I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
HAPPY SUNDAY! My son turns 33 today. 2nd Birthday I've missed. :((
Yes, we "vac" the house. Hoover was a US President and a lousy one who picked his nose when the Great Depression hit in 1929. Homeless people back then lived in shanty towns known as "Hoovervilles".
OH gm its not uncommon here to not have insurance especially when times are hard but its not that expensive so ill get it sorted asap! Just need family to wake up now!
I guess we are a bit too laid back here with things and count on the "ol luck of the irish".
Yeh and we call vaccuming "hoovering" here? i hope thats not something rude in the states? guess we call it that after "hoover" who invented the vaccum?
You say tomato we say tomatoe............potato potatoe!!!!!!!!!!
So you call a stove a cooker? And the burners on the stove rings? Learn something new every day.
Um. Yes, get the fridge and the cooker onto separate circuits. Have you had Social Services round to look at home safety? - 'cos you might be able to get some help with that, or at least an approved electrician who only charges "mates' rates".
Before she wasn't able even to do this much, I used to leave my mother's supper microwave-ready, on a plate, in the microwave, with the time and level set so that LITERALLY all she had to do was press 'Start', take the plate out when it beeped, and eat. But I'm not sure your mother would co-operate with that much babying?
The only other thing I can think of is explaining to your friend/s; maybe if they could come and meet you at your house before you go out together it'll cure the frustration of being late? Depends on the friend of course, but good ones won't mind.
the only way i could handle this was to tell her in a soft non threatening voice that maybe dont touch the cooker when im not here as youre getting a bit forgetful! YIKES!
I may call an electrician to see if he can do something with the fuses as the cooker fuse is linked to the fridge fuse so i cant knock both out?
This is getting a bit too common now and the stress now as leaving her alone is building up shes been lucky so far but everybodys luck runs out one day?
What do you guys do to avoid this happening? its very scary and so lucky AGAIN that i was there?
See if Animal Planet has anything interesting to watch, two of my favorite shows are "My Cat from Hell" which makes me appreciate the herd of 3 that I have, they aren't so bad after all..... and "Bad Dog" which has some comic relief when they show a bad cat :0
Well, the "letter" came today...you know the one...the one letting me know the bank will be selling my home on the courthouse steps the 27th of this month...yep, the dreaded foreclosure....I fought the good fight, but twas not meant to be apparently and so with the loss of my house I will have lost everything material that I have worked my entire life for.....oh well......it has been a long and hard road and while I was able to keep the payments up for a long time, I wish now I had just walked away from it way back when...what's done is done. Can't fuss at the bank, I think they hung in there longer than most folks would have...once I started having to pay the Medicare Part B penalty because Mama didn't get it when she should have, it just wasn't doable anymore....so I have a lot of thoughts right now...most of them not printable, and yet, I know I am right where I need to be...and this is just more stuff...now the only thing remaining is to get the rest of my personal things out before then...that is what I need so I can walk away and leave it to the all of them to bicker and argue like the weasles they are....I didn't know it was possible, but somehow the developers all know exactly what my payoff is on the first as well as the HELOC .....talk about feeling an invasion of privacy...I didn't know that information was public...my realtor says anyone can get that...I still don't believe him, but I guess it's a moot point. Right now I feel like I have been beaten up physically and emotionally so many times over the course of the past almost three years now I just want it to be over. Maybe with this behind me, I can finally just hunker down and focus on Mama...not that I haven't all along...but always had that nagging on the back burner....I could write a book on this...I am a person of a lot of faith....and I still know that God can use even this for my benefit though I cannot see it now, there are reasons for everything....I have to believe...I don't have anything left....it's just Mama and me now. Say a kind word in your thoughts or prayers for me please that I can just remain calm and get through this gracefully....to dwell on what should have been is so pointless.
pia is already down to a couple of visits a week . it isn't the time for me to let up my daily visits ..
So thankful we are having a sunny day here. It does make a difference when it is sunny as opposed to the dreary days...Mama seems to be in a good mood and right now is snoozing up a storm..so far a good day!
Oh ya the Sundowner's is going to be fun today!! NOT!!