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It looks like we're all gabby today! LOL
DH talked to the cable company today and we are going to get a new box for the bedroom that will give us all the TV shows we get in the living room. They are also going to remove the cable box from the TV that's in my exercise room and Jerry is going to set up a different kind of box he has that will just get the local channels. That way I will still be able to watch my soaps when I exercise. I don't really need cable in that room. We have 6 TVs in our house. Our main TV is a Samsung 50 inch, and the others are smaller. DH would put a TV in the bathroom if he could. LOL
Mary, have you ever tried a Treadclimber? It looks so hard. I don't think I could do that. I can't even stand to have my treadmill on an incline.
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Just a quick check in. I love the idea that you check in once a week. Great idea. If I weigh everyday , I obsess about it and it just makes it all worse. I have a satelite dish for internet with the router hooked to the inverter that is hooked to the battery bank. We charge the battery bank with the generator. We heat with wood/coal as I have said so thats the utilities. I have a washing machine and dryer like you guys but I only run it with the generator on and most of the time I dry on a rack behind the wood cookstove. It works and I am grateful for it as I spent the early years at the laudromat and taking showers elsewhere. Now we have a well that we pump to a storage tank hooked to a 12 volt pump so we have a shower and running water. YES!!!
It's a challenge but not as hard as you think.
I admire you all for checking in everyday and being there for each other. Have a great day.
Good morning everyone,
Was at the doctor's office yesterday and he said that I over extended myself in shoveling the snow and that I either stretched or tore a ligament. He said to just continue doing what I have been doing and that it usually takes 6 to 8 weeks for something like this to heal. I'm glad I went for his opinion and what to expect for the next month with my ankle so I'll try to stop complaining about it. It's just that I can't do any walking exercise until it heals but I am going to start doing upper body exercises in order to keep limber.
Carol - Sorry to hear about your cable woes. I couldn't do without my bedroom TV and box. LOL about older people forgetting to eat ----I wish!!
Oh my, your family sure did pass away at a young age. I haven't purchased bacon in about 6 months so I sure did enjoy having it last night and will again tonight and perhaps on the weekend to use it up. I have had bacon occasionally at restaurants though.
Sandy - your Mom sure does sound like a controlling person just giving you minutes to do things however, I'm sure you loved her for all she has done for you.
Mary - sorry to hear about DH vision problems. I so big on vision care because my Mom had retinitis pigmitosa (spelling?) and was diabetic. She only started losing her vision in her 50's until she was considered blind by the time she died at 92 years of age. She was the most wonderful mother a person could have and was and still is an inspiration to me. I am a carrier of this disease as it is hereditary but so far it hasn't showed up in my daughter or grandkids but my sister's son and grandson now has it.
According to the AARP website they want you to take out a membership so I didn't even try to do a crossword puzzle there but if you say you can than I guess you can. We have the Canadian version CARP but not that I've found this other website which I'm happy with I'll stay with that.
GFY in dropping another 1/2 lb. Do whatever works for you as a weigh in day. For me, I weigh in on Monday mornings and so far that works for me.
This weekend is the end of the month so I get to go out to a restaurant this weekend as a treat and not worry about the points. I haven't decided where I want to go yet.
The sun kind of comes and goes today. It is 45* now ~ supposed to get up only to the high 50's.
I spent a lot of yesterday getting information/papers organized for a doctor visit today. The new PCP ~ because our insurance changed ~ several of the doctors we had did not accept the new insurance, so we had to find new ones. DH is going with me to help make sure I come out of there with everything I need. It is a complicated visit. With our previous insurance, if we needed to see a specialist, we could just make the appointment ourselves. This insurance requires that we get a referral from the PCP. I have several ~ but there are a couple that I have to see regularly (the doctors for my Rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and the gastroenterologist for the GERD). So, I have to get those referrals lined up, or I could run out of medicine.
