Crone Cronies - I Love Labor Day, A Day When I Celebrate Work Without Doing Any! 9/5
 

The Cronies is a place for women who are mature in age or attitude. The group is highly diverse in that we have ages ranging from 30s to 60s, some are moms, some are single, some are teachers/professors, and some have jobs and work outside the home and some don’t. We do our own thing and are happy when life doesn’t get in the way too often. Some are training for a marathon, some don’t even do vids, you get the picture.

Life and exercise are what we report. A thread is started every Sunday. Some report every day, others whenever they can.

Bottom line: we are a diverse group and very supportive of each other’s goals. Oh, and we’re funny as heck. If you’d like to join us, just come on down.

Thanks for getting us started, Laura! I’m having computer problems at home - using my iPod to type this. No idea if fixable or not :(.

Anita

The theme is a modified Maxine quote. It made me laugh.

So far, I've given Polly, the neighborhood, a good brushing, and I put on a load of quilts and towels. Polly had so much hair coming off her that impacted DH's allergies, so we got a cat brush and I've been brushing her to rid her of so much hair. Once she understood what I was doing, she has cooperated by sitting still.

Later, I'll pick up an order at Publix. I'll see what I get into this afternoon.

Yesterday, we went over to Mom and Dad's and hung out for a while. We kept our masks on per the instructions given us. After this Wednesday,we can stop wearing our masks indoors with everyone.

Good morning!

Planning on walking Gus, then preparing for my birthday party at the flying trapeze place (pick up cupcakes, water and ice) and then going this afternoon! Hope it all works well! Today is the last day of the State Fair also, so hopefully all will be done there and life will go back to quieter. Yay! I did get my internet to work again after restarting my computer.

Laura, nice that you're able to brush Polly - is that your name for her or the real name? Nice to get a good brushing that she likes :heart:. It's nice to have a visiting cat instead of one in my house!

Hope Paula is having a good time in NC!

Waves to all!

Anita

It was a nice and relaxed day. We haven't done much. I pet Polly this morning and chatted with my across-the-street neighbor. This afternoon, I made a bunch of cards using my gel plate. That was fun.

Anita - It's good that your Internet is okay. I hope that you have a great birthday party!

Good morning!

Happy birthday to me! :music: I had a wonderful time seeing friends yesterday at my party - all went well there! Adelija flew well and got caught for the first time! It was wonderful to catch up with friends :heart:. The TC2 boss also charged lots less for me, which was wonderful also!

Today, I'll walk Gus with Adelija and may hit some stores for groceries and assorted stuff.

Laura, enjoy your pet from afar! Polly is having a good time with you!

Waves to all!

Anita

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Annnnniiiiiiiitttttttaaaa!
Happy birthday to you!

(At least you can't hear how out of tune I am this way! :D)

I hope you have a great day. It's good that you had such a good party yesterday. It sounds like the ideal for you.

We're shopping for an upright freezer, so I'm doing research on the Internet today. Once I get that ordered, I'll move to on to a DVD player. Last evening, we found that ours had died - the downstairs one.

I continue finishing the cards I created yesterday. And I have some things to do around the house.

Good morning!

Planning on going for a walk with Gus and going to my doctor for a yearly checkup. Adelija is doing homework for a Latvian high school and won't be joining me. I don't know how she'll be doing both schools at the same time! Gus got a nail trim yesterday, but stressed out and only had part of one foot trimmed - argh. The rest got trimmed.

Laura, thanks for the birthday wishes - I'm sure your tuning is better than mine! ;) Sorry no upright freezer here - I did use the fridge downstairs for the party supplies and was happy it still worked! I do have two DVD players though - one standard one with an old VHS player, and one with the special blue-ray DVD features. I got rid of the rest. I've learned not to need to look for lots of features in the player.

Waves to all!

Anita

Well, I ordered a freezer last night. It's back ordered until the end of October, but that's fine. Our old one still works. I felt like I got a pretty good price for it at Home Depot.

Today, I need to run a couple of errands. I want to mail the wedding album journal thing I did for my niece and we need to pick up prescriptions. The day seems to be just melting away. If I have time, I may try to get over to Mom and Dad's, but the day if flying by. We'll see.


Anita - She's doing both schools? Yikes! Maybe that's why she didn't mind being a junior again because she's doing her senior year at home? Could she just want the international experience and not sorry too much about how she does here? Anyway, I hope she has a good year with all that work.

Good morning!

Today is Adelija's first day at school - I'll give her a ride, but she'll try the city bus back. Hope all works well - luckily she is a city girl used to bus traffic and figuring out where to go. We did figure out what her school schedule is and where her classes are. I'll be playing Carcassonne and taking Gus for a walk. Maybe a grocery stop also, then waiting for her to get home OK.

