Also, Grace's nurse does a ton of Grace things that include sorting her clothes and pulling the too small stuff, crafts with Grace, maintaining her machinery, organizing her crap (toys as well as supplies etc).
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Kat - Jul 19, 2012 4:09:54 pm PDT #14738 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 4:12:05 pm PDT #14739 of 30001
You've got a mascot!
I actually don't mind vacuuming and mopping. Wish it didn't take 2 hours to do the whole house, but I do appreciate my clean and shiny floors and NO CATHAIR RHINOS TUMBLING across the carpetting. Or bedding down in them. And this time of year, it's a losing battle (cleaned this weekend, Already spotted some rolling juvie wildlife.)
meara - Jul 19, 2012 4:13:45 pm PDT #14740 of 30001
I love grocery shopping! And man, we have someone come once a month and it's $125 (before tip) so $65 for every other week sounds amazing.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 4:19:15 pm PDT #14741 of 30001
My grocery shopping is farmers' market (which gets my ass moving early saturday morning,) Target for a few things, TJs for a few. Occasional runs to a real grocery for the veggie juice I like that Target no longer carries. I've totally moved away from one-stop shopping, but since the base of all my meals is the FM....speaking of which, I still have to figure out what to do with my two monster zucchinis and ears of corn. Just haven't had the spoons (or desire to turn on stove) for either yet. But you damn betcha I've almost finished 2+ pints of blueberries, 1/2lb spinach and working on the arugula... Eyes were a little too big this saturday.
Zenkitty - Jul 19, 2012 4:19:44 pm PDT #14742 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My cleaning people (through Merry Maids) vacuum, dust, make the bed, and clean bathrooms and kitchens. They don't do dishes, do laundry, or clean windows. I wish they'd clean the upholstered furniture and move the lighter furniture to vacuum underneath/behind it.
Kat - Jul 19, 2012 4:20:33 pm PDT #14743 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
At our old place we had someone come in ever other week for $70.
Meatball is cute, but... it's a black bear. In my neighborhood! [link]
sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 4:27:43 pm PDT #14744 of 30001
Yeah, I know. Make a lot of noise when you are outside. That's what they always told us about black bears, grizzlies we were supposed to be really really quiet and hide. Oh, yeah, you've got Noah and Roman.
msbelle - Jul 19, 2012 4:30:25 pm PDT #14745 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
These are not all things I mind doing, just stuff that it is hard to fit in unless it is all I do on a Saturday.
It seems odd to say I need help with 20 hours of stuff a week in addition to mac.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 4:33:50 pm PDT #14746 of 30001
Uh, it doesn't sound odd at all. It sounds like a something that makes life a lot easier. Hello, you have all these single people without kids seriously wishing for the same!
Oooh, bright lightning again...
Kat - Jul 19, 2012 4:43:06 pm PDT #14747 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle, it just depends. I would want help not because I mind doing the things I have listed, but because I have limited time to do them.
We got a call from the new school district's nursing department today. For Grace, instead of giving us a health aide, the district will pay our current nursing provider for the hours when Grace is in school. Which means, AWESOME, someone who knows what they are doing -- an LVN and not just some district fool.