The other day, my sister and I were talking, I worried that I hurt her feelings. We were talking about when we get old. She said she always thought that if both our husbands “went” before we did, that she and I would live together. Once upon a time, I sort of thought that would be cool, but now, I don't know that we could do it. She is very outspoken and very intense about some things. She will go into a rant about religion or politics. She hates her touch screen cell phone and some aspects of the computer/technology. She has dogs and would probably want one, and while I like dogs, I'm not sure I would want to live with one. When we are talking we frequently disagree about things and end up feeling frustrated with each other. I told her I didn't think I could live with her ~ that if we did ~ it would have to be in a duplex where we could be by each other but each have our own seperate place. I was sort of joking, but sort of serious too. That made her feel bad ~ she said she envisioned us watching TV in the evening in our jammies ~ kind of like a slumber party ~ then going off to bed. I don't think we could even watch TV together ~ she likes different kind of programs than I do. I enjoy spending time with her, but don't know that I could live with her. And part of me feels like we would be a bad influence on each other ~ eating and exercise wise. We both like sweets and stuff we shouldn't eat. She was always smaller than me, but lately it has caught up with her. Like me, she knows she shouldn't indulge in the things she does and that she should exercise, but she doesn't seem to have good self discipline anymore than I do.
I had dreams last night. I don't like dreaming. They aren't nightmarish or anything, but it just seems like it is not a restful sleep when I am dreaming. In the first part, I had worked (night shift like I did), and then couldn't get home to go to sleep and spent all day trying to get home to sleep and never did, then had to go back to work on no sleep. The second part, I was with my sister and we were kind of in a house ~ like at college where a lot of girls all live together. I went out somewhere and when I came back, I couldn't find the one where I had been with my bed and everything and spent all night looking for my place ~ I don't think I ever did find it. I was sort of half awake by then and wanted to sleep some more, but at the same time, wanted to wake up and be done with those frustrating dreams.
Karrine ~ glad you went to the doctor to find out about your ankle. I'm sorry that it is going to take a while for it to get better. Take care of yourself and don't push it ~ let it get healed. Good idea doing the upper body exercises in the mean time. Enjoy your end of the month meal out.
Homegirl ~ I enjoyed hearing more about your life up there in Alaska. Most of us are here more than once a week. Some do their weigh in just once a week, but coming here is more often. Like someone mentioned, for us this is not just about diet, but kind of a friendship ~ we enjoy talking about all kinds of things and not just the food or dieting. But we support each other too along with the visiting.
Carol Sue ~ I'm glad your husband got the cable thing straightened out so you could still watch your shows in the evening. I have heard about people forgetting to eat, but I think it was in a situation where they had dementia that made that happen. I think I have heard other people (without dementia) mention that they forget to eat, but it wasn't an age thing, but because they get busy and just forget. For myself, I have never had that problem, and don't feel like I ever will. My husband the other day asked for some food and I realized that he had gone almost all day on what he had fixed himself for breakfast ~ I asked him ~ didn't you get hungry? It wasn't that he forgot ~ he said he never gets hungry. I can't even fathom that. For him, I guess that is from years of the routine he had when he was working. He would drink some carnation instant breakfast before he went to work and go all day without eating, then eat a big meal at supper time and some snacks in the evening. For me, if I don't eat at intervals, I get irritable, sometimes feel a little shaky maybe and can't concentrate on the things I need to do.
Mary ~ glad your dishwasher is back to working again. I'm sorry Joe is having trouble with his vision. I can understand how no longer being able to drive would be upsetting to a person. That is one thing I dreaded with my dad. He would tell about things that happened when he was driving and he probably shouldn't have been driving anymore (as you said ~ for his safety and the safety of others). He was kind of a glass half empty kind of guy and had commented about other things that were upsetting to him, that he might as well just be dead. As sad as it was when he did pass, I was relieved that we never had to have the “you shouldn't be driving anymore” discussion with him.
Sandy ~ it sounds like you had kind of a difficult time with your mom. Sorry about that. Hope there were some good memories in there for you with her. When you said she worried about what others would think of her, it kind of reminded me of things my mom told me about her mom. She didn't let my mom do a lot of stuff ~ always saying “what will the neighbors think”. From things my mom said, she was kind of a mean mom, but as a grandma ~ she was so sweet ~ like she was a different kind of person than she was as a mom.
