WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2025

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,351 Member

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  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,704 Member
    edited July 18
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48691457#Comment_48691457

    I wish you or one of the other ladies who are getting the great summer weather could send a bit to us.
    The high today is in the low 70's which is really nice, except for when we have aqua zumba in the evening. It is pretty chilly getting out of the water when it is in the low 60's at close to 8PM. (tonight I won't stay and swim laps after because I am heading to mom's right after class-stopping at home long enough for a very quick shower and to load up my car-everything will be packed and ready to load before I go to class)

    I had cataract surgery on both eyes in my early 50's- I guess that is a bit early- They progressed very fast. One visit she said one was just barely starting, a year later at the next visit, she said it was ready to come out and because it progressed so fast, she had them take the second one out 5months later(she has a policy that if your eyes change in 6 months for what ever reason, they replace the lenses for free.

    Lanette- I need to try and grow blueberries again. I planted one plant- the plant survived but never did anything for a few years then died- never got even one berry off of it.
    Raspberries, that is another story. I went out and dug up more and taking them up to mom's so I can plant them up there for her. She loves them. We had them in the past but they died out- as did the blueberries. I ate some of the blackberries from the thornless plants my dad started for me while I was out watering this morning. They have to be super ripe- I like them sweet, not at all sour.

    Dh's mother was Okinawan and dad was Yugoslavian- they never taught him either of those languages or the others that his dad could speak(he only went through 4th grade before quitting to support the family, but lived in an area where they spoke Russian, Polish, Italian, etc. so he learned and retained quite a bit of it.

  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,851 Member

    🌻🌞 Carol, In my state they send you a postcard reminder that it's time to renew your driver's license. Also they won't let you renew it more than a year ahead of time. When I renewed my license this year (I'm 79) they asked me if I wanted to renew for six years or eight.

    🌻🌞 Lisa, I love your new glasses. You look great.

    😱🙀 Academic excellence was expected in my family. When I showed my mother an article I wrote that had been published in a magazine, she said, "You always did have talents you never used."

    🐾👣🌻🌞 Barbie in NW WA

  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,993 Member
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    Debbie … use one of our stories as the reason why you're bringing the subject up about the future/POA/etc. Something like a friend was saying how many legal problems arose when her dad died…(you get the drift) and then just casually ask about her situation and could you review it with her as the discussion with one of us has made you want to ensure that she will never have problems in the future (you get the drift). Don't mention your husband at all unless you think she'd be understanding, but in my experience in-law references don't usually go over well.

  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 4,116 Member
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    Carol - M, also 77 (or close) told me at lunch yesterday she'd made a big boo-boo. She made an appointment at Costco, 25 miles away, to get fitted for hearing aids. The appointment was for today, but she wrote it on the wrong calendar, so they braved big city traffic last Friday and arrived only to be told to come back in a week. She said she has a couple calendars she jots appointments on (I do too!).

    Her husband has been in and out of the cardiologist's office for the past month, he keeps having dizzy spells but when they test him, all is OK - pacemaker is new, meds are fine. So her mind has been elsewhere - concern about him and braving our hot weather for the past month. She's still very well-read and super sharp. But has had a lot on her mind lately. Perhaps you have, too.

    I'm glad my doctor, dentist and vet email or text appointment reminders - I sometimes forget to write them on the calendar and generally misplace the card they give me.😜 We get busy, tired, and have other things on our mind.

    Several years ago I renewed Reader's Digest several times in the same year - it never clicked that I'd already renewed and I didn't bother to go back and double check. When I finally realized it, I was paid up for 4 years. 😁 I think these things happen to all of us sometimes.

    If you are really concerned, I bet your doctor can give you some simple memory tests.

    Lanette😎

  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 2,059 Member

    Allie -Have a good visit. Tracy must take thousands of photos of miles and Delia. I'm sure they delight you.

    Carol in GA

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,792 Member
    edited July 18
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48691421#Comment_48691421

    Annie,

    Yep! Husband is adjusting better than I am! I kinda miss the sweet old car. But he is the one driving it, and its more comfortable for him, so I am happy. I will not be driving this new car, the tech part is overwhelming! Totally out of my wheelhouse. In the scheme of things that's perfectly ok.

    Rebecca Whidbey Wa

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,792 Member
    edited July 18
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48691764#Comment_48691764

    Lanette,

    It was bound to happen, hopefully I will never repeat that oopsie!

    We sadly blew our little savings and need to replenish! It will be a trip planned next year. My traveling to my sisters both end of March and end of June has taken the sails out of any holiday trips for me. I am hoping sons head to see us instead. I think my youngest is planning to come up from San Diego, and eldest is trying to get leave from Japan. One of those, we'll see them when we see them sort of deals.

    Rebecca Whidbey Wa

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,792 Member
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    Carol,

    Ah, you are better than me friend and still drive. I seem to have hit a mental roadblock and have no desire to get behind the wheel of a car (even a new car) ever again.

    Regarding my military ID, I only have to renew it one more time, then the card is good for life! I guess when you get a certain age the renewal department is like, "they're old, we don't need to bother them with having to renew it, we're just glad they're still ticking"!

