Fight the Nemises of the Elderly - Exercise the Brain

I keep being told my forgetfulness is normal as we age.  We need to exercise our brain not by just reading something but really thinking about it.  There are times when I feel like there is a cat 5 tornado flying around in my brain.  I need to master the art of slowing it down and stop the constant flying debris from littering my thought processes.  Pick an item...think about it then put it away.

I don't want to be the elderly person that KNOWS EVERYTHING.  I remember that all too well.  We cared for my husbands mother the last several years of her life.  I do not want to be the mean ole lady that knows everything!  This is what I am fighting to stave off......so I have to exercise my brain to make sure the cobwebs do not build up in there. 

I am going to make a supreme effort to exercise my thought processes.   I'm physically feeling old today so my  first thought is what Cora Harvey Armstrong says,"Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened."   The next thought is 'who is Cora Harvey Armstrong'?  Do you know?  After thinking about it for a spell...I had to look it up.  A very interesting lady.   Look it up....good exercise for the brain.
     

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ~ Coco Chanel.  Oh, Coco, now you're getting personal....you mean this face that has more lines than a metropolitan road map is MY fault.  I always thought those were character lines.  I must be quite a character.  I really don't like all those little lines around my mouth....looks like I have been sucking lemons!  (Maybe I could believe they were from too many tequila shots?)  Then there's the deep furrow between my eyes...I know that came from the many many years of concentrating too hard.  Oh, those deep laugh lines.  Actually those are tolerable....I've always had a somewhat strange sense of humor.  Laughing is excellent therapy.

Listening to the news can be unsettling....they were just saying somebody had been assassinated....How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?  I don't want to have either....I'm getting naturally old quick enough. I don't want to exercise that subject any more.

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?  This has been floating around in my brain ever since my MIL was adamant that she be buried in her very best incl jewelry .....but she was cremated!  I'm just saying, ya think we should pack a bag?  That reminds me of when she was cremated and given to us in a small box.  We then put her in the car to drive her to her final resting place in Spooner, Wisconsin.  Do you put her in the trunk or in the back seat?  It was October and was freezing at night...when we stopped for the night, do we bring her in or leave her in the trunk?  I'm tellin ya, there was a lot of thinkin about that.  Even tho she was meaner than the junk yard dog, I struggled with putting her in the trunk, etc.  We laid her to rest and slept well on the way home.

We were looking at hams at the market the other day and I got to thinking.....what disease did Cured Ham actually have?  I don't know but in the olden days we would cure it with salt that would draw out water and retard the bacteria growth, then hang it high in one of the closed in outbuildings till it was really jerkyfied.   I guess they wouldn't sell very many 'Infected Sick' Hams.

Bette Davis says "Old age ain't no place for sissies."  So let me enjoy life and laugh....dance, sing, wear funny clothes and different color socks and hope that I don't wear my underwear on top of my pants or on my head.

I'm tired of thinking lets all go find the best bargains on the NET...CLICK HERE for Online Auction.  It's going to be a wonderful holiday season.  Enjoy!

HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?

So maybe you woke up today and decided you wanted to skip the exercise....must not do that...try this for a change...exercise your brain.....

You have to try this, it takes 2 seconds. It is from an orthopedic surgeon............ This will boggle your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can't. It's pre-programmed in your brain!

1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are GOOFY......) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

I told you so!!! And there's nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.

OK, so you feel silly doing this but think of it as exercise for your brain.

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alphainventions.com...Hey, Senior Peeps out there, check this out...

Aesthetics48 at http://grouchow.wordpress.com/ just let us know about this site called AlphaInventions.com. I went there and clicked on the join button - the dern thing knew who I was and even had my picture, I mean instantaneously. (He must have a heck of a large file cabinet) Then I added a comment....Being a senior citizen that tries to exercise her brain daily, I am intrigued with this alpainventions.

Really curious how this dude can read my computer.....the screen with the different blogs changes so fast I don't get a chance to read it ...wha? do I need to get a speed reading course? or do I just sit here and watch the world fly by? WOW, it's amazing........

I read the article at http://alphainventions.com/ and, well, all I can say is I'm going to have to muse on this a bit....the idea is WAY over my curly gray head with the mushy gray matter. OK, I admit it is a lot more exciting than watching the new blades of grass grow or the dust accumulate on my furniture.

So does this alphainventions.com keep chugging along after I shut my computer down? Am I supposed to put his link on my blog ? Where do I put it? Put it in every post? Would it be appropriate to put his link on our selling websites or is it ONLY for blogs? How can you get your website urls out there? to be a part of this whirlwind............

Visit & enjoy my blog: http://supergrannysmusings.blogspot.com/
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Does commenting alot do something positive for me? Do I need to revisit alphainventions.com every morning to get it to go go go again?

One of the keys is to get people to leave a comment - you've got to be interesting....I try, but HOW do you get folks to leave a freaking comment? It's not hard...they might find it is actually a fun thing to do.

Thanks, ACE, for the heads up, and I'll just keep checking alphainventions.com and watch the blog posts fly buy like I'm in a tornado....

5 Riddles.....Brain Exercise.....Bargains for Shoppers

5 Riddles

This is a great brain exercise for anyone...Seniors, take a few minutes and really think on these.
These are the BEST FIVE RIDDLES I have seen.....THE ANSWERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM....Don't rush through these - think about them. I was so irritated that I could only figure out one....ENJOY...



1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires. The second is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?


2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?


3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?


4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?


5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

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Now for the 5 ANSWERS to the Riddles....

1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. That one was easy, right?


2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).


3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.


4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!


5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.

How did you do? They sure are easy when you know the answers.

Now that you've had your brain exercise for the day - it's time for a wee NAP!! Don't sleep too long - tomorrow is SPRING