calling out to women 50+

I'd like to start this thread specifically for women who are 50 or over.

As a 53 year-old woman, myself, I am finding new challenges, unexpected difficulties and wonderful insights on my path to getting to and maintaining my health, weight and body shape.

What seemed to work for me as little as five years ago doesn't work quite the same anymore. My body doesn't seem to respond to what I consider healthy eating habits and good workout schedules as it even in my middle to late 40s'.

SO, I am would to hear from those out there who are finding themselves in situations. OR NOT, maybe you can enlighten the rest of us as to how you keep your shape, or how you're getting into better shape and a healthier overall lifestyle.

Hopefully this will be the start of something wonderful, educational, funny-offer up jokes anecdotes, whatever!

LET'S GET STARTED!

Hey Gals

My nearly 3 week vacation is over and I am glad....I am tired. LOL. I finished just about every project that I had on my list. The wood is nearly stacked, the back room cleaned out, the quarterly taxes itemized, the front yard looking less like the Munsters live here ect..... whew.

Now I need to concentrate on me again. I have lost motivation in the gym. So hard to get the ball rolling again. But weight wise I am holding my own. Still, for health reasons I have to recommit.

Robbie, you hurt your ankle? I am so sorry. Would a bottle of wine heal it?  If so I am on my way. I have one more girl to try to cut my hair. If she can't get it closer to Katie then I am coming back.

Strong and lean.  Seeking motivation.

Peggy

Fell off the wagon today. Just couldn't seem to get full or feel satisfied. I was just hungry, nothing more than that, plain and simple. So far have consumed 1644 calories. I guess it's not as bad as some who spiral into the depths of hell, but it was not in the plan. 50 lashes with a wet noodle for me.

Glad you are back, Peg. Sounds like you were mega productive. I need to be too. I would like 3 weeks vacation but cannot right now. Check in daily and you will find motivation here by either emulating those who are stars or avoiding the disasters of those who crumble and succumb to temptation from time to time (me).

Tomorrow - TGIF!!!

Bex - Consider yourself lashed with that wet noodle!! LOL 1600 isn't bad at all - occasionally I actually get that high myself

Peg - Welcome back and so glad that you got all your projects done!! Hard to be "gym" motivated in the summer ...or at least I think so - but all that yard work certainly burns calories. I have sort of dropped the P90X ball and need to pick it back up!

Chris - Hope DH made out ok

Leaving early tomorrow for our trip - won't be online again until Sunday night

Everyone stay strong...think lean...and exercise...walk... do something! Golf tomorrow, Sat??? , golf Sunday at least it will help burn off the calories of all the good food I am sure we will eat! Bed and breakfasts always serve a fabulous breakfast!! I'll probably skip lunch and use the rest of my calories for dinner and drinks!

Bonnie: Have a great 10th anniversary getaway..!  That is wonderful!.....let us know where you are going we'll put rice in the bed...haha......it is funny you mentioned the ladder game, i was just printing out about 3 -4 days ago the designs to see if i could build it myself, pretty involved you can actually buy the whole thing for about $70.00 dollars, i think drilling the holes in the golf ball would take way to much time for me!......you never did explain to me what scamble golf was though???..anyway......

Peg: Glad you enjoyed your vacation, all that chopping i'm sure kept you in good physical shape, great for the upper body and heart!

Chris: Did Dh fair the OP. alright?  Will it cure the snoring too? lol

Everyone is going away, i get to relax with Kyle being gone in one more day and night to MOntreal.......i got a phone call from a policeman at 12am tonight about Kyle and Tyler and something about fireworks down the street, this kid is going blow it one more day then i can relax gees....i said to the policeman i hope you aren't charging him with anything he has to go to Montreal with his dad at 6am Saturday morning...phew that was close.....this son of mine...the problem is Tyler is seeing Jessica who lives below me, so when Tyler comes over Kyle wants to come too, and i think this is bad a 13 year old girl out roaming around at midnight, the other night it was 1:30am she was just coming home what is with the parents today, that is way to late in my mind for a 13 year old girl, at that age my curfew was 9-10pm..sheesh no wonder there are pregnant girls at 16!

