WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2024

Ugh! Ninety minutes on the phone trying to do my dad's banking! They want to text a phone that is registered to my dad. His landline phone doesn't text. So let's go in circles!

Annie in Delaware venting again

weather is amazing again today-high of 77.
Walked MIL's dog for half an hour- would walk him more but mil and dh both get antsy if I am gone too long(she thinks I have him out too long as it is and dh just wants me to get back so we can leave most of the time.)
Will be walking with my zumba friend at the wetlands tonight beings we have no class(teacher's birthday so she took the day off-shoot, my birthday or anniversary, that is where I choose to be, but that is me). We haven't walked out there together since Oct I think. Looking forward to getting to chat, having company. I love being out there by myself most of the time but like the company too. We don't get a chance to chat at class.

Had a bit of a scare with our seizure cat last night. Miso hasn't had any in over 6 months. Not sure what brought this on. It wasn't the grand maul type that he used to have. He was not able to walk right, walking in circles backwards and his eyes were shaking like crazy. I gave him his CBD and held him and it helped but when I put him down he would do it again. Had son hold him a while until he went to bed. I put him in a soft sided cat carrier for the night. Not knowing what I would find when I got up. That was the safest place for him. Woke up and there he was,sleeping on dh. He had gotten out of the carrier(guess I didn't have all the zippers up all the way). Acting like normal. I will continue to give him his cbd for a few days, just to be sure.

Lisa - Thanks for the organ recital. That was a lot of good information. I saw the cardiologist yesterday and she believes the a-fib a couple of weeks ago was a one time thing probably due to the stress caused by terrible tenant. Yesterday I was in sinus rhythm. I normally have an occasioal wonky rhythm because of a left bundle branch block. The extreme stress it seems pushed it over into a-fib but with tenant gone and metoprolol and Eliquis on board it has resolved. I will see them again in September.

Beautiful day here. We need a new battery for our lawn tractor. Soon, or we will need to bale the grass for the critters.

Beth - hope it is just anxiety over upcoming surgery.

Carol - so sorry about your friend.

Rebecca - nice hair style.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

Walked around the neighborhood, got over 10,000 steps. Finished the one wing of the Polish eagle x-stitch I’m making. This pattern is on 12 sheets of paper. If you don’t line them up exactly, your count is off. Honestly, I got to the 5 foot rule….if it looks good from five feet away, it’s good enough.

Rusty – I’m so sorry you’re going thru so much. (((HUG)))

Michele NC

Rebecca - I love that cut, I used to wear my hair that short.

Annie - sorry your dad had another fall. Will he use a cane or walker on his walks?
It’s worrisome for you I’m sure.

Lisa - hope you had a nice nap.

Allie - I would not be happy with that cat, hope she calms soon. Can you play her out before bedtime somehow?

Vicki - there are some good kids in the school, I think also some teachers make the difference in the behaviour.
Based on the Rant & Rave FB group for this town I’m not shocked about how the kids are being raised. Quite sad really.

Michele - that 5 foot rule would work for me on some things, but I don’t think cross stitch is one of them. It’s why I decided cross stitch wasn’t for me. I notice too much while working on it and I don’t have the patience. I need to see results faster.

Tonight I made a couple of mugs. I’ll put them in a spoiler as there is language that may bother some in one of them.
Brodey asked me to make the one for Kaitlyn and I had to make him one too.
I had a better day today, I’m starting to understand grade 8 math! Wow it was 40 years ago that I learned it, and it’s a whole new way of doing it.
Very confusing.
Funny, I asked in my course how we were supposed to help if we didn’t remember math or grammar rules.
I love this one teacher I’m working with, I think another one will be good too when I get to spend more time with her.

Well I’m in bed watching The Masked Singer. I should sign off.
Tracey in Edmonton

Had to contact Amazon this morning about some items that had failed to deliver. Faulty and returned to seller. They phoned me from India, but the line was so bad I could hardly hear anything. And I must have got someone on their first day! Took a while for her to get the sums right for the refund, but it was all resolved before breakfast. I've re-ordered now and they should arrive tomorrow. Normally the phone lines are fine, but this was almost impossible.

Beautiful day here. The apple blossom on next door's huge tree looks exactly like Van Gogh's painting against the blue sky.

I had a better night. Sore this morning, but I have completed all my exercises.

