WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2022
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Pip - Glad you're home - hope the surgery was successful and healing is swift and painless!
Barbara AHMOD - Many sympathies for you and for Joe. Anything like that always expands to fill the available time and often leaves things to do at another time that weren't on your to-do list at all. I've explained to my husband more than once that the reason I don't do the surface cleaning much is that once I start, I have a really hard time stopping. So, my entire day has consisted of:- Pull everything that can go in the dishwasher off the gas stove and get it washed (burner tops, all front knobs, grates) as well as the vent hood filters.
- Spray stovetop with fume-free oven cleaner, as it's the only thing that will clear his cooking buildup off the surface.
- As I'm walking past getting laundry done, I spray any places I missed, plus I spray the vent hood down with the oven cleaner, inside and out.
- After laundry is in, I get on the Internet to figure out how to get the oven door off. Corey the cook has a tendency to finish items in the oven, like meat and other things cooking in oil, as well as cook bacon in there, and the inside of the oven is covered with, well everything you can think of. But what bothers me most is the window in the door, which has become nearly opaque with spattered grease.
- I get the door off, and then I have to find a different site that tells me how to pull the door apart so I can clean the inside of the double pane glass--about a month after we got it, I had milk boil over on the stove, and it dripped down in between the windows and I've never been able to clean it to my satisfaction. That was four years ago. Today, I got that figured out too.
- Take that apart and spray its four-year-old stains with oven cleaner.
- Deal with the laundry while that does its magic.
- Done with that, wipe the stovetop, which the fume-free oven cleaner has shined right up.
- Do the same with oven door and windows.
- Figure out how to put the door back together--I have never figured out why, when you take something apart, the nine screws you took out never quite line up with the holes... Murphy's Law, I guess.
- Figure out how to get the door back on the oven (Still working on that one. Had to stop to take my afternoon meds). Again, the two hinges came off easily, but don't want to slot back in... and holding an oven door in mid-air while you're trying to slide these hinge mechanisms into holes on the body of the stove reminds me I REALLY need to start lifting weights again.
- Once that's on, I can get all the bits and bobs out of the dishwasher and put the overall thing back together so he can cook dinner about an hour from now.
- Crap on a cracker, I forgot to wipe down the vent hood - I'll have to throw a towel over the stovetop so I don't get it dirty while I'm wiping that down.
And THAT is why I do not do much surface cleaning. Please note - if he wasn't coming home to cook, I would leave the door off, because in all that list above, you will not see a number that shows me spraying and cleaning the actual inside of the oven, because I didn't have enough oven cleaner. I'm going to run up to the little grocery near us and see if they have any, but it may be a forlorn hope. Either way, tomorrow, I WILL STILL BE CLEANING MY OVEN. It is possible that I need psychological help.
Because I just realized I also need to pull the entire stove out and clean under it and behind it before I'm actually done.
I've never figured out if that inability to stop is a hangover from the perfectionist tendencies of my working life, where I was responsible for thousands and millions of dollars of other people's money, and it had to be right, or if I'm just a goober that can't stop anything until I'm finished. In all honesty, it's annoying the living pooky out of me that I can't get the thing finished today, but I've learned to reassure Perfect Polly that I will get back to it tomorrow.
OK - my arms have stopped aching (had a hepatitis b shot and a flu shot yesterday, so I'll blame it on that!), time to go try to get that door reinstalled and the vent fan wiped down and then head for the grocery store.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
When I have the energy for those sorts of cleans, I always feel so good at the end of the day!
With Barbara's rearranging situation, I would be in there with the vacuum and dust cloths and everything!
M in Oz2 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Having done a quick research on Google I see they are not exactly the same. Most people in the UK use WhatsApp. Easy to video conference as well, voice message etc, though I mostly use it for chat and sending photos and videos.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
The Asian students in my classes at university used WhatsApp so I installed it on my previous phone and used it. But now that I am not in uni, I don't use it anymore.
Machka in Oz1 -
I am awake at 2:53 am. This is not my usual behavior. Sleep is a better idea.
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This is me ...
(Did you all watch Sesame Street back in the day?
