Interesting to hear what you all are doing. Minnie, I don't think I'm old - just older than I used to be. I completely subscribe to your philosophy of what old is!! I would like to make it a priority to do more in the way of exercise though. I generally do something 4-5 days a week but I'd really like to do more. It would be great if I did two kinds of exercise per day or something every day then I could get back into the ball routine which was really great for the core. I was doing that for a while but it just became too much - basically work, come home, exercise, grab something to eat, go to bed, repeat. I kind of like some down time. Well, we shall see if I become motivated to do something about this....

Yesterday my husband and I drove around a little bit after work and found a street with sidewalks!! it is on the other side of the road, three houses over. I never saw them before because the sidewalks don't start untill a couple houses in (dugh! how stupid is that?) So we all went for a nice walk yesterday on the sidewalks and although it was dark I really enjoyed it! It just so happens that this street is in the next town over that does have sidewalks! Our town doesn't :( I was playing fetch (or trying to show Charley to fetch) and our other dog was on the other side of the yard playing fetch with my husband. When I picked up Charley's ball our other dog came running and Charley started a fight :( I was so upset. We looked our other dog over and he had a little scratch on his paw but seemed fine. I think Charley was afraid that Bud, our other boy, would take the ball when I threw it. We separated them in different portions of the house for the evening, because I was so upset. :( I hope that training helps Charley with this. I don't know his history very well (he is adopted) so I think he is nervous everything will be taken from him or he never got things before. He is dominant, but he listens to me and thinks I am alpha but he still sometimes picks fights with our other boy who is very submissive. So my plan is to sign up for training and then maybe move up to agility, if we can! Also we will be using the newly found sidewalk street as much as we can. We will be walking in the dark, but what can we do? I am going to call the training place today! I am pretty excited!

Fascinating topic :). I have never been interested in make up, and so never got into much of it. Daily routine is, after washing face, to apply an SPF 30 moisturizer, brow pencil since I plucked most of mine as a teenager and they never grew back, and a dot of Dermablend cover on a small but very pale and noticeable circular scar above one eye where I had a skin cancer removed. Quit bothering with eye shadow and blush years ago, ditto with foundation which is also nasty to wear in the Miami subtropical weather; feels to me like wearing a greasy mask, yuck. Actually the climate here strongly mitigates against the multilayer face 'painting' I read about; cannot imagine plastering on primer/foundation/powder and then leaving it to bake all day especially during what I call our double 90 season (heat and humidity). Have never used lipstick, rarely mascara and never tried eye liner. Have never had an interest in Botox or any other type of intervention or surgical options and probably never will. I did Invisalign orthodontia several years ago; had lived with crooked teeth until I was 50+ YO and the feeling about my improved appearance/smile, along with the greater ease in keeping up with dental hygiene due to straight teeth has been immeasurably positive. I have my hair professionally cut and highlighted every 10-12 weeks. Wash and blow dry it every other day, use a straightening iron too often--as I'm aging my hair is developing that brittle overprocessed look that I hate to see. I need to up my use of hair treatments but just haven't bothered. What else--do my own pedicures, no manicures or nail polish on my hands. Did fingernail polish for years on my own but didn't like how it discolored the nails and prefer natural. I am in major stall on exercise; was doing Pilates regularly with a trainer but she closed her studio and I haven't found a group class with a good instructor on a schedule that works for me. At 58, I badly need to get myself into a regular schedule of cardio, stretching and weight training. Have never had to worry about weight but the tone and fitness lack is worrisome. I'd call myself diligent in keeping clean, tidy and looking reasonable but in many ways I like being in the stage of life at which I've become 'invisible'. It's very freeing in a lot of ways not to worry about trying to live up to whatever i social acceptability standard for appearance is out there for women these days :).

I am getting my exercises done daily. I start with 'butt' lifts and side lying leg lifts in bed each morning. Throughout the day I do side steps, back steps, arm pulls, and practice standing in place without slouching for 2 minutes at a time. I go out for therapy on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the UPMC Mario Lemieux Sports Complex and Medical Center to elaborate on these and other exercises. This place is amazing...from the waiting room and therapy area, one can look down on a regulation hockey rink, often with a lot of action on the ice. The Pittsburgh Penguins use this rink for therapy and practice here. The public can use the ice at off times and school groups can come in to watch. These days, my exercises are in effort to preserve/improve my core body strength and hopefully preserve as long as possible my ability to stand unaided in the kitchen. A progressive muscle disease that I was diagnosed with when a teenager is robbing me of my ability to walk without aid. However, I am without pain and this has all taken more than 60 years to progress to this point. I had plenty of time to adapt and find different ways to do things. At this time, I am grateful to be still able to take care of my 'personal' needs. That is not the case when one is disabled due to stroke, accidents and some diseases, there is no time to adapt to different ways of doing things. So ladies and gents, do your exercises and don't take for granted your good physical health.