Anyway i am going to have to invent some things to do for that time other then all the appointments , phone calls, letters to type and fax etc...tomorrow at 11am Kinark is calling to get a very detailed report on Kyles behaviour traits etc...should take about an hour this is the one from intake, anyway i will be so happy when Kyle is in Montreal......not until especially after the idiot things he is doing like being out late he should be home at Tyler snot roaming the streets. 

1600 calories is my maintenance level which i have been staying right on 165lbs for quite awhile now eh....you girls that are small sure have it rough only eating 12-1400 and maintaining at that, no wonder you are all having a hard time losing that last 5lbs you would have to be an exercise monster and practically starve yourself just to lose a lb!  But even maybe a few hundred caqlories less a week would lose over a long time right Bonnie i mean yu are losing a bit here and there, you'll get there but it will take a while to do that's all, since you mow so much though can you even count that as exercise now, they say things you do everyday or all the time shouldn't be figured into the equation...i see there point.

In fact i have been forgeting to do my dumbells and situps...so tomorrow i will do it double time....lol

Have a good night girls!

Kathy: I think you said you were doing the hula...have fun!

Where's Helene been??

BEB

Helene has been in Austria from Friday to Tuesday morning, BEB, climbing mountains and celebrating the clan... We do that once a year on average, but not always by climbing mountains. Since we were in the Tyrol (Southern Austrian Alps that also extend in Italy and Germany), every meal had some form of knoedl... Knoedl is hard to define. It can be sweet or savoury (mostly savoury) and is a strange bread-like concoction you can roll in tennis-ball sized portions, or squeeze into a disk and fry. It's spongy and a bit bland, but you can add almost anything to it, spinach, cheese, bits of ham, bacon, bits of fruit, honey...

All the mountaineering left me with a huge appetite (I did 15-20km on average) and the knoedl waiting at the end of the exercize frightened me no end... But I am glad to report I didn't gain a gram... Phew... The hotel we stayed at was really nice, and the food was delicious (it was not all knoedl thank Heaven...). We took Dummy with us and he was a model dog, happy to sleep in our room while we hiked, happy to see us when we came back and happy to walk around the hotel grounds with us (they had tennis courts, a small golf training area, paths among trees, a nice area for children, a beautiful park around the Peace Bell (a ten tons bell that sounds every day at 5 to celebrate peace between the four neighbouring countries, Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland). The hotel dominates the entire Inn valley and the view was just breathtaking.

Yes Alice, the family did notice I had lost weight but since they are all rail-thin, I don't think it impressed them enough! LOL

Now I am back home, but not for long. Tonight we will go sleep at my daughter's place after we leave Dummy at my son's, then tomorrow morning early we'll take the train to Geneva to board our flight to Frankfurt and Vancouver. Pierre just called me to tell me he booked 2 rooms at the St Regis (Bex, does it ring any bells? I think we stayed there already when we first visited Canada but I am not sure. The hotel we stayed at was very characteristic as it had a huge copper roof. Is that the St Regis???). Our son Patrice will arrive by bus (we told him to take a plane but he refused adamantly, saying it was much too expensive... So he'll take a 13 hours ride).

I had workers in the house the whole day yesterday but now the kitchen is looking better, with the floor completed. We just need to have one more visit by the painter and it will be over, at last.

The trip to Geneva went well. I found 2 pairs of jeans, one tan the other classical blue. I love Mac jeans, because they are stretchy. I didn't find my favourite cut (Stella), but one that is reasonably similar (Melanie). We always have a hard time with American cuts, as they are often too tight on the hips but too lose at the waist. I say it's all the walking we do here... LOL I also found 3 new blouses, one of linen in light green, one cotton, with a big weave that looks like tiny checkers in light blue and white, and a very long shirt, almost a tunic, white with thin orange stripes. At least I won't travel in tatters... But I'll have some serious shopping to do when I come back as I have nothing for Europe's colder fall season... I really hate shopping...

