WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2024

Lanette: Have you had any benefit from Nioxin. I have thin hair and do believe it has helped over the years. I have been with one hairdresser around 9 years. He likes to read and we discuss what he is reading.

Barbie: The Authenticity Project sounds interesting!

PIPCD: I am either going to get a pottery bench or cart with wheels for my plants!

Heather: Were you and John able to paint on Wed morning?

Carol: I hope your DH is feeling better. I motored over to Madison GA for a get away at a B&B there. I enjoyed it.

Rosilind: Welcome!

Annie: Glad you are feeling better!

Lisa: I am sorry you are in such pain and your mobility is limited. I hope this new ortho has some treatment ideas.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier and then a Pointiac Grand Am and then several Honda Accords. We purchased a disability van with the ramp and wheel chair lock. When I sold this I got a used Rav4. I am happy with the Rav4.

My doctor also gave me the all clear on doing yoga despite having osteoporosis. I find venting does help and I miss my DH dearly because living alone there is no one to vent to. At this stage i guess there is less to vent about. Retired, son is grown..I am grateful for all my husband gave me in this world. I miss him dearly.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best,
Rosemarie from GA

I had a lovely meal at my neighbors. Then I got home and got a call from a friend who told me a good friend of ours just lost her husband to a heart attack. The friend is in Belgium when she lost her husband. So they will have to get the US Embassy involved to get him home. Love and strength to my friend at this difficult time. Her daughter is leaving soon to be with her!

Good morning. I hope those of you who celebrate had a good Thanksgiving day.

Yesterday we had our Christmas themed monthly meeting,. We had a display of cards made by our card making group, a flower demonstration, then I read out one of my Christmas stories and a poem. One of my members also read some of their work. We had a speaker from the Folk and Transport Museum on Christmas practices in Ireland and how they came about. Our refreshments were Christmas themed. It was well attended and very enjoyable. Today I have my Latin study group.

🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

🙋‍♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.

☘️ Terri

Hair - I've had my hair somewhere between waist length and long enough to sit on since about my mid-20s. 30 years! It's so easy to take care of when it's long that I'm not at all inclined to cut it short. My great grandmother had hair down to her ankles until she was into her 80s.


Christmas - I haven't made a Christmas list for myself since my early 20s. 35 years! And once my first husband and I separated 25 years ago, I was absolutely thrilled to drop most of the whole gift-giving thing.

I used to spend so much time and get so stressed about what to get his whole big family because they gave gifts to everyone, and they usually disliked anything I got for them. Do you know how sad it is when you spend time finding something you think the person would really like, only to have them make faces and indicate that they don't like it. Such a relief to get out of all that.

I'm not even sure if we'll decorate this year ... our tree and things are in the storage unit. We'll take a look but if they're difficult to get to, we'll keep things really simple this year!

And we're going to a buffet for Christmas lunch again. That suits us.

Of course, last year, we ended up with COVID for Christmas and once I got over being so sick I felt like I was going to die, it was quite relaxing. Our COVID rating has gone up to Moderate and it's going through my office building, so who knows ... there is the possibility we could do the COVID thing again. Hope not, but the possibility is there.

I think one of the best Christmas gifts for me this Christmas would be health and time. Time to cycle, garden and unpack/set up this house.

Bees - we added a third box to our hive today. The two we had on were chockers full of bees and comb. They've been so busy.


Got a fairly decent bicycle ride in at lunch today.



Machka in Oz

This is a post from Facebook from three years ago I thought it timely for my friend in Belgium and others who have lost loved ones and are having a hard time with the holidays may find it comforting too...

Hi. This is your late loved one speaking. I don’t have long, so listen up because I have a lot I want to tell you.
First off, I get it.
Ever since I left this world you have missed me, and I know you’re bracing for the holidays without me. No matter what anyone says, this year’s festivities are going to be really tough.
In fact, let’s be honest, this festive season will probably suck pondwater. But then, Thanksgiving and Christmas are tough holidays for a lot people.

