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This made me laugh...
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Thinking about our friends too near the fire... After I finished making Corey's lunch and shoving it in the refrigerator at about 3 a.m., went back to bed, and ended up getting what's turned out to be my usual - a total of about six and a half hours. My posterior is still ouchy, but not nearly as bad as it was last night,…
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Kim - thinking of you, hugging you in spirit. Wish I could bring you to the clean air of Arkansas. Debbie, these hugs are for you, too. I believe under the circumstances, 142 calories over your 1,000 is acceptable. Just call it your cheat day! Sue in WA - enjoy your time with your mother - traveling grace as you go get her…
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Carol - happy anniversary to you and your DH - 51 is quite an accomplishment!
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SuziQ - More than once you've mentioned your memories of Charlie and I thought he was much like Corey. We discuss everything into the ground, but when it's time to do the next thing (like buy this place), we both know it, and we make the mutual decision quite quickly--or at least it seems quick to others. On another note,…
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all, Woke up at 4:24 a.m., my usual time these days - gives me just enough time to make Corey's first cup of coffee before he wakes, then get his lunch packed, and his go-cup of coffee done by the time he's dressed and ready to leave. I don't use an alarm, just my conscience, as I promised…
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Meg, that's amazing news! So pleased for you.
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To our ladies too near the fire, Debbie, Kim, Tina - just let us know when you can how you are. We worry! Today's elliptical and brush cutting. For some strange reason, Fitbit doesn't have that in its repertoire of exercises. My arms are just wobbly...
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Re: Traveling and when – I’m so done with travel in general that I’m more than happy to be here at home. I travel in different ways now. There is so much to build, to change, to explore in this place we've found, I’m not sure I’ll ever get it all built, changed, and seen. Re: My own rhythms in retirement - Corey seems to…
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Allie – I hope the news is good with Homer, and the situation gets better with Faith. Kylia – I’m sorry people are letting you down, it’s so stressful when they’re also family. Is it possible for you to get a job elsewhere and let them deal with it without you? Might change a few minds as to what’s important. Just a…
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For Faye or anyone who would like to join the group Women Ages 50+, the link is: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/123702-women-ages-50. Some who have been here a while are already members, but if you're not a member yet, please ask to join. Please read the Reminders post at the top of the group before any other,…
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Morning, afternoon, evening, all... Heather, If that last post of yours wasn't a description of why I find your actions a pattern worthy of following, I don't know what is. Your joy in your own fitness and your care for your husband's health and fitness are admirable. Machka, It sounds like you're recovering well from the…
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Elliptical - 65 min., 490 cals. Yardwork - 100 min., 703 cals. Seem to have settled in at between 1,000 and 1,200 calorie burn in the mornings... and will exercise in the afternoon if I haven't quite hit my goal. Exceeded my own expectations by exercising every day for the last 15 straight. Makes me happy, to think I can…
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Kim and Debbie - many thoughts and hopes for less harrowing days ahead for you and your families. Please keep us posted when you can. Julie - Welcome back home, good to see you posting again. Cathy in Arlington - Well done on the run, good to see you posting again as well! Barbara - So glad Joe got seen - hope it all…
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Rebecca - Just love to see you reach out and revel in what your mind and body need for the course you've set for yourself. Heather - A shout out to you, because you are an inspiration for so much of what I'm doing right now. You've taught me that the only thing stopping me was me--and I needed to internalize that very…
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Barbara - It's good to see you posting, glad Joe's surgery went well, and that you're taking all precautions. Machka - I think the problem with Facebook, for me, is people. And while I know how to structure my feed, I would much rather just read a book. There is no public transport here in any way, shape or form, other…
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Debbie and all, Thanks for the comments--it genuinely has become a sort of digital KonMari process for me. Does Facebook spark joy for me? Nooooo. More often it's angst or boredom, or one more pig trail to follow to find out something that wasn't worth finding out (or probably even true). While I love seeing the pics of…
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all, Just finished using the nuclear option on Facebook, downloaded all the photos, and then deleted the account. They don't make deleting easy, and even when you finally get around to "Yes, delete" for what feels like the 40th try, they tell you, "Well, we'll keep it alive for the next 30…
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Thank you to Debbie and Kim for checking in - we worry when the fires go up in California, and appreciate it when you let us know you're OK. Sorry it's so stinking hot! Debbie, I'm glad your husband wasn't at work. Lisa in AR
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Allie, So pleased your weekend has finally settled down into being able to enjoy your family rather than avoid them. On the subject of families, my daughter is still POed and not communicating with me or her dad because I said "no" to running up to Kansas to stay with her kids the first two weeks of September while her…
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Burned my thousand calories building 25 feet of fence - the final bit we needed to feel we aren't looking down on the neighbors. Not that anyone's moved in, which is baffling, but pleasing, nonetheless. Re: wringers on washers: I rolled my sister's left arm up all the way to her elbow in the wringer at the laundromat…
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Love those ... my stock answer became, "I've lived a lot of my life moving and changing. Now I'm finally ready to find the last company I will ever work for - and I hope it's yours," and then go into rhapsodies on how wonderful they were, and how I could see myself helping drive the company to greater heights, blah, blah,…
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It's a good call, Machka - When an interviewer would ask, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" I would have to lie like a rug. Like you, looking ahead was always pretty much a useless exercise. Now I'm trying to figure out how to plan ahead when I've never actually done that before! :smiley:
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all... Yep, the weight loss did what I thought it would and stalled out. I'm OK with a stall, just not gaining, thank-you-very-much. :smiley: Genuinely appreciate the fact that my body got down below 200 before it stalled--but won't feel safely under 200 until I'm down somewhere in the 180s.…
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To Carol on her 72nd birthday... And many more!
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all... The thunder is rumble bumbling outside... I do love the rain, particularly when I'm not out in it! :) Corey's off to work, I've got laundry washing... and any time I start feeling as if I am doing drudgery by doing laundry yet again, I remember my mother scrubbing on a washboard much…
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@csofled Cheri, I think someone asked you about your Project Linus blankets, and that's where I heard about it! I'm getting it grooved on the grandkids' afghans, and then I want to try to do a couple of them with curves and figures. Thanks for turning me on to C2C. :) Lisa
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Don't you love it when you get past one of your "I don't/won't/can't/never" items? I never work out in the afternoons--possibly habit from decades of 2 o'clock slump from desk work, I don't know. I've just always said, "I don't work out in the afternoon, I only work out in the early morning." This morning, Corey left for…
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Hi, Rita, I just drew them out on graph paper myself--here's a good tutorial for corner-to-corner crochet that shows how to draw a graph paper pattern for anything you want to use for c2c. Seriously one of the easiest crochet stitches I've ever used - you just need a chain stitch and a double crochet, no joke.…
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Faye - no worries on the heat and the swamp. I lived in Oregon (Coos Bay) for three years, and it was damp, cold and dark throughout the vast majority of all three of them. It was so incredibly beautiful... but by the time I left, every joint ached so badly from the cold and damp that I felt 20 years older, and that was…
