Another Year!

This time of the year the conversation seems to drift towards the comment, “Wow where did this year go?It was June the last time I looked.”  Unless you kept notes or a running diary, unfortunately you cannot even remember a good portion of anything you did.  I know I took part in the years activities but drat I am just not sure what those activities were.  Did I travel somewhere? Hummmm, was that  last year or was that 2003.  I remember buying a new outfit but cannot remember wearing it anywhere.  Let me run to the closet and check to see if the tags are on the outfit.  I do remember a few things, I played Pickleball, Tennis, drove to Arizona to visit my best friend from Kansas City.  We have a 55 year history together.  We relived most our childhood and some of our adulthood.  I moved to LA from Kansas City in 1968, 1979 and 1981.  I kept moving back and forth until I decided winter was just too much for me.  But, I never disconnected from my best friend.  I guess “they” are right when they say your short term memory goes first.  I remember 4th grade better than 2011.  

Boy oh boy did I get hit this year.  I thought I was pretty healthy, eating right not burning the candle at both ends much.  Wrong!  I have been down for 10 days so far and still coughing from my shoe laces.  Even Chicken Soup didn’t work, I drank CS with Kale and rice noodles in it for days, gargled with peroxide, took tons of Vitamin C, slept for days, sweated through most of my PJ’s, took hot showers twice a day and was so pooped after that I had to return to bed.  Finally I called the Doc who prescribed a Z pack and inhaler.

Not sure if the meds or the Vicks Vapo Rub on the bottoms of my feet (and everywhere else on my body) are doing the trick.  But, I am feeling well enough to write this newsletter. Of course, if most of what I write doesn’t make sense, blame the drugs.  I took a flu shot and to be on the safe side took herbal flu stuff also.  Does that mean that there is another flu bug out there different from this one or didn’t the stuff I took work?  Maybe next year I’ll live dangerously without the flu shot, drink a lot of wine, party, run around at night and see what happens.  Be Well.

Mine is to get my oil changed when I am supposed to instead of 2,000 miles late….just kidding.

As a member of the BABY BOOMER GENERATION, Barbara is considered an “Active Aging Expert”. She is nationally ranked in Tennis, Pickleball and Paddle Tennis. Barbara was one of the first 40 women to successfully complete a marathon on all seven continents, placing her in the 7 Continents Club. She has finished 60 marathons, two Ironman triathlons, two ultra marathons and hundreds of short course races.  Today her passion is playing and teaching Pickleball and Pilates.

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