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Machka in Oz3 -
You all got me thinking (last month, which seems like ages ago) about decluttering. I hate clutter, but the mister seems to thrive on it. It makes me anxious at first, then I get angry. I started decluttering his messes in the common areas. I bought a tea box to put all his computer/technology cables into and they are no longer giving me anxiety every time I look toward the kitchen...which is almost constantly. I also put all the remote controls and various creams he uses while watching TV and that clutter the coffee table into little containers. Hopefully, he will keep them cleaned up.
Tina in CA
Good luck with that.
My husband is the Everything Out™ Organizing Style Personality with a splash of Saver™ Organizing Style Personality and he likes everything out all over the coffee table, kitchen counters, etc.
I have tried all sorts of organising systems, but eventually the containers I try end up in the office (junk room). Just the other day, I noticed the most recent attempt in there. He puts them there because they get in the way of laying everything out.
His brain injury doesn't help matters because he forgets where things are, so if he puts things away, he'll forget where they are.
In the kitchen, he does put away the groceries, but I find little collections of soup or packaged rice or whatever here, there, and everywhere because he's forgotten where the soup goes, so he starts a new place!
https://www.allthingsadmin.com/6-organizing-personality-styles/
https://sanespaces.com/2020/05/organize-types-organize-styles-stay-organized-for-life/
Meanwhile, my ideal style is Nothing Out™ Organizing Style Personality with a splash of Straightener™ Organizing Style Personality.
There are a number of different websites with organising personality styles. It might help to read about those who like to have everything out and try some of the organising suggestions. I'm working my way through them ... but kinda reaching the end of the options now, I think.
Machka in Oz
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Thanks all for the anniversary wishes. Much appreciated.
Lanette Enjoyed the Chapman sticks rendition of Diamonds and Rust-induced nostalgia.
Lisa
the happy couple’s pic. Thanks for understanding how Joe’s wanting to do just one thing morphs into Barbara’s having to do 17. 
Would you share the link to how to disassemble the oven door to clean the inside of the double paned glass?
Allie Oh that Myles! Your smile says it all.
Pip great job on the mini Yogi. Fingers X’d for an easy, effective surgery.
Heather Thanks for the “tell your partner…” meme. Truth this. Love the leafy pics. How the heck did you take that one of Johnny up in the tree?
Betsy (hugs)
Carla that’s a LOT of cards
Carol $16 well spent imho and glad DS and DH took care of it.
Debbie “…removed AGAIN…” UGH. Keeping fingers Xd for your appt and keeping Destiny in prayer.
Machka you’re right about how sneaky those skin cancers can be. “…7-10 business days” :laughing: Have you been spying on our dryer? The vacuuming and dustcloths will be there tomorrow, had other places to go and things to do today
Vicki a week or more before your computers are fixed and no back up plans? SMH!
Barbie Brava. Sometimes the hardest step is making the appointment.
Rosemarie glad you had some restorative outdoors time.
Katla prayers continue for you and your DH. ((hugs held extra long))
Rita after your students tell their families and friends about how much your class helped them, the school will have to put those cancelled classes back
Annie “…forgotten how to turn his phone on…” ya gotta laugh or you’ll start to cry.
Rebecca ((gentle hugs)) hate to hear how long you’ve been suffering.
Mary thanks so much for the Avazzia Sport TENS info. Some day when my reward jar is full…
Sue I wish I could take your water aerobics class. How warm is the pool?
Tina skin cancer on the bottom eyelid? Horrors!
Viv “rehomed” :laugh:
Flea happy to see you popping in.
There, caught up at last.
Done:10/5: Move: 2 sets pt, 88 mins line dancing, 9 mins play with plants. active mins:334 steps:334Lighter, lovelies!
Fuel: plants (running count for week) so far:10+8+4+3+3 almonds, apple, artichoke, asparagus, bean sprouts, beans-red (chili), beets, cherries, chickpea hummus, cocoa, corn (muffin), cucumber, dates (rx bar), mushrooms, oats (granola/oatmeal cookie), onions (chili), peanuts (rx bar), peppers-sweet(red/orange/yellow), pistachios, radish, rice, romaine, snow peas, soy (granola), tea, tomatoes (chili), walnuts, wheat (sourdough). CI<CO=697
Live: Joe, readings, BP, 125 mins frenzied declutter/reorg/rearrange, DDS, zoom happy hour with C & T, pre-trip chat with K.
Wt:137.8
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
October: Move more, fuel better, live NOW.
