International Army February 2020

[JackieClaire]

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One moment please....................I start as a volunteer next Tuesday at the Community Library.

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...........me, Starty, Tips, Reccybear.............I'll have delve into the past later on.

Going back to Mr. JC. It took his sister to write him a letter. The gist being about his weight and she was frightened he would die early there was more stuff in there..........he was 23/24 plus stones. I had nagged on and on but he used to chuck 'well look at how much you drink' . But it took his sister to put into writing what we all scared of and he cried.
He went SW...............of course the first time he came back there a guy who was fatter than him ................equivalent of me going to an AA meeting and coming back and saying 'there's someone who drank more than me'.
He used to save his syns so he could pissed on a Friday night.

He moderates his greed these days

[brit]

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Congratulations on the library post JC. Well done Mr JC I had forgotten about his weight transformation--It takes a lot of hard work and determination!
Just been out for a lunch and a local history talk(lecture) Really fascinating. Mr A not well again but he enjoyed the outing.

[rustop59]

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Evening everyone. :yay: lots of good news. That’s fantastic Satz. Good luck with all your new starts everyone. Hope Mr A soon feeling a bit better. Must watch Dr Eva on the player, sounds dodgy and she had separated from her husband last year, wonder was that what was behind it. Was out for lunch today as someone was leaving. Very tasty. Must check out those Netflix recommendations. Sick of politics on TV. and big debate on tonight.

[mollyka]

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Well done Jackie...very exciting..loads of news on the job front between you and Benjy!
Sorry MrA not well...take care of yourselves Whizzy xx

Howdy all else!

[satz123]

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One moment please....................I start as a volunteer next Tuesday at the Community Library.

:yay: Jacks - well done

[IamMary]

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Loads of good news! Congratulations [MENTION=7008]JackieClaire[/MENTION] and [MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]!!
Molly and JC and swap notes now! how many hours will you work JC?

Have you an interview setup Satz? Is it far from home? What a lovely phone call!

Mr M has a fair few extra pounds. Wouldnt join WW but recently joined the fit for life club. To my shock, he loves it..so far (he hates exercise).

Satz, thats a book, here. Its really good.

Stuck in Better call Saul, but itching to watch Stranger.

[NoSugar]

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Congratulations on the new work opportunities, JC and Satzy. It's nice you're wanted/hunted - they'll be lucky to have you.

I came across a funny but pointed critique on the stories women tend to tell themselves about their bodies (with comparisons to the generic, self-forgiving-almost-to-a-fault man): Opinion | I Feel Personally Judged by J. Lo’s Body - The New York Times

Here's some of it in case it is behind a paywall:

...If there was one thing the Shakers and the Clutchers could agree on, it’s that Jennifer Lopez looks amazing. At 50, she is a force of nature, a woman who looks so amazing it’s like evolution took a tiny step forward, just for her. “I can’t believe she’s 50 and looks so good!” women said. Which quickly became, “I can’t believe I’m 50 and I look so bad!” (“Aside from making me feel physically deformed, that half-time show was 100!” wrote the Sports Illustrated editor Sarah Kwak.)
Some members of my social-media community were in awe. Others — myself included — were feeling personally judged. I’m just a few months younger than J. Lo, and, with every birthday, I have asked: Is this the year it ends? Surely there’s a finish line; a point we’ll reach when the You Must Be This Hot in Order to Participate sign at the amusement park ride disappears, and we all get a seat on the roller coaster (right alongside the lumpy, balding, graying, potbellied men who’ve been riding the entire time)...

...Still, I’d been picturing 50 as the year when I’d be done. I’d quit dyeing my hair and donate my high heels; I’d greet the occasional chin hair with a Buddhist master’s zen and treat my body like a place I could exist without apology instead of something akin to a seedy apartment complex, a place I needed to constantly manage and improve, with unruly bits to be waxed and plucked, painted and dyed, trussed in spandex and lifted with underwire....

...The answer, I think, is to watch these types of performances like a man.Women watch a 15-minute show featuring elite entertainers and, in some cases, end up feeling bad about ourselves.
Men, meanwhile, watch a three-hour game, played by elite athletes with single-digit body fat, and most won’t feel a single twinge of self-doubt, or miss a single chip from the nacho platter.
Women see inspiration or goals we’ve failed to attain or a pretty stick to beat ourselves up with. We hear a voice (sponsored by Weight Watchers and Revlon and Planet Fitness and Jenny Craig) whispering This can be yours, if you just work hard enough. Men see entertainment, athletes who exist on a different plane than mere mortals. Their inner voice whispers, Are there any more nachos? I don’t even think it would occur to them to feel bad, or try to emulate what they saw.
And so, my fellow Gen X ladies, if you want to be J. Lo, more power to you. If you want to be Blanche, be Blanche. But if it’s always been about Bea Arthur, come sit back here, with me, in your Eileen Fisher tunic and the newish bifocals you haven’t quite mastered. We’ll wait till the crowd goes home, and we’ll dance like nobody’s watching.

