You'll just do what needs doing. But before that, you can lay plans in because it makes you feel better.
Yes. Thanks.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Jesse - Dec 06, 2012 5:07:52 pm PST #3435 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Dec 06, 2012 5:17:01 pm PST #3436 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I took a bath with a purple bath bomb. I smell really good now.
tommyrot - Dec 06, 2012 5:23:25 pm PST #3437 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are you purple?
msbelle - Dec 06, 2012 5:23:44 pm PST #3438 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
did you talk with your mom today sara? do they have a plan?
Dana - Dec 06, 2012 5:36:18 pm PST #3439 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I might be slightly purple.
sarameg - Dec 06, 2012 5:38:51 pm PST #3440 of 30001
No. I'm not calling. If they can't be arsed, they'll just get an earful tomorrow or whenever. I figure they are avoiding me. And if they want to play that, well, they'll have to pay for that.
Cashmere - Dec 06, 2012 5:58:56 pm PST #3441 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
When my brother in law's grandmother had advanced Alzheimer's she was very child-like and passive. She used to sit and watch cartoons with her great-grandson and just eased through the last years of her life.
suela, I wish your mom's illness had taken that path and it wasn't so very heartbreaking and difficult to deal with.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 06, 2012 6:11:42 pm PST #3442 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My grandmother was like that her last couple of years. After an initial bit of argumentativeness (and hallucinations) after her strokes, she settled down to become very quiet and usually pretty happy.
Kat - Dec 06, 2012 6:25:46 pm PST #3443 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aging is sort of terrifying. It must also be awful to be convinced that everyone is out to get you.
Thanks to all for the kind words. I had a head on desk sort of day, even though I had to be a shiny happy person. I figured out how I could get my 9th graders finals tested without printing anything -- via computer on Monday!
Grace had a soccer team party at Shakeys today which was just ...oddly good. I hate Shakeys but the pizza is not awful. One of the awesome thing about Grace's team is that the other parents get it. Like they totally know the extreme stress of a nontypical kid. They asked how things were going and I was pretty honest that it hasn't been good and they all got it.
Grace got her trophy and her yearbook and it just makes her so happy. I think maybe I will have to do GS yearbooks for the troop.
DavidS - Dec 06, 2012 6:29:58 pm PST #3444 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Grace got her trophy and her yearbook and it just makes her so happy.
Woo hoo! Team sports!
(For those that watch The Venture Brothers I did that in the same voice that Shore Leave uses when he says "He still fought like a chubby little tiger for team sphinx!")
I'm thankful now that I didn't have to deal with any dementia for my parents. They just off and died. Admittedly, it was two years of cancer and cancer treatments for my mom which is just horrible, and my Dad's health was failing for several years. But they were both themselves and present up to the end.