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I use WhatsApp mainly for group chats. I am in a few WhatsApp groups. We usually try to organise coffee mornings or days out etc.
I also use Facebook Messenger, but you need to be on the internet to use it. I only have the internet at home, so use that only to reply to messages that I get. The contract I have with BT only gives me a few MB of data and I find I go over my limit if I have the internet on my phone when away from home, so I only put it on if I need to reply to a message, or if I'm waiting for something and want to have a look at Facebook to pass the time. I sometimes forget to turn if off though.
I mainly use the Messaging App on my phone, messages reach me whether I am at home or not.
Emails I tend to use for business purposes.
Viv
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OMG Machka, that would drive me nuts! I am definitely a bit OCD, and everything has a place and it must not budge one millimetre from where it is meant to be. Most things I like out of sight, in the exact right place. The house is tidy, most of the time. DH is not as obsessive as me, but is pretty good about putting things away. He does like a small pile of sudoku or crossword books, plus his current writing to be on the end of his sofa, which I sometimes shuffle into a more tidy pile, but he will move it off there and hide it if people come round. He also has pencils, which I insist are colour coordinated with the room, on the side table. My big dislike is the eraser. Grrr! If people come over, I secrete it in his file box under the top. Sometimes I put the pencil sharpener there too, but I deliberately bought him a glamorous silver one, which is bearable.
I am not easy to live with! :laugh:
I like the teatowel folded on the oven door. DH likes it open. Continual war. I like to take the water bottle nearest the door opening first. He does the opposite. I put his food plate/mug on the left when I'm serving, he does the opposite.
In my ideal world I would live in a white walled gallery, with only a few beautiful, essential objects to hand.
Peace for my ruffled brain.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Is Facebook Messenger the same thing as WhatsApp? Just a different name? We do also have Messenger, but i rarely use it. WhatsApp is encrypted.
My legs are having a flare up the last couple of days. Makes sleep more difficult, and they feel weaker when I'm walking, though they still have the same strength. It is very annoying, but my doctor had no idea. I think it is this autoimmune thing, because it comes and goes.
Birthday lunch today. We had to wait until today because they only open from Thursday to Sunday. I'm not feeling entirely enthusiastic with my legs hurting, but I'm sure I will enjoy it when I get there. I know DH would like to walk both ways, but I will bus nearly there and hope to walk back. It's around 3 miles. In 'The Lanes', Petit Pois.
Mouse still absent.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
Compartment Syndrome?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15315-compartment-syndrome
Shin Splints?
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/242169
Peripheral Artery Disease? (You used to smoke, yes?)
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/smokers-leg1 -
Morning ladies
About to leave and go take care of Miles
We went and I picked up those toys at Target and then we went to Aldi. And came home..
I picked Carmine up some McDonald's.. wanted to get him something because he had an early day at school.
I was so tired when I got home I was out like a light by around 5 and slept until 6:10 this morning.. guess I needed it.or it was a late kick from the vaccine lol.2 -
Expecting my son and his wife this week end so I am doing some dusting and washing sheets. Also organizing the office which is near the guest bedroom. I plan to make Baked chicken with mushroom soup and rice for dinner on Saturday. My birthday is on Sunday and they said they would cook on Sunday. Very nice of them! My goal is to do weight exercises today. I haven't done that in a long time!
Rosemarie from Georgia5 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »OMG Machka, that would drive me nuts! I am definitely a bit OCD, and everything has a place and it must not budge one millimetre from where it is meant to be. Most things I like out of sight, in the exact right place. The house is tidy, most of the time. DH is not as obsessive as me, but is pretty good about putting things away. He does like a small pile of sudoku or crossword books, plus his current writing to be on the end of his sofa, which I sometimes shuffle into a more tidy pile, but he will move it off there and hide it if people come round. He also has pencils, which I insist are colour coordinated with the room, on the side table. My big dislike is the eraser. Grrr! If people come over, I secrete it in his file box under the top. Sometimes I put the pencil sharpener there too, but I deliberately bought him a glamorous silver one, which is bearable.
I am not easy to live with! :laugh:
I like the teatowel folded on the oven door. DH likes it open. Continual war. I like to take the water bottle nearest the door opening first. He does the opposite. I put his food plate/mug on the left when I'm serving, he does the opposite.