I haven't even started packing, of course, but I guess this will be done by end of the afternoon, as I have no choice. I spent my whole day ironing yesterday, with all the laundry we brought back from Tyrol, but since they were working downstairs, it was just as well.

Peg, you must feel so happy! I am really looking forward to some quiet time in the fall, after all the trips are over and the house is properly set, to do some organizing and tidying. Haven't been able to do that yet, as I have been mostly putting out fires so far...

Time to say goodbye. I won't take my laptop to Canada and the States as I want to travel light. I found flights to the small town near my friend's place in Washington State, so I am all set for that trip. I haven't even had time to rejoice at the idea of seeing her again, quilting again, learning new stuff with her friend Melinda from Texas, that will be also visiting while I am there... One step at a time. Now I am just looking forward to seeing my son again after a whole year, basking in the reassuring thought that his older brother now has a clearer, more satisfying future. Alice, Marc will be paid while he learns. Not much by Swiss standards -  lots by any other standard but Japanese - but enough to pay for his rent and daily food. His uncle Marc - yes I know, sorting the mail will be a bit tricky - offered to house him for at least a month, as he lives not far from the training center, so it will help. After 10 months, he'll be sent to Geneva and will work at the airport, in tandem with a confirmed air traffic controller for a little over a year. The pay then will be more generous.

Robbie, I hope you'll be all fixed when I come back (on the 18th of August). Bex, I'll think of you as I walk in the streets of Vancouver, and of BEB as I fly over her. I'll miss you all. I intend to come back even lighter than I am going, so wish me courage and steadfastness. Melinda has lost almost 30 lbs the past year and she told me she'll make sure we eat healthy and light, and I know Lee will make sure I stay the course. Lee can't walk (she has 2 artificial knees) but Melinda promised me she'll walk with me. So I am all set.

Chris, I thought of your husband and hope he is recovering well after his surgery. Bonnie, hope your DH is in less pain. Loven and Lisa, I do not know you yet, but I am sure we get better acquainted when I come back. Lean and strong, girls, lean and strong!

Helene, in Switzerland, but not for long, wondering where she put that suitcase...

BEB - a scramble in golf is - everyone tees off - and all go to the best ball and everyone hits from there and so on until the ball is in the hole. The ladder game we are playing at golf is - your 2 best net scores to "get on the ladder" goal is to stay on the ladder (top 10 ppl) at the end of 6 weeks there is a 9 hole shoot off to win it Top player wins $100!!!!Last night I had a 42 on the front nine  so my net score was 31!! yeah most likely on the ladder DH had  42 also and g/f had a 41 but my handicap is higher than theirs so I had a lower net than both of them LOL

Helene - you sound excited for your trip - enjoy!! Glad that friends will help you stay the "healthy" course

Ok off to shower so we can leave! Excited to get away

Helene: have a great time what time do you think you might be flying over Southern Ontario i am only 60 miles north of Toronto so you know, i will be thinking of you?  Have a safe trip, good weather for it !  Tell your husband not to touch the 4 buttons on the washroom stall wall in the ladies washroom eh?  Joke of Mine there was this guy taking a flight to.........punch line another time...good joke been telling it for 30 years...anyway keep walking looking forward to hearing your tales...my name is Lee to hehe Oh Helene when you fly over Montreal think good thoughts for my son Kyle okay!

Bonnie : Oh okay slightly different i thought you were talkng about the ladder game where you throw thr golf balls on a rope for points on 3 rungs........again have a great 2nd honeymoon, if that's what it is?....lol

Waiting for Kinark to call at 11am...i weighed Buttons this morning 1lb 10 oz how cute.......this is one little fellow who does not need to be on a diet.....hehehe!