G and I have arranged to go for lunch at The Regency on May 3rd. It's so great of her to make the journey on the train regularly. Lovely to have something to look forward to. She's off to Paris again soon after, as she enjoyed her last trip so much. I hope it won't be too busy, as May is peak tourist season.

It's John's shopping day today, so I'm using up all last week's vegetables for tonight's meal. Broccoli, fresh green beans, fresh peas, in a fresh pesto sauce, with king prawns, and wholegrain spelt spaghetti. Yum.
Lunch is the best Scotch Eggs in the world, from Canhams. John picked them up yesterday, on my strict instructions, on the way home with Max. Big mixed salad, with avocado. Might put some raw broccoli in it.

John has cricket tomorrow, so I'm planning my 'funny lunch' already.
My prunes are definitely helping with the codeine side effects. I also use lots of EVO, even drink the odd spoonful, And I'm not stinting on the homemade yoghurt, post antibiotics.
I'm not snacking, even healthy snacks, and I've dropped either cheese or chocolate from dinner.

Love to all, especially those who are hurting, or who have caring responsibilities. So many of us. It helps to know we are not alone.

Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Hello, my dear hearts, from the pre-dawn darkness of the Arkansas River Valley, another warm day coming up, then back to more spring-like weather tomorrow.

We'll probably get the air conditioners into the windows in the living room and the kitchen area this weekend. We'll need them on a daily basis pretty shortly, so it will be good to have them in already and ready to go. It was May of last year before it got this warm. Ah well.

Back up again at 4:30 this morning, no idea why. I have to be in town at 11:45 for this VA exam to try to bump my rating up, but I'm honestly not worried about it. If it works to increase my rating, that's wonderful. If it doesn't, nothing changes. There is no downside, we're doing fine as we are. Still might be why I've been up too early yesterday and today, my psyche isn't always obvious about what it's agitated about. Could even be the Skyrizi infusion tomorrow. 🤷🏻‍♀️👀🙃 Color me baffled...

Tracey, it was a wonderful nap, thank you, just enough to get me past that afternoon slump without leaving me groggy all night and unable to sleep. Wish I could have done that when I was working for a living! Hope your practicum continues well... how long is this part of the requirement? Can you start applying for jobs now?

Going to work on the quilt for a few hours before I go, listen to videos. I end up listening to the late night monologues the next morning, quite enjoy those. Love YouTube these days.

Hope it's a grand Thursday for all concerned...

Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR

I feel like April is getting away from me ... just like all of 2024 has felt.

Not nearly as much exercise done this month as I would have liked ... so far.

BUT ... we have had a couple Fencing classes which are very energetic. We have graduated from the Beginner's class now.

AND ... I have been doing some stairs this week. Monday = 12 flights up and 20 flights down. Tuesday = 14 flights up and 22 flights down. Wednesday = 18 flights up and 22 flights down. Thursday = 21 flights up and 29 flights down. (20 stairs per flight + landings)


I popped a crown a few weeks ago and the new dentist glued it back in as a temporary fix to make me more comfortable. Yesterday she removed it so she could clean up the tooth and prepare it for a new crown. That sentence makes it sound so easy. That old crown was SOLID. It took about an hour to and several drill bits to remove it. When it finally came out, so did part of my tooth. There wasn't a whole lot of that tooth left to begin with. There's less now. I've got a temp crown on and we're giving the tooth a couple weeks to decide if it is going to die or need a root canal or what.

Today, my husband had a tooth removed and it was a struggle because one leg of the root had kind of wrapped around or embedded itself in the bone. His process was a rather painful hour.

So the last 2 nights we've both had soup and cottage cheese.

Between that and climbing more stairs, I dropped a little weight - about 0.5 kg.


Working from home tomorrow!

Machka in Oz

Good Morning...I got DH car sold to a friend so she could have it for her daughter. I told her what maintenance I would do if I kept the car so I priced the car with that in mind. The DMV did price it higher which did not surprise me. This way I did not have to take it to CARMAX and I got about what they would have paid me. One less thing to do!

Hopefully getting into the home stretch of getting DH estate done. Some things have very few issues. One a major hassle, another somewhat, two minor ones (one sent info to the wrong address, another wants more documents)

I have an overall game plan for the next four years...I will reassess as needed.

Today my son comes and we finish organizing transformers to get ready to take to a sale in May!