In my ideal world I would live in a white walled gallery, with only a few beautiful, essential objects to hand.
Peace for my ruffled brain.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
Since my husband's accident and everything involved with that, and me being in university and then pursuing and changing jobs twice, I have been able to put blinders on to most of the clutter in here simply because I don't have time to deal with it.
I deal with bits and pieces when I've got a few moments and the energy.
For example, a couple years ago, right after finishing university, I organised my half of the dressing room. My drawers are filled with clothing folded Marie Kondo style and organised by type and colour. I've got baskets on top of the wardrobe for things like handbags, belts, etc so that they're all organised and tucked away. My half of the room is about 90% neat and tidy and I've kept it that way. That pleases me, and I just close my eyes to the other half of the room.
Same in the bathroom, I went through everything and tossed all the old makeup and other toiletries, then organised all the remaining items into clear plastic bins by type of item so I can see what's in each bin when I open the cupboard. My towels etc. are also in the cupboard, all folded a certain way which I was taught by my mother. Sometimes I just open the cupboard and have a look.
That's as far as I've gotten. Eventually I may get to the rest of the house and maybe that might inspire my husband to do the same.
Oh, I do go into the kitchen sometimes and gather all the soups and other things together into one place, from all the different locations I find them hidden. That surprises my husband ... "when did we get so much soup?" Like I say, he forgets.
M in Oz5 -
Good morning ladies!
Thanks for the interesting Messenger/Text/Email/WhatsApp information. I avoid talking on the phone except for a few people under special circumstances. My next door neighbor emailed me she saw a rat on her deck so I ran to the phone and called her and I offered her one of my live traps and also a huge rat snap-trap. DH had all kinds of goodies stashed away. I think there's even a live trap somewhere big enough for a raccoon.
Lisa - I had to take a nap after reading about your oven cleaning project.
Barbara - Agree 100% with husbands wanting to do something/move something in the house, not realizing it's going to be a ton of work on our part. Glad it all got worked out. I had to take yet another nap after your report too, lol. Love it that your daily list includes spending time with Joe and your pupsters.
Organizing - I use a lot of little baskets to keep the clutter down.
I'm planning a walk this morning with my neighbor, she knows it will be a short one due to my hip. Which is responding well to lots of icing and stretches. At my urging, she finally signed up for the gym where she too can get some exercise and cardio out of the cold and rain this fall/winter. The plan is to get her weaned off the daily 2 mile pavement walking with me as her sidekick. If she wants to keep plodding alone or with her husband at her side, that's fine.
I was looking at hip bursitis exercises and info on the internet yesterday, and ran across some good ones on the Bob & Brad page. The guys also did a review on a small elliptical that can be used sitting or standing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G_9rneBXo
I thought about getting one of these last year for DH who was unable to walk very well. He told me don't bother, he'd never use it, so I tabled it. But now, after trying the big elliptical at the gym the other day and really working leg and glute muscles that just walking doesn't impact, I rethought it.
Amazon has them. I had a lot of rewards points so ordered it this morning. It's heavy, but I think I can manage 24 lbs OK. I see comments about it squeaking, so I might need to pick up a can of silicone spray, but I have some bicycle lube around here that might work.
Early Christmas present to me from me. The price went up $.99 overnight, no surprise. Dirty buggers. I think a few of you have this one or something similar.
Make it a fabulous day, ladies!
Lanette
SW WA State4 -
Lanette that looks like the mini elliptical I have. I put it next to a table for balance. I haven't used it lately.
Annie in Delaware2 -
Lanette[/b, I think you will love your elliptical. I don’t have the same model but it’s similar. I have it in the living room and when I watch the news or a movie I get on it. I think I’ve had mine about ten years now and once in awhile I have to spray lubricant on it. What a nice early Christmas present to give yourself.
Betsy in NW WA5 -
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I communicate via email and text. I have one friend who calls once a week at the same time and I go for a walk while I talk to her. I have another friend who usually meets me for a walk once a week and occasionally will text to see if I am available for a phone call. I meet another friend for a walk nearly every morning. Otherwise, I'm not in touch with anyone. Barbie in NW WA 1
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Pip - Glad you're home - hope the surgery was successful and healing is swift and painless!