Well Kyle will be leaving at 6am tomorrow, to go to his dads in Montreal god i miss him already....and then he may only be back for a day for court and gone again for a month, i guess this is the hard part, getting use to NOT having my baby around, how do mothers do this...it is alot harder then i thought!.....tears are starting again better go now. He came by yesterday i took him to eat, there was no food where he is staying so this morning i packed some sandwiches and called Sara Tylers mom and said i could bring over some boxes of mac and cheese if that may help?  haven't heard back they are probably all sleeping still...oh well!

BEBmissing my baby!Thankgod i got Buttons when i did i have a very happy pleasant distraction......girls keep me busy...after Kyle is gone have to do some serious workouts and biking, just need to get away from all the reminders around here, kids....gee even the beach may be hard..........grrr

Original Post by schaufel:

Robbie, I hope you'll be all fixed when I come back (on the 18th of August). Bex, I'll think of you as I walk in the streets of Vancouver, and of BEB as I fly over her. I'll miss you all. I intend to come back even lighter than I am going, so wish me courage and steadfastness. Melinda has lost almost 30 lbs the past year and she told me she'll make sure we eat healthy and light, and I know Lee will make sure I stay the course. Lee can't walk (she has 2 artificial knees) but Melinda promised me she'll walk with me. So I am all set.

I hope I'm healed by then, too, and I wish you not only courage and steadfastness, but also fun, laughter and adventure!

What a laugh: The lady that took 1 hour of questions about Kyle for one of the programs i am trying to get us into to to help Kyle Kinark the agency she is going to join CC...hey girls i recruited another one...not sure if she will be on this site because of her age but she will join motivation in any case....woohoo my good deed for the day....!  I also feel better knowing there are people are there that can help me help him....maybe tonight i will be able to sleep since i haven't been...

You know Robbie i really love that pic of you, you look so .....umm 'VIBRANT' yeah...yeah that's the ticket...!

Just finished weeding the community garden, lettuce, beans, radishes, tomatoes, green onions, and some things i am not sure about....you know i planted my tomato plants on the balcony at the same time as the ones in the outside garden but i have been using fertilizer every 3 weeks and my plants on the patio are twice the height so it shows you "Miracle Gro" does work!Maybe i should put it in Kyles water...hahaha just kidding! Speaking of which 15 more hours till freedom! Well for 8-9 days anyway!

Jill: You had a gardening ?? didn't you what was it, I couldn't find your entry??

http://www.google.ca/ig?sourceid=navclient&am p;ie=UTF-8&hl=en&source=iglk&refr esh=1 oh isn't this place fabulous one of my homepages i have this 'site of the day to die for place to visit'...wouldn't this place be grand!!! Girls!! The eather is going to be nice next week so i am going to the beach and float on my seat in the lake...lol

Have a nice day all !!not sleepless in seattle...hehehe

I am hoping today will be a good day.  I don't have as many lessons to teach as usual.  I don't have any commitments for the evening except cooking for the inlaws.  It isn't raining at the moment.  I too like to relax with the Sudoku number puzzles.  So, I might do that.  I have run out of English novels, so I am re-reading one.  My goals for the day: drink 8 glasses of water and get that d*mn 3K run done... The temperature is close to 30 degrees C (90 F), so it's like running through molasses. I think I need to make up some of that great cabbage soup again. 

Helene - have a wonderful trip.  Vancouver is a great place to buy cool weather clothes.  The colors are nice there too.

beb - I hope you can find something to become engrossed in for the first few days Kyle is gone.  It helps... 

bon - good luck with your ladders thing.

rebbex - that was a little fall off the wagon.  Don't let it get you down or start a trend...

frost - yay for finishing projects.  I have to get out in my back yard (the size of a postage stamp) too and get the weeds pulled out.  They are knee-high now... LOL

Yes Kathy: I vote u pull some weeds good cardio..all that bending use to be hard on my b.p. not now though...i think it's good for us all that blood rushing to our heads, except hard on the back, good cardio isn't it for the heart....molasses ewwww

Hi - I'm doing a final check-in before I go to bed.  I'll be gone all weekend so I expect to have lots of catching up to do when I get home.  Have a good one, all!

