Friday February 9th 2024

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Ado I'm glad that your phone is working again

Stars it's good to hear how helpful your in laws have been, and that they've not let the conflict with your dh affect their relationship with you

Tweety I imagine the jet lag will take some time to settle down

NJ22 hope the medications help your dh

Dianah hope the rain proves minimal, I know you've gotten a lot there

Work ended up being busier than expected, with last minute stuff to do and quite a few calls and emails to return.  Hopefully today will be calmer

Had counseling over lunch, talked about getting back into the dating process and how we'll approach it.  I think last time I looked at it like a job search, which was the wrong attitude to take

After work got some dough started to bake on Saturday.  Also cut and put powdered sugar on the lemon bars for the potluck. Cutting them provided tricky,  the crust is hard but the topping is soft

Today have the gay group's monthly potluck.  Have to find a box, they're having an appliance collection for migrant families and I need to find a way to bring an old coffeemaker and crock pot without breaking them

Will be unusually warm, in the upper 50s today

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning!

Joe, have a good time at the potluck.  Lemon bars sound good.

J22, sounds like you're settling into retirement well and found a little niche with the gardening activities.

Dianah, enjoy your days of having no plans.

Best friend continues to have manageable cold-like symptoms with covid.  He says he's going to re-test today.  I didn't bother to tell him that wasn't necessary because once you get a positive result you're considered positive and there's no need to retest.  I told him this when he got his first positive and wanted to double check.   Anyway, glad he's doing okay.  A friend of mine recently had covid that kicked his butt.

As expected I was up late and turned off the lights at