Barbara AHMOD - Many sympathies for you and for Joe. Anything like that always expands to fill the available time and often leaves things to do at another time that weren't on your to-do list at all. I've explained to my husband more than once that the reason I don't do the surface cleaning much is that once I start, I have a really hard time stopping. So, my entire day has consisted of:- Pull everything that can go in the dishwasher off the gas stove and get it washed (burner tops, all front knobs, grates) as well as the vent hood filters.
- Spray stovetop with fume-free oven cleaner, as it's the only thing that will clear his cooking buildup off the surface.
- As I'm walking past getting laundry done, I spray any places I missed, plus I spray the vent hood down with the oven cleaner, inside and out.
- After laundry is in, I get on the Internet to figure out how to get the oven door off. Corey the cook has a tendency to finish items in the oven, like meat and other things cooking in oil, as well as cook bacon in there, and the inside of the oven is covered with, well everything you can think of. But what bothers me most is the window in the door, which has become nearly opaque with spattered grease.
- I get the door off, and then I have to find a different site that tells me how to pull the door apart so I can clean the inside of the double pane glass--about a month after we got it, I had milk boil over on the stove, and it dripped down in between the windows and I've never been able to clean it to my satisfaction. That was four years ago. Today, I got that figured out too.
- Take that apart and spray its four-year-old stains with oven cleaner.
- Deal with the laundry while that does its magic.
- Done with that, wipe the stovetop, which the fume-free oven cleaner has shined right up.
- Do the same with oven door and windows.
- Figure out how to put the door back together--I have never figured out why, when you take something apart, the nine screws you took out never quite line up with the holes... Murphy's Law, I guess.
- Figure out how to get the door back on the oven (Still working on that one. Had to stop to take my afternoon meds). Again, the two hinges came off easily, but don't want to slot back in... and holding an oven door in mid-air while you're trying to slide these hinge mechanisms into holes on the body of the stove reminds me I REALLY need to start lifting weights again.
- Once that's on, I can get all the bits and bobs out of the dishwasher and put the overall thing back together so he can cook dinner about an hour from now.
- Crap on a cracker, I forgot to wipe down the vent hood - I'll have to throw a towel over the stovetop so I don't get it dirty while I'm wiping that down.
And THAT is why I do not do much surface cleaning. Please note - if he wasn't coming home to cook, I would leave the door off, because in all that list above, you will not see a number that shows me spraying and cleaning the actual inside of the oven, because I didn't have enough oven cleaner. I'm going to run up to the little grocery near us and see if they have any, but it may be a forlorn hope. Either way, tomorrow, I WILL STILL BE CLEANING MY OVEN. It is possible that I need psychological help. Because I just realized I also need to pull the entire stove out and clean under it and behind it before I'm actually done.
I've never figured out if that inability to stop is a hangover from the perfectionist tendencies of my working life, where I was responsible for thousands and millions of dollars of other people's money, and it had to be right, or if I'm just a goober that can't stop anything until I'm finished. In all honesty, it's annoying the living pooky out of me that I can't get the thing finished today, but I've learned to reassure Perfect Polly
that I will get back to it tomorrow.
OK - my arms have stopped aching (had a hepatitis b shot and a flu shot yesterday, so I'll blame it on that!), time to go try to get that door reinstalled and the vent fan wiped down and then head for the grocery store.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
Lisa - I am the same way. I end up doing way more than I started to do. My daughter that was recently diagnosed with ADHD tells me I have some of the Tendencies when it comes to that stuff.
Most people that believe in astrology tell me it’s my Virgo coming out.
Sometimes it’s annoying.
A couple of weeks ago when I reached for something in the cupboard, while Rodger and I were making supper, I found an expired package of something. Before supper was ready I had cleaned out two cupboards, washed them down and reorganized them.
Tracey in Edmonton6 -
I actually love to organize things! And, I have gotten in trouble in several different situations because I "organized" a lot of things that ticked others off. My husband is just the opposite. He (the hoarder) has stuff strewn all over the house.
If you are a praying person, please say a prayer for my sister who is 9 years younger than me. She had to have exploratory surgery this week on her lung and had to have the top lobe removed because of cancer. At the moment, she is having a difficult time breathing. She did not want chemo/radiation because she had that in her 30's after breast cancer.
Carol in Ga10 -
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