Peg, I bet those projects burned lots of calories!  Keep going - start with some weights, there's nothing like them.  You will look fabulous!

Alice

Good morning girls: Nice sunny day sprouting here, but chilly this AM!

Well i posted the latest pic i week later, he is now 7 wks old, boy what a character, he loves to hop....a spool of thread, or typing on the p.c. with me seems to be his favorite things at the moment..string, my new shoes, no couldn't fall in love with an old pair of runners has to be the new white ones right?  He has the cutest little chirp, not even a cry you can barely hear him....!  He is watching me at this moment lying beside the p.c. watching me type..so cute..

Well Kyle is gone left at around 6:45am with his father, we'll see how things go but maybe if I can handle parting with him maybe living with his dad might be a good idea, my problem is i keep changing MY mind.....i start thinking about the holidays, and what if he never returns here again, i will have lost him forever based on my decision, then again maybe the agencies can help him....to many unanswered ??? right now, i think i will take one day at a time! I don't want to make a emotional decision this is for sure!  No matter what i have to think of Kyle and what would be best for him, maybe the couseling here, maybe dad there..i just wish his father was on more secure ground, but he is struggling himself to get his life together with courses etc, and living with his brother Rob and his brothers wife Nicole, apparently a good cook, oh oh lost him for sure now a rival cook..lol just kidding.

Ahh Buttons just feel asleep watching me type i wish my webcam could reach around and take this pic..hang on.......got it took a pic with my 35mm now that is priceless...i have already taking 2 rolls......as you know they don't stay small for very long, i have 14 photo albums and alot of cat pics over the years, hey girls does this mean i am getting OLD...hehe

Well i have 9 days of freedom til he returns for court on the 28th so i hope it warms up so i can do some biking etc maybe go to the beach.....anyway

Have a good weekend to all...........check in when i can!

I'm back and bigger than before.  My plans for salad and grilled chicken went out the window the first day.  Everyone got a chuckle over me lugging my scale with me.  It was so much fun to be with other employees with my position and to compare notes over dinner.  

Cooped up in a little room, with intense training, what else did we have to look forward to but dinner?  Being in a big city with all the great restaurants I decided to not miss an opportunity to try everything.  We just had a little time after dinner then had to get to bed and start everything all over by getting up at 6:30 am.  We all got homesick on Wednesday. 

Last I checked the scale was up 8 pounds.  One of the best dinners was at the Cheesecake Factory, but I didn't ahve room for dessert.  We meet again in September and I want to go back and eat dessert first.  Oh you should have seen the cakes they had.  Out of this world.

There was no way to eat healthy.  I decided that its easy at home as I can munch on an apple, then wait and later have yogurt or whatever.  This week we only had so much time to eat so ate bigger dinners.

Will catch up on posts this weekend.

Peg, sounds like you were burning calories with all those chores.  it must feel good to have them finished.

Ohio: What did you do swallow and 8lb fish,,hehehe You couldn't have gained 8lbs you weren't gone that long were you?  It must be salt and water weight unless you were eating 6000 calories a day but 8 lbs Well you better get that bicycle out now eh!!..lol Glad you enjoyed yourself though!  Cheesecake factory...they would have found me several days later floating in it....haha

Hey Ohio while you were I got a new kitty...Buttons 7wks old now he's my profile pic! Kyles gone to Montreal to his dads..well my journal tells all!

GIRLS: Those dark lines under my eyes are from crying and from not getting any sleep all these worries over Kyle takes it's toll...whaGuess i better wear sunglasses well at least i have what 9 days to catch up on my sleep before he returns for a day in court!

