WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2023

Lisa thanks for the additional information on trusts! We do have assets in both Arizona and Minnesota now. Looking forward to Thursday’s presentation. I’m hoping to get information so that we can get everything done quickly!

💕 Mary from Arizona/Minnesota

Reasonably good day.

Continuing prayers for Destiny.

Intentions for March:
Intentions for today:
📍Weekly grocery shop✔️
📍Solid habits✔️
📍general chores✔️
📍work on crochet 💚
📍work on A/cs and prep for groups✔️

valiant nature
banishing winter doldrums
with vibrant colour

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

🙋‍♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.

☘️ Terri
March Action for Happiness: 15. Stop. Breathe. Notice. Repeat regularly. Having coffee after putting away the week’s groceries. There is pink blossom on my prunus purpurea, magnolia buds are beginning to colour up, tulips and daffodils in the containers outside the window are beginning to bloom. There are lots of little birds flitting about in the trees. Spring is doing its best to banish the winter cold. This is a regular joy in my life.

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Did Cardio Core Dynamic Core DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Ttoal Body Strength Training DVD. After exercise stopped at Brevard Charities thrift store and got (another) blouse, then SPCA thrift store and got an outdoor extension cord. Not sure that we need it, but it was cheap enough and it looked to be in good condition. Then went to lady’s lunch. Pretty good, this place was an Asian/Mexican place.

Spaceship Relativity (the 3D printed one) is now scheduled to go up on Monday. Unfortunately, after we leave. ANOTHER SpaceX is going up Friday.

There’s going to be a condo board meeting tomorrow a.m. I’m surprised they’re having it so early. Well, they might have scheduled it before Relativity was scheduled for Monday. It was supposed to go up tomorrow at 1, but now it won’t. then vince wants to go to this pizza place. Not that I'm particularly looking forward to it. I'll check the menu online.

Then Vince and I went for a walk around the parking lot. It was very windy so Vince didn’t go for much but I walked more. I also walked some on the treadmill since I wasn’t sure we’d get a walk in today since it is so windy and chilly.

It’s supposed to be warmer tomorrow so maybe I’ll go to the pool and then cards at night

Mary – Shep is looking real good, and so his his “friend”. How cool with that bit of red fur!

Rosemarie – glad the service went as good as it can and you are now taking care of yourself. What strength you have! As much as Carol, even if she doesn’t think she does

After lunch played mahjongg. I have a feeling that this will be the last time I can play here.

Allie – have a great trip. At least you tried taking Miles for the story time, even if at this point he wasn’t crazy about it. Perhaps in a year or two

Kelly – 6 years! Where did the time go????

Beth – I heard a while ago that ice cream helped with migraines. To a certain extent, that makes sense, the ice cream causes brain freeze. Just never really found out if this was true or not

Again I mentioned to Vince about how much I had in my “landscape fund”. He says I have less. I just said “I don’t know what you’ve done with my money, but you can see I’ve kept very detailed records”.
We shall see what happens. I did tell him that when we get home, I want to sell his mother’s china. I know that he’s asked me not to since it means something to him. I just told him that I don’t use it and I can use some of that money to repay the pandemic money I should get. So that’s what I intend to do.

Annie – I have a feeling that you didn’t wreck things for your weigh in. You’ve been at a deficit for so long. Sometimes it really helps to “trick” the body and once in a while eat over calories.

Michele thinking about having to leave (boo)

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

Well, my eating plan crashed today. I was busy and skipped my two o'clock feeding, then had some of my parents food at six. It was half of a thick breaded and fried pork chop. I called it 350 calories for four ounces.

Now I have to do extra exercise tonight to see if I can get back with the program. I probably wiped out any weight loss for weigh-in on Friday. Oh well. Lesson learned: no skipping my food plan.

Annie in Delaware

Remember, it takes about 3500 calories to make up 1 pound.

Machka in Oz

LisaInArkansas wrote: »

Okay - so far the tofu is a stone bust, my only reaction is blerrrgh. Not from the taste, but the texture. I've got the drained, pressed and patted dry cubes in the air fryer (coated in corn starch and a little salt and oil) for ten more minutes, and maybe I'll try a couple with the miso. The soy sauce was a NO. Ah well, you never know if you don't try, right?

Trying to decide what to try next...

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Putting teriyaki sauce and frying them is the only way I can eat it. I get the firm tofu.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Whidislander wrote: »

LisaInArkansas wrote: »

Okay - so far the tofu is a stone bust, my only reaction is blerrrgh. Not from the taste, but the texture. I've got the drained, pressed and patted dry cubes in the air fryer (coated in corn starch and a little salt and oil) for ten more minutes, and maybe I'll try a couple with the miso. The soy sauce was a NO. Ah well, you never know if you don't try, right?

Trying to decide what to try next...

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Putting teriyaki sauce and frying them is the only way I can eat it. I get the firm tofu.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

About the only way I liked the firm tofu was when I used a pastry cutter to break it down into pieces that sort of look like mince, and then cooking it in a spaghetti sauce.

M in Oz

Machka9 wrote: »

dlfk202000 wrote: »

Lisa- my dh is kind of like yours when it comes to leaving stuff when he is gone. He doesn't care because he will be gone, won't matter to him,(won't benefit him)

KetoneKaren wrote: »

The older I get, the more determined I am to spare our children disposing of our worldly goods. My plan is to own no real estate, have nothing in storage, own only one vehicle, and continue to dispose of personal belongings as an ongoing endeavor. Slowly but surely, I am accomplishing this goal. It will probably be another 2 years before I am satisfied with the absolute amount of our stuff, but I will get there. The only “extra” items that will be left to deal with at that time, I hope, are photographs. My spouse works against me, ordering things from Amazon that we already have, and I have talked myself blue in the face about it, to no avail, so I have given up on it. We send a lot of stuff back or give things away. I’m not sure why she does it, but it isn’t worth angsting about.

Karen in Virginia

My feelings about my stuff are similar to your husbands' (Debbie and Lisa) .. when I'm gone, I will no longer care about it all. So I enjoy it now.

My only concern is that my husband is taken care of. If I go before him, everything goes to him.

Not that there is much.

Similar to Karen, we have disposed of many of our worldly goods over the years. We own no real estate. We have nothing in storage. We have very little from each other's pasts.


Machka in Oz

Lisa you can keep the value of your home out of probate either by putting it into a trust or making someone the beneficiary of your property. A friend's family had their mother make one of the brothers the beneficiary. He died, and it was his only asset. He died with medical bills and now it is very difficult for my friend to sell the property that they have been paying the up keep and taxes because there is a lean on the property.

When it is in a trust it becomes part of your estate and it does not have to go through probate. Probate can get expensive because of lawyer fees. My parents had a trust and it made settling their estate so much easier and cheaper than if it had gone through probate.

If a property still has a mortgage or a reverse mortgage I am not sure how that would be handled as part of an estate. I do not know if the principal could become part of a trust.