Friday April 22 2022 Earth Day

Editorial Team / Admin · Apr 22, 2022

Hello all!

Joe, hope you and your dad continue to improve and this illness is soon only a memory.

We had some thunderstorms during the night, and the mountains got about 6" of snow. But it should warm up quickly, as the predicted temperatures for Sunday are in the 80's! We are planning to attend Dapper Day at Disneyland on Sunday and the forecast is for 88 degrees* (*depends which widget you use to check the temps; AccuWeather predicts 90 degrees, while The Weather Channel holds at 88).

Household chores are on today's plan.

Have a good day!

No Stars In My Eyes · Apr 22, 2022

We've got temps in the 80's for the next three days. That means hubby cranks the AC up and it is COLD in the den, Nannie has wear her sweater-wrap and has the space heater aimed at her on high/80.

Hubby says he slept well because he took a xanax and one of Nannie's bedtime pills (Mirtazapine ---or something like that.) He talked to his dgt this morning and she said she was "OK" and the doctors were changing her medicine. Hubby said she had called the Suicide Hotline yesterday, but we don't know if she drove or someone else drove or the ambulance was sent to take her to the hospital. Hubby also talked to the oldest (just married) grand-daughter and she said they had "issues" that they need to talk out, but no further info on that. Apparently dgt and SiL are behind on bills due to SiL wanting to go fishing and play golf all the time; he is supposed to "pick up a draw' on some work he recently did or is doing. His phone was cut off (non-payment) and their TV cable is cut off for same reason. None of us has any extra $$$ to send up there, and SiL needs to grow up and take some responsibility, as hubby's dgt has been working two jobs. But her being on a 72 hour hold (self-committed) at hospital won't help with the bills, he said.

Hubby knows there is nothing he can do about her problems, but being a guy who thinks he has to 'fix' things because he is her daddy, he still hasn't convinced himself there is nothing he can do. He said, "I can't help them if they aren't going to tell me what is really going on."

Suppertime now. May be back by here later.

No Stars In My Eyes · Apr 23, 2022

Wellllll,

Heard two more interesting facets about events w/ hubby's dgt's family - Apparently son-in-law went out one evening and didn't come back 'til the next day, and the oldest grand told my hubby something to the effect that she was 'tired of all the disrespect and GOSSIP' she hears from her mom.

WOW! That last one made my eyebrows shoot up with recognition of the manner in which her mom carries on...I thought, she's hit the nail on the head!

Hubby is coming down off the ceiling where he has been for two days, but he still feels burdened. Y'know, when your dgt calls you crying hysterically, saying she wants to kill herself, commits herself to the hospital, that is truly quite worrisome. But today he has been able to step back just a little and look back at how his dgt's handled her life, and how she doesn't trouble herself over anybody but herself.

Nice that it is calming down because he realizes there isn't anything HE can actively "do" to solve her life.

Good Night!