WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2022
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Heartfelt condolences to all who are mourning the passing of Elizabeth II.
Note to self, take BP BEFORE monthly indulgence in bacon breakfast. :devil:
NSV, yesterday for the first time in forever, sugar was below mfp recommendation. Amazeballs.
Carla first week back to work is always exhausting. Hope you can take it easy at home.
Karen that apartment in historic hotel sounds charming and well situated. Fingers Xd.
Heather will try to channel you when interacting with god daughter’s kids. “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips” Never thought of quitting as a life skill, but in retrospect now see it as a survival mechanism.
the pic of you at the coronation.
Machka hooray for sleeping! Reading and cycling too, but mostly sleeping!!! the self care memes, especially yours, but where is being with Rhody in the garden? Brava for the less sedentary job, stair climbing and weight loss!
@grandmallie Allie here’s the Clutterbug test link. https://clutterbug.me/what-clutterbug-are-you-test Let us know what you think!
Pip better to know and do what you can … I am with you on choosing cataract surgery over blood thinners, especially since at least one medico said you could be off them. Grr. ConVERYgratulations on exceeding your donations goal. It sure wasn’t me ;}
Carol please have your foot looked at. No wonder you cannot imagine walking a half mile. ((hugs))
Vicki fingers Xd for the stress test, hope the results point to easy and complete solutions.
Tina good advice re Karen’s brother’s SocSec card and Terri’s “don’t speak” when accidentally answering a spam call, and Carla’s monitor situation. Totally agree about insurance company clerks dictating health care and the ridiculous requirement to X-ray leg before MRI of the true trouble source, the knee. Sure hope whatever the issue is, they find it and get you to a good pt to fix it non-surgically.
Debbie count me in with Kitaro. Noticed it getting dark earlier here too, makes me sad.
Lisa and Evie amen to the armored underwear.
Rebecca “dog remnants” the end product was not the first image that flashed on my mind… That looks like a very big place for your sister to maintain without him
Kay and Viv, thanks will have to check out Dana, sounds like my kinda gal. Unfortunately my library doesn’t have hardcopy only eAudiobooks. Hoopla has I have zero freebies left this month. Kindle takes me mto Overdrive. Gotta pull up my big girl panties and figure this out.
Michele Good, park finding grandma. Hope this visit means you’ll get to see PJ more often now.
Rosemarie glad you were able to walk yesterday. So important for your self-care.
…and whooshing good thoughts to Barbie’s eye doctor. May he find whatever the issue is and have the skills and tools to fix it.
One fault in the clutterbug test. The question about a friend calling to say she’d drop in momentarily? My response was not in the choices: “Suggest we meet for coffee in town.” :laugh:
Done:9/8: Move: 0.2 sets pt, active mins:244 steps:4701
Fuel: plants (running count for week) so far: 9+9+3+5 almonds, apple, artichoke, avocado, beans-kidney, cacao 70%, cashews, cherries, chickpeas-hummus, coffee, cornmeal in Fritos, cucumber, ginger-crystallized, orange-marmalade, peanut-sauce, peas-wasabi, pecans, peppers-sweet-orange, peppers-sweet-red, peppers-sweet-yellow, radish, romaine, soy-breakfast sausage, tomato sauce, tea, walnuts, wheat-pizza+bread+samosas+scone+Eng muffin. CI<CO=686
Live: Joe, readings, BP, freezer purge bacon, cronut & chicken satay, fire district emails re ORS and ARP grant, Wt:138.0
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
September: Move more, fuel better, live NOW.
It is a large place. She has more energy than me, even being 67 yrs old, than me at 60. I have tried my best to keep up, but between the hotter, windier temperatures, I have to take breaks here and there from weeding and pruning the many plants and flowers. So much she wants to do before the event on 18th.
We watched "Hamilton" movie last night which we both enjoyed. Each had a glass and a half of wine with our dinner of balsamic rice, shredded carrots, Asian sweet meatballs with a nice siraccha dressing. We picked zucchini and fried slices of it. Both slept well. She did not listen to her husband on the answering machine last night. I am on an air mattress. Tonight is taco salad.💖👍🏻
Today my sister had a hair appointment for a trim, and some facial waxing. She paid for my brows and above the lip waxing, which I had never had done. I feel better!
