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The Wednesday Women walked & had an Ugly Sweater Party where we exchanged Gag Gifts & ate lots of Holiday Goodies!
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Here's our Merry Dance2fit-mas Dance Party. (One of our ladies works at a Nursing Home & the presents in the front are for the residents.)
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Fabulous pictures, Ruth! How nice that everyone brought presents for nursing home residents. Everyone looks so festive in both pictures.
Trying to keep things easy and calm. I've had 3 afib episodes since my screaming encounter with my neighbor last Thursday. The longest lasted 15 hour.
I forgot to mention that on Monday I had to have a tooth implant removed (it was put in sometime this summer). The crown was added in July and all was good until a month later when it started moving and hurting. It was determined that the implant was causing the problem. So on Monday I had it removed and a shorter and wider one put it. I think the pain from the procedure also set me up for afib.
I met a friend for lunch yesterday. Treated myself to a manicure today which is something I rarely do. Been taking it easy and today has been a good day. Also I have laughed a lot this evening bc my dd visited and told us some very funny stories. Laughter is the best medicine!
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Wonderland, you should treat yourself to things every day & be with people who make you laugh too!! Sending a hug before I go off to my Pilates/Stretch class.
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I'm officially on winter break :) Definitely need the R and R. I've been exhausted. The last week before winter break is always a hard one - I had lots of IEP meetings, reports to write as well as see my kiddos. I'm off till January 6th. Then it's a long stretch till spring break the end of March with only MLK and President's day off.
My brother is in the hospital for 5 more days. Still on IV antibiotics. He said he is having lots of GI side effects. I'm sure such heavy doses of antibiotics are wrecking havoc with his gut. It's always a long road for him when he gets an infection - generally lung infection.
5 days till I see my favorite munchkin. Cold, damp, rainy/wet miserable weather will great us!! A big difference from the mild weather here. Today is 64f!! The 10 day forecast is low 60s to high 40s and now snow, though the mountains might get snow. When we get back from seeing the munchkin, we are heading to the mountains for a few days of hiking.
Monday I go for my last follow up on the cataract surgery and get a new Rx. I can't wait as my current glasses are not right. I don't wear them driving or walking at night and not even sure if they are the right strength for reading. I'll have to wait till I get home to get the new glasses. I order online so I should start looking at frames.
Wonder, sorry to hear about your A-fib episodes.
I know I've missed a lot, but just skimmed the posts.
Have a great week-end.
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Thanks for the hug, Ruth. ❤️
Karen: I am sorry about your brother. I hope the doctors have found the correct antibiotic for his infection. Sending healing vibes from NC to your brother.
Today has been a good day. My 2 sisters (twins) came to visit. They had gotten together earlier this week with my brother and sil to bake Christmas cookies. They brought my share of the cookies plus lunch! Just what the doctor ordered.
Dd makes lightweight clay earrings. She used glitter in these and I love how they sparkle.
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Karen, does your brother have family who live nearby who are helping him navigate his treatments? (I hope so!). It is so wearing to be ill for so long. It was the last day of school here too & I am sure there were many teachers sharing your exhaustion! Glad you can get the new glasses ordered. Excited to hear reports about what clever things your granddaughter is up to!
Wonderland, I LOVE those earring! If DD would make me a pair, I would be glad to pay her for them (plus postage, of course). Does she do other colors too?
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Hi Friends
I have been away for a month, just catching up. I had a business trip the week before Thanksgiving, then Thanksgiving and another business trip the week after - Dec 4-9 in NYC.
Arrived in NYC with a hotel on 6th Avenue the day of the NYC shooting that took place at another hotel 2 blocks away on , that was something…6th Ave (Ave of the Americas)
Returned home from that trip with a cold! it was 12 degrees in NYC that week and my southern VA body just couldn't take it. One night in the hotel I had the shakes I was so cold. Basically put me under the grey cloud for almost 10 days.
I do have a nice picture if myself and DH with the Rockefeller Christmas Tree a block away, I had a meeting at Christies Auction House on 49th and it was too crowded to get closer.
Today is the last day of school ahead of the holidays.
I got back to the gym this week, Sunday/Wednesay/Thursday/Friday…I'll call that a win.
I'll post some pictures soon…
Take care everyone, TT
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Great to hear from you, TT! Yes, do post some pictures!!
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This is for Karen, TT, and any other teachers who may be lurking around here.
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Ruth - that is a great meme. And just about sums it up.
TT - look forward to seeing pictures
Wonder - cute earrings
The weather has been above average - some days sun, others cloudy. And to go to damp, cold, miserable weather for a week!
My brother has 3 more days of treatment. He's on antibiotics 16 hours/day. The doctors are hopeful that this will keep him out of the hospital for 2 - 3 years.
I baked 3 batches of cookies - most to take to my kids, mailing my brother a couple or so dozen and the same for a neighbor. Our friends just 31 year old son is in the hospital waiting for a liver transplant. He needs a who liver so it means someone has to die for him to live. As our friends said, their whole world has been turned upside down. Our hearts go out to them. Cookies - almond mandel bread (Jewish biscotti), poppy ad sugar cookies.
