WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2023
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Pip - Fresno is too hot for me in the summer! But we could do it in the fall.... or meet in Turlock it is about 1/2 of the way between the 2 of us.
Kim in N. California3 -
I have never been comfortable with the term "cheat day" since the only person I'm cheating is myself. Then someone said "planned exception" and I liked that. On Friday when we were so tired after the endless drive home from Seattle, we stopped at Taco Time and got tostada salads to take home, even though we had planned much lower calorie and lower sodium meal for that evening. The same thing could happen for a special event or a holiday. I want to avoid doing anything that makes me feel guilty instead of powerful. We went for a ride in the country this afternoon in beautiful weather. Jake drove and I used the time to ask all my questions about the differences about driving an electric vehicle. It had been my plan to drive around our neighbourhood when we got back but since I fell asleep in the car on the way home, it seemed like a better idea to postpone driving until tomorrow.
Barbie in NW WA 6 -
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Joy I have started to wear my masks when I work in the garden during our air quality alerts. We have had over 20 so far this year!
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Today our daughter visited with us and brought our granddaughter and a grandson. We made plans for me to see the county fair. I’m looking forward to it. 😊 👍🏻
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Heather - sounds like a very busy, but mostly enjoyable day. Hope you have a nice relaxing day today.
Barbara - that is a huge chunk! I hope you can get your watch soon.
Terri - you and Heather make me look forward to retirement. I want to be involved in activities.
I would do more now, but DH makes me feel bad when I’m away from home a lot. It’s a discussion I’ve need to had for a while and have been putting off.
Lanette - I think I might enjoy not having to be on someone else’s schedule, but I do get pretty lonely easily. It will be interesting to see how I feel in another 20 years or so.
Rebecca - Your pen pals are fortunate you are in their lives.
I don’t know if I could cut sugar out completely. I don’t eat sweets like, cookies, cakes and chocolate often, but I sure do enjoy a coffee with sugar as a treat, also ice cream and a nice cold can of Coke.
Machka - glad you will be getting your knee looked at. We do that same type of bowel screening test here too. Colonoscopies are not routinely done.
I mostly use portion control when actively losing weight. I am a very fussy eater so I don’t try to put anything off the table completely. I do try to cut back the carbs though. It’s a hard one for me.
I seemed to have missed some posts based on comments on the days I’m reading.
Allie - your brother is a nice looking man.
Pip - what a comfortable peaceful home you make. At the house and the camper.
Michelle - I think you can buy a voice activated thing quite cheap. That would be hilarious. I’m with Vince on this one.
My Grands would love it, I may have to make one.
We had a camp out at Kaitlyn’s last night. We had a group photo with our shirts I made. My daughters are the two on the right. I am second from left. I am so blessed these young women allow me to be such a part of their lives.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Up at my mom's for the past week. Lovely weather. Lots of kayaking. Finished going through the garages and took care of some legal business.
Sky tonight, looking from the back deck.
Flea
Currently on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »
Normally, the photo of the painting is better than the painting, but I think it's the other way round with this one! I'm quite pleased with it as it's a difficult subject. A beach in the Lofoten Islands. It's A4 size.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Happy Monday Pals!
Tere in Chester VA7 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Machka - Glad to see you, dear heart, I knew you were having a busy week, but do miss your calming posts when you're busy. Sorry the knee is being such a bother, and hope tests show it's not too badly injured. If it helps any, I haven't done anything where I have to kneel in probably 20 years because both knees were wrecked when I was super heavy. There are always work-arounds.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
Thank you Lisa and everyone.
I've been for an X-ray ... nothing is broken. But then, we didn't think it was. The X-Ray was sort of a formality. I have a GP appointment tomorrow and the recommendation is already that I should get an MRI. I expect that the GP appointment will be a formality as well, to get the referral for the MRI.
The radiology people and I are getting to know each other!
In the last year, I've had so many MRIs, CTs, X-Rays and Ultrasounds for all sorts of different things.
My knees aren't in brilliant shape to begin with either. Way back when, in my early teens, I raced as a runner, a sprinter. I did the 100K, 200K and 400K. I also raced hurdles for a while. Unfortunately, it was a very dry year in southern Alberta and the school, in the small town I where I was living at the time, had a dirt race track ... which had turned to loose dust. Several times after clearing a hurdle, my foot would slip and I'd land on one knee or the other. Eventually I was having trouble even walking, and they discovered that something in both knees had slipped out of place. The doctor popped it back into place, in both knees (OUCH!).
Later, when I had gotten into cycling, I switched to clipless pedals and, as usually happens in the early days with clipless pedals, I didn't clip out in time and fell on my left knee. I large rather painful lump came up. About a week later, I didn't clip out in time again and fell on my left knee. The lump disappeared. Problem solved!
Then another time I was cycling, slipped on ice and ruptured a bursa in one of my knees.
I was constantly falling on my knees!
So kneeling hasn't been particularly comfortable since I was quite young. However, when I garden, I have a thick foam pad to kneel on which helps.
Today was another busy day. I had 2 meetings on at the same time and had one in each ear for a little while!!
Plus I'm trying to figure out something with a piece of software at work that should be so easy and plainly obvious, but it's not. How can software in 2023 not have the ability to recognise wildcards?? There must be a way.
