It is possible you know, but you have to be very determined and change some things in your life style.
I believe age is just a number, also the two words I CAN`T has to be eliminated from your vocabulary and be replaced with words like I WILL.
I`LL TRY, I DO MY B EST.
10 years ago a very well equipped gym opened in my neighborhood.
I joined and eversince I go reularly 5 days a week. I swim one mile every day, and work out 45min 2-3 times a week in the gym. On those days I only swim 1 km.
I keep very busy attending my balcony garden, selling jewelry on ebay
being an affiliate asociate with Amazon.com.
I chat with my garndchildrens all grown up and my 18mo old great granddauhter often on Skype
As you can see there is no room for boredom or feeling sorry for myself;
I live alone and I am fiercly independent.
It is not easy to fight age BUT SURE IT IS DOABLE
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
My Balcony Garden
I started this blog with my balcony garden, but I had no comments so I gave it up. Giving up is not my nature, so I am back again.
I always loved to garden and when I was working I lived with my son and his family in a duplex and under my living room window I had a rock garden.
I am a social worker and worked with single parents family and teen age mothers. It was a stresful job and working in my rock garden after work was very therapeutic.
21 years ago I moved from that duplex into a small condo with a 60 sq. foot balcony. For 21 years every spring I transform that balcony into a very collorful place of refuge and I live there practically all summer.I
read, listen to music, take a nap every afternoon when I come home from
the gym where I swim one mile 5 days a week, or paint when I am in the mood.
In month of May I visit my favorite nursery and pick the dominant color
and work the other colors around that.This year the dominant color is orange and yes the work is still very therapeutic.
It is hard work specially when you are 85 which I keep fergeting. It took me 10 hors to plant and arrange everything and I was fine... but the next morning I could hardly move. My knees and back was kiling me. It took a whole week to get back to normal. Anyway I learned my lesson.
I believe that gardening which is good for the soul and swiming which is good for the body slows down the aging process. Try it sometime and if you do be consistent or it won't work.
I always loved to garden and when I was working I lived with my son and his family in a duplex and under my living room window I had a rock garden.
I am a social worker and worked with single parents family and teen age mothers. It was a stresful job and working in my rock garden after work was very therapeutic.
21 years ago I moved from that duplex into a small condo with a 60 sq. foot balcony. For 21 years every spring I transform that balcony into a very collorful place of refuge and I live there practically all summer.I
read, listen to music, take a nap every afternoon when I come home from
the gym where I swim one mile 5 days a week, or paint when I am in the mood.
In month of May I visit my favorite nursery and pick the dominant color
and work the other colors around that.This year the dominant color is orange and yes the work is still very therapeutic.
It is hard work specially when you are 85 which I keep fergeting. It took me 10 hors to plant and arrange everything and I was fine... but the next morning I could hardly move. My knees and back was kiling me. It took a whole week to get back to normal. Anyway I learned my lesson.
I believe that gardening which is good for the soul and swiming which is good for the body slows down the aging process. Try it sometime and if you do be consistent or it won't work.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite's death ends something larger and more profound then a single life or even a geneartion.
He was a proxy for the nation and stood for a world that no longer
exists.
NY Times
He was a proxy for the nation and stood for a world that no longer
exists.
NY Times
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
In 1952 a ship full of emigrants arrived from Europe to Halifax Harbour My husband myself and our 4 year old son was among them.
We where ushered into the train station and then boarded a train to Montreal.
Neither of us had any family close or distant in Canada. A friend of my husband waited for us at the station in Montreal and took us to a rented room. We had a total of $ 46.00 between us
We both came from Romania and lived through the war there and my husband spent time in a forced labour camp.
We met and married after the war in 1946.
Life in Canada was not easy Lots of ups and downs but being free compensated for many things.
In 1978 I found myself in a situation where I had to choose “sink or swim”
I went back to school. I had no time or money to complete the necessary training for
a university entrance, so I enrolled in a 3 year program at a community college for social counselling
majoring in Geriatrics.
At the end of the 3 years I had a job offer in a hospital looking after seniors to be discharged, to check
their home for safety and connect them with other community services, like home care meals on
wheels, visiting nurse etc. At the same time bill 101 the French language bill came out in Quebec.
Anybody hired for government post or same kind of social work had to pass a french language exam to obtain the job.
I wasn’t to nervous since I speak french. I passed the oral and failed the written test. There where
multiple choice questions and I answered all of them. To this day I don’t know why. They would not tell me or the hospital administrator's
My younger son who was born in Montreal was living and working in Winnipeg. I sold everything .and made the move. I lived in Montreal for 29 years.
I looked for work everywhere,nursing homes hospitals It was no hiring then one day trough a friend I landed a job in a social agency working with single
parent families and teen age mothers. I never worked with Geriatrics . I was 57 years old at that time. I stayed with this job until retirement.
I am 85 years old still very active enjoying my family. I learned all this years and also believe that everything is possible
providing it is realistic and you have the will , perseverance, discipline sense of humor and love for life.
It is not easy and you are not born with it, You have to develop it but it is doable.
.
.
We where ushered into the train station and then boarded a train to Montreal.
Neither of us had any family close or distant in Canada. A friend of my husband waited for us at the station in Montreal and took us to a rented room. We had a total of $ 46.00 between us
We both came from Romania and lived through the war there and my husband spent time in a forced labour camp.
We met and married after the war in 1946.
Life in Canada was not easy Lots of ups and downs but being free compensated for many things.
In 1978 I found myself in a situation where I had to choose “sink or swim”
I went back to school. I had no time or money to complete the necessary training for
a university entrance, so I enrolled in a 3 year program at a community college for social counselling
majoring in Geriatrics.
At the end of the 3 years I had a job offer in a hospital looking after seniors to be discharged, to check
their home for safety and connect them with other community services, like home care meals on
wheels, visiting nurse etc. At the same time bill 101 the French language bill came out in Quebec.
Anybody hired for government post or same kind of social work had to pass a french language exam to obtain the job.
I wasn’t to nervous since I speak french. I passed the oral and failed the written test. There where
multiple choice questions and I answered all of them. To this day I don’t know why. They would not tell me or the hospital administrator's
My younger son who was born in Montreal was living and working in Winnipeg. I sold everything .and made the move. I lived in Montreal for 29 years.
I looked for work everywhere,nursing homes hospitals It was no hiring then one day trough a friend I landed a job in a social agency working with single
parent families and teen age mothers. I never worked with Geriatrics . I was 57 years old at that time. I stayed with this job until retirement.
I am 85 years old still very active enjoying my family. I learned all this years and also believe that everything is possible
providing it is realistic and you have the will , perseverance, discipline sense of humor and love for life.
It is not easy and you are not born with it, You have to develop it but it is doable.
.
.
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