    Rebecca Whidbey Wa

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,351 Member

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,351 Member

    stats for the day-


    Walk w/family- 1hr 33min 3sec, 10424steps, 41elev, 2.85ap, 77ahr, 94mhr, 4.43mi= 409c
    Strava app= 537c
    ROUVY home spin bike- strava stats- 1hr 32min 40sec, 112aw, gear23, 36.1amph, 97ahr, 126mhr, 55.82mi= 541c
    Strava app= 595c
    ROUVY stats- 1hr 32min 40sec, 112aw, 59arpm, 36.2amph, 55.82mi= 595c
    Walk kids around park- 13.53min, 1512steps, 2.73ap, .64mi= 70c
    Strava app= 79c

    Total cal 1020

    2303.33 miles ahead

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 26,518 Member

    One additional challenge with my education over the years is that I have always been determined not to get a student loan … but education can be expensive.

    My parents aren't wealthy and couldn't provide me with much money, but they did provide me with a place to live during some of my education.

    I was fortunate to get a few scholarships along the way to put toward some of the education (like $1000 here or there).

    Otherwise I worked.

    During my Bachelor of Education (2nd Bachelors), I worked about 20 hours a week in addition to classes and homework. In the last 2 years of that degree, I also had to drive from Red Deer to Edmonton and back several times a week. That's a 300 km round trip. One semester, I was driving 1000 km/week between university, work and home. Another semester, I had to get up at about 5:30 am to make my 8 am classes. One semester, I would drive up, attend classes, spend the night in a dorm room in a hostel (which I discovered was where the local prostitutes stayed when they were finished work for the night), attend classes and drive home … twice a week. The ladies would come into our dorm room about 4 am all noisy and chatting and wake me up, but at least I had the evenings to myself.

    Even during my mentor teaching months, I would put in a day teaching kids, then go to work at my part-time job.

    When I wasn't in one of my educational endeavours, I would often have a full-time job and a part-time job. For about 6 months somewhere in there, I held 4 jobs … and often answered the phone incorrectly because I'd lose track of where I was!!

    Most recently, my Master's degree took a long time because I worked full time and got the degree part time.

    So I learned time management, prioritisation, organisation and much more in addition to whatever school stuff I was learning.

    Machka in Oz

  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,778 Member

    Skunked! Woke up Wednesday morning thinking Joe’s burned some brussels sprouts. Nope. Shadow and Mooch got skunked. Just a glancing blow, not a full blown soak but Peeuuuuwww. Wiped ‘em down with apple cider vinegar, helped only a little. The stank got in the whole house. Must have rubbed off on my jacket ‘cuz when I arrived at line dance class L asked me if I smelled skunk. Oh no, I said, it’s ME! Wadded my jacket up in the corner but there was still an air about me. Picked up a giant Febreeze refill at Freddies. Wiped dogs down again when I got home. Fortunately the sun came out just as Joe’s guests were walking up the drive. They brought Joe a bottle of tin cup whiskey. We had a lovely visit at the picnic table (outside!), ate all the snacks, drank all the beer and wine and much of the whiskey. Really enjoyed meeting J, we had some work experiences in common. Joe and S seemed to take to each other, chatted the whole time while Joe showed S around the property, pump room, etc. We visited for about 4 hours. Sent them off with a trail cam, some of Joe’s herbs and 2 beit alpha cucumber plants. So much for panicked cleaning ;}

    Lisa Bravissima for the PT exercise progress despite pain. ((hugs)) Love the new glasses. For sure the cook’s disdain can be tasted in the dish. Hmm The Cook’s Disdain sounds like a cozy culinary murder mystery title…

    Barbie thanks for the podcast reminder. Will fire up some Cas the Clutterbug and count it good.

    Lanette, Wednesday was the second time in 40 years together we’ve had neibors over for snacks. The first time was a few years ago when the senior lady at the end of the lane had no heat during one of our longer power outages. We had her over to sit next to the wood stove, drink tea and eat cookies. We get along ok with our neighbors, I hope, some friction but no outright hostility, I hope. We both liked J and S, who talked of inviting us back over to theirs…

    Heather 4 hours from London? OMG. Had to google RIB, not sure I’d want to risk touring on an inflatable boat…

    Allie can I just say what a jerk I think Kyle is? What Lisa said. Safe travels.

    Debbie ((hugs)) and bless you for giving that grandma cat 6 golden years. She reminded me of our Roxie, beautiful. Hard conversation to start with your mom…

    Tracey Roger’s reaction to your cleaning made me snort my water ;) I’d add Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift to your powerful/smart blondes suggestion for Lisa’s granddaughter, but yah, hair color is not a battle I’d choose.

    Carol ((hugs)) for the loss of your big beautiful grand-dog. IMHO better to renew early than not, sometimes it’s hard for me to distinguish between 5 and 6 when the print is small.

    Rori ((hugs)) for your OMG corner. There are tiny pockets of emotional stuff lurking in my OMG room too.