Well, it is almost time to call Mom. Around 11 am and 3 pm my time are when the staff at the nursing home says it is a good time to call. When I can, I try to call at the 11 am time. It seems like if I don't get it done then, something always seems to come up in the afternoon and I don't get to make the call. She has dementia, so I'm not sure she even remembers that I call, but I want to. I don't want it to ever seem like she is just stashed away there and forgotten by her family. It is not like the converstaions we used to have, but I think she still knows who I am and enjoys the calls.
Guess I'd better get off here and start getting ready for the appointment. Hope you all are having a good day.
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Karrine, I know they tell you not to have a TV in your bedroom but we have had it for years and don't know how we'd do without it. Even though it's mostly me watching my favorite shows in the evening, we still have it on when we go to bed and watch TV until we get sleepy. I usually fall asleep first. The sound from the TV puts me to sleep.
I'm glad you don't have a more serious injury to your ankle and now you know that it will take a little longer to get better. Since it's winter and you wouldn't be going out as much it will be easier for you to rest it.
Sandy, when you were telling us about your mother you didn't mention your father. Was he there, and how did he feel about the way your mother treated you? I was wondering because my mother was very strict with me, similar to your mother, and my father had passed away when I was 11 and she was raising me alone. I always thought that was why she was so strict with me. I wasn't allowed to be a normal teenager. I was not allowed to go to football games or after-school activities. Had to come straight home. I was allowed to go to Youth Group at the church on Sunday night. Because I was never allowed to go anywhere else, my friend and I would skip youth group and go somewhere else. We never got caught. It was a shame I had to do that, but it was the only way I could go out and socialize with my peers.
My half-sister was so much older than me. She got married right after I was born and moved to the other end of the state. When we finally moved years later she was a stranger to me. She contacted me after my mother died, but too much water had gone under the bridge and we never got close.
AKhomegirl, it's very interesting, the way you live. I'm sure it seems normal to you, just the way our lives seem normal to us.
I don't weigh every day. It bothers me to see the day-to-day fluctuations. I don't have a particular weigh-in day. I get on the scale when I feel that I've lost. I only want to see good results. LOL
Gayle, I think your mother is where she should be to get the best care. It would be very difficult to have someone with dementia living in your home. They really do need to have round-the-clock care. As long as you and your siblings are checking in on her and making sure she is receiving the care she needs and that it's a good facility. And there are probably times that she does realize that it's you on the phone.
And I agree with you that it doesn't sound as though you and your sister could live together peaceably. You have different personalities. It would only work if you could have a completely separate space for each of you and you both respected the other's boundaries. Maybe if you got separate apartments in the same building so you could spend time together, but then go home to your own space when necessary.
I dream all the time. So often I have the same dream, that I am in a public bathroom and all the toilets are clogged. I think I have that dream when I wake up in the middle of the night and I have to pee. LOL I had that dream last night. Then I went back to sleep and I dreamed that our bathtub was stopped up. I don't know why I'm obsessed about plumbing. LOL
Mary, I'm glad you got your dishwasher fixed. I have never had a dishwasher.
I think one of the bad things about living a long life is we reach a point where we should not be behind the wheel and that point might be coming for Joe. It's hard, but there comes a time when you put yourself and others at risk. I'm sure he would feel terrible if something happened. Maybe you should discuss this with him so it will be easier for him when the time comes.
Waiting for my gc to come...my gs called this morning and asked if it was ok and of course I said yes. These two are so sweet and easy to care for. The only problem is they are not used to dogs and are kinda scared of Halo. We are still having some problems with her barking. I just had to let her in even though it's a nice day and I'd like her outside because she was barking. She comes in sheepishly when I go out calling her. A few barks during the day is ok but when it becomes persistent I make her come in. At night it's different, our neighbor will not tolerate that...last night I went to bed first and dh let her out but did not put her on the leash thinking it was early enough (abt 11) she'd come in right away like usual, but no, she got to barking. He couldn't hear her, I tried calling him, but for some reason his phone was on silent so I finally got up and told him...he had to go out and find her and make her come in. She has never barked like this until recently...I guess she is welcoming the new dog or something.
