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[CapricornFarm]

Happy birthday in advance, JD.

50 isn't bad. 60 is like, okay, I made it to 60, now shoot for 80, . I cried for a month when I turned 30. That was the tough one for me.

The only thing about being 50 is remembering every one telling me that after 50 all the aches and pains and irritating little health problems set in and sure enough, they did. I told people who said that to me that they were just imagining things. I'm not saying that any longer

Sadly they weren't so brace yourself. The fun is about to begin. But I will say this about being 50. Life really began for me during that decade. I met my husband when I was 52 and we married a year and a half later. Can't get better than that! Also when I turned 50, I recongnized that I was more self confident and sure of myself and my abilities.

50 isn't that bad, or that old any longer. Enjoy!

60 is harder than 50. Hurts more.

 

[Beer can]

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Wow...this is a MONSTER sized file beer! It's 7.29 MB!

I tried working on this white rooster pic for about an hour last night to try to get him to work as an avatar. I cropped it, I cut it the length shorter, I pulled unnecessary frames and the smallest I could get it to was 1.67 and 1.51 MBs...lol. If I cut it by 98% I got it to size to fit in kilobytes but the pic was only an 1/8 of an inch tall. <<<It was tinier than this emoji.

Do you a lesser quality clip, beer? Or does anyone here know how to reduce quality of the pic otherwise? For an avatar I believe it has to be less than 200X200 megapixels and less than 50 kilobytes.
@perchie.girl is the expert on reducing these. I've never dealt with such a huge file.

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1.67 MB ............................. 1.51 MB

I tried a lesser quality one, tried shorting to seconds. I really don't know how I got the turken one to take. It was made with the same phone. It took many tries on the old site, just kept submitting it over and over till it accepted. I never got that giant one to take even as a post on the old site in its entirety but did shortened.

 

[Beer can]

Update: @Beer can and everyone else...Wendy's in Canada DOES have chili!!!
We've eaten twice now at Wendy's. And twice I've gotten the chili and the baked potato! It's very good and it agrees with me. The chili is the slightest bit warm but the crackers help to mellow that out. The crackers work so well that I can eat the baked potato on its own. The last trip we discovered that the chili is gluten free...so now Dh is eating it too! (And I get his crackers) So thank you!

Here's a pic of the first visit. Dh has a burger minus the bun.
(In case you're wondering what the open bacon covered situation was)

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Love their tators and chili. Nice change from my usual pick of a burger and chicken sandwich off the dollar menu. They're hard to eat if you're driving though

 

[microchick]

60 is harder than 50. Hurts more.

Boy ain't that the truth!

 

[JD4570]

Yup...50 is the new 30......just like a billion is the new million.



Now if I had a billion I'd be set !!!

 

[Beer can]

Working 3:30pm to 3:30am for the next three weeks. I totally despise working nights... no vacation relief in our department. Trained a few they quit, couple fired, still training one on other jobs here but I don't think it'll pan out. Have a lot to do in the few hrs home awake time I get.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Working 3:30pm to 3:30am for the next three weeks. I totally despise working nights... no vacation relief in our department. Trained a few they quit, couple fired, still training one on other jobs here but I don't think it'll pan out. Have a lot to do in the few hrs home awake time I get.

That is the way it goes, sad to say. As a nurse you rarely call in sick because there is no one to cover you.

 

[ronott1]

Yup...50 is the new 30......just like a billion is the new million.



Now if I had a billion I'd be set !!!

I was in more pain in my 40s. I have congenital spinal stenosis and had surgery for it after years of very bad pain. It has been 10 years now with normal pain of aging. I can take that!

 

[ronott1]

Working 3:30pm to 3:30am for the next three weeks. I totally despise working nights... no vacation relief in our department. Trained a few they quit, couple fired, still training one on other jobs here but I don't think it'll pan out. Have a lot to do in the few hrs home awake time I get.

Where I work we have to make sure there is coverage. There is one other person here that provide Tech support and one of us has to be here during work hours. I also work in an Academic Department so am not supposed to take time off when classes are in session. Summer and Christmas is vacation time here

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Can you imagine how nice it would be to wake up without pain? To look like that again? Sigh.

I don't think I was a real looker at any age so that part doesn't really matter much to me...lol.

However going back to that point where I could get so much done...I would love it!! I still had pain, but no where like the pain I have now. I'd change everything I've done. I'd certainly not do the work I did. At 25 I had just started the hog barn. I'd quit right there and say NO to everything. I'd also go get a job that was easier on my body. I used to think working hard got you places and was what one was supposed to do. Not take the easy jobs and way out. What an idiot I was. I don't even think I'd farm. I'd move to the city where things are easier. I had wanted to become a vet. Pfft...I wish I'd had more interest in nails and polish back then and just became a nail tech. I'd be so much farther ahead in everything if I'd done that; money, body...probably mind...lol.