She has cried many times today because she was asked how she is doing by the hair salon gal, so that brought up her husbands passing. Then at the quilt shop because she bought some fabric for her dog Tucker to wear a nice scarf during the Celebration of Life event. Then cancelling her husband's phone line. But she gets back to a "baseline" state so its encouraging.
Hugs!
Rebecca
Whidbey island but visiting Oregon!
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Back from overnight trip. No problems with MRI. They have changed things up a bit since last one I had-they have a mirror in top so you can see the window the tech is behind and some light so not nearly as claustrophobic. Test only took about 20 minutes so not so bad. Results not posted yet.
Had good dinner with friend-we went to an Asian Bistro. Visited for a couple of hours. Then went to pub at hotel and visited with work colleagues. On the whole a good day. Did not sleep well at hotel so I see early bedtime in my future tonight.
Surgery scheduled for pelvic floor/suspension, whatever they call it, for October 5. Need to get stuff in order here for that. Will have a couple of busy weekends, but will be productive.
Had large lunch at meeting today so not feeling hungry for dinner. I have had some pickled Brussel sprouts and a jello. May have a bit of something else light.
Saddened by the passing of Queen Elizabeth. I was born in 1954-I have never known a world without Queen Elizabeth. I know the monarchy is controversial, but I admired her as a woman who tried to make a difference but still respect tradition.
Going to go unpack suitcase and do a couple of small things so I don't fall asleep quite this early!
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio4 -
Got a donation in the mail, thanks lanette !!!2
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Worked then cut the grass. Bought gas for the mower, now home to have dinner. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow so I just may go to the gym. I’ll go for my walk tonight
Carla – I question if ANYONE can be as great a monarch as Elizabeth was
SuebDew – feel better fast
Ginny – good thoughts for your surgery. I was born in 55 so I haven’t know anyone other than Queen Elizabeth
Michele NC
who is off to take a shower and then probably work on the jigsaw puzzle
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Heather sorry about the loss of Elizabeth II.0
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Barb, you can learn a lot from just reading Dana's blog posts at aslobcomesclean.com. She has youtube videos, too. some people find them helpful. I love her, but she does tend to ramble. If I was new to her, I might like the youtube videos, but I find them too long. She has one where she goes through her five step decluttering process with her husband to help him straighten up his office that is supposed to be pretty good.
Actually, the audio books might be kind of cool. You could listen and clean at the same time.0 -
Carla: Sounds like work is driving you crazy. I hope you get the computer/monitor soon!
Karen: Your doing such a great job helping your brother!
Vicki: Praying your test results are okay
Rita: Glad to hear your meds are getting back on track
Pipcd34: Congrats on the fund raising
Heather: Been side tracked but will aim to get back to reading in general and to reading your book.
Rori: I went white river rafting in my 20's. I admire you for giving it a go!
Sue: Sounds scary to me, your leg and calf under the mower. Relieved you are okay.
Rebecca: This visit with your sister has been so helpful for her. This next year will be sad for her.
Ginny: Thinking about you as you prepare for surgery in October.
No caretaker here today and it was a long day. I try to appreciate every moment with my husband but the nursing tasks are very mundane to me. I found a new ALS support group on line that I am going to try. They will meet again in October. One problem is that ALS patients are in such different stages and so one doesn't want to discourage caretakers that are in the early stages helping someone by venting and moaning and groaning about the later stages. We do join in on the virtual GA Association ALS support group. We watched a Ken Burns documentary about Genes and I recently read The Codebreaker about genes. Very fascinating what will be done with them in the future. Scary as well.
Rosemarie from GA6 -
I've lost 2.8 kg (just over 6 lbs) since mid-August.
We'll see what happens after this R&R weekend but I am hoping to keep the eating reasonable and the exercise as high as possible.
I think moving to this new job has helped. I am not tied to my desk as much and I've started climbing stairs again.
Machka in Oz
Congratulations! I still cannot lose an ounce (~32 grams).
Tina in CA
I made 2 changes recently ...
1) I started climbing stairs again at work. I'm only doing 10 flights a day (20 stairs per flight) at this point.
2) I dropped our second evening snack. We were having 2 evening snacks but I talked to my husband about it, and we dropped the second one.
I am a bit surprised that's all it has taken, but then again, maybe there are some additional things:
I move around a little bit more at work because I'm not tied to my desk. I put on weight during my previous 6-month position because we were so tied to our desks.
