shrift, would your dad accept help if it were framed in terms of making things easier for your mom? Beyond that... hairpats.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Feb 20, 2024 7:56:40 pm PST #28764 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
NoiseDesign - Feb 21, 2024 12:37:48 am PST #28765 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Shrift I’m so sorry. It’s hard. I don’t have magic advice but I have deep empathy for you.
Beverly - Feb 21, 2024 1:19:18 am PST #28766 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Hairpats galore, Shrift. It's hellish hard to parent one's parents, especially when they don't want to be parented by a child of theirs.
Calli, hooray for good scans!
Askye, you get hairpats, too. My advice, coming from simply "if it were me" would be to move, as quickly as possible. It's inhuman to expect you to live that way and do your job as well. You're a hero for trying, but everyone just accepts that you'll keep doing it, and nobody's going to change, or implement change in your living conditions, so you have to do it. I send buckets of courage if that's what you decide to do. And if not, then tons of coping~ma.
Thanks for the good wishes, everybody. It's true! Buffistas make things better! (Waves at Karl and msbelle)
sj - Feb 21, 2024 7:08:30 am PST #28767 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc has day camp today at the local art museum and since I’m up and dressed in outside clothes to drop her off, I’m going to stay and enjoy the museum for a bit. Since we’re members it isn’t costing use anything to stay. But first coffee in the lobby! And then probably the gift shop. Forget what I said about not costing me anything.
DavidS - Feb 21, 2024 7:27:47 am PST #28768 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But first coffee in the lobby! And then probably the gift shop. Forget what I said about not costing me anything.
Money well spent!
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 21, 2024 7:54:27 am PST #28769 of 30000
"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
Yay Calli!
I'm afraid all I can offer is hairpats, shrift.
-t - Feb 21, 2024 8:20:51 am PST #28770 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh no, shrift! I wish I had advice, but you are welcome to sympathetic hairpats by the bucketful.
meara - Feb 21, 2024 8:33:20 am PST #28771 of 30000
Ugh shrift that sounds frustrating as hell.
Also frustrating sounding: askye’s living situation.
Also frustrating: my headache this morning.
Sj the museum sounds nice!
sj - Feb 21, 2024 8:34:24 am PST #28772 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I found some great Easter basket items at the museum shop for ltc and my nieces. And maybe a couple things for me… ltc has passed me twice while her class explored the museum and amazingly she was excited and not embarrassed.
sj - Feb 21, 2024 8:36:14 am PST #28773 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Meara, we are very lucky to have such a nice museum nearby. There’s actually another nice one not far from us that we’re not members of but we should try to get back there too.