Debating whether I want to get a hair cut before we leave, but definitely want a manicure, so need to leave time tomorrow. I have two appointments in the morning and want to drop off donations. Also need to start packing. I think my carry-on will be filled with cookies and other things for my daughter and DIL plus clothes for my granddaughter. I love shopping for other people especially online when shipping is free.
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It was nice out here today, but tonight we're under a freezing rain advisory. Argh!! It will probably be like a skating rink out there in the morning.
Your cookies sound yummy, Karen! I hope that your brother can get out of the hospital & stay out! I feel so horrible for your friends & their son. Your world would be upside down. I just talked to my sister, her daughter-in-law's 38 year old brother was in an construction accident & is not expected to live. A very, very sad holiday it will be for them.
I found some Holiday Dance Music on utube & danced around the house to it for 45 minutes yesterday & did a Yoga session on utube today. Right now I am watching The Kennedy Center Honors, which I love every year!
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Quickly checking in to say Happy Holidays. Our walking group walked yesterday morning. & I went to HIT last night. I went to LIFT this morning after making pies & before starting on the Christmas Eve dinner. I will be getting the turkey in the oven in a few minutes. Safe travels for all who are heading out of town!
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o those who celebrate, wishing you a wonderful Christmas. I hope it is everything you want it to be!
My brother is home. I think all told he was in the hospital 26 or 27 days. Now let's hope that he stays out of the hospital for long time.
No white Christmas for Denver. We tomorrow morning to see out favorite munchkin and her parents.😍
Safe travels to all traveling
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Hope everyone is having an enjoyable holiday! We had a fun Christmas & are extending the fun because it is DIL's birthday today. She & DS have invited us and her family over for dinner tonight & tomorrow my brother & SIL are taking us to lunch on their way through town on the way home from spending Christmas with her sister……so more eating opportunities! I did go to HIT this morning & will go to a Yoga/Pilates class tomorrow. I am almost out of leftovers here; which is good as I don't dare get on a scale right now!!
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TT: Hope you're feeling better.
Karen: Thankful that your brother is out of the hospital. So sorry about your friend's son. I can't imagine what they are going through.
Ruth: Happy Birthday to your dil! I'm sure it was good to see your brother and sil again.
We had dd and sil over for Christmas Eve dinner. Ds, dsp (dear son partner) and granddaughter are visiting her family in Chicago for the holidays so it was just the 4 of us. This past Saturday we had a big family party with dh's side of the family.
Christmas day was just dh and me. I've been having some afib episodes this month and was in afib that morning. But by the afternoon I felt worse. Ended up calling 911. EMS performed an EKG and the results were that I was in ventricular tachycardia. He said, "We are quickly taking you to the hospital." So I went by ambulance to the hospital 30 minutes away where my cardiologist is. Was given an IV in the ambulance and by the time I arrived at the ed I was back in only afib. There was a whole team of medical staff ready to shock me but I didn't need it thank goodness.
There is good news. My cardiologist and electrophysiologist determined that I was not in v tach. I had heart flutter and the medicine that I have been on for 5+ years for afib and has been my godsend to control afib made everything worse. Surprisingly that is a possible side effect of the medicine so I have been very lucky.
I stayed in the hospital for 2 nights and came home yesterday. I'm off that medicine and on different ones now. I will be getting scheduled for an ablation as soon as I hear from the scheduler for a surgery date. My cardiologist has told me I'm a good candidate for one. My medicine was good to me for 5+ years but it's time for the next step. I can't wait!
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Yikes, wonderland, that was not the Christmas surprise you wanted! Glad you went in right away & are now on the right track. Hopefully they can get your scheduled soon!!
Karen, I imagine you are enjoying your granddaughter very much!! It will be hard to come home!!
We had a very nice evening celebrating DIL's birthday. Her parents came up, so we had a nice visit. Their two daughters birthday are December 26 & 28. They said they have always made a point to celebrate each birthday separate from each other and from the holidays. We had a nice time catching up with my brother & SIL. It's not official yet (so keep it under your hat 😉), but their 36 year old daughter (my niece) is about to get engaged! She has never been married before, so that is pretty exciting!
I have been eating like crazy, but also getting some exercise. I went to HIT & Dance2fit Thursday, a Yoga/Pilates class Friday, and danced around to Marshall Fitness on utube for 45 minutes today. I would have taken Bruno for a walk; but he was so tired from all the extra commotion that he didn't even want to go!
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Ruth: Exciting news about your niece! Let us know when it's official. Good looking WWW group.
I've been taking it easy today. My exercise has been watching TV. My sil and bil came over for a nice long visit.
If you have Netflix I recommend the movie Carry On. It's a thriller.
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Our trip to our kids and granddaughter is coming to an end :( It’s been a great visit except for rain all day yesterday! It was raining this morning so we took her to an indoor play place and spend about 1 1/2 hours having fun. My GD is so much fun. She has so much personality. I will miss her smile when we go home. My daughter goes back to work tomorrow and our flight is in the afternoon. We have a couple errands to run and pack. We will call the car service to come for 1:30 as our flight is at 4pm. If on time, we get back to Denver around 6:15pm. Our son will pick us up. Lots and lots of picture.
