***The Senior WW Challenge*** - SUNDAY 7/1

Greetings:  

This group, these groups, are very interesting.  I will say things to this group that I don't say anywhere else.  I am making new friends here but they are no where near the depth of this on-line group.  I have my best friend -- goes back to before Kindergarten and yet we have never had some of the conversations I have here.  I think about it from time to time and I wonder about it.  But it's an outlet that is very important.  

So, Sandy, I hope that for you it's a place you can vent.  We aren't people you see every day, every week or every month.  Sometimes we might see each other once a year or less often.  But this is a safe place.  I used to vent on paper.  Although I still write things out now and then, I find that writing them here takes the place of some of that need.  So, let it out.  Holding in whatever causes pressure is not worth it!  Let it go.

We finally cancelled the paper due to delivery issues.  I may have mentioned that.  But in one of the last ones there was a story about pet pampering and how it's easy to spend $150 on doggie pampering.  that made me sit up and take notice.  That's a whole lot of pampering for a pooch.

So sorry to hear of the floods in Des Moines.  We've missed the late news a few days and now without the paper I feel lost in my own little world.  Prayers for all.

Karen E.  that sounds like the child shopping trip we had here last month.  We'd said we'd do shopping for birthdays while they were here and gave them a dollar amount.  The boys had fun going around adding and deleting things.  What they finally wound up with was not what I would have picked for them, so all the better their parents were there to help shape the choices.

Joanne, it's just begin again.  :}

I finished the second pair of suit pants.  Three to go.  

With his neuropathy DH gets swollen toes and he's also got swellling going on in his right hand, probably from his painting.  Anyway, the internist said he should get some cream/gel to rub on them.  I use Tiger Balm to rub in for muscle aches and pains.  But for inflammation, swelling, one should use cream with ibuprofen in it.  It's got far fewer side effects than ingesting tablets.  so, we began a search, didn't find it at Walgreen and then I looked on Amazon but though I aSked for ibuprofen, nothing that came up actualy had ibuprofen in it  Finally I found it.  In England.  So, coming from England.  I understand from an article that it's also in Canada, but I couldn't find it in Canada and I'd already spent more time than I wanted to on the project. 

I think I need a swimming cap.  I am between two pools and don't use either one!  And swimming is good exercise and I could even buy one of those noodle things.