WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2022

(((Lisa)))

Accountability:
Machka gorgeous cabbage! What about sauerkraut?
Allie thank goodness for the favorable results, both yours and your DD’s. Fingers X’d the dietician has some helpful ideas. Brava for setting a boundary with Carmine.
KJ and Katla I like my cottage cheese with citrus (clementines, navel oranges, red grapefruit) in the winter and black cherries and white peachs in the summer. Spring and fall its either pineapple or no cottage cheese for me.
Annie brava for not giving up. Well done!
Debbie glad to hear your mom is ready to scale back the plantings. Any hope to get help (4H-ers or?) with garden maintenance? Last year pastor’s wife gave me a zucchini plant that did fine potted in the plastic mini-greenhouse on the porch. I nipped ‘em off when they were tiny, the way I like them, and it produced all summer. Thanks for the frozen cottage cheese to ricotta texture tip.
Vicki good job keeping up with the gym.
Katla AHA! So it was YOU who snuck that monster zucchini into my parked car when I left the window open :laugh:
Michele Joe has noticed how the cereal boxes have gotten narrower, but more expensive. Pfaugh. “…toilet and the end of the driveway…” :laugh:
Kim (and Tracey) “…lives at your house…” LOL!
Pip which beach? Heartstopping pic. And how can you tell that face it’s time to go?
Rori $400 off your lavender phone.
Betsy good luck with your cataract surgery. Joe’s improved his vision dramatically and immediately. Prayers for the stent, that it allows you to manage glaucoma without drops, what a great hope. Sounds like you have a great Part B supplemental plan.
Barbie the comfy crew
Mary fingers X’d for the grands’ visit.
Heather hooray for SHORT visit. Two years waiting for surgery, how I hate the impacts of this virus. “…always great when you start out with a reluctant heart, struggle for a bit..” true of so many things, activity, interpersonal intentions… ((hugs)) and hoping the shock wears off soon and ankle heals fully before the cruise. Will there be dancing on board?
Terri “. . .DH and I will continue to protect ourselves as best we can.” Ditto. Karen, didn’t know that about the 4th dose, thank you SO much for posting. Does Pfizer vs Moderna make a difference?
Ginny, didn’t know about Applie watch’s fall monitor. What a great idea. Understand it can also monitor heart activity. Might have to start saving…
KJ ((hugs)) So frustrating for you that he doesn’t take your advice seriously, for him that to ease pain he has to burn his skin. Any alternatives?
Julie “soy yogurt” :sick: My breakfasts are always “veggie free” unless there are potatoes :laugh:
Barbie thanks for the stories of how Olympic skaters did their best to keep safe.
Lisa glad to see you posting, sorry and angry for what the SocSec and VA systems are putting you through. Bravissima for persisting. That “per lifetime” restriction is both chilling and unbelievable. Hope there is an ombudsman or other appeals option. Your service entitles you to better treatment.
Carol, prayer for your DnL’s missionary mom said. Danger zone.
Carla enjoy your retreat! Hope it’s a real de-stressor.
Welcome @jpeters25 Joni in Tulsa! Let us know a little about you?

All caught up from yesterday at last. Time to get up off my duff.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.

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Accountability:

Chose well: Joe, readings, BP, made up 2/14 SWSY, osteo back, dogs to powerline, steps >7400, CI<CO, CI<250<CO, active 5:09.
Bonus: laptop zoom test and pickup, Freddie’s, veg & mushroom prep.
Workin’ on it: 140.9, Hooray!, H20x6.
Friendly February 2022
15: Support a local business with a positive online review or friendly message.
16: Check in on someone who may be struggling and offer to help. D&R? C? Ru?

Going to bed snackless last night had good scale results this morning. Can I do it again?

Got my laptop back, restored the files I’d temporarily updated from Joe’s pc, but wow, the paperwork and filing pile up in just a few days. Tomorrow will be a “reconcile-update spreadsheets-and-file” morning.

KJ thank you so much for your advice to Allie. You have the experience and knowledge and said it so much better than I would have. Likewise Barbie and Katla, well said.
Machka stunning river pics. Is that near where you live or was it an excursion?
Carla hooray for honest logging!
Vicki don’t you just hate it when you work harder to pay more in taxes? ((hugs)) to you and your DH and your pug.
Rita gorgeous pics, brava for trying to be positive.
Rebecca I admire your ability to find the fun in purging unneeded objects. A skill I wish I had… sometimes
Katla hope there are no “supply chain delay”s in getting your car parts.
Heather “…felt the tendons tear…” oww! Sounds like collapsing is the right idea. And perhaps asking your weekend guests to “help themselves” and even wait on you? No standing in the kitchen preparing your normal gourmet feasts!
Michele, hope you can let the “million things” go. Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation?
Welcome @AliceK813 Alice from FL! Great progress!
Sue how frustrating. Did you speak with the branch manager and show the instructions specifying photocopy? Personally when all’s done and done, I’d find a more cooperative bank.
Kim your insights on how Allie can avoid the inevitable creep are spot on. Your no-water garden sounds gorgeous. Seasonal pics? So wise to only plant O N E zucchini :laugh:
Pip the pooped pooch-with-teddy-bear pic.
Tracey your stocking project sounds both fun and effective.
Sue what about cider?

Caved in and had cocoa and biscotti. Relished and enjoyed every sip and bite. Will remember that tomorrow morning when the scale bumps up.[sigh]

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.

Awe, if I don't use it, it goes. For example this is what is on my kitchen table for today. Just stuff I pick up, and know we haven't touched in so long! (Boring pics so I put in a spoiler)

But you get an idea.
To me being a bit more minimalistic helps me flow thru my day better. It makes me see the important things, I can cleaner easier, its all positive things.
Hugs friend!
Rebecca

But a lot of those things you might use ... like the bandages, for example. Those are things I stock up on.

Three of the boxes were nose strips, and though they do help a cold, its neither husband nor I first go to thing when we do have stuffy noses. I feel claustrophobic with them on, and husband has a big honker! The kids bandaids are more for show, too much plastic picture, not enough bandaid part. I have a whole plastic box with dividers from the little dot bandaids to the huge square "should we call an ambulance" bandaids. 😁👍
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Oh, I forgot the cherry on top of the VA sundae... Got my annual letter in the mail that shows the VA benefits I receive (which at that very moment made me roll my eyes back so far I'm pretty sure I saw my brain... 🙄 ). I picked the letter back up again yesterday while I was filing stuff - and in glancing over it, I saw they are still using my previous married last name (Mrazik). I was married to Corey, my current and final husband, 13 YEARS AGO.

My the way, when they built this kitchen they didn't know what they were doing half the time! The backsplash part is glued using glue that stained the paint area. (See above bacon fat pic). Plus its not actually stuck on, just leaning on it. Its a rental thru and thru! Lee says, we aren't using our money to pay for things they should've fixed before we moved in! So we just made a note of it in the check-in sheet and the crappy kitchen backsplash will be leaning up, when we move out.
Rebecca

Ugh, ugh, ugh, Lisa. Does somebody need to expose and publicise this mess-up? I absolutely hate incompetence and slackness. That's one of the reasons we go to Saga for our cruises. They live up to my very high expectations! Clearly someone (who?) needs to get a grip on the VA and the rest of it. The trouble is, you are caught in a bind, because you need them and have to keep them sweet.
I love complaining, but not when I'm a supplicant. :sad:

I'm so enjoying Shtisel on Netflix.

Love to you all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Lisa — I wonder whether a call to the VA Administer from your doctor would get things straightened out. I hope you get what you need. ❤️