Laura, sounds like that delay in getting appliances still holds - glad you're able to wait! Yeah, Adelija has been in school a week before school starts here - I've helped with some of her English homework from Latvija and didn't do well :(. That girl will be very busy this year! I'm just hoping she has a good time in school and enjoys it!

Waves to all!

Anita

It POURED here this morning. Hurricane Mindy was moving up the east coast, not making landfall, but the outer bands bringing a lot of rain. It was during my training session over at the local lady's house. I was there a couple of hours and then swung by Publix to pick up an order and then came home. This afternoon, I took DH to a medical appointment across town. It was a busy day.

Tomorrow, we get our hair cut. Yay! It was due last Friday. My hair looked surprisingly good until Tuesday, when it spiraled out of control.

Anita - I hope the first day of school went well, and she met some new friends.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, ANITA!!!!!

Good evening. Workout this morning was a Met Con workout with Pahla B - Day 2 in the September series.

I flew home yesterday. The flights were uneventful. I had a very nice visit and got to see Laura and introduce her to my sister. Spent today getting groceries and washing clothes.

Laura, it was so good to see you again!

Good morning!

Thanks for my birthday wishes! Today will be the WRC and I'll take Adelija to her school before that - luckily both are a few blocks apart. Otherwise trying to get used to these dark mornings before the time changes. I'll do some yard work before Adelija gets home - she did OK with the bus yesterday.

Laura, good luck with your hair cut today! I didn't realize there was another hurricane coming in - hope all goes well in your area! Adelija met someone that's in several of her classes that she's making friends with - good!

Paula, thanks for the birthday wishes! Nice to be home again!

Waves to all!

Anita

The haircut was great. I feel light-headed in a good way. :p We picked up dinner on the way home. It was a beautiful day today, nice to get out into.

Anita - The hurricane isn't coming in. Yesterday, it moved from south to north parallel to the coast over the ocean. The outer bands were all that came on shore and that's what gave us all the rain. Yay! It sounds like you are figuring out your routines. It's good to get them established before the dark and cold hit.

Paula - I'm glad the trip home was uneventful - the best kind, especially these days. Hopefully, the rest of the visit was good and you had a good time with your family. Good luck getting caught up with life. It was good to see you, too.

Good evening. Workout this morning was Pahla B Fitness September Day 3 Standing Abs, a 10 minute yoga cool down. We went to Dana Point today and had a nice walk around the marina.

Anita, I'm glad Adelija is learning to get around town on her own. Is Fall in the air there? When I was in NC it sure still felt like summer. Back home in California it isn't feeling like Fall yet here either. I will be a bit grateful when it does.

Laura, yeah, getting a haircut can feel liberating. I had a wonderful time with my family. My annual visit is something I look forward to and missed when I could not visit last year. I am feeling caught up today.

Good morning!

Planning on walking Gus with Adelija this morning. Then planning on putzing around the house and garden. Adelija wants to go to a friend's house from school tonight - should be good for her, but it's a ways away and unsure about how often buses come around on a Saturday night. It is a bit weird for me that Adelija is three years younger than the 9/11 remembrance - so young!

Laura, nice to get a good haircut! Glad the hurricane missed you!

Paula, I'm sure feeling fall coming, although the temps are still on the warm side - the light is almost down to the 12 hours on/12 out outside - I never get used to the short days in winter. Can't believe it takes till November to change hours.

Waves to all!

Anita

It's another beautiful day here with sunshine and highs in the 80s. Paula, after you left, we had a break in the heat and it has been great. Of course, we'll go back to 90+ on Monday.

We're having a lazy Saturday. We've watched some of the 9/11 coverage. It seems incredible that day was 20 years ago. Living in the DC area, it was a wild day. DH worked downtown, but was on a business trip to Kansas that week, so he wasn't in town. That was handy when all of DH's family called me to see if he was okay, because I could absolutely say he was not in harm's way out in Kansas.

Anita - It's hard to understand that there are people in the world who don't remember that day.

Paula - I'm really glad you got to see and catch up with your family. It feels good, doesn't it?

Good evening. Workout this morning was Pahla B September day 4 - Cardio Tone followed by a 10 yoga stretch.

My own recollection of 9/11/2001 is still fresh. DH left for work an hour or more before me. He had left and I was getting ready for work when I got a call - it was DH calling to tell to turn on the TV, the first plane had just hit the first tower. I had two cousins who normally worked in the Pentagon - it took us several days to hear from them as communication was down. The entire family took a collective sign of relief when both of my cousins were fine. One cousin,her office had just been moved out of the Penatgon building the week before,otherwise she would have been near where the plane went into the Penatgon building.

Anita, yes, it's funny thinking that Adelija wasn't born yet on 9/11. It's still too hot and sunny here to think of Fall.

Laura, I did enjoy spending time with family and I'm so glad we got the chance to catch up while I was there.