WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2024

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,344 Member
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  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,241 Member
    LisaInArkansas wrote: »
    Morning, my chicklets,



    Allie - The haircut looks great. Do you like having shorter hair to deal with? I don't think I'll ever go back to longer hair. My sister even cut her hair, and it was almost three feet long. Got tired of dealing with it all.


    Ah, there goes Corey, time to gently shoo Egg off my lap and get started on a couple things.

    Later, my lovelies,
    Lisa in AR

    I can't imagine me cutting my hair- I wish it would actually grow longer but hasn't really grown in years. It is just past my waist when wet but it is super curly(ringlets) when dry so just barely to the middle of my back or a bit shorter-depending on if I put the curl activator product in and which one I use).
    I trim my hair but not very often. Haven't cut my hair in over 45 yrs. Most I have cut off was a trim dh gave me- told him just an inch- took 4 inches off. Never let him cut my hair again. Now, I put it in a braid, cut off the bottom inch or so and call it good- yep- VERY low maintanance for me ;)

  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,241 Member
    Anniesquats100 wrote: »
    I never found anyone who could manage my hair. It is dead straight, no body, thin and fine. It doesn't curl unless I glue each curl and then it's a sticky mess. So I stopped fighting it. I just didn't want to spend an hour a day fixing and cleaning my hair. I let it hang straight and I stopped cutting it because that was also an unrewarding hassle. Long hair really isn't any trouble for me. It stays in place behind my shoulders mostly.

    My mom used to say a lot of unkind things about how I might be attractive if I only had curly hair. Bah humbug. I try to think I am a wonderful person no matter what my hair does.

    Yes it's still a trigger for me. Especially since I really want to wash it before Thanksgiving dinner but I can't leave Dad alone so I'm kind of stuck.

    Annie in Delaware

    My sisters used to tease me about my curly hair- and then they both went in and got perms- What a crazy mess that was.
    Growing up, mom made me put my hair in those big hard curlers and sleep in them over night each time I washed my hair. Thankfully I only washed it once a week- Sunday nights. (now I wash it Saturday nights so it looks its' best on Sunday morning for church. By Friday, it is in a ponytail)
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,241 Member
    mcmillonmail wrote: »
    Hello Ladies! I missed you all. I read quickly through the post. I wanted to post on Monday and Tuesday, but I felt down and questioned humanity on Monday. On Tuesday, my Rose was quite demanding. I took care of a boy who just got out of Peds ICU. This 7-year-old boy was intubated and placed on a vent. This poor boy was beaten by his 17-year-old brother. This boy suffered a skull fracture and subdural hematoma, with some bleeding noted and TBI. The parents were devastated, for the boy was mild-mannered and loved to hide in a quiet place to read. Two doors down, there is a baby that is only 3 months old and has brain damage because her mother and father beat her. Forensics is getting called in. That poor baby wanted to be held all night, to be reassured. We all took turns holding her. I don't understand people.


    XO,
    Mo in Mississippi

    We were foster parents for a few years until we got tired of the run around with the social workers.
    One of the placements was an 8 month old little boy. He came to us with his 3 skull fracture. He ended up going back to the mom just a few months later. Always pray for the ones that came through our house.
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,241 Member
    SophieRosieMom wrote: »
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    Interesting fact - his dad passed away this summer. They buried him in the family plot right on the farm. K and his brother and brother in law dug the grave themselves and handled everything, as was probably done 100 years ago. Afterward, there was a big potluck and celebration of Dad's life. In the photos K posted, they all had smiles on their faces. What a loving family and great send-off.

    Ok ladies, beef is in the crockpot and smelling great.

    Lanette B)
    SW WA State

    My dad, aunt, uncle, cousin(and soon two more cousins, his brothers/their sons) are all buried on the property where mom lives. Plus her dog and my sister's dog-soon a cousin's dog. Mom has requested to be buried out there also. Sure hope I am the one that gets the property so I can keep it in the family beings everyone will be buried there.

