What are you doing for fun??

GatorGal

Chele, you are going to have an awesome garden!  Very cool!

chele

Thanks you all!  I'm soooooo ready to plant.  Now if the danged weather would just cooperate!  I've been experimenting with all kinds of container planting.  I think I'm going to try vertical potatoes too if I can find some seed potatoes.

I can't imagine doing a 5k walk exb!  You go girl!

sandilee

Wow, Chele, you are really amazing.  I sometimes worry about messing up my back while I'm slugging pots and hoses around in my garden, and it's not nearly as impressive as the project you have going!  I hope it warms up soon, for you and your veggies!

Tina2

One of my best friends is an illustrator. She comes up with sketched ideas for greeting cards and I come up with accompanying captions, then she finishes the cards. Believe it or not, this process works very well for us. 

I spent the day writing what I hope is funny copy for a slew of wacky Happy Spring and Easter cards. 

Had a ball! (Hope I didn't lay an egg.)

Tina

chele

Thanks sandilee!   I worry about my back too, so I'm cautious.  But, I've been doing all this stuff all along, so I guess I'm OK.  Still lugging 50# sacks of feed for my horse!  Although I have mets in all my vertebra and all over the place the lesions are not big enough to be a threat.  If they were I might not do so much anymore.

GatorGal

Tina, sounds cool!  I love to stand in the card aisles reading wacky, funny stuff.  Just love the laughing out loud kind!  

Jill49

Chele - I'm so impressed with your gardening plans. Having also grown up in NYC, I know little about gardening.  All I can manage is spring clean-up (a job I don''t look forward to) and planting a few flowers around my house.  Growing up, a couple of indestructible philodendrons were all I had to help take care of.

Tina - Love your card project.  I love to take photos and have a collection I use for making cards.  For funny, I have a collection I've gathered from ones in the store that makes me laugh. Then I always have something to choose from at home when needed.

Fun these days is playing with my granddaughter who will turn 2 in May.  What a joy!

And, in spite of felling crappy this week - sore throat, newly recurring weird and painful neuropathy on the lower right side of my face that CT scans couldn't find the cause of (no mets, no ONJ) - my DH and I are going to Havana, Cuba in April to celebrate my 65th birthday!   Mojitos, music, dancing and who knows what else. 

chele

Have fun in Cuba Jill!  Sounds like a great vacation.

exbrnxgrl

Wow, Cuba! For those of us in the US, that's still like exotic yet forbidden fruit. Have a great time!

Caryn

Trish03

Last night for the first time since my dx in June, I attended my chorus rehearsal and stood up and sang for the entire rehearsal. It felt so good to sing again! Right now the chorus is getting ready to attend competition in about a month, and if I continue to feel as well as I do now, I'm thinking about competing with them. It will feel awesome to get dressed up in my sequin costume, stage makeup, false eyelashes, the whole works for contest! The chorus is in Knoxville, and the contest is in Cincinnati, so it's a pretty good little trip. This has been my hobby for over 30 years, and I've really missed being active in the group. I actually felt normal last night and was able to forget about the cx most of the time.

I feel so much better on Kadcyla than I did on PHT; it's the first time I've really felt like even considering participating with my chorus. I've had 2 cycles of Kadcyla. After the next one, I'll have scans. I pray that the drug is working. I'd like to stay on this one forever.

Hugs, Trish

Jill49

Wow, Trish.  I'd love to see a photo of you in your stage outfit!  Glad you feeling well enough to sing with your chorus.  Although I have no ability to carry a tune, I always thought that if I could be really great at a particular art form, it would be singing.

I hope your new treatment works for you for a long time and that you continue to feel good.

exbrnxgrl

Trish,

Good for you! Go on that trip if you possibly can. I think the benefits of doing things we love and that were normal parts of our pre-bc are excellent medicine,

Caryn

GatorGal

sounds wonderful, Trish!  Go for it!!

teacher911

Trish, would love to see you in your costume!  A friend of mine has been involved in the Royal River Chorus, from Portland, Maine for many years.  I know the joy it has brought to her.  I'll keep my fingers crossed that you are able to do it.

Jill, I hope you will post pics from your trip to Cuba, it sounds so exciting.

Anonymous

Trish - I hope you are able to perform with your chorus; that type of trip & performance is always so much fun!

susan_02143

Great excitement here today. First thing this morning was seeing my MOTHER and an article she wrote quoted at great length in Huffington Post. Now it has been picked up by Rachel Maddow, Talking Points, and dailyKos. Spend a day covering Scott Brown's toe-dipping in New Hampshire, and you can be national news it seems.

She is such a political junkie, this early election season is like honey is to ants.