Carol - I can't stand to have a TV in the bedroom...we did have one in our RV and even when I wanted to watch a show I'd get too sleepy and it bugged me. I'd tell dh to go watch it in the living room and let me sleep. Only a very few times have I fallen asleep watching TV even though I do get very sleepy sometimes. Dh said last time he renewed his license, he did not pass the vision test but was able to get a note from his doctor allowing him to get his license. He is a good driver still, only a little more impulsive it seems to me, but he turns his head to check for cars etc. He will not take giving up his license easily. He has another year to go on this one. I have discussed it with him but he doesn't like to talk about it. I just remembered that when I was young and first married I was still so enthralled with being a wife and mother, some days I'd forget to eat lunch. Those days have been over for a long time.
Glynne - I agree with Carol...separate but nearby apartments or a duplex so you can easily get together when you want to and still keep a close relationship. Actually that would make it even more special when you do have fun together. I always wished my sister and I could have fun together. She is nine years older and is kinda crippled up now and has never seemed interested, so I guess the days of fulfilling that dream are pretty much over. I have to make the best of any time I can have with her. She doesn't even call or text me even though she does keep in touch with her children and gc. It's gotten to the point I feel I'm pushing her if I try to maintain communication so I've stopped mostly. However I will try to call her tomorrow on her 82nd birthday tomorrow. I still have dreams about working and it's always a tense dream. Thank goodness it doesn't happen often. I don't remember dreaming as much anymore about anything, but at times I do, sometimes a few nights in a row, then stop for a long while.
AKHome girl - Enjoy hearing about your lifestyle. It's good to hear how others live...I think we forget the way we live is not the same as everyone. My dh is from the Philippines and he is very thankful for his way of life here. His family has it better in PI than when he was there but still not like we have here. I read a book a few years ago I think was just called Alaska...it told of a girl/family and was over a lot of years of their lives. Started in the gold rush days. Can't remember the author but I really enjoyed it.
Carol - forgot to answer your question. Yes I've tried a treadclimber once at Nautilus. I like using a treadmill on an incline, but I do hold on...once I fell when I was walking...someone had come up to talk to me and I got distracted and wasn't careful. Ever since then I always hold on. I actually prefer the treadmill to walking the track at the gym, but still walk the track because dh does I guess.
Good morning everyone,
I don't have any plans today except to make a tuna casserole and dust throughout the house. Of course cleaning the bathrooms is almost an everyday thing for me.
Carol - glad you are getting that new cable box for your bedroom.. My mom was strict in her own way but always allowed me to socialize with my friends within reason as long as I kept to her curfew and had my homework or chores done. I loved her dearly.
Homegirl - you sure do have an interesting life which is so different from all of us and we enjoy hearing about it. How far do you have to travel to go shopping for groceries etc.?
Gayle - I have heard from others about having to change doctors under the new US health plan. I hope you like your new PCP. Although my sister is now deceased and only 2 years older than me we weren't close as she belonged to a high school serority and felt that everyone else wasn't good enough to be around her including me. When my Mom died we managed to get a bit closer but that didn't last too long. We were so very different. I was more like my mother and she was more like my father. As I was my Mom's main caregiver & she lived alone in her own home I called her early every morning to make sure she was ok and went to her place every afternoon. We had help come in to do her house cleaning and cooking.
Mary - sorry about your not having a close relationship with your sister either. It kind of hurts, in a way at least that is the way I felt with my own sister.
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I finally got back to exercising today. I hope I stick with it. I did 45 minutes. I didn't intend to do that much the first time, but as I got going I felt better and wanted to continue. Sometimes when I exercise I'm watching the clock waiting for it to be over. I felt so good afterwards. I did the treadmill, the recumbent bike, and did some wind sprints on the elliptical.
Mary, we don't have to get a vision test when we renew our license. We just go in and get our picture taken and that's it. My license doesn't say I need to wear glasses when I drive but that was from when I got my license 45 years ago. Now I always wear them when I drive even thought I don't wear them all the time otherwise.
Mary, I always hold on when I'm on the treadmill. When I had my first treadmill, if I was walking on it when the air conditioning turned on it would trip the circuit breaker and stop the treadmill instantly. If I wasn't holding on I would have been thrown off. That doesn't happen with the newer treadmill but I'm still in the habit of always holding on. I don't do well walking without something to hold on to, like in a store, with a shopping cart. I can do it if I have to but prefer to have it. Sometimes when I'm in Walmart or Target and it's not crowded I will hold the cart and go really fast and do a couple laps around the perimeter of the store.