    Time to feed all the cats then get ready for class- need to cook up some salmon while I do that for dh.
    Today is his birthday and he is in a mood, like always- had to run a ton of errands for his mom after being over there this morning(and he is over there now). I wanted to take him to lunch but he didn't want to. No place good in town and not enough time to drive out of town where he wanted to go so he just didn't eat except a beef stick and crackers. Having a pity party for one all day. His mom didn't even mention his birthday at all. Doesn't help that I have class tonight but oh well- We are having our Friends-giving after a short class- only gone a little over an hour.


    Debbie
  • mcmillonmail
    mcmillonmail Posts: 127 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,681 Member
    My bed has quite a firm mattress, which I like, but I have arthritis in my right hip and it has been painful lately. I also have arthritis in my feet and they have been screaming with pain lately. Going to bed on the firm mattress puts my right hip and both feet on contact with the mattress which hurts. I end up tossing and turning a lot.

    Two nights with the memory foam mattress topper, and I think I lie still longer. I'm not immediately in pain and have the impression that there is less tossing and turning. So I think I am sleeping better.

    M in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,681 Member
    edited November 28
    Thursday

    Short walk at lunch to get supplies for cycling event on weekend.

    24 flights of 20 stairs = 480 individual stairs today.

    It's unlikely I'll do more stairs before the end of the month because I'm working from home tomorrow, so my total flights of stairs for the month is 270 flights of 20 stairs = 5400 individual stairs in November.

    And then I nipped out for a bicycle ride.

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    The cycling event this weekend is a 208.3 kilometer ride (that's 129.4 miles) with 4,259 metres of climbing (that's 13,973 feet) to be completed within 13.5 hours.

    It is quite a challenge!! I have never ridden it and couldn't right now. I'm not fit enough.

    But there are quite a number of cyclists here who enjoy taking on the challenge. :smile:

    Unfortunately, although it is supposed to be summer on December 1, there's supposed to be heavy rain and possibly thunderstorms. So we'll likely have a lot of drop-outs. Which means we'll have a lot of food left over!


    Machka in Oz
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,136 Member
    I love my cat,I love my cat ,Ilove my cat...I have to keep saying that to myself lol
    Bless her heart i didn't get to sleep until after 11 and she hops up on the bedside table at 3:45 and starts prancing around and knocking things off and then coming over on top of me .,I need to be up early to go to Tracys..So im going to try and get some sleep wish me luck ..sheesh.
  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,648 Member
    Heather ~ I thought you might like to investigate this site. It's all about gluten free recipes.

    https://goldengracekitchen.com/
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,941 Member
    Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate... Hope it's a lovely day.

    Heard a lady in Aldi yesterday say to her friend, "Yeah, I graduated from Thanksgiving and let my daughter take it over." Thought it was a great way to say it. I've "graduated" from most holiday celebrations, and genuinely love that. It is the line I plan to use on our kids after this one.

    But... Corey's got what he's going to grill out to thaw... and I've got beans bubbling on the stove, with the ham bone that he carved out for me carefully ensconced in the pot... and the house is already smelling amazing. Sausage balls are made up already and in the fridge - they'll go right in the oven when John texts to say they're on their way. The only thing left is getting cornbread ready to go in the oven, and that takes just moments.

    The plan for entertainment is to get the new (Black Friday sale) TV on the mantel, with the extra hands coming in to help, and then do the TV shuffle... the one on the mantel now will come in my workroom, the one in my workroom will move over to become my laptop monitor, and I don't really know what I'm going to do with the computer monitor. We've been able to move the living room to use all of it, instead of most of it, by moving our chairs back four feet.

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    Time to get Corey another cup of coffee... and get a few things done to prep for the TV move(s).

