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Post by cherryt38 on May 15, 2021 1:31:46 GMT
This round runs from May 10 through June 20. Itβs not too late to join us. Just add your board name, first name and your goal for this round to this thread. All are welcome!
Challengers: Bmazzo / Beverly β Weigh regularly and try to move more Cathygeha / Cathy β Stay positive/track/move cherryt38 / Cherry β Continue exercising and eat mindfully hollygail / Holly β Maintain lifetime at goal status jalibmu / Jan β adding more fruits and veggies into my meals jasimons / Judy β Stretching, at least 10 min. per day
Hosts: May 10 β May 16 Cherry May 17 β May 23 Cathy May 24 β June 30 Judy May 31 β June 6 Jan June 7 β June 13 Holly Gail June 14 β June 20 Beverly
Any plans for the weekend? Now that the CDC advises that vaccinated people don't have to wear masks in most cases, are you ready to give it up?
FUN: Tell us how you met your husband, if you feel comfortable doing so.
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Post by cherryt38 on May 15, 2021 13:36:07 GMT
The only plans I have for the weekend is garden things, getting it ready for planting. Will also be going to Mass this late afternoon.
So far some of the stores ask customers to wear masks, so I will too. I probably still won't be going many places so I'll determine at the time whether I wear a mask or not as to how crowded places are.
I met my first husband when I started working just out of high school. I had an apartment, and his brother and wife lived in the apartment on the ground floor. They had seen me walk by on my way to work and one day my future husband drove up the street when I was walking to work and stopped and talked to me. He told me who he was and that he had seen me when he was at his brother's place. I don't remember if he asked me out right then, but eventually he did. My four kids were with this husband.
My second husband I met at the police station. I was a dispatcher and he and his business partner worked on the police radios when they needed repairs or other work. We were both just recently divorced and we visited while he worked on the radios in the dispatch center. We finally decided to go out dancing at a night club/restaurant and that started our relationship. We were married about a year and a half later. We were together 32 great years before he passed. Edited to add that some of our "dates" were doing laundry together at the laundromat and then going across the street for a beer while our clothes were washing and drying.
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Post by bmazzo on May 15, 2021 14:03:54 GMT
I'm not ready to give up my mask just yet. I went to the grocery store yesterday & I still wore mine. We will go to church this evening & we will wear them. The people here are so goofy, that most of them haven't been vaccinated & have no plans to get vaccinated. Our state is near the bottom of the list of people vaxed. They are nuts!
Odd, that I was just talking about DH & my life as a newly married couple on another page. We met in a dance hall. He was a paratrooper from a near by army post. He was on the sick list because he had been in an accident a few months before I met him. Actually, I had casually met him once before (at the same dance hall) & I didn't care for him at all. (he had made some snide remark about my weight). After that encounter, he had gone home to NY to recuperate for a month. I must have made some impression on him from that first ill received meeting, but he didn't remember my name. He told me later that he had thought about me the whole time that he was away & when he came back to the post, he couldn't wait to get back to the dance hall, in hopes that I would be there again. Sure enough, he got a friend to drive him there. (He still couldn't drive because of the accident). When he walked in to the hall & he saw me there, across the room, he asked his friend if he knew my name, the friend casually knew me & told him my name. DH said "I really like the looks of that girl, I think I will marry her." The friend said "You're crazy!, DH came straight over to me & asked me to dance. 3 weeks to the day later, we were married. He said he didn't want to wait any longer,because he was afraid that I would marry one of my other suitors LOL. We were young & I was very, very stupid. Somehow, it has lasted a lifetime. Some good years, some bad years, some happy times, some very very sad times. Many is the time that I have wanted to strangle him, but I haven't & we were married 57 years last Feb.
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Post by jasimons on May 15, 2021 17:12:53 GMT
No specific plans for the weekend. That said, the weather is looking great, so will likely be doing some yard/garden work outside. Last summer I worked to get rid of a patch of perennials that had become too invasive - spreading beyond a reasonable area. (still have not figured out why they spread so much in one year - they'd been there for over 20 years before that!). There are a few coming up this year, so I'll want to dig or pull those out. And any other random tasks that I notice.
My husband and I met when we had both recently moved to a new town and the Welcome Wagon lady arranged an event for single, young people who had moved to the area recently. I'd moved there to be an assistant manager at a restaurant. I didn't really want to go to the event (always an introvert), but knew I should go because of maybe meeting business contacts. I didn't meet any business contacts, but I did meet my future husband.
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Post by Holly Gail on May 16, 2021 4:38:10 GMT
Saturday morning I went to a two-hour what some people call a Bible study session (I found out yesterday that I'm going to be leading it on the first Saturday of the month most months beginning June 5). It was wonderful. The people ranged in level of knowledge, but all were interested and motivated. I'm going to be very happy with this group. (I also go to a similar one-hour group on Thursdays at noon which I lead only when the leader can't, like if he's going to be officiating at a funeral, for instance). At that one, there are three of us (plus the leader) whose knowledge level is higher than most of the other attendees, so it has rather a different feeling.
Sunday morning I'm teaching Sunday School, then tutoring two boys (one after the other). In the afternoon, I have a video chat set up with DS. He hasn't been talking about work; I think he's been laid off, since he has told me about work he's been doing around the house and on the property... I'm not asking questions...
I'm so ready for Covid to end. I hate being cooped up all the time. I have already taken off the mask in specific situations (like morning services; the only people who register and show up in person have had both shots, so it's safe). I carry a mask with me whenever I do go out and will probably keep wearing it except for when I know everyone I'm seeing has had both shots.
A couple who knew DH from their previous congregation in Phoenix and me from their congregation here in San Diego set us up. Neither of us dated anyone else after our first date. We took things slowly (I'm so impressed, bmazzo , Bev, with your story about 3 weeks!!!), both of us having been married before. My DS had been out of the house for several years, and DH's older daughter for less time but also out of the house before we met. His younger son had graduated from high school and was living with his dad during his first year at Community College. After that first year, he moved back to Phoenix where he had been born and raised until his parents divorced (both DH and his X-W moved to San Diego at that time while their son remained in Phoenix during his last year or two in high school living at his best friend's house). We were together for six years before the wedding took place. We've been happily married for more than 21 years. When it's not the first marriage, there are things you've learned to overlook in a relationship...
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Post by cathygeha on May 16, 2021 11:43:35 GMT
Plans for the weekend: talk to children and grandchildren online
MASKS: I don't think we will give them up 100% since I still need my second shot and two weeks to percolate after that...the shot is June1. After that I'm not sure. Since so few in Lebanon have been vaccinated will probably continue to wear a mask...I think it is also still law to do so here.
Met my husband on a blind date at the beginning of the school year - I was teaching nursing. He was in the USA to "find a wife" and stopped in a few places from east to west coast meeting women. His cousin set us up...thought it would be dinner with her family but it was dinner for two outside. Saw each other five times, wrote to one another, talked on the phone, meet in England in the spring, visited Lebanon, became engaged and married in June. We had seen one another less than a month by the time the wedding took place. Moved to Lebanon and...talk about culture shock! That was in 1978 and we have been together ever since. There is more to the story but...that is it in a nutshell
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Post by cherryt38 on May 17, 2021 1:08:18 GMT
I enjoyed reading about how you all met your husband. I'll try to find something interesting for the weekend in the next round.
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