Hard to believe that tomorrow ends 2024. I can’t say I’m sorry to see it go as it has had its challenges health wise. I just hope things settle down in 2025 but I’m not certain. My labs for my nephrologist were wonky and he wants them repeated in 3 - 6 weeks. I hope the results were just a fluke. I have labs for my hematologist on Jam 7 and I see him on January 13.
Ruth - great picture.
Wonder - hope you get resolve with your heart issues.
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Hope you had a smooth travel day, Karen. It will be a little too quiet without a little one around.
Wonderland, have they scheduled your procedure yet?
I went to a weight lifting class & walked around the track for awhile this morning. We are going out to dinner with a couple friend of ours this evening, but plan to be home & in my pajamas by 9:30. Tomorrow, DS/DIL and two of their friends are coming over for lunch & an afternoon of playing games. DS has gotten interested in family history, which is thrilling to me. And the incentive I need to get out the information I've gathered over the years and get it organized into some sort of a system that makes sense. DS has found that Shirley Temple is a far distant relative (like my 11th cousin). The sister of my grandfather's great-grandfather married a Mr. Temple & she is their descendant. All rather mind boggling!
Next time I check in it will be 2025. Hoping for a Healthy, happy new year for us all!
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Taking down the holiday stuff
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Happy New Year everyone!
Despite being sick and traveling a bit in both Nov and Dec for work, I did meet the annual fitness goal game my gym does each year at this time…crazy since I was out of pocket 3+ weeks of the two month challenge…just think what I could do if I stayed healthy (and focused!)
My school is taking an extended leave given the Wed holiday, but crazily final grades for the fall semester are due tomorrow…so as dept head, I have been tele-working trying to get folks past their computer difficulties with electronic gradesheets and computer access issues that…unsurprising to me!…I have no control over nor do I have the computer access to correct. Not sure why my colleagues would think that I do.
2025…just wow, doesn't that number seem huge?!? TT
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Karen: I bet you are already missing your precious granddaughter!
Ruth: How exciting that you are related to Shirley Temple. I remember crying so hard watching Little Princess when she finally finds her father at the end of the movie. My sisters are my family genealogists and one of them made awesome Shutterfly books (one for my mom's side and one for my dad's) with all the information and photographs in it. It's invaluable to me. In fact, it's part of my important documents I collect and take downstairs with me whenever we have severe weather warnings.
m0mmy: I have most of my decorations down also. Always a little sad to see them packed up. I miss the Christmas tree bc it smells so good but it was drying out and needed to come down.
TT: Sorry you have been sick and hope you get feeling better soon. Congratulations for meeting your fitness goals. How frustrating trying to correct computer problems for others when you have no control over the situation. I can't imagine.
Happy New Year to all my wonder friends!
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Hope everyone had a good first day of 2025! We had a fun New Years Eve dinner with our friends. I know I'm old because we were home by 9:30, and I couldn't even make myself stay up long enough to watch the ball drop in NYC! I danced around for 30 minutes before I got ready for company. DS, DIL, two of their friends, and another family friend, and all the dogs came over for lunch and board games. Everyone left by 5:00, so the evening has been lazy. I host my Book Club on Wednesday & have decided to leave my decorations up until then.
Good luck with the computer glitches, TT. So frustrating!!
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HIT this morning, Dance2fit tonight.
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Friday I went to the pilates/stretch class. Today I walked around the track at my fitness center & went to yoga. It is very cold here; but not icy or storming so I better not complain too much!
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Ruth: Your New Year's day sounds like fun. I can't believe how cold your weather is. BRRR
Ds, partner, and granddaughter were supposed to visit today but his partner wasn't feeling well so they are postponing to tomorrow unless she still doesn't feel well. I don't want them to come unless all feel good.
Today dd came over and we ran some errands. She and I are best friends and I love every time we get together. For Christmas I gave her and my sil tickets to see Hamilton. The play was yesterday and they had the best time. Dd had seen it once before and earlier this year when I saw it was coming around again I asked her if she would like to see it again. She was thrilled when I told her that I would buy tickets as their Christmas present.
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Well I did stay up to see the ball drop in NYC for the first time in years! Surprised myself. My sister called my mother in her assisted living apartment and woke her up so she could see the ball drop…very unusual for her as well.
Will get to the gym this afternoon, but for us that may be it for a couple of days as we in Viriginia will close everything down if we get 5 inches of snow (the high end of the forecast). Both of our cars are "all wheel drive" but that isn't as rugged as 4-wheel drive and driving on freezing rain isn't good for anything.
I'll run around today doing errands and then plan to stay home tomorrow if need be.
Do keep your decorations up for book club…they are so cheerful.
I have bought a package of assorted heart shaped tree ornaments and plan to re-purpose the tree I got for my mother's appt from Christmas to a Valentine's tree. Will post pictures if I can once again get my iPhone and Macbook to believe they are cousins and share data again…so frustrating.
Take care everyone, TT
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Good luck to all in the path of the snow. It is literally too cold to snow here; so that it the silver lining!! I did an indoor walking DVD today.
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