Heading out to inspection. Eek.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Mar 21, 2009 3:24:05 am PDT #11662 of 30000
Sheryl - Mar 21, 2009 4:13:11 am PDT #11663 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Gotta run some errands today (take the car to JiffyLube, buy a new printer). Tonight is a concert.
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2009 4:41:51 am PDT #11664 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Mom has decided she's on a liquid diet until her constipation eases up. You can imagine my reaction to the logic of THAT, but the last time I tried to reason with her, she cried for half an hour.
I so suck as a caretaker. My aunt is of the opinion that it may be time to temporarily hand Mom over to the on-site nursing home if we can't get her to take her pills. I honestly think Mom may have palmed the Tylenol I gave her this morning, which is, by the way, the only painkiller she's allowed to take.
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2009 4:43:20 am PDT #11665 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Bagel: sarameg -- good luck with the inspection. Take exhaustive notes -- I hope you get a guy who answers questions as he goes. The inspection on my not-large house took 3 hours, and for sure I knew exactly what I was getting when it was finished.
msbelle - Mar 21, 2009 4:48:48 am PDT #11666 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Good luck sara.
Prune juice a liquid that might help, yes. Also, is she allowed coffee? I feel for you Theo.
sumi - Mar 21, 2009 4:49:41 am PDT #11667 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Theo - that's so hard. Lots of ~ma and patience to you.
JZ - Mar 21, 2009 5:18:21 am PDT #11668 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, Theo, how awful. You're a very good caretaker; your mom is just resisting all caretaking right now. You've been there, giving time and energy and all your best efforts to connect, to someone who's so very unhappy and struggling with it. You're a great caretaker; it's just a rotten situation.
(Also, what msbelle said about coffee [sorry, prune juice is what evil tastes like], and maybe apple juice too, especially if you heat it up.)
Jesse - Mar 21, 2009 5:26:33 am PDT #11669 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In their continuing rebranding efforts, the prune people have new "plum juice" products I have seen advertised....
Liese S. - Mar 21, 2009 5:40:36 am PDT #11670 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So ridic. We tried to make plum jam once, since we had a surplus of lovely local plums. Forgetting that plums turn into prunes. Prune jam is nast.
And Theo, I'm so sorry about your mom. I feel for you since we did the caregiving thing with my grandmother and it had its equally painful moments. It's just hard, and it's an adjustment for you and for her.
No matter what else, make sure you look after yourself, too.
Steph L. - Mar 21, 2009 5:58:03 am PDT #11671 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In their continuing rebranding efforts, the prune people have new "plum juice" products I have seen advertised....
I've seen prunes marketed as "dried plums." Doesn't make them taste any better.