WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2025

Here is Delia passed out, poor little girl.
Going to stop up and see Doris after watching D and then drop off my taxes
Always great to see Miles when I get here in the morning.
Happy Birthday Carla!! 🎂 Hope its an awesome day

Allie ...I'm gonna have to agree with the others ... the house is too cold during the day for you and Delia. They need to find other ways to save on utility costs.

Ginny ... hugs ...

Rebecca ... sorry to hear about the loss of your aunt ... 96 is a long time!

Sarah ... welcome. My husband has had multiple back surgeries including a fusion and has had significant relief.

Flea ... Parenting is never easy, is it? I'm thinking of the clay and the potter. We're never really "broken" ... just reshaped.

Lisa ... it's been 8 years since you moved into your current home?? Wow!

Beth near Buffalo

Lisa I look forward to weeks with little on calendar, but it seems like they keep filling up! This week should have been quiet, but currently at elbow dr for DH. He has an echo at 8 on Friday and an MRI on Saturday at 715 am! I don't mind the before work ones as much as the during work ones. Hard to get back into swing of things when leaving and coming back.


Kylia

bwcetc wrote: »

Lisa ... it's been 8 years since you moved into your current home?? Wow!

Beth near Buffalo

Ha! I should NEVER be trusted when doing math in my head, especially subtraction - we bought the house in 2018. Counting on my fingers tells me we're at 7 this year, but once we get past 10, I'll be out of fingers, not sure what I'll do then. 😂

Kylia - I got spoiled the last couple of months, with very few medicapalooza days, but next week is back to my treasured, quiet life. Corey won't GO to a doctor, so I don't deal with things on that side barring emergencies. Fingers crossed there are none of those in our future!

Dentist done, and my teeth feel quite spiffy. Then I hit the DMV, and a quick run through the beer store at Corey's request. Swanned back home, and an early lunch getting yummy in the air fryer - chicken, with rice in the microwave. Then time to get my labs done, stop at the thrift store, then the doctor and X-rays and this day will finally be completed and I can come back home and collapse...

For those I conversed with about Joann's, they're now closing ALL the stores, as they couldn't find a buyer for the 300 they were keeping open. They still haven't brought their prices down to a reasonable amount, though, IMHO. Don't know how long they'll keep selling.

Later, taters,
Love,
Lisa in AR

Today is a windy, rainy, cold day on the island! At 11 am today getting haircut. I need my ears to breathe (if that makes sense), plus getting some bumps behind my ears where my dang glasses rub a bit. So I am getting it buzzed around my ears, down in the back. Kind of like these examples: We'll see how it goes!
I might explore downtown before I call Lee to get me. Its been awhile since I played the piano in the foyer of one of the businesses. There's also a cool antique-y, messy, eclectic shops that is fun on get lost in.
My sister wrote in the group cousins chat that she and I were heading down there together, so I guess she got her truck repaired. It might be snow there! One of my cousins that live in the Beaverton area has a holiday home 30 minutes from from where the event is taking place, so maybe my sister and I will take her up on her offer. Seeing so many family did a kind of knee jerk on my thoughts though. First second of knowing I am traveling down, my thoughts were, "I need to just fast hard from now until I leave". Which is kind of loony, as I know they will accept me whatever size I am. My cousin who unfriended me will be there, so that will be interesting. There will be lots of people to reconnect with that we can be in the same room, no worries. We might do some crying. I know I will do some crying.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Debbie - sorry to hear about your X-MIL, she sounds like a great lady and quite a change from your current MIL. I have had a couple instances where you ladies send me your information and it floats around in outer space for half a day and sometimes never arrives at all.

Happy Birthday Carla! Have a wonderful day!!

We didn't lose power. A weather station nearby reported 23 MPH gusts which isn't anything, really, and looks like about 2" of rain in the past 24 hours. The hens' run is mostly underwater but will drain pretty quickly - we are supposed to have some sunshine this afternoon.

Lanette
SW WA State

Happy birthday, Carla - couldn't do it on my phone while I was out and about, no GIFs on my phone, so... I waited 'til I got home!

Did a spinning workout today. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Lower Body Total Body DVD.

Touting my own horn: I have to say that I’m proud of myself. As you know, before I started working I’d exercise every day. Well, on the days I don’t work (wed and sun) I go to the gym on wed and do a DVD at home on Sun (because the gym opens so darn late). Every day I take a walk, either around the block or to the store. I’m proud of the fact that I’m keeping it up, especially since I know me and if I don’t exercise first thing in the a.m. it doesn’t happen

Deb – prayers for your ex-MIL

Yesterday I was talking to this one lady here at the condo that I didn’t see last year. Anyway, she was telling me all about her medical problems, how she has high blood pressure, had both hips replaced. Then she said something about how she was 71 and it’s rough getting older, she said that I’ll find out. So I told her I wasn’t far behind her then told her I was 70. She was surprised, I was secretly pleased.

Met a friend of ours today for lunch. Knew him and his wife from a bowling league here in Hickory. They moved to Palm Coast about 10 years ago. Anyway, he had esophageal cancer and has lost 70 pounds. They have a truck and he can’t get into it without using a step stool. He’s also walking with a walker. His wife told me that he’s having balance issues and is going for PT for it. He’s supposed to go for an operation to insert a stint into his esophagus. I never knew they could insert it into the esophagus! The downside is that it’ll gradually open up. Right now his esophagus is the size of a pea and nothing tastes good to him. He can eat if he chews the food into REAL small pieces. His doctor is checking his liver so he can’t drink, which is weird for him because everytime we saw him, he had a beer in his hand. He and his wife used to make wine, but she told me that they probably won’t any more.

