather, I’m a little startled to see a palm tree in an English garden ;) Congrats on finishing the editing. Hope Bea’s and Max’s test results are negative.
    Kylia you are right about not leaving food in cars in bear country. Back in Idaho, a hungry bear slashed open the side of a camper trailer to get at the bacon being cooked. Terrifying pictures on TV. Campers drove bear off by banging pots and swinging skillet. :noway:
    Machka hope those tears were cathartic. Have a twist on your question. I do not and have never liked strawberries, yet clearly remember drinking strawberry milkshakes with Daddy after going with him to the barbershop on Saturdays. Did I like them then? Don’t know, don’t remember. I do not like fish, seafood or fishy things, and the only tuna salad I’ll eat is the one I prepare myself, (after an explosively bad experience from tuna in the King David hotel one Friday night.) As a child, like Julie, I didn’t like to eat much, especially onions or spicy food. Now I love to eat, to my detriment. Still can’t eat mushy vegetables. :naughty: “slightly sunburned cow” hahahaha.
    Annie why are you distancing yourself from the caring group? What Kim, Beth, Margaret, Heather, Tina and Mary said. Hope the feeling of having been rejected morphs into feeling relieved and having dodged a bullet.
    Allie good luck with the new rx.
    Rebecca glad you are advocating for your own healthcare, if you don’t who will?
    Beth first shower after weeks of sponge baths, heaven!
    Kim “… possible… “ :laugh:
    Maylinda brava! Keep dancing and the soreness will go away.
    Katla thanks for the example of gardening in pots, think I’ll try that as plants conveniently located are more likely to get my attention and survive ;) People here have good luck with tiny orange colored cherry tomatoes when other tomatoes don’t produce. Not me, I’m not a fresh tomato fan. Good luck with the PT. Hope your knee pain disappears before your trip.
    Julie fortunately I’ve only seen the results. Doubt I’d sound as calm if I’d seen the bear itself… ;)
    Pip what great service gifts you gave your mom.

    Lighter, lovelies!
    f8qt1s098sxm.gifBarbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
    October: leaner/stronger/kinder than September.
    daily: sit with Joe:12, weigh/wii: 12/1/31; steps>7228=10874! vits=12, log=12, CI<CO=12, CI<250<CO=8, Tumble=11, Shadow=15, mfp=12, outside=17, up hill=15, clean 10=13.
    wkly: Sun:P, Y or W=2, Mon:SWSY=.67 , Tue:LD=1 , Wed:TC=1.87 , PW=2, Thurs: BB&B=1, Fri:TC=1, Sat:PW=2, rX x4=2.
    wt=1/31:141.3 2/28:142.4 3/31:145.3 4/30:141.5 5/31:142.4 6/30:141.5 7/31:140.2 8/31:140.0 9/30:141.2 10/3:141.3 10/10:141.8 :astonished: 10/17: 10/24: 10/31:
    mnthly: board mtg= , grant=, plan=, waist=42.
    bonus: AF=6, play=31 sew=
    2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,793 Member
    The shortage in the UK is of truck and tanker drivers. Fortunately, DH found a big garage with no queues.
    Getting the petrol to the gas stations is the problem, along with other delivery issues for supply to shops etc.. It hasn't affected us personally much, so far.
    Nationally, there is is a problem with gas prices, (the kind you burn in your home). Manufacturing, like glass and paper, is badly hit. Our heating costs will go up.

    Our biggest problem in Brighton and Hove is a strike by the refuse collectors. It has been going on for two weeks and looks set for a few more. It's getting a bit desperate. :o Rubbish piling up in the centre of town. Our bins are full.

    Oh well. The palm tree fronds are still. The sky is blue. Run time! :p

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,153 Member
    Morning ladies
    Its 3 am ,i got up to use the rst room and will try and go back to sleep for a little bit but I broke down and took 1/2 an adivan last night and i must say slept from about 7 :30 almost 3 soundly.. which is a God send..
    Will check in later.
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,956 Member
    edited October 2021
    Machka-
    Your pictures always make me happy – thank you for posting them. The spring flowers are wonderful, and photographed well, and the seascapes make me want to live near the ocean again. So glad your long weekend was restful.
    Annie –
    I think you trusted your instincts, and they were correct. That’s a very good thing in the dating world.
    Rebecca –
    Glad your young doctor listened to you. Athena’s pictures are always such a joyful thing…
    KJ –
    Same with Miguel – such joy radiates from that boy that he lights up the photos.
    Heather –
    What a lovely view from your back window…
    Tracey –
    Love the look on Ember’s face. Can’t believe it’s already been a year!
    ---
    Am getting sleepy – so back to bed. Well, recliner. Still up too much during the night, and Corey needs to sleep, so it’s best for a while yet that I sleep in the living room. As I wrote all that, an old Mother Goose rhyme “To Bed! To Bed!” came to mind:
    ‘To bed! To bed! '
    Said Sleepy-head;
    ‘Tarry awhile, ' said Slow;
    ‘Put on the pan, '
    Said Greedy Nan;
    ‘We'll sup before we go.'
    (from Mother Goose)

    That's all I remembered of it, but when I looked it up, of course there were more verses than Mother Goose wanted to publish. And with good judgment - the rest is both bizarre and macabre...
    They sat at the kitchen table as
    The candle flickered low,
    And Greedy Nan put on the pan
    To indulge her sister, Slow,
    While Sleepy Weepy Annabelle
    Blotted her book with tears,
    And thought of her Beau from long ago
    Who she hadn't seen for years.