I walk my cat after work instead of collapsing into my comfy chair. I tracked the walk and it's only 200 metres of actual walking but when we're stopped and he's sniffing something or watching, I'm standing rather than sitting and often doing little steps here and there and stretching. We're out there doing that for about half an hour.
I've started gardening again on weekends and will spend several hours out there. I don't feel like I'm doing much (kneeling and pulling weeds, standing and pulling off dead manfern fronds, etc.) but it's probably a few more calories than sitting in my comfy chair.
I have been trying to get up a bit more during commercial breaks in the evenings just recently. When I'm working on homework or a project like our legal stuff, I often stay in my chair most of the evening. But I haven't got anything quite that pressing on at the moment, so I'll stand up and move around a bit more.
Oh, and no at-work snacks. In that 6-month position, there were always snacks. I tried to limit my intake but was often tempted to have one Tim-Tam or something. At my new position, there are rarely snacks. For me, that's good.
Machka in Oz
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drkatiebug wrote: »Barb, you can learn a lot from just reading Dana's blog posts at aslobcomesclean.com. She has youtube videos, too. some people find them helpful. I love her, but she does tend to ramble. If I was new to her, I might like the youtube videos, but I find them too long. She has one where she goes through her five step decluttering process with her husband to help him straighten up his office that is supposed to be pretty good.
Actually, the audio books might be kind of cool. You could listen and clean at the same time.
That's one of my issues with these things ... if I spent time listening to them or watching them, I would lose time to actually do the job.
I've liked/followed several on Facebook (and have unfollowed the ones I don't like). There, they'll post 5 quick tips to deal with something, and that I don't mind because I can read it on the bus.
Here, there are a number of professional organisers who will come to your house ... but they'll just tell you what needs to be done. Most won't get in there and help you do it!! I know what needs to be done. I need someone to work with me!
I did find one who posts tips and interesting things on FB, and might come out and help: https://de-clutter.com.au/
Machka in Oz
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Rosemarie2972 wrote: »No caretaker here today and it was a long day. I try to appreciate every moment with my husband but the nursing tasks are very mundane to me. I found a new ALS support group on line that I am going to try. They will meet again in October. One problem is that ALS patients are in such different stages and so one doesn't want to discourage caretakers that are in the early stages helping someone by venting and moaning and groaning about the later stages. We do join in on the virtual GA Association ALS support group. We watched a Ken Burns documentary about Genes and I recently read The Codebreaker about genes. Very fascinating what will be done with them in the future. Scary as well.
Rosemarie from GA
That's one of the issues with brain injury too. Every brain injury is unique and there are so many different levels of brain injury.
My husband's brain injury is classified as "severe", but because some of his brain is unaffected, he can still do things ... like math, for example. His math brain cells are intact.
Our association has meetings for everyone with brain injury which can be quite chaotic, and even when they choose themes, some of the themes are interesting but some don't apply to us. We've stopped going to the meetings for the time being because they haven't really appealed lately.
It can be difficult.
{{Hugs}}
M in Oz
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18,262 steps, 10 floors, 8.28 miles 2040 cals 136 min.
for today.
friend is liking walking every night and tends to walk a little faster than I do, especially the second time around.
I walked 45 min at lunch time then an hour and a half or so with Sue.
I should sleep good tonight- pretty wide awake right now7 -
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Last evening, I read many chapters in my book.
Today, there was much sleeping ...
And then a walk and a visit to a flower show where I got my husband a dark slate hellibore.
In the photo above, that's a rhododendron.
Machka in Oz1 -
I've been so enjoying wielding my telescopic fluffy duster. One room at a time. It gets right behind and above things and I love to see it gathering dust and fluff.
Little things please little minds.
I've also been slowly cleaning the oven glass door. Not been done since we moved in nearly four years ago. Baked on grease. I'm now down to the last few, stubborn spots. Trying to do it without harsh chemicals so I have been researching on line. It looks as if the very last bits are coming off with a dampened dishwasher tablet.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx in a cleaning frenzy3 -
Very sad news about the Queen's passing. What an amazing woman she was, working to the end, welcoming the new prime minister only days before.
She will be a hard act for King Charles to follow.
still catching up.
Take care and love to all
Viv UK
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I can't help but feel a little sorry for King Charles III, although it looks as if he is off to a very good start.0
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REBECCA ~ Happy Belated 38th Anniversary! 0
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