Pentagenariand & beyond: W/B 3/20

Valerie,

They gave us stretchy tubing in various tightness that we put over the foot and leg. She can't put it on herself. I bought a lift chair for dm because she couldn't lift her own legs up on a footstool but it doesn't help. Doctor also gave her "water pills" but they also don't seem to help.

I think I'll give up for tonight and go to bed.

Joan
 
Finally Friday!

Good morning!

Today I did the upper & lower body pre-mix from High Step Training Advanced. I always have great hopes when I put in a circuit workout, and usually come out disappointed, today was no different. :rolleyes:.

I did not get a chance to post yesterday, work has been kind of busy, we had 2 days of meetings, and on Wednesday we went out to dinner afterwards, making it a 13 hour day...whew...very tired so I did not work out yesterday.

Garance, those studies come and go and always tell a different story. If you are healthy, feel good, and are doing Something, it's a good thing. I don't quite make an hour a day, but I think the workouts we do would be considered way more than "moderate".. I wish I was planning for retirement. Is a survey course where the students rate you? We have a survey where the employees rate their manager. Not a favorite time of year for managers, let me tell you...

Cathy, those kids really give you a workout! I wonder if "TPTB" would consider that "moderate" LOL...

Valerie, "post holing" does not sound like fun at all. Not any fun to start where there are beautiful flowers and sun and end up somewhere with snow...

Joan, wow the time clock on my computer shows you posting at 4:21 am today, while I was just getting into my workout...Get Some Sleep!! where did Flower Dog come from? Kids are too funny..:p

Josie, have a great vacation!

What is everyone doing this weekend? They started the bathroom yesterday, just the deconstruction part is going to take a few days. The room is built like a fort, all concrete mesh in the walls, and the ceramic tiles are sunk into 3 inches of concrete...unbelivable. The contractor said you could set a bomb off in the house and you would be protected in this bathroom...hey that's how they built places in 1924.

Take care,
 
Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--

This morning I did Petra Kolber's Bootcamp Boogie (63 min.). I just received her Just Dance DVD, and I hope I like it as much as this one. One more week of SH, then I will move on.

Valerie, when I was in graduate school at the U. of Chicago, the Rolling Stones were on tour and I was such a fan that I first went to their concert in Chicago and then flew to Minneapolis to see them again the following weekend. I like the Scorsese film, but Jagger is getting a bit long in the tooth. I love the old films of them and remember when they did not look so weatherbeaten. You were either a Beatles fan or a Stones fan in those days, and I definitely preferred the Stones, but still liked the Beatles. Also Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, the Doors, James Taylor, Grace Slick, Tina Turner, Santana, the Who and on and on......

Deb, no, a survey course is when you are trying for breadth instead of depth. So, we are looking at British literature from 1660 to about 1840. Start with Milton and end with Keats, hitting a lot of poets, satirists, and one novelist in between. We have a student course survey for every course, required. They are always tinkering with it, though, because there always seems to be something slightly off about it.

Joan, you must really enjoy what you do if you never want to retire. For me, it's mixed. Sometimes I really love it--when I have a great class or a couple of stars. But I have one class right now that is pretty lacking in intellectual curiosity, and another that is terrific, so it's a mixed bag. The real problem is grading papers, which I have come to loathe.

Not sure what I will do this weekend. I may go to a kitchen place where I have a gift certificate to redeem. Exciting, huh?
 
Garance, we have very similar music tastes. I loved the Stones but liked the Beatles and everyone else you mentioned. I never got to a "real" concert, no money, and no one ever came to Milwaukee. Chicago and MSP weren't really that far, but it might as well have been halfway around the globe. some of the concert films I've seen were not very good. What made this enjoyable was it was done in a much smaller venue and the sound and picture quality were excellent. But, yeah, the boys are definitely getting long in the tooth! Very few groups survive this long and can still perform as well as what they used to do. Kind of amazing they're all still alive at all. Anyway, it made a good treadmill workout.
I wish I could comment on english literature but I trudged thru whatever course requirements were and promptly forgot all of it. Guess I would not have been one of those inspiring students! I was heavy into science classes and didn't have much space for anything else.

Deb, it's kind of fun to go to the snow KNOWING that you can come back to warm dirt and flowers. we can balance the snow adventures with the bike activity and get both. especially when you don't need to deal with snow for months of daily aggravation, going to it is fun.

It's funny , I thought I'd be the last person in the world to retire because I liked most of the jobs I've had, but I got fired, along many hundreds of others after 18 years. It was a painful experience. then I couldn't find a decent replacement position although I worked for a couple years on a consulting basis, but was treated badly. then picked up medical transcription so I could work for DH and that worked for quite a few years until someone decided it was some sort of ethics violation, and I got fired again. I really didn't want to start over again in some new area and I sort of slid sideways into retirement. DH's job has been quite demanding so it worked out OK for us, and now he's going to be part time so we can maybe do some fun things before we're nursing home candidates.
 
Saturday

Good morning,

No workout today, it's a rest day for me...Off to get my Saab out of storage, hardly seems like I just put it in...4 months went by quickly when I think of it in those terms, otherwise, not so quick. Then Keegan's agility class, and I think I am meeting my good friend for lunch or 5 hours of coffee drinking which is what our lunches turn into.

Garance, wow you were a groupie for all the same groups I was! You know who else I liked and still listen to their live album is the Allman Bros band....love them! Even went to a 12 hours outside concert in
Toronto with Janis Joplin and about 10 other bands from that era, it was awesome. She was drunk or drugged on stage and could hardly stand. That part was not pretty, We actually got up and left during her singing.

Valerie, I eny you not working, I think retirement should be for young people, then work when you get older...kind of dumb thinking I know..:rolleyes: I guess retirement would not be appreciated as much if you hadn't had 40 years of work behind you, I just wish we could be younge when we did retire. So many people I know wait to retire, then as soon as they do they get sick and cannot enjoy it.

will check in later....
 
WHEW! i think the last 2 weeks have caught up w/me. i'm gonna have to take a nap before i can workout. :). i am just wore out. went to the zoo yesterday for 4 hrs. walking and carrying my youngest g/daughter some of the time. felt like a workout to me.
ttyl
 
Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--

This is my day "off" as well--except for Housemax. It's freezing cold again and they are talking about snow tomorrow night. Typical quixotic spring weather here.

Deb, I went to see the Allman Bros. over at Saratoga Performing Arts Center several years ago now, but we took our sons, then 13 and 11. By the time we left we were all high on second hand marijuana smoke. That's the last live concert I went to--decided I was getting too old to get high, and the stuff never agreed with me anyway. It was a really good concert, though. Both our sons were taking guitar lessons at the time and played in garage bands. The older one still plays his acoustic guitar and is really good on blues, even playing with a slide.

I forgot, Valerie, I also loved Jimmy Hendrix. Sad how so many of them died of drug overdoses--Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Brian from the Stones.

Not sure what I will do this afternoon. Probably read.

Cathy, you sound just plain tuckered out from trying to keep up with your grandchildren.
 
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