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Post by cathygeha on Mar 23, 2024 10:09:17 GMT
This round runs from Feb. 12 through March 24
Challengers:
Cherry — Do some form of exercise most days
Cathy — Honestly track everything
Judy — Move more
Holly — Maintain Lifetime at Goal Status
Bev — More cautious of what I'm eating
Jan — Adding more fruits and veggies into my meals, no after-work snacking
Hosts:
Feb. 12 through Feb. 18 — Cherry
Feb. 19 through Feb. 25 — Cathy
Feb. 26 through March 3 — Judy
March 4 through March 10 — Holly
March 11 through March 17 — Jan
March 18 through March 24 — Bev
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Post by cathygeha on Mar 23, 2024 10:19:05 GMT
I'll post for Beverly - sending prayers to her husband, her and their family.
It is the weekend and though most of my days are alike I do remember weekends were once upon a time a lot more active and interesting.
Anyway...
QUESTIONS:
1. Do you have any plans for the weekend?
2. Do you cook more or less on the weekends and what is on your menu for this weekend? Will you eat at home or go out?
3. Talk about anything
4. FUN: In what way has communication with family changed since you were a child? Do you think things are better/easier now than they were before?
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Post by cathygeha on Mar 23, 2024 10:30:01 GMT
1. Do you have any plans for the weekend? * Nothing except perhaps talking to our children though both are traveling so it is unlikely. Also finding a yeast bread or cake recipe to make to take to an event on Wednesday
2. Do you cook more or less on the weekends and what is on your menu for this weekend? Will you eat at home or go out? * I cook the same amount on any given day of the week. This weekend will be leftovers of either the fennel frond-black eyed pea, onion dish with bulgur OR the leftover rice-zucchini-eggplant-onion-garlic- dish.
3. Talk about anything * I am trying to figure out whether to attempt some new recipe never made before for the yeast bread or to make one that used to be a go-to recipe that I used in the past. Perhaps I should revisit one in the "family cookbook" and see if it still works 
4. FUN: In what way has communication with family changed since you were a child? Do you think things are better/easier now than they were before?
* I remember sending notes and letters using stamps, being a "pen pal" with friends and people that I had never met. Telephones were rotary dial and one per home. I would walk from our home about a mile to receive a call from my parents the first year I was married because we did not have an international line in our home and even later when we returned in 1994 we had to go to a nearby call office to make and receive phone calls. The first cell phone my husband had was huge and didn't fit into a pocket and I didn't get one for years after he did. Computers arrived a bit before we left Lebanon in 1984 but I think our first one in the home was while we were in Saudi Arabia after 1986. I don't know if life was simpler without all the electronic devices but it took more time to write a letter, send it, and receive a reply and if I were to write one now there is no guarantee it would even arrive as the post office is so bad here in Lebanon.
I do like my fountain pens and use them from time to time and miss that aspect of life in the past
I hope you all have a fun relaxing weekend and that we hear from Beverly soon.
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Post by jasimons on Mar 23, 2024 21:50:15 GMT
Nothing in particular going on for the weekend. I got groceries this morning as usual and also as usual, plan to cook a couple of things for the freezer tomorrow. Might make some cold/overnight oatmeal too, I haven't had that for awhile.
Weekends are not much different than weekdays. I had a fruit/nut bar for breakfast because I was in a hurry, A turkey burger for lunch and I'm having a salad (broccoli slaw, some dried cranberries and pumpkin seeds and poppy seed dressing.
Communication - overall, much easier now (no surprise there). Even at high school age, phone calls were expected to be short (we still had a party line - and some classmates/friends didn't even have phones). After college graduation, a good friend moved to Norway to teach for a few years, we kept in touch with letters. My closest family are cousins, there are a couple I keep in touch with via e-mail, some mainly via social media. occasional in-person. I appreciate the convenience of cell phones and e-mail. And feel safer knowing I can get in touch when out and about with cell phone.
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Post by cherryt38 on Mar 24, 2024 2:06:15 GMT
1. Do you have any plans for the weekend?
Nothing in particular. I went to town for Mass this afternoon. It was supposed to snow pretty heavily this afternoon but it didn't. It may tomorrow so I'll be home and finding things to do inside.