After lunch walked to a thrift store I didn’t remember ever seeing. Nothing but junk. Wouldn’t surprise me if they weren’t here next year.

Kylia – I’ve never vaped, so that probably explains my stupid question. What is a 4 tank?

Carla – happy birthday

Lisa – don’t worry about being poor at Math. I love to talk about Vince who has a CPA degree. He got when his parents would be married 50 years wrong so we came down here for their 49the anniversary. I said to him “they have a plaque on their porch that says ‘This household established….’ All you had to do was subtract that year from this year”. A CPA got it wrong!!!

Beth – that’s so sad the lady hasn’t had a coat in a long time, but it was wonderful of you to find her one

Rosemarie – I was so excited when my osteoporosis became osteopenia, so I can relate to how you feel. Unfortunately for me, tho, insurance wouldn’t pay any more for the Prolia unless I went on some biphosenates. Osteoporosis here I come! Well, the MD wrote to them and they paid for the Prolia. Now that I’m on Medicare, they pay for the Prolia as long as I have it in the hospital. Not a big deal. But it is interesting that they wouldn’t pay for it if I did it at home, so I just go to the hospital for the injection.

Michele

Lanette I just read this on one of my feeds in Gmail...I liked how it puts a plan into a habit you are trying to create.


Our brains need 3 main things to make a new habit actionable.

1) A time

2) A specific place

3) Duration



So, instead of saying, "I want to meditate today."

You say, "Today, at 9 am, I'm going to meditate on the couch for 20 minutes."

Do you feel the difference between the 2? Rather then it being a task to happen at an arbitrary time, it's a very clear task that can be plugged into your calendar.

Hidee ho all
A friend of mine had a awake crainiotomy today down at Yale where I had my heart surgeries
She has brain tumor that is cancer and its terminal she just retired last year.. they thought she had had a stroke.. but they are trying to get what they can out and Chemo and radiation she has twin grands that are 7 yrs old..
It is heartbreaking..

Rebecca - Condolences to you and your family on the loss of your Aunt.
I don’t remember Prudence, I think I started reading along just as you were settling into your first house in Whidbey.

Lisa was moving or had just moved to her current home. Heather was trying to buy in Hove, but truthfully what kept me coming back the first few days was wondering how Macha’s husband was as he had just had his accident.
Then I just go so wrapped up in all of your lives. I think the first time I actually posted was in April 2018, but I started reading in March.

I can’t sit for long periods either. I do not handle the plane trip home very well. I purposely look for layover flights to give my legs a break.

Machka - I find as I age that I do better with one task at a time. I may be faster doing more than one, but I’m more accurate and proud of my work when I take time to do one task at a time. Of course, I rarely get to do that. I have to answer the phone, the door, deal with visitors, staff and residents throughout my day, and it depends on what’s happening how many other tasks come along.

Ginny - my youngest prefers crew neck too. I am claustrophobic and it seems to be getting worse instead of better, the crew neck feels like it’s choking me. I used to love turtlenecks! I don’t know how!

Kylia - I’m with you on the Alzheimer’s fear. It’s rampant in my Dad’s side and I was hoping to have a shot, but my Mom was 66 when we started seeing signs, 68 when she was diagnosed and 72 when she went into the manor. I feel doomed now.

Lisa - I couldn’t forgive that either. So glad he had you and Corey.

Lanette - That’s scary to have him driving when he shouldn’t be. My brother did something to mom’s car to make it inoperable and told he didn’t have time to look at it. When he finally did her license had lapsed so he told her she would have to take a test again and she didn’t want to do that.
It was a rough period for a few months for them. I just heard both sides at different times. I 100% agreed with what my brother was doing.

Rita - I just love your little thoughts.

Heather - That’s scary had to have been a hard chapter to write. Hugs.

Michele - I want a bed with drawers or at least one with hydraulics that lift up for storage underneath.

Kylia - Darn computers and systems. Some days I think they are more trouble than they’re worth.

Barbie - loving am trying to convince DH to take advantage of some of the places that use 60 for a seniors discount. He was vocal in telling me to be quiet about the “senior citizen crap”, I told him he earned those discounts and he should take advantage of them.

I call this group “my ladies” when I talk about you.

Rita - will you lose your park host positions when leaving? Will that be good or bad?

Allie - sorry about your friend.

Barbie - Annie looks quite comfortable.

I thought I posted last night, I guess I didn’t.
Busy days at work, but I’m getting a lot accomplished.
The school board here and 3 others in our province are striking. This if for the support services, like the Education Assistants. I had the feeling when I did my practicums that this was occurring. I hope they get much better contracts.

Tomorrow is my Godson’s birthday I was 17 when he was born and the first baby I ever fell in love with. He will be 39! Our eldest niece will be 38 tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Carla!

Have a great night
Tracey in Edmonton

Thank you Lynette , Rosemarie, Michelle-
I got text from both former father in law and former hubby- She passed away this evening with her husband and two of her three sons with her
She suffered from bi-polar as long as I have known them and had some times that destroyed the family (he was a pastor and was asked to leave because of her actions)but he stood by her and then in recent year add in dementia and still he stayed right by her side. September would have been 70 yrs I think.
I am grateful to have had someone so loving towards me, even long after her son and I divorced. Because of the dementia she lost the ability to walk or talk where they could understand her. She babbled a lot but she always knew her husband and sons. They were always her whole life.
Hard not being able to be there to comfort them. They are back in Indiana.

Debbie
Napa Valley,CA