    Mo taking off over 100 pounds, Bravissima! The how exercise helps bp links that Machka posted imply that daily exercise can increase the number and elasticity of blood vessels so you’re helping the ischemic vessels in your brain too!

    Beth brilliant insights and suggestions to Debbie. Brava!

    Michele glad the sickness passed quickly. Colby’s indecisiveness will be an opportunity for avoid expectations to minimize frustration ;}

    Rebecca love the haircut. (hugs) for saying good bye to your first car.

    Action for happiness

    17-Stubbornly did BB&B/PT despite being a tad hungover. 18-Let go of all pre-grooming “to do” plans to focus on connecting Joe’s new laptop to our wifi and setting up his local Windows 11 account. It may be that the problem with his old laptop wasn’t the laptop but the mouse. Aaauggh.

    OMG room progress
    Day 2-Wednesday the trail cam was in the OMG room, now it’s at our neighbors’.
    Day 3-Thursday bupkes
    Day 4-Friday step sheets filed away, keyboard cleared.

    Caught up! Now time to snooze…
    Later, lighter, lovelies!
    Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

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    July focus: Just one thing from the OMG room. Really.
    2025: Chose NOW: to move more than yesterday (see action plan), fuel better than yesterday (hold that after dinner sweet down to two pieces of dark chocolate max), open heart and mind before mouth

  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 13,473 Member

    Nice article about growing old.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/18/best-ageing-advice-expert-tips

    Heather UK xxxxxxxx

  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,690 Member
    edited July 19

    Hey, kids,

    Barbie and everyone else - Thank you for the lovely compliments on the glasses. 😊

    The connections between education and debt now are so tangled that it's near impossible, I think, for someone to "work their way through school" in the U.S. without help, like Annie's assist from the military, or going into debt. My student loan story:

    I started my college years at 34 years old, and came out of my 3 1/2-year sprint to a bachelor's degree with more than $25,000 in debt. That is just for the bachelor's degree. And it was only that low because military wives got in-state tuition in Nevada.

    For the master's, because I was graduating with honors from my bachelor's degree at UNLV in 1998, I was flown down to Texas A&M and toured the campus the summer before I graduated, was granted tuition and given a part-time position there developing websites and doing data entry that covered my books. My second year, tuition was covered with a veteran's exemption offered by the state of Texas. Which was good, because by then I was working full-time as a reporter, then managing editor, for a small newspaper in a town 50 miles away, but the pay was… skimpy. $7.77 an hour in 1999, no joke. Went up to $8.50 an hour when I was promoted to editor. 😂

    By the time 2004 rolled around, my ex- and I would declare bankruptcy. In the U.S., bankruptcy does not erase student loan debt. I was still paying it off by the time I divorced him in 2008 and married Corey in 2009. We finished paying my student loan off, as well as what little we still owed debt-wise, with the layoff package I got from Cisco Systems in 2013. So… 15 years to pay off.

    Busy day ahead for me and the man just getting the place in good shape. Before I start on that though, I'm going to run up to the Farmer's Market just around the corner and get a dozen eggs and drop off a few egg cartons to the lady who wanted them.

    Hope it's a grand day! Later, y'all,
    Lisa in Arkansas
  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 2,059 Member

    😎

  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,607 Member
    edited July 19

    Lisa agree with others on your new glasses!

    Mo Great job on weight loss!

    Annie I substitute Arugula for spinach and other spring greens like chard and beets because of their high oxalate levels. Arugula has a peppery taste. It is high in Vit K.

    I am tweeking my diet to reduce the high oxalate diet I have been eating. There is a push now to go to a more plant based diet especially when getting older. I need to pay better attention to the oxalate factor.

    In the last month I have been sitting at 158. With the small changes I am making down to 155 again. Again I am making the changes gradually. I did have a small portion of black raspberries in my Greek yogurt last night. Black raspberries and red have high oxalate. I won't totally give them up just eat them in much smaller portions. Calcium does help negate the negative effects of oxalate.

    Third year finally at their peak. Late this year…

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  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,735 Member

    More on schooling: When in Elementary (nuns!), as soon as I was old enough, my parents made arrangements for me to clean classrooms after school to pay for my tuition. I was maybe 12 when I started that. Did that through high school as well. My biggest issue was that my mom wanted me to become a nun, and I did not. When it came time for college, she went without me and signed me up for an all girls college with a working scholarship. My guess is cleaning classrooms again. However, I refused and went to work in a glass factory where I was for 22 years until they closed to move to Mexico. My college classes were paid: AS cash by me, BS, MHIS, MIS by loans. I kept going to school because I couldn't afford the over $200,000 in school loans I had accumulated. I ended up getting disability for my panic attacks and got the school loan forgiven because of the disability. I'm proud of my degrees though I didn't have much occasion to use them because of the panic attacks.

    Driver's license: My DH and I both need to renew our licenses next year. I'm curious as to what they will offer. We had the last ones for 8 years. I hope they allow 8 years again. That way, I will be 78 for next renew, and DH will be 82. Things will be very different then.

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