2. Do you cook more or less on the weekends and what is on your menu for this weekend? Will you eat at home or go out?
Sometimes I do, and sometimes not. It seems to be not lately.
3. Talk about anything
Not much to talk about. My priest son is supposed to go to Williston for a penance service (confessions) and stop here on the way back. It may depend on the weather whether he will stop here or not.
4. FUN: In what way has communication with family changed since you were a child? Do you think things are better/easier now than they were before?
Now there is email and texts and telephones which was not around when I was a child. Some of our neighbors had phones, but we knew we would have to move to a house we built up on higher ground as there was a dam going in that would cover our old place.
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Post by Holly Gail on Mar 24, 2024 13:26:29 GMT
I just finished posting on Friday's thread. We left yesterday at 9am to go visit my cousin who's two (plus) hours away. We arrived before lunch and stayed to have lunch with him. Then we went to his room to look at some of his art collection (some of which he's planning to sell; he gave me a few things and he's figuring out to which relatives and friends to give which items. He's making out his will...). He's had Parkinson's for more than a decade (it's probably closer to 20 years, I just don't remember when he was first diagnosed) and it's taking over more and more of his life. We saw him a little more than 6 months ago (perhaps 8?) and the decline between then and now is incredible. His speech is completely slurred. I can't understand him on the phone, although sitting next to him makes it much easier. His family and mine lived less than a mile apart when we were young children, and I used to ride my bike after school to his house a lot. We were very close growing up, and then when we were teens, we'd get each other dates and sometimes be each other's date if one of us needed one for something (on those occasions, we didn't mention we were cousins; he's two years older than I am). In more recent decades, he and his late wife and DH and I would spend weekends together, often at a location other than our homes (like in Palm Springs, for example) and the four of us have gone on cruises together; more often, we'd meet for lunch about halfway between where they and we lived. They were totally devoted to each other. She died more than a year ago (and had been in the hospital for many months before her death) and he was mentally a wreck during her confinement and worse after she died. And now he's accepting that he's facing death and is doing what he can to prepare for it. His step-children (she'd been married before) and grown grandchildren (who live in the same county he does) have been taking care of him since his late wife was in the hospital (one of them visited him every weekend and took him shopping before he sold the house to move into the care facility where he now lives; she still visits him every weekend). It's difficult to see him this debilitated. We stopped at our congregation on the way home last evening (the holiday celebrating Queen Esther's bravery told in the Book of Esther began at sundown yesterday and ends this evening at sundown); we got home around 9 last night, thoroughly tired from all the day's activity (was went to bed within minutes of arriving home. This morning I'll go hear the Book of Esther being read and maybe take a nap later...
I seem to have answered some of the "weekend plans" question...
Some weekends I cook more than during the week and some are no different from the rest of the week. I hadn't planned to tutor anyone this afternoon, although I may Zoom with two adults who are learning something I teach, so I'm likely to help each of them (on Zoom). DH and I want to watch another movie we've recorded, plus one of the mystery TV shows we follow was on either Friday night or last night got automatically recorded so we both want to watch that one. Nothing special planned for eating.
As for family communication: My DS is more than 6 1/2 years old than I am. We weren't "friends" growing up, but became friends in our 20s. We're much closer now than ever before, and our relationship has steadily grown since I was in my early 20s. She met her DH when I was 9, so I've known him almost my whole life; he's much more like a brother to me than a DBIL. They live in the Los Angeles area (more than 100 miles away from where we are in San Diego) and because of traffic, it sometimes takes 3 hours to drive there, so we don't see each other frequently, but we text and email and talk on the phone frequently. I have a great relationship with their kids (I'm their only aunt to speak of; their DF's brother and he stopped talking years ago and the east coast brother's kids were never close with their west coast cousins). My son and my sister's kids are close. DS met his paternal cousins only as adults (they too all live on the east coast) so they were never close. I don't think they keep up communication either. As for DH's kids: DH's DS and he are in frequent contact and we Zoom with his kids (aged 5 and 6) almost every week, so at least they know both sets of grandparents; they live in Phoenix and DH's XW and her DH live elsewhere in Phoenix; their DM's family members aren't in the picture). As for my step-daughter and her family (who live in the Los Angeles area too): we speak with the kids infrequently, and she and her DF aren't in contact often (her choice, not my DH's and he's in pain about it). Family dynamics are so far-ranging...
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