    Later, y'all,
    Love from Arkansas,
    Lisa
  • Vickil57
    Vickil57 Posts: 1,894 Member
    Happy Thanksgiving. I am up dressed and checking in with all of you. DH set up this laptop for me and learning how to use it.
    Not a lot planned today. Going to be cold 22 now and only to get up to 38. Atleast no snow yet.
    Watching the Marcy's parade and going to put up Christmas sruff inside.
    Tracey--love the snowman. I bet they will sell.
    Take care and thank you for being here.
    Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND,NE <3
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,941 Member
    Meant to say earlier - KJ shows up on FB every few days, Kylia posted about the kittens about a week ago, also on FB, and this is Kim's busiest season, with last minute embroidery requests, so I'm sure she's reading, just too busy to post. That's all the K's that are MIA! :smiley:

    Vicki - meant to say how good it was to see you pop in yesterday, had been worried about you, and am glad to hear you're going to take the next month off from job searching. You genuinely deserve the time to relax as much as you can, and I hope you're able to help yourself take that time.

    Back to my doings!
    Love,
    Lisa in AR
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,344 Member
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  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,548 Member


    Heather – best of luck to Edie

    Here it is, Thurs. I did a piiates DVD then made the stuffing, peeled the potatoes, grated the cheese for the mac & cheese tomorrow. This afternoon I’ll probably go out and help Vince put out the small Christmas trees near the log cabin. We probably wouldn’t have used the log cabin this year since we used it last year. But Jess gave me this blowmold of a small car with Santa in it that I think will go nicely next to the log cabin. Now I just need to clean the house. Really, not a whole lot to do, but enough.

    Lanette – I’ve started going to the local cosmetology school’s salon, so I don’t get the same person cutting my hair all the time (or actually any time). I just figure that if all I’m doing is getting a few inches cut off to get the dead ends off, do I really need to spend a lot of money?

    I used to color my hair and then when the pandemic hit and I couldn’t go to the hairdresser’s I couldn’t get over how much gray I had so ever since then I’ve just been letting it be the color Mother Nature wants it to be. I just trim my own bangs

    Annie – you ARE a very wonderful person. I’m so very grateful to know you

    Yesterday I made the sweet potato casserole, the green bean casserole, and the honey glazed carrots. Didn’t do well at bowling tomorrow. I REALLY can’t wait to go to the podiatrist Tues. This heel is really a pain. Hopefully, it’s something that can be fixed quickly.

    Oh, made the apple pie the other day. Was going to make the pumpkin pie yesterday and opened the fridge looking for the other piecrust. What I did was when I baked the apple pie, I baked two crusts together (each in an aluminum pan). And I didn’t have enough apples for another pie. So what I did was I bought more pie crusts (I probably could have bought more apples at that time, just didn’t think of it) and baked the apple pie (after covering it with aluminum foil) for about another 10 minutes. Hope the bottom baked! We shall find out tomorrow….

    I need to wear my hair in a ponytail for work and the soup kitchen. At work I also need to wear a baseball cap. I’m not crazy about them, but they’re paying me to wear a cap so I’ll wear a cap (same thing for t-shirt and black shoes)

    I miss Kelly, too, and her tales about the kiddos

    Denise called. Unfortunately, PJ was watching TV and didn’t talk to us. Seems she fractured her foot, her car is in for service, Pete had to have his esophagus expanded. But it also seems that PJ is doing OK in kindergarten.

    I really wish people would buy only what’s on my Christmas list. I really don’t need other “stuff”. But Vince feels you should get something you’d like, not something you need. Personally, I’d rather get something I need because then I use it all the time and think of that person. Like every time I use the IP that Colby gave me, I think of him. Same for the pasta attachment for my mixer. I may only use it once/year, but I’m ever so grateful for it.

    Barbara – yea for Joe walking and not being out of breath!!

    Allie – meant to say how much I like your hair. It really fits your face

    Michele NC
  • ginnytez
    ginnytez Posts: 1,409 Member
    Allie-I do like your haircut-I think it makes you look younger.