*susan*

Trish03

This is a photo of my chorus, K-Town Sound Show Chorus, in Regional competition last spring. The contest was held in Chattanooga, but this year it will be in Covington, KY, which is right across the river from Cincinnati. The winners of all of the Regional competitions will compete in International Competition next year in Las Vegas. I'm the 2nd person from the left on the front row, the one with red hair.

Teacher911, your friend's chorus, Royal River Chorus, is in the same organization as mine, Sweet Adelines International. We have chapters in 11 different countries, all singing 4-part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style. It's a really fun hobby! 

MusicLover

Trish, That's really cool.  I hope you can get there this year too.

Wilsie2

sorry to be so "shallow", but just got home from an overnight trip to nearby casino with my best friend of 50 years and my daughter!  We had such fun, leaving the crazy world behind, and playing mindless slot machines! We had good food, stayed up half the night talking and laughing. My daughter and I have become so close, she is my rock. My best friend lived 6 hours away, and we don't get together that much, the long drive is hard for either of us. We made some sweet memories. It's amazing how much we have in common, even with the age difference.

Wilsie

KiwiCatMom

Too funny, Tina!  And Chele - love the vertical beds!

chele

Thanks KiwiCatsMom!

Heidihill

LOL, Tina and Chele. Very cool project, indeed, Chele.

I've got to start planning for spring break which is only a month away.

GatorGal

Wilsie, leaving reality behind is something we all need to do once in a while.  Soundsnlike you had a great time with your BFF and your daughter.  How fun!!

KiwiCatMom

Wilsie - sounds like a blast!  Nothing wrong with mindless shallow fun and yours sounds fantastic.  As they used to say...reality is for people who can't afford good drugs.  

Trish - How fantastic @ chorus.  Can't wait to see your photo from the upcoming competition!

Week before last, I had a business trip to Auckland and usually end up doing client dinners, etc. However, the client cancelled at the last minute, so I called my friend Marie and we went to Drake Street, where all these cool historic buildings have been turned into restaurants.  We had appetizers at one place, main course at another, and then went in search of dessert.  However, on the way, we saw a sign for fresh Bluff oysters (they are amazing), so we stopped and had oysters.  Then had dessert.  It was a 4.5 hour food, wine, and fun extravaganza.  And all the restaurants had cute young guy waiters. It was mid-week, so we got lots of attention, which was quite fun. Marie said she was feeling like a borderline cougar, which gave us a good laugh!  

Leah_S

We just had a "Golden Agers Sabbath" here on our moshav - Friday night dinner, Saturday lunch then light supper for the  over-50 group. It was lovely! Just a chance to hang our and relax with friends PLUS didn't have to shop, cook, set the table, serve the food, clear up or do the dishes. It was wonderful.

Sometimes low-key fun is what's needed.

Leah

nkuehl

I have been finishing up my second book and will be sending it to my publisher this coming week. After my initial diagnosis and a couple of months depression and the realization that death can come at any time for anybody I began to get back into the swing of my normal life. I am very optimistic, especially since my treatment is going well and I am feeling pretty good. For me, fun is research and writing and living one day at a time. I have wonderful friends and a supportive positive family that keep me going.

susan_02143

Leah,

Another moment of nourishing your soul. Shocking that over 50 is the "Golden Years" though!

*susan*

exbrnxgrl

Leah,

Sounds like a lovely Shabbos. I never considered myself to be in the "golden years" but I don't care what they're called, at least we're here to live them.

I managed to drag myself out of bed to watch my granddaughter attend her second water babies class. The best part was that as I watched her in the water with her mom, my older dd, I beamed at the instructor, my younger dd. There were several grandparents watching the class, but I felt like the proudest of them all. I had never seen younger dd teach an aquatics class and I was amazed at how much like a great teacher she acted and sounded. She was wonderful!

GatorGal

*susan*, any links to your mom's article.  Would love to read it!  

Had a great weekend with my 9 yo grandson.  I've been teaching him to bowl for the last couple of years and this weekend he bowled a 143 ... His best ever.  Watching him beam with joy was my fun for the week. 

DivineMrsM

This past weekend I went shopping with two of my sisters to help one of them select a mother-of-the-bride dress.  Her daughter is getting married in a couple of months.  We had the best time, took us really no time to find her the perfect, fabulous dress at David's Bridal. I'd never been in that store and absolutely loved all the gowns and their finery.  Since that went so well, we went to Macy's to find my other sister a dress to wear to the wedding (I already have mine).  This sister found so many dresses that looked good on her she had a hard time choosing which one she liked best.  We are in our mid 50s and early 60s, so it's nice to still find stuff that we think doesn't age us but is age appropriate, if that makes sense, and that looks good on us.  Afterwards we went for lunch.  It was really a fun day.