    ‘Why doesn't Roger notice me,
    Why doesn't Alan Dell?
    I'm wearing the dress cut low for me
    And I've hitched my skirt as well.
    I've a pretty turn to my ankle, so
    You'd think it would drive them wild.'
    ‘But men are a mystery, ' said Slow,
    ‘And Alan Dell's a child.'

    While over the pan stood Greedy Nan,
    Was cracking a turkey's egg,
    A lump of yeast and a slice of beast
    And a single spider's leg.
    With a wing of bat and an ounce of fat
    And a toe of frog for the spell,
    She needed to turn her sister off
    From her crush on Alan Dell.

    For Greedy Nan was the eldest girl
    And would have to marry first,
    The other two would wait in the queue
    Or their fortunes be reversed,
    The omelette sizzled, and in the pan
    She added before they saw,
    A piece of some Devil's Trumpet plant
    For the mating game meant war.

    She sliced the omelette into half
    And she served them up a piece,
    ‘Didn't you want? ' said Annabelle
    But Slow enjoyed the feast.
    ‘I'm not that terribly hungry now
    I've cooked it up in the pan,
    I think I'll just have a slice of bread, '
    Said the scheming Greedy Nan.

    They finished up and they sat awhile,
    And they mused about their fate,
    ‘If Greedy Nan isn't married soon,
    For us it will be too late.'
    ‘I've set my sights on a country squire, '
    Said Nan, without a blink,
    Lured them away from her secret fire
    To confuse what they might think.

    ‘The room is woozy, spinning around,
    I'd better get me to bed, '
    Said Annabelle, while Slow with a frown
    Saw Dwarves dancing in her head.
    But Greedy Nan was cleaning the pan
    To clear all signs of the spell,
    Her back was turned to her sisters, spurned
    For the sake of Alan Dell.

    And when he came in the morning
    Greedy Nan was sat by the door,
    While Annabelle and her sister Slow
    Were lying dead on the floor,
    ‘I didn't mean it to kill them, Al,
    It was only a simple spell, '
    But as he cuffed and led her away
    He frowned, did Alan Dell.


    Welcome to those of you who are new, and many hugs for those who need them.

    Love,
    Lisa in AR

  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,153 Member
    Well I didn't go back to sleep ugh oh well.. watching morning news ,and will feed Alfie and start some laundry..I must say it feels good to actually have a good nights sleep.
    Tonight,could be iffy because of the excitement of the trip.. will just take the Melatonin tonight.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    another thing I used to not like and now like - the newspaper La Liberation in France, but it's because the newspaper changed ! it seems more fact - based less rhetoric based.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    The shortage in the UK is of truck and tanker drivers. Fortunately, DH found a big garage with no queues.
    Getting the petrol to the gas stations is the problem, along with other delivery issues for supply to shops etc.. It hasn't affected us personally much, so far.
    Nationally, there is is a problem with gas prices, (the kind you burn in your home). Manufacturing, like glass and paper, is badly hit. Our heating costs will go up.

    Our biggest problem in Brighton and Hove is a strike by the refuse collectors. It has been going on for two weeks and looks set for a few more. It's getting a bit desperate. :o Rubbish piling up in the centre of town. Our bins are full.

    Oh well. The palm tree fronds are still. The sky is blue. Run time! :p

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    Sorry about the shortages. I checked to see if that is coming across the channel but apparently not expected to - soon anyway. Do any of you remember gas (petrol- for cars) shortages and lines in the 70s energy crisis

    Barbara,
    -I might well be afraid to go outside in the evening with bears as visitors. What sort of bears are they? Black, brown, grizzly? or other ?
    -Are you doing line dancing together or online these days?
    - Agreed cherry tomatoes (even red ones) seem to grow more easily than some sorts of tomatoes.

    HEALTH
    needed to rest yesterday afternoon, just the way it is. today feel okay so far.
    nurse changing bandages this morning at 7 said its very well healed and we can remove stitches on Sunday rather than Thursday. The 6 am wakeup felt early today. I had to use snooze. but okay it got me going. I sometimes listen to relaxing music if I awake stressed at night, so have to put earphones half on half off so I can hear the alarm.

    mixed up time for an appointment this morning. 1h wasted traveling there and back. glad I took public transport as I could work on a mail online. I took advantage on the way home to stop by my art supply store and get 2 handy inexpensive sketchbooks (I'm out and that is a must for me), then walk about 30 min home and grabbing a coffee at my usual café on the way home.

    Ah something else I like that I didn't used to like: darker movies. I used to not be able to bear shows with a lot of murders (which is a lot of them), but now if it has a really good story line and not just murders I can find it okay. I think I liked more light stuff in the bast and now I like darker things more than I did. o:)>:)

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