WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2022

Machka9 wrote: »

On my lunch walk today ...

American warship USS Tripoli visiting Hobart from Japan, Singapore and the Philippines:


Hobart:

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Machka in Oz

Oh my, that's an instant 5,000 more people out and about in Hobart!💖👍🏻⚓. A nice tourist boom. Hopefully they'll be hospitable, with no troubles. They usually do some humanitarian thing at each port if they can.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD,
I am not sure our management office would be keen to that. Our heater seems to be cycling on and off ok, which we're grateful. The toilet issue, while isn't an emergency, its annoying. Being that we're paying month to month, if we become more trouble then we're worth, who's to stop them from really not fixing anything? We've been great at dodging the bullet and the rent staying the same for a couple of years now. The fact that things need to be done, off sets their need to raise it maybe. So we call when its really needed, and gently remind them of past projects that need done.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Karen--These meetings are run by corapate and I have no say. Most the people at these meetings can close their office doors and attend. Because I am a working supervisor I have to have someone come in and cover while I am gone. During Covid they did the meetings zoom and I loved it as I could turn it on and still work. But now we are back to in person. Each director or department gets 15-20 minutes. I am one of the ones that does not get any time. It is mostly legal stuff, HR updates and our president updates. New doctors that have joined our clinics, etc. Most time I get something out of it, but this month was nothing I can work with. I thought with the down time and joint commission being here they would have an report. But said it will be next month. They seem to think these meetings are bonding time. Next Wednesday they are having an all day retreat with a social hour at the end we can invite our spouse to. I have chose not to go and I am sure I will get a email about it. But I am not going to pay someone overtime so I can go play bonding games with people I don't really like. I agree they are a waste of time and the week after the meeting we get a report about what was said. But then no one listens to me. Most management meetings have between 60 and 75 people and we have to sign in. We are requiered to attend so many a year.
On top of that yesterday I had to meet with my boss, then with my problem employee and then we have to do what they call rounding once a month with each person in our department. So I did one yesterday and will do one today. Also this morning I had a meeting with my boss and the director of our Skilled care unit about some transportation problems. Then only have 7 left this month. I do not like doing these either, but we have paperwork to fill out each month. Someone in an office somewhere makes all
this stuff for us to do. I am meeting out.
I am off tomorrow and I am working Saturday so one person can have early Thanksgiving with her family. I am coming in to give blood in the morning and then baking cupcakes for a fund raiser our grand daughter is helping with for her grandpa on the other side that has cancer.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND, NE yesterday 70, today barely 35

Afternoon ladies
Well i can barely move,today was a busy day.
I bought some diapers on Facebook marketplace, so Miles and I picked those up this morning.. he did get his naps in,then when Tracy got home i ran down to get Homer out and came back up ans Tracy,Miles and I went to Aldi and then to Sams club.. I had to renew my membership and I put Tracy on mine..
My lower back is killing me im going up to Trudys for chili tonight.. im not much of a chili person but I'll do my best.

Happy to have written for an hour - so easy to distract myself into oblivion, and look up and it's 4:30 and Corey's on his way home. That was yesterday, to the largest extent. This morning was the same thing until I pushed myself into my living room recliner, with instructions not to move for an hour. Worked this time.

Catching up my gratitudes:
9. Place: I am most grateful for this place. It was the culmination of searching for years on end, online and off. Getting here was an adventure in itself, and I am most grateful to have found this place, the first real home I've loved since my mother died more than 20 years ago.

10. Taste: I am most grateful for the taste of water. I spent more than ten years unable to comfortably drink plain water, and whatever else these last couple years have brought, they gave me back the ability to drink water without pain, and I am very grateful.

Retirement is the blessed ability to talk just to those I choose, and only for as long as I'm willing. I am becoming more and more of a hermit, but there is just so little that I need out there. I was never a social animal anyway - like you, Vicki, my work demands made me participate in meetings with people that I would have happily skipped, but had little choice. I always pushed for fewer, shorter meetings, too, but was seldom heard.