I spent years trying to make myself into something I wasn't and never would be. The last 7 years have been about making the sometimes un-fun choices that put more life in my years and I hope, if fate and grace allow, years to my life. Given that my paternal grandparents lived to 95 and 103, my hard-drinking uncle to 90 (if he'd quit, maybe he would have matched his parents), and my dad is going strong at 86, I'm pretty motivated to make my health-span as long as possible!

[byebyebridgetjones]

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Hey ho everyone.
Look at our girls being headhunted! Well done ladies.
That's the second time The Stranger has been recommended today so that's on for tonight.
Thanks for the book recommendation Mary. I've been looking for a read. It's been ages since I've read anything non work related.
Re old army peeps - was it Opal?? Sheepish? The young Irish bloke, can't remember the name. Haven't seen Arsey for a long time.

[mollyka]

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Morning folks! Well not sure if the question was who was posting on that DAY or generally around that time.. I clearly remember who gave me heaps of support behind the scenes - needless to say Jackie was there in spades... also Mario (love you always lovely man!) Tabbers, Oney (her Dad's advice was the best EVER - and I stuck to it religiously) - and there were loads more - but they were so supportive...

Now must do mundane things like going to work and earning a crust - so talk later!!!

Edit... I also remember when I was in Aiseirí getting a card from Jackie -- I don't do all that 'tears poured down my face' shite - - but that day --- eerrrmmm tears poured down my face:hug:

[satz123]

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Congratulations on the new work opportunities, JC and Satzy. It's nice you're wanted/hunted - they'll be lucky to have you.

I came across a funny but pointed critique on the stories women tend to tell themselves about their bodies (with comparisons to the generic, self-forgiving-almost-to-a-fault man): Opinion | I Feel Personally Judged by J. Lo’s Body - The New York Times

Here's some of it in case it is behind a paywall:


I spent years trying to make myself into something I wasn't and never would be. The last 7 years have been about making the sometimes un-fun choices that put more life in my years and I hope, if fate and grace allow, years to my life. Given that my paternal grandparents lived to 95 and 103, my hard-drinking uncle to 90 (if he'd quit, maybe he would have matched his parents), and my dad is going strong at 86, I'm pretty motivated to make my health-span as long as possible!

Great post NS - so true - but years of conditioning is hard to undo.
I recently lost the head with my BIL. We were looking at photos of a couple. He knew the man but straight away commented "she's very good looking".
I said why comment on her ? I was showing you the photo of HIM.
My SIL piped up then - drink taken - why not ? she is good looking - if she was ugly we'd comment too. They are both SAPS I must add.

THAT is what we are up against - who wants to be the subject of commentary? - not me. I stay away from the camera .... I don't want to be anyone else I just want to be my best SELF for ME.
I will dye my hair, paint the nails occasionally & keep the weight in control for ME.
My mother is 90 this year. We call her Lazarus - the come back kid :haha:
Her sister is 97 ...

Sorry that's bit disjointed but just some musings of a morning.

[satz123]

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Mr M has a fair few extra pounds. Wouldnt join WW but recently joined the fit for life club. To my shock, he loves it..so far (he hates exercise).

[MENTION=22411]IamMary[/MENTION]
What is that Mers ? A beginners running club ?

[JackieClaire]

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Morning,
Thanks for the congrats...........I'm thrilled.

[MENTION=8529]mollyka[/MENTION]............I had to ring the quare place first to see if it was okay to send a card. They said they'd hang on to it until an appropriate moment.

I need to nip up and get my fringe cut but can't get out of the house as there's two humungous road diggers outside the house. They're incredibly hypnotic to watch and its so fecking clever and precise. They'll be done with our bit in 15 mins or I'll be covered in tarmac.
Mind you the workmen don't look at all like the coca-cola window cleaner Mind you it February and freezing.

We have some worriment going on. Jenny's started having her panic attacks again. She's seeing the school mentor and counsellor again. It never fecking ends.

Last decent photo of me was 1963 when I was a bridesmaid for my aunt. I must get it framed one day.

My disjointed post of the day.

They've finished outside our place..........bacinabit.

[rustop59]

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Afternoon everyone. Great post No Sugar. Like Satz I am dying the hair, exercising, eating well and trying to control the weight gain for myself. I don’t think our generation were taught to pose for pictures. Have any of you watched the young ones posing? Am sure Mary is an expert on this. They know the exact angle that is most flattering, how to pout etc. We used to just grin like loons and hope for the best , no wonder we are not happy with our photos. Off to a show tonight with daughter, it was my Christmas present. Think we are having Indian food before it. Better go get ready.

[mollyka]

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Evening Army -- I'm trying to remember what the 'appropriate time' was Jacks!! whatever it was it was welcomed!!

I have to say I would love to take a good photograph - I haven't ONE photo that I could say 'that was lovely' -- in all my years!! shockin photo's -- really and truly shocking!

Just in and been dished up a filo chicken and mushroom pie with sautéed broccoli --- so shagging impressed -- didn't know he KNEW what filo WAS!
enjoy your night Rusters -- what show are you going to? Really got a taste for it with the Sound of Music - used to go to lots of shows and plays when I was younger... really should get back to it... loved going to the Abbey Theatre many moons ago!