Sandy, my half-sister was nice. It's just that she was so much older than I was, and we didn't spend much time together so we didn't know each other She didn't like my mother and the feeling was mutual. We had the same father, but he died when I was ll and she was 28. If If was single, I would have been willing to live with her. I think we would have done fine.
Feeling lazy today...seems like I've had a lot of those day recently but this week at least I have done pretty well with my weekly cleaning. I still need to clean the living room though. I bought a new small vacuum at Costco today...it is a Hoover Windtunnel and I'd seen it on Amazon for $100, but Costco had it for $79. Figured it's worth at least that. I still like the lighter and easier maneuvering of my little Shark but my Shark is starting to fall apart (the exterior) and I've been sharing it with a family member so figure it won't last much longer. I tried the newer models of Shark and they are much heavier although there is one where you can lift off the canister and clean. I do like that but the rest of the machine is heavier. Maybe not as heavy as my main vac, my Dyson, but almost, so I returned it. This one is so cheap, has good suction and although it's not perfect, I think I'll keep it and continue to compare with my Shark. Once I decide which one of these lightweight ones I prefer, I may give the other one away to the family member who needs it. Like the Shark and unlike my Dyson I can easily get under the kitchen cabinets etc. with it. What I'd really like to have is the lightweight Dyson but don't want to pay the price.
Carol - Sounds like you pretty much have a gym of your own! Glad you got back to it today. We went to the gym too, did our usual. I'd liked to switch it up a bit and take a class again..but am too lazy to get there on time. Carol what is the problem with your walking...is it that your legs are weak or something else? Sorry to hear it but glad you are ok when holding on at least. I remember dh liking to lean on the cart while his leg was healing and even now I think he's more comfortable that way due his back issues.
That's amazing you don't have to take a visual test to renew your license! It is seeing lights in squares and also on the side (testing your peripheral vision) but the funny thing is they ASK you whether you see the lights flashing on the side...one could just lie. I think it would be more informative to ask what color or which side or something. They make me take off my glasses for the picture and don't look like myself with my glasses as I wear them all the time unless I'm asleep. I asked the guy why last time and he said to blame Osama Bin Laden but this time the lady told me it's because the camera doesn't work well with glasses. Probably makes the eyes look wierd...I've had that happen before they started making me take my glasses off.
I love my sister very much and when we are together we have fun chatting. When she was young and first married, I used to spend 1-3 weeks with her and my bil and we had a lot of fun together. But because of our life's experiences and perhaps the age difference, we think a lot differently now. I could live with her but I don't think she would be happy with me. I think I make her nervous just because I am different or something. It's kind of a wierd situation...she seems to want me to visit her and yet right now doesn't seem to want to be with me either. We are planning a road trip in the fall to go that way as I promised my brother (who has passed on) that I would not wait so long to return next time and I want to keep my promise. We will hopefully be seeing my sil of course but it is not completely comfortable because I feel like my sister will say she wants us to visit her and her dh but right now I don't feel very welcome. Last time we planned to get a hotel room and she wouldn't hear of it and we actually had a nice time together.
It may very well be our last trip back there esp road trip.
Funny how different parents can be....my parents were not strict in the general sense at all....I had no rules, no tasks assigned...they just expected that I would know right from wrong. In those days the church and school were more in harmony about what was right and wrong so I knew what was expected and what was considered wrong. My dad was often harsh and today would be considered abusive but did not actually hit me. He would kick at me but don't remember him ever making contact. It was mostly verbal although he did pull me up by my hair a few times. My mother never disciplined or taught me anything that I can remember. I learned from watching her I guess and I think I was a very good kid. At about 12 I decided to make my own decisions about some things and told my mom...she didn't exactly like it but never said I couldn't. Only disciplinary action I remember her making, was once when I sat out late in the car with my bf she came out and told me I should go into the house which I did. It embarrassed me a little but I actually kind of liked that she did it too. I was kind of the black sheep of our family and it seemed my parents always expected me to be bad. Kind of contradictory since they never set any rules, right? But that's the way it was. It was kind of a strange relationship, I loved them and knew they loved me but never really felt close to them nor did I feel I could share my feelings with them....they seem to see me as different and couldn't understand me or something. Kind of like my sister has always been toward me. I moved to the west coast when I was 22, mom died when I was 24 and dad when I was 45. I have never been homesick but there have been times I wished I could have had my mom esp around longer. But perhaps being on my own (away from parents and siblings) has helped me learn things I might not have learned so easily and was perhaps the best for me.