You’re not alone.
See, the misconception about the holidays is that they are one big party. That’s what every song on the radio claims. Each television commercial you see shows happy families clad in gaudy Old Navy sweaters, carving up poultry, smiling their perfect Hollywood teeth at the camera. But that’s not exactly reality.
In reality, fifty-eight percent of Americans admit to feeling severely depressed and anxious during November and December. In reality many folks will cry throughout the “most wonderful time of the year.”
Well, guess what? Nobody is crying up here in heaven. This place is unreal. There is, literally, too much beauty to take in. Way too much.
For starters—get this—time doesn’t even exist anymore. Which I’m still getting used to.
Right now, for all I know, the calendar year down on Earth could be 1728, 4045, 1991, or 12 BC. It really wouldn’t matter up here. This is a realm where there is no ticking clock, no schedule. Up here there is only this present moment. This. Here. Now. That’s all there has ever been. And there is real comfort in this.
I know this all seems hard to grasp, but if you were here you’d get it.
Also, for the first time I’m pain free. I feel like a teenager again in my body. You probably don’t realize how long I’ve lived with pain because I never talked about it, I kept my problems to myself because I was your loved one, and you needed me to be brave.
But pain is a devious thing. It creeps up on even the strongest person, little by little, bit by bit. Until pretty soon, pain becomes a central feature of life.
Sometimes my pain would get so bad it was all I thought about. No, I’m not saying that my life was miserable—far from it. I loved being on earth. It’s just that simply waking up each morning was getting exhausting.
But, you know what? Not anymore. In this new place, I am wholly and thoroughly happy.
But enough about me. I don’t have room to describe all the terrific things I’m experiencing, and you don’t need to hear them. Right now, you’re grieving, and what you need is a hug.
Which is why I’m writing to you. This is my hug to you. Because you’ve lost sight of me. And in fact, you’ve lost sight of several important things lately.
Death has a way of blinding us. It reorganizes the way you think, it changes you. You will never be the same after you lose someone. It messes with your inner physiology. It reorganizes you’re neurons.
But then, there’s one teensy little thing you’re forgetting:
I’m still around.
Yes, you read that correctly, I’m right here with you. No, you can’t see me. No, you can’t reach out and hold me. But did you know that one of the things I’m allowed to do as a heavenly being is hang out with you?
It’s true. I’m never far away. I’m in the room with you now, along with a big cloud of ancestors, saints, and witnesses. I’m shooting the breeze alongside you, watching you live your life, watching you raise your kids, watching your private moments of sorrow.
Here, in this new realm, I am in the perfect position to help you learn things. Which is what I vow to spend the rest of your earthly life doing, teaching you little lessons, lending you a hand when you least expect it, and desperately trying to make you smile. Actually, I’ve already been doing this stuff, you just don’t realize it.
What, you don’t believe me?
Well, wake up, pal. You know that tingle you get in your spine whenever you think of me? That’s me.
You know how, just yesterday, you had a beautiful memory when you were driving and it made you cry so hard that it actually felt good and you began to laugh through tears? Also me.
You know how sometimes when you’re all alone, preoccupied with something else, suddenly you get this faint feeling that someone is standing in the room with you? Hello? Me.
You’re not alone on this earth. You never were. You never will be. So during this holiday season, when cheerful families are getting together and making merry, and taking shots of eggnog, I’m going to be clinging to your shoulder, helping you muddle through somehow.
I’ll be making your spinal column tingle a lot, and I’ll be sending plenty of signs. Each of these signs—every single one—is code for “I love you.” So start paying attention to these hints.
Because this was one.

Well yesterday was a nice day. DH and I put up our tree and put up our Nativity set. It is a precious monmets set our grandaughter Makenzi painted for us when she was 5, she is 24 now. Plan to work on cards next. Lastnight we took our Christmas picture. It is us and the 2 dogs in our new grinch PJ's. Always fun to try and keep them in the picture, it's just for fun.
DH is working today and we are having late dinner with DOS and family. DS is picking me up around 3 and DH will come over when he gets off work. Also going to celebrate his birthday. Part of the reason I am having him pick me up so the kids can decorate.
Michelle--Sorry to hear Denise and family are not feeling well. PJ in kindergarden already. They grow up so fast.
Annie--Glad you were able to get a shower.
Margaret--Thanks for sharing.
Got a call lastnight they had taken our grandson, Castle to ER. He was chocking and thet transfered him to bigger hospital bout 30 miles away. They live in Iowa. They did surgery and cleared his throat and found out his esophagus is very narrow. They stretchedit out and trying some meds. He is almost 18 (Dec 17) and a senior this years. Talked to them this morning and he is doing better. Times like that I hate living so far apart.
Sounds like everyone celebrated well, now on to Christmas preparations.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND,NE