    Heather-hope things go well for Edie and her testing.

    Barbara AHMOD-After your comment I went back reread my comment and it contains a typo I meant to say I hesitate to speak up at times because I think it may be my fault-I like to carefully review my part in the situation before speaking up. Something I finally learned with my husband when he was doing his "venting" (he would fly off the handle and yell and speak without thinking. After a a few years of trying to argue with him, when he would start I would say to myself "Don't say anything if it will not help the situation." Most of the time I let him rant and didn't respond so he had no fuel to keep his fire going. He would wind down and reflect and we could discuss. He was really doing well at changing his approach when he passed.

    Regarding hair, got stitches out of head yesterday. Plastic surgeon remarked a couple of times that my hair grows back really quickly so I must be pretty healthy. He also said I am a quick healer. Both observations made me feel good.

    Hope those of you celebrate have a good Thanksgiving. And even if you don't celebrate-have a good day. Got a two mile walk in and now am off to shower. Going to son's house in a bit.

    Take care all,

    Ginny in Ohio

  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,374 Member
    Besides Thanksgiving, Today IS:
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  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,648 Member
    Margaret ~ Your TG meal sounds wonderful. So glad you enjoyed.

    Carol in Ga
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,774 Member
    Thinking of you all in the US, on this day. <3

    I went out for lunch with G. :) I glammed up in my long velvet skirt, my winter white sweater, and my black Chanel jacket. Nice fake gold earrings. I so rarely go out of the house that it's good to dress up a bit. We both had the grilled hake in caper sauce, and I had salad with mine. Affogato for dessert.
    Afterwards, I managed to walk up the hill to M&S, where the buses are. My knee was OK, but I was a bit out of breath. :# Boo! I must work on my cardio. In the shop G bought a ready meal, and we were just glancing round the clothes section, when I spied some black leggings with a silver, narrow line down the sides. I couldn't try them on, because there was a long queue for the changing room, so I just bought them. They do fit, although the waist is a bit snug. John approved of them. I was very bloated from a good lunch, so I think they can only get more comfortable. They are nice and warm, and I love the silver touch. :D

    Before I set off, I tried on some knee length, very expensive boots, I haven't worn in years. The zip was very stiff and the leather had gone all suedy inside the zip, so I had bits all over the carpet. I decided to give them away as they weren't comfortable, but first rubbed off the suedy bits with my fingers. I tried to get it off the carpet with wet wipes, and succeeded in turning my finger nails black! It wouldn't wash off! So, with minutes to go, I was removing my colourless nail varnish and having to redo it. :o Ugh! The lesson is, don't keep things for years that you don't wear, because time deteriorates most things, especially leather.
    I still have to bring the vacuum upstairs to get the rest off the carpet.

    I'm making the Keralan coconut curry tonight, from a pouch. Adding king prawns and lots of veg. I blanched the broccoli this morning.

    Thanks, Carol, for that website. I'm going to keep a look out for the gf puff pastry!

    G and I had a bit of a disagreement about a proposed school year reunion next year. She really wants to go, but I'm neutral. If I do go, I think I'll ask John to take me, and get a very expensive taxi back. It's around 23 miles. To be quite honest, I'm in touch with anyone I liked at school, and really not interested in the others. She is very loyal to old friends and acquaintances, even to people she doesn't much like. I am more selective and happy to stay at home!

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,344 Member
    Stats for the gobble day-

    Thanksgiving Day walk w/family- 1hr 38min 14sec, 66elev,83ahr, 102mhr, 11568steps, 3.19ap, 5.19mi = 463c
    Strava app= 629c
    Zwift home bike trainer- strava stats- 37.33min, 92elev, 80aw, 17.8amph, 112ahr, 144mhr, 11.15mi= 314c
    Zwift stats- 37.33min, 93elev, 79aw, 59arpm, 17.90amph, 11.2mi= 171c

    Total cal 777

    Happy gobble day to all!

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