Good morning everyone,
They are calling for a nice mild winter weekend here with temperatures above freezing. Back on Jan. 1st when I started this diet I decided to also keep track of my measurements (bust; waist and hip) and take new measurements once a month. I did that yesterday and found that I lost a total of 4 inches off this fat body of mine. For me, I sometimes reach a plateau in that I don't lose weight but I do lose inches so the weight and measurements keep me inspired to go on.
Carol - you sure did good on the exercise yesterday. Keep it up. I also have to hold on when I am on the treadmill. I don't have good balance.
Mary - I have a little shark vacuum too and love it. Once a month I get out my big vacuum and give the house a thorough cleaning. I don't have any pets and very little traffic so my place doesn't need to much vacuuming.
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I think I overdid it with the exercise yesterday. I felt good afterwards, but later on in the evening my knee started to bother me. I found my bottle of glucosemine and condrointen. It doesn't expire until 2017 and it looks like I have enough for about 2 weeks, so by then I should be able to tell if it's going to help. I will try doing some strengthening exercises with weights until my knee feels better.
Mary, I don't have good muscle tone. My knee stops me from going up and down stairs well because the slight swelling in my knee keeps it from bending. All around that area feels weak. I know that losing weight would really help, but that's not happening. I make myself go up and down the stairs a few times every day because I don't want to lose the ability to do it. I have to go down stairs somewhere to get out of my house. Either down the cellar steps to the garage, or out the front door and down the front steps to get to the driveway. It's convenient to ask DH to go downstairs to get something I need, but as long as it's something I can carry, I make myself do it. I have all the exercise equipment that I have accumulated over the years and now that we no longer use our game room it has become my exercise room. I like it.
I don't lean on the shopping cart. I catch myself doing it and then make myself stand up straight and just hold on to the cart for balance. Sometimes when I'm washing dishes I catch myself leaning on the kitchen counter and I correct that. One time in a store the clerk was leaning on the counter and she leaned on the scale when she weighed my vegetables and I got charged an outrageous amount! LOL It wasn't funny when it happened. I watch now when they weight my vegetables.
I think it makes a big difference if parents are a single parent. They feel that they have to be strict because all the responsibility is on them. I was not allowed to go out in cars with boys, so I didn't have many dates until I was well into my 20s. It was a "live in my house, live by my rules" thing.
Karrine, our temps on Sunday are to be in the 50s. That's high for us in January. Well, it's almost February. After February our weather will gradually get warmer, but we have had some big snow storms in March.
I got a jury summons for March, and I really don't want to go, but it's my civic duty. They will be sorry, because with my chronic cough I will cough all through the trial and no one will be able to hear what's being said. LOL And when I'm not coughing, I will need to get up to pee.
CarolSue Do you notice more knee pain when you lean forward? I do, and if I keep my head up "good posture style" my knee feels better when I'm walking. I don't do steps, either!!! Sorry about summons for jury duty.
My Dad was an absolute jewel. He lived till I was 35, and I was nearby with Mom when he went. Mom was very anxious, and would make me wear a scarf to school (no other girl would wear such thing and I felt strange especially since we had just moved to this new place when I was 10) Dad was a teacher in the Vocational School so he dropped me off at school. When Mom made me wear a scarf, he would put out his hand, take the scarf I folded up and tuck it in his pocked. At home he put it in the coat closet and never told her.
He probably didn't even know how Mom was about my need to rush home after school. He taught Veterans till supper time, and I never thought to tell him. I believe he would have encouraged her to be less strict.
They were loving to each other, and to me in every way. I had more overnight girlfriends of Friday nights than most parents would have tollerated. I was encouraged to date before I really was ready, seems Mom was less worried about the guys than my girlfriends. Or perhaps she was looking forward to my being married. DH an I were married when I was 19.