Machka in Oz
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Another very smokey day again. Trying not to be outside too much because of the air quality so finding it more difficult to keep up with my garden this year. Have to go out and do just a bit more weeding this morning as I like it to be as clean as possible. Eating potatoes, carrots, green onions and lettuce so far. Plants are huge this year which is surprising. I don't water my garden and depend on rain. We were very dry earlier in the spring but have had some nice timely rains since. Very big pea pods on the vines so waiting for those to fill out. Our barley field is just starting to head out. Will be interesting to see what size the heads are.
Enjoy your day, ladies.
Joy
I hope your air quality improves soon!
Love garden fresh peas in pods.
M in Oz
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The comments about fasting – I know it works well for many, but don’t push if it doesn't work for you that is OKAY.
I had to fast for 24 hours prior to a colonoscopy (according to the paperwork) then drink the clean out solution. At about 20 hours there were snakes and dragons breaking through the walls of my bedroom chasing me around the house, I was scared to death. As I was ready to call 911 (our emergency services) I thought of calling the friend who was taking me to the colonoscopy she came over – talked me down enough and took me to the hospital where the colonoscopy was to happen. Talking to the Doc was scary as he kept shape shifting….. Hallucinations are SCARY - I have never had that before, After it was done and they got “food” in me via iv I was ok again.
Kim in HOT N. California
When I was doing ultra-distance cycling, I would hallucinate at times. What fun!
It would happen on rides over 400 kilometres, in the middle of the night ... and wasn't just brought on by lack of sleep. It was often brought on by the fact that it's hard to remember to eat, and it's difficult to eat, while cycling through the middle of the night.
Over the years, I had crocodiles and trolls in the ditches, trees that turned into monsters, leaves blowing across the road that turned into broken glass, and one of my favourites: huge statues lining the side of the road, like the statue of liberty and numerous other similar type of statues. I liked that one because I rode for quite a while looking at the detail in each of these massive, amazing statues.
Mine weren't so scary because I had talked to other cyclists and knew that it could happen.
And yes, eating usually made them fade a bit.
M in Oz
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Machka - I wrecked my knees so much that I can't even kneel on a pad--any weight directly on the knee, and I'm done.
Tere - Good to see you pop up! Always glad to see your posts. Hope you're doing well...
Kim - I have auditory hallucinations, not visual. The visual ones I only get when I've driven for too long. When the road starts moving instead of the car, I know I need to stop quickly. Haven't done that in a long time. Yours sound absolutely terrifying, as do yours, Machka. Mine are always auditory, and just seem to be my brain trying desperately to decide what my ears are hearing, just in case it's a threat. I even wrote something on it when we lived on the ranch--see the spoiler.
Tracey - The ranch is where I learned that I liked to be alone. It was 45 minutes from anywhere, and there was no one to call within miles. Too remote, no cellphone towers. I was still recovering from my layoff from Cisco, and it took about two years of being in the quiet before I even thought about applying for a job. It helped me heal, because I let it do so.April 2014 - Lisa C Hannon
The deceptive voices of solitary things
I’m not sure we were meant to be solitary.
As the days lengthen toward summer, and I’m alone longer,
I’ve begun to recognize the voices of the things around me.
The tiny, explosive beginning of the kitchen water heater’s whoosh to life,
Followed by the squirbling, burbling union of fire and water
Sounds, for a moment, like shouts in the distance.
The bathroom water heater creaks and clicks and groans
Like an old man rising from a couch,
Then dissolves into a closer conversation outside.
The words are just on the edge of hearing; now they’re gone again.
The pine and fruit trees are aliens in this harsh desert landscape,
Brought to live in a place where they must have help to survive.
The wind through their dusty branches is some long-lost argument,
And when it rises to a howl, it sounds nothing like an engine in the distance.
Until it does.
Something on the shed across the way thumps when the wind is high.
It sounds just like a truck door slamming, humanity returning.
Over and over and over again.
It lies.
The air conditioner’s rustly taffeta skirts draw the rest to her,
Mutes the protests, overwhelming their senses,
Which are no sense at all.
More later perhaps. Didn't sleep much, but didn't expect to. We'll see what today brings.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Kim - I have auditory hallucinations, not visual. The visual ones I only get when I've driven for too long. When the road starts moving instead of the car, I know I need to stop quickly. Haven't done that in a long time. Yours sound absolutely terrifying, as do yours, Machka. Mine are always auditory, and just seem to be my brain trying desperately to decide what my ears are hearing, just in case it's a threat. I even wrote something on it when we lived on the ranch--see the spoiler.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa
All I've got is a high pitched scream in my ears all the time now. It's a bit difficult to hear much else.
I knew my visual hallucinations were just hallucinations so they didn't worry me too much. But knowing doesn't make them disappear!
The broken glass one, however, was quite realistic and I was weaving around trying to dodge it.
M in Oz
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Barbie: Not a fan of ‘cheat days’. I prefer to call them ‘planned pass days’.
Kim: Not posting holiday info while away seems very sensible.
Barbara:
I’m an Obliviator in the Hogwarts Holiday Challenge on Community.(AKA Harry Potter) It is based in the Ministry of Magic in London. The relay is a list of tasks we have to accomplish one by one as a team this week. It’s a Magical International Cooperation Challenge with tasks related to different countries around the world.Terri, “… a relay task in Hogwarts” ? would you clarify or add a few details?
The race finished yesterday. My team got all our tasks completed.
Gotta run. It’s started raining and I have washing out!
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