Now, as I begin to feel somewhat physically better, I have moved to that place where I can truly enjoy that retirement. With winter coming in, there's little to care for outside, so I can indulge in the life of the mind instead. I'm working on it.

Love y'all,
Lisa, feeling serene in AR

Mary: So sorry to hear about your nephew. ((( Hugs)))

Heather: 🥰 the travelogue and photos

November Gratitude:
1. smell. Vanilla ice cream
2. technology. Internet - access to y’all
3. colour. Golden tones of autumn
4. food. Mussels in white wine
5. sound. The sound of DH in the kitchen making morning tea
6. nature. Woodland and mountains
7. memory. Holding my 11 day old DGD on Christmas morning 1994
8. book. All books 😝
9. place. My garden
10. taste. Chocolate
11. holiday.
12. texture.
13. abilities.
14. sight.
15. season.
16. about your body.
17. knowledge.
18. piece of art.
19. touch.
20. who.
21. song.
22. story.
23. tradition.
24. challenge.
25. moment this week.
26. form of expression.
27. daily use item.
28. what happen today.
29. friend/family member.
30. talent or skill

I’m best! 😝 Time for bed.
🥳🎉 Cheers to all those celebrating.

Virtual (((hugs))) and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

🙋‍♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.

☘️ Terri

Evening ladies
Wow today just wiped me out..
Mary- how terrible to hear about your nephew..my condolences to the whole family..
I hope nobody got displaced by Nicole poor Florida has gotten its share this year of storms..
Im going to contact the billing department and fight the 112.00 bill that is almost 2 yrs old thats just rediculous.. im going to see if they will just get rid of it..

Mary - I’m so sorry! Prayers for your family.

Okie in the TX Hill Country

(((Mary)))

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Barbara – Vince won’t eat ANY spice (or at least he SAYS he won’t). He finally admitted one time to a friend of mine that the reason he’s so pickey is because of the way his mother cooked. Her idea of spices was salt, pepper, and ketchup. One time we (his mother and I) went out and she had this chili with this orange stuff on top (cheddar cheese). She didn’t like any cheese (or so she said). She asked me what that orange stuff was and I just said “I honestly don’t know”. “It’s good” Many is the time he has eaten spices because I’ve hidden them and not had the taste of them be very strong and he never knew it. And I “accidentally on purpose” forgot to tell him. So even if he could put his own toppings on, if he knew what they were he most likely wouldn’t eat them. That’s why I got this chicken/cheese/vegetable thing for us along with chicken nuggets. I know he’ll eat the nuggets. Cheese? Forget it unless it’s on pizza. Vegetables other than corn and carrots? Forget it.

Next week I go to the dermatologist to have a skin tag removed. Really, it’s nothing other than a pain in the lower back side. I’m always afraid I’ll rub it against something and it’ll start bleeding. So for my peace of mind, I’m just going to have it removed.

Rita – that is contrails. Space shuttles make them all the time when they go up.

Called Jess to remind her to bring an ornament I bought at the NC State Fair, put in her pocketbook and forgot to get it from her. Decorated the one tree and, try as I might, I could not find the ornament she said she gave me from Iowa State. Honestly, I don’t remember her giving me an ornament but I didn’t tell her that. I did find a nice one on Amazon that’s a wooden sled. Anyway, I asked her what time they expect to be here and she said that now Teresa is thinking twice because of the “storm”. Vince told her that only 2-4” are expected here and 15mph winds. Who knows what’ll happen? I do have a fair amount of food bought, tho. Nicole wasn’t nearly as bad at the condo as they had feared, which is good

Beth – even have feet crossed for you and your mom that she is happy at the place.

Sue TX – hope you heal fast

Mary – so very sorry about your nephew. What a blow to the entire family! Prayers

Work and then the soup kitchen tomorrow

Want to take a shower and then get to bed.

Michele NC

Mary, so sad about your nephew, far too young.

Evelyn, Vancouver Island