TV? We have the large one in large TV room (that was Mom's apartment) We have one in Living Room, and it is very, very old but still works. We finally broke down and bought a flat screen Hi Definition 40" screen for Living room to fit on a nice stand we already own. They will deliver it next week. We had a $270 credit at Best Buy and it helped pay over 1/2 of the cost that includes installing and hauling away the monstrosity in Living Room. DH is so happy. Now Pat can have Downton Abby on in Living room with me and DH can finish his games on the 55" TV in "His TV room."
I can't sleep with TV, and the only time we tried a small in in our bedroom, I didn't sleep. That didn't last long. Thank goodness. I'm not of a TV watcher except for particular things.
Homegal Loved your description of method of being able to use the wonderful machines that help us so much. Drying clothes around the house is something I did before DH retired. The extra moisture in the air is really a great help!!!
Mary Our Dyson needed repairs and it cost more than a new vacumn so we just tossed it. I love the Shark!!!! Thank goodness we are all one story altho spread out a bit in shape of a T .
Down a bit, inspite of the wonderful luncheon with Thai food that is my all time favorite. I took Karrine's idea of eating a good meal out and DH and I had a fun day of it.
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HELP NEEDED! Do any of you know of hearing aids that work?
DH has Nu Ear that has helped, but the cost was thousands of dollars. We can't afford such price now that we are both retired, yet his hearing aids are 5 years old and may not last much longer.
Have no real idea of where to go. We know that on ear has very limited ability to be helped, but the other one isn't too bad, thank goodness.
Another day of laziness...not sure what's going on with me...maybe it's the weather or something...just want to lay around. I did go to the gym but all the bikes were taken so I only walked ten min., rode arm bike for 6 min and then did a couple weight machines. Here at home I have worked out our taxes and did the dishes, cleaned off counters that I left last night an worked on our taxes, but still not done. There are so many things I want to do, but I just can't get myself to do them. Hopefully this phase will pass soon. Tonight dh is bringing home take out, that's how lazy I am. I am still on plan so far.
Sandy - I don't know the name of the ones dh got from the VA but Costco told him it's better than theirs. I think it probably would have cost at least $3000 for the two of them if he wasn't a vet. Is your dh a veteran? It took dh 18 months of paper work, and phone calls plus several trips to different offices and some time online but he finally got them and we only paid $50, can't remember what that $50 was for. They aren't perfect and I know sometimes he wants to throw them away, but we are grateful too. I hope your dh can find some way to get them cheaper...if he's not a vet, perhaps if your income in low enough, some other organization can help.
Your dad sounds wonderful! And it's also wonderful that despite some difficult things you also had a good childhood in other ways. I have complained about my dad but he was a good man in many ways too...always faithful to mom, worked hard to provide for us. I am so thankful to my mother for many many things even though it was mostly through her actions rather than words. Parents do the best they know how and what seems right for them at the time and I do believe that most do what they feel is best for their children. Sometimes my kids complain about my parenting too...esp one.
You're the first one I've heard whose Dyson needed repairs. How long did it work before that? I've had mine for several years now...but not sure exactly how long. Of course when we were RVing it wasn't used for 3 months/year. My Dyson is the large upright, the purple one. We did have it repaired once, and it cost $162, but I wanted to keep one heavy duty vac. so paid it. Hopefully we won't have to repair it again.
The shark is a very good vac for the $$$...I have the cheapest regular upright they made. It is very lightweight which I like, I can fly around the room with it. The other (supposedly better) Shark uprights I have tried I didn't really care for though. I tried their Rocket but didn't like it. That is their newest very lightweight one. One of the things I didn't like is that it won't even stand up by itself. But I notice they still have one upright that looks similar to mine (but think it's an updated model), and looks light weight like mine...it is $140.
Carol - there is that time when the judge asks for those who do not want jury duty to tell their reasons. Perhaps you can tell them you have a chronic cough. Not sure but might work. I've had jury duty twice and always wanted to do it, but the last time I did get awfully tired, so don't look forward to it so much now. Twice in all these years isn't much, so maybe I won't be called again.
Those days have been over for a long time. 
but this time the lady told me it's because the camera doesn't work well with glasses. Probably makes the eyes look wierd...I've had that happen before they started making me take my glasses off. 