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MandyL1953

Joined: 02/27/2010

My Story:

Hi - I just wanted to get this exchange opened so that everyone that contributed to the previous active aging board would have a place to come.

I am a 57 year old married mother of two children a boy and a girl, and grandmother of two wonderful grandsons. I live outside of Washington DC. I work full time for a government contractor and my husband is retired from a grocery store and drives school bus for our county public school system.

We also have 5 cats and a dog and try to maintain two bird feeders out front in our yard. So needless to say we are busy with the animals.

I have type 2 diabetes which is controlled by Metformin. I am a stage IV colon cancer survivor - now going on 4 1/2 years. I am trying to loose some weight through diet and exercise.

I look forward to carrying on the friendships we created on the previous board and also to making lots of new friends.

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Hi Phyllis and Lois, We had an absolutely gorgeous day today. Finally a day in the 70;s...

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Hi Phillis, Glad you have your new computer. I hope the rain doesn't do too much damage....

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We had a great time. I thought at first we would be able to eat outside, but it got...

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Good Day All Active Agers

Hello all active agers. We would love to have you come and join with us. You can...

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Hello all active agers. We would love to have you come and join with us.

You can tell us as liitle or as much about yourslf,
What things to do you like to do?
Do you have a family, do you have grand or even great grand children?
What part of the country to do you like in
What do you like to cook or eat
Have you found out that getting older doesn't mean what you though it would?

These are just some interesting topics that we could explor together.

For example I live in the Eastern part of US about 30 miles west of Washington, DC.

I have a son and a daughter. My daughter is married and has two grandsons. 3 and 6.

Her husband is the youth pastor at the church we attend.

I still work full time in the field of fianance/accounting at Computer Sciences Corp. My Son, Fred, also works there with me. He is into computers.

I was abot 40 pounds overweight in the winter. I have been going to weight watchers. Right now I have alsot abot 15 ponds. I need to start doing more exercise. I need to get motivated. I know that I will feel so much better and the weight will come off faster.

I like to cook, however I am usually so tired when I come home from workf that I resort to left oversrs r eating ot.

I love to look at beatiful yars full of flowers and shrubry and dream....But here I sit doing notthing. One very good think is that we live some new neighbors just moved in. Mind You I'm not jealous, just admire how they took a year that I though look oky and torie out bushes and trees.

Once they were done, they had a beaufiflly manicurred laown. With a beatifl flower garden ot front with all kinds of flowers and greenert.

So this girl needs encoragement. 1. I eant to keep the wekght coming off, I want to exercise more. I wnat to cook helathy and not be eating ot all the time. I want to get a cople of projects done in the yard that will "beatify: it.

Thanks for all your good adivce. ps.s forgive the many many spelling errors that must be in this posting. I have not seeing too goo tonight.

Lookin forward to meeting lots of new friends - women and men.

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It's hard to believe how fast the sring is going. Af first it was very hot, but now it's...

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Hi Lois, I'm here! LOL. It was in the 80's here today and is supposed to be hotter...

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Hi All, It is back to normal temps just about for the Mid Atlantic. It was in the high...

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