Hello all! Just time for a quick note. DH came through the surgery well, doc said it should be a success. We had an hour or so of non-stop bleeding to worry about after we got home but OK later. He put him on prednizone and that has made him really wired. That's even w vicodin! Didn't sleep or even lay down for more than 30 sec for over 24 hours. I called doc & he said to stop it cold. I started to have visions of The Shining and Jack Nickelson saying "Here's Johnny!" lol. He is laying down now so I'm hoping he's finally getting some rest. He worked on the church website on the computer ALL NIGHT LONG!

Thanks for all the good thoughts ladies!

btw, I haven't walked in 3 days or logged. I feel pudgy so I think I've eaten too much. Gotta get some semblance of normalcy back!

Chris i am glad to hear DH came through okay, even with the touch and go bleeding, but "here's Johnny" wow that would be scary.........hide the axe!, Chris......lol

I am almost glad it is cloudy and not that hot good day for napping..........and what is with me and these darn M&M's I am addicted!  hehehe

****Carol: Kitty question????, it seemed that Angel was showing Buttons who was boss, and i thought they were getting along, but now i think maybe he is going out of his way to avoid the kitty....odd i thought he was accepting Buttons but now he hides in the closet or places where Buttons can't reach, do you have any ideas of what might bond them?? He isn't hurting him, or will it just take time, all the kitten cats i have had all were young together or dad and son or mom and son.....i read up on it but haven't found out anything....i keep the food dishes side by side with the shared water in the centre and they eat together, and they share the shame litter box both are really good there in covering there business....maybe as i said it will just take time!

Speaking of kitten STORY!  I was cooking in the kitchen and i have a ledge right, as you can see in my picture behind me is the kitchen ledge anyway i was cooking and the little baby was playing on the couch and every once in awhile jumps onto the diningroom table to inspect what i am doing, but isn;t high enough to really see...anyway i happen to look up and Buttons was trying to horseback ride Angel and Angel was running away....lol  imagine that kitten horsebackriding...YEHAW boys!!!!!!!now that is funny, Carol i have started trying to get Angel to eat the tinned cat food instead of half human tuna and half cat tuna cause that is all he would eat when i got him at 12 weeks well of course they both eat dry food too and kitten food of course for Buttons when Kyle brought Angel home from Brians up north at the time...it was dry and the mixed tuna..anyway i am hoping he will start eating what i am giving him, do you think eventially he will i don't want him eating canned human tuna anymore...will he adapt do you think? I would love it to if they would eat the beef, liver, fish, other varities what is your experience with that?

All my cats were in birth order Buttons (female) in 1981, died pnemonia, Blacky, died duck bones someone left on the counter, not me was away (Tiger (chicken), Bandits father), Baby(bandits mother), Bandit, Scooter (gave away had 3 then), siblings male and female,  baby only had 2 in her litter, I have to put Tiger down hardest thing i ever did considering he had 3 operations for a recurring FUS disease.....so Bunny i had to find a home for was moving in with mom and dad temp. and he would only allow 1 so it was bandit, that was my longest and favorite he was the one i did everything with he was black and white similar to buttons....i guess thats why buttons seemed appropriate that was the first cute buttony eyed kitten i ever had lost her within the first year, and blacky after 3 months...19 years with Bandit who did everything with me to walking as if a dog with me when camping (saved my life from falling off a cliff at night, to taking him for drives, fishing, camping you name it, he saw a salmon 2 feet in length on a shorebank too, stayed in a pop up trailer knew how to get out for toilet duties.....i don't have a car now or i would train Buttons to travel, maybe i should when he gets a little older, slowly get him leash trained...i have been holding him in my arms on the balcony just to get him use to the outside world but he turns away is a little scared right now! Anyway that 19 years with Angel was really hard to get over in 2003 got Angel in 2006 and now 3 years later Buttons..

I was talking with my old friend Denise today on facebook she has 9 cats and was a professor at penn state university she retired 2 yrs ago and now her hubby John is retiring did i show you her pics i think so if anyone is interested i can put up the website for her professional photos her DH was a professional too...........anyway i am long winded tonight....it's so quiet in here with the babies sleeping and Kyle away.....heyyyyyyyyyy i was reading they have a new thing up here called........

VIA RAIL BIKE TRAIN.......YOU can load your bikes as in a group take a train to Niagara, North bay or Toronto and they have package deals maps trails etc for people like myself who want to travel by bike....cool eh i am going to look into this for August maybe get involved!  Perhaps get my singles club into something like that. Of course Toronto has this silly strike on so i can't get the maops right now!

Well have a good night all!  BEB

chris, sorry your DH had to deal with the strange after effects of surgery.  Is that rare for someone to get wired on prendisone and vicodine?  Don't talk pudgy to me!  I have you beat.  I weighed 186 today and was 179 when I left last week.

Couldn't immediately go from all the abundance of food last week, to my skimpy home meals, (which I enjoy) in one day.  Need to work up to it.

At the meeting ppl were talking about trips.  One person is going to Alaska on a cruise.  Another went to Japan, another went to someplace in the middle east.  Makes me wish I had someplace to go and someone to go with.  plus extra $$$

Wish my younger would make plans with me.  It's nice to have a trip to look forward to.  She's not a traveling kind of gal.  Neither of my girls are.  Neither is my g'son, or I'd take him.  What a bunch of small town homebodies we are.  Maybe when I retire I can join a group where they go on nice trips.   

 AGING:

A social worker was talking, last week, about how society views the elderly.  Not very well.  This is all in general and exceptions certainly abound, so I don't want to offend anyone.  But there can be a feeling that the elderly have no worth and are a financial and emotional drain.  Society and especially marketing ppl, focus on younger ppl who have income.  Ads were brought into example, of the expensive cremes to get rid of wrinkles cause, 'that's what you want, right?'  Society is geared to make us want to be and look younger.

I'm in a field that cares for seniors so found this interesting.  It's just so sad to see so many with no children or family, or adult children who are estranged from them.  (but from dealing with some, I can sympathize with the children)

By the time she finished talking I was ready to let my hair go gray and my body to get thick and say, 'who cares, I'm getting old and I'm proud of it.'  But now, on reflection, no, I'm not ready to do that.........yet.

HORESCOPES:

Few weeks ago we were laughing about horescopes.  Mine for July was that I'd be flirting with someone.

I didn't do any flirting whatsoever.  It doesn't belong in a workplace.   But there was a man in this group, my age, divorced, who was too attentive.  So much so that I began putting a little distance between us.  This was all subtle.  I guess no matter how many yrs you've been out of the dating scene, it's something that women have a 6th sense about.

One coworker noticed and said, "is there a love connection there" to which I blurted out a firm 'NO'.

It was nice, in a way, to have a man eager to carry things, open doors, agreeable to everything you say and trying to always do or say things agreeable.  At a restaurant I debated, then declined, on a menu item.  He then ordered it so I could share it with him.

Call me perverse, but ppl who try too hard with me get on my nerves.

Hello Ladies!  What's all this talk about getting old???  We are just "Life Experienced".    BTW today is my 54th Birthday which i celebrated this AM by running and working out! Of course i have to work tonite- overnite shift- 9pm-5AM so I guess i will nap this afternoon.

Ohio- I know what you mean about beibg away on training- and food!  At my training we ate at a different restaurant every night!  Wow the cheesecake factory- there is no way i could resist that! they make the best ever cheesecake!!

chris- hope DH is feeling better and getting some rest!

Beb- my 2 cats never really hit it off that well- even after a year they tolerate each other but are not really great buddies.  I guess they are like people- some people just don't mesh with each other.

I'll Bet Kyle is missing his Mom -even if He doesn't admit it!

Robbie- hope your ankle is feeling better.

Bon- sounds like you enjoy golfing so much- it is on my list  of things to learn- I have only been to driving range- never to a real golf course except to watch.

Well i am off to eat my Oatmeal and Blueberry and yogurt breakfast. I have been craving blueberries like crazy lately so I got some last nite.

Have a great day all!

Sharon

singing off key,

 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SHARON, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU".