WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2025

The very happiest of birthdays, to you, dear Rita!
Hope this brings a smile ;} Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

TO ALL THE MARCH BIRTHDAYS

TerriRichardson112 wrote: »

I have a busy week ahead.

Creative Writing after breakfast today. Monday Painters after lunch.

I have Craft tomorrow morning, Shakespeare is Thursday afternoon, Latin Friday morning, and Parchment Craft on Friday afternoon.

Next week will be much lighter.

Rebecca: Yay! For booking Amtrak. Let the train take the strain! 😂

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

🙋‍♀️ céad míle fáilte to our newbies

☘️ Terri

I'm also going to be taking the train home from Vancouver WA where the middle son and family live. He's going to come fetch me from my sisters. Then I will have Sunday evening, Monday, and Tues to play with the kids and visit with son and daughter in law when they get home from work and we share a meal. Athena will be in spring break so no school! My daughter in law has Wednesday's off so she can take me to the train station.😁👍🏼
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Happy birthday Rita!! I hope your day is fab! Just order people about. I wore a tiara on my birthday once! Do that and everyone looking at you will smile and grin. Walk around making sweeping motions with your hands, like "out of my way royalty here"!😁🤗💌💞
Rebecca
Big hugs from Whidbey!
Wa

MFP Weekly Check-in for March 3, 2025

Rita in Roswell NM - Almost forgot to do this! Weight up .5 this past week. Just not there yet. Too many life things getting in the way of taking care of me.

Debbie in Napa Valley CA - up again this week, but only up .2 so 150.8. Need it to go in the other direction. Good chance this one is because of water. Ate Chinese food yesterday- Only ate two bites of the chow fun just to have a little more filling food. Otherwise I ate green beans in black bean sauce and shrimp with veggies (only 3 shrimp in it) It was pretty salty. Did have two 100 cal. nut bars for my evening snack.

Barbara on the Southern Oregon Coast – Avg WT moderated a bit to 133.7. AF 43% and steps 4989 short of goals.CI and sugar stink, but got two dog walks in Saturday, yay!

Sue in WA State - Made it to the YM 4 times last week. I am not really thrilled with the substitute teacher for water exercise but I can do my own thing and still get a good workout when she becomes too repetitious. I am up a couple of pounds today. I ate too much salty food and did not drink enough water. working on more water and less sugar and salt. We will see.

Evie on Vancouver Island - Finally back on the wagon! Like Machka I’ve been paying closer attention to what’s been going into my mouth and moving a bit more. It was official wi day yesterday and I’m down 1.8 lbs this week. Had popcorn for a snack last night so up a pound this morning but that’s okay, I will flush that out today! Evelyn on cloudy Vancouver Island where we apparently had an earthquake early this morning!

Lanette in SW WA State – weight 160#. Step average 9474 this week, way up doing outside tasks including pruning, weed eating. Total activity minutes – 315. House walking, still 10-15 minutes at a time, carrying weights.

Poor little girl had major melt down today
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After her crying herself to sleep poor thing.
Kyle pulled muscles at work on friday so went to the outpatient and i guess pulled ligaments and will be on light duty rest of the week. He doesnt want to lose any time at work.
Even if its workmans comp. The owner doesnt want to pay.

Did Joyce Vidral’s Upper and Lower Body DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Body Attack DVD. Just came back from a walk – have over 10,000 steps so far

Rebecca – fantastic you booked Amtrak

Rita – happy birthday

After exercise went to Aldi. On the way home stopped at Brevard Charities. Saw a pair of shorts I was afraid would be too big but since they were a petite I thought “maybe”. Sure enough, they were too big. But there was this other pair that I thought “oh, they’ll be too small”. Then I decided to try them on. They fit! Size 8 works.

Came home, got dinner ready, then pool time! But it was SOOOO windy that I cut it short

Lynn – sorry about the Covid. But glad you’re better now

pip – I have no doubt that you’ll stay on top

Vince takes allergy shots for his sensitivity to cats. Yes, we’ve had cats for over 20 years. Well, it seems that since we’ve been down here he’s feeling more sensitive. Probably the cat dander and the condo being smaller than the house, it’s more concentrated. He said that he wants to get out more, so this is probably a blessing in disguise. He ordered some certain cat food that’s supposed to help with a cat not putting out so much dander. I’ve always been saying how he doesn’t do much down here except watch TV and a few other little things. I’m the one who is always on the go. So I told him that after dinner we’ll go walking around the parking lot. I also told him that there are books in the clubhouse he can borrow. Guys at the pool today were asking me where he was, he should join them. They just sit there and chat. This’ll get him out of the condo. He can go down with me, sit in the shade (I’m the sun lover), read a book and when guys come there, they can chat. At least that’ll get him out of the condo.

Got Vince to take a short walk around the parking lot. But that’s OK, at least he’s doing it and getting out of the condo. It also gave me more steps. Right now I’m at almost 13,000

Michele

Michele, Re: cat allergies

I am allergic to cats. I have found that one cat is fine, if I don't let her get in my face or if I wash my hands after petting her. Two cats put me over the limit, even without close contact, and I am miserable. I don't remember how many you have, but I know it's at least two, and that might be the issue with Vince, and the smaller space.

Happy birthday to our March people.

Welcome to the new ladies.

Thank you, Barbie for your faithfulness.

Flea
Willamette Valley OR

Rebecca - That will be awesome seeing your old friend perform.

Terri - I hope my retirement looks like yours. I don’t think I do well at home.

Machka - I loved the smell of pillowcases when they came in off the line and that first night with them on the bed. I so miss having clothes hanging on a line. We haven’t had it since we moved here because not one place we have lived allows it.
I used Excel for weight loss tracking too.

Heather - you’ll soon have your book already to go.
I can’t wait until it’s nice enough here to have the windows opened and cleaned.
I hope your window cleaner shows soon.

Rita - Happy Birthday!

Lisa - It sounds to me like you’re as busy as Terri but in different ways.
We have carpet on the bedroom, laminate in the hall, craftroom and living room, tile in the kitchen/dining room and vinyl plank in the bathroom. We need new flooring in the living room, kitchen and hallway.
I don’t have Hulu. I hope it comes to another service sometime.
I seem to be fascinated by true stories.
Even when I was young, we had a neighbour that had True Story (I can’t remember their names right now)magazines, some of them were tragic love stories, some of them were true crime. I was way too young to be reading them, but my Mom and her would visit and I would sit in a corner and quietly read her magazines. 😂
Does Kelsey get a discount for flights? I know it’s much cheaper in the States than Canada, but still Hawaii must be expensive for flights no matter where you are.

Ozempic is used for diabetes here, my DH had it prescribed and for our benefits to cover it the doctor needed to write a letter stating it wasn’t for weight loss.
It can be bought as a weight loss med too, but not covered.

Lynn - Your weekend away sounds heavenly. My DH used to drive truck and I would go with him on trips occasionally. I thought both WV and NC were beautiful states.

Barbie - the people you met on your walk sums up the way people differ.

Allie - Isn’t it the law that employers can’t refuse WCB for workplace injuries there? It’s against the law here.

Ginny - I hope you get to see the place you like. If you sign a lease isn’t it yours? Can they renege? Or do you have to pay for it and your own home too?

Vicki - Happy Birthday.

I am struggling to stay positive these days. I’m turning to what usually helps me and finding music related shows.
Thankfully, all of the talent search type are coming back. Then tonight on PBS I found a Kris Kristofferson Special. It was filmed in 2016 and is a lot of other stars paying tribute to him and his music. The only problem with PBS is the long breaks where they want donations.

I also bought some fluff books this weekend. The plot lines are just fun with happy endings. No real thought and you know what’s going to happen so not a lot of attention needed to read.
I only read at bedtime. It relaxes me before I sleep.

I’ve also decided to start posting something positive on FB each night before bed.
This is tonight’s:



Tracey in Edmonton

Hello Peeps,

I missed two birthdays. Happy belated Birthday, Barbara! My mom's Birthday is March 1st as well. I forgot my wallet when I went to work Friday, so I didn't get to visit my mom that morning when I got off. So I will make a memorable trip to celebrate later—happy birthday to my jokester Rita. I hope you had a wonderful day.

On Friday, I was alone and had a student to work with. I didn't get crazy, but I let her vent, reviewed her words, and told her that she needed to be more positive.

Barbara, thank you for bringing us into March. I hope you all have a wonderful week so far, and I will post later.
XO,
Mo in Mississippi

Hello Ladies!

I am diligently tracking my food and so far, the urge for carbs hasn't been overwhelming. I have a bunch of non-sugar sweeteners (Allulose, Monk Fruit and Stevia) and some Almond flour coming from Amazon and I will try my hand at some low carb baking for those times when the sweet tooth starts to ache. Alas, it's another week until they arrive - so, I will have to see if I can find any good dessert recipes for ingredients I can pick up at HEB. Hopefully, I can find some Chia seeds - as there are a number of enticing sugar free chia puddings that look like they might be great.

Work continues to be hectic - there is literally never a dull moment - which is actually a good thing - but, I am going to have to work very hard on my Work Life balance - especially since I am on salary now... When I hourly - it wasn't so heartbreaking to have to work 60 hours a week... now, it kind of is. So, Time management will be my first and most important goal, going forward.

I am nor much of a social media gal - I have only ever done much posting here - but, I have been decluttering by selling things on Facebook. My husband's man cave has been a treasure trove of toys and other things to list for sale. Bless his heart - he had severe hoarding tendencies - which only enhanced mine - so between us, we managed to fill this place up with just WAY too much stuff.

I have spent the last few months taking loads of things to the Goodwill, to the landfill and listing things for sale. I have made some good progress - but I need to step up my game so I can actually get started on the remodel. I am trying to condense down to only what I can have in my Kitchen and my guest room - so there won't be so much "stuff" to move around as the remodel moves from one area to another. I am just pretending that I am moving - and getting rid of anything I wouldn't pay to have hauled across country.

Kylea - sending you strength for the nicotine battle - it was a tough one, with much backsliding for me - but, I did finally give it up something like 20 years ago. Your lungs will thank you for it.

Rita - absolutely celebrate for the whole week. The world is lucky to have you and your birthday should be a major event - as it should for each one of us!

Allie - what an adorable baby! It will be nice if your friend is closer to you.

Tracy - LOVE the gnome in the truck. I do love a good gnome.

Heather - glad you're feeling a little better - and gratz on the stairs! Great achievement. I long for that day.

Lynn - I feel you on the Covid meds - but, they really did seem to help me - and the nasty taste goes away about 24 hours after to stop taking it.

Michelle - maybe you could try an air filter to try and get some of the dander and other allergens out of the air?

Thank you all for the warm welcome back!

Happy Belated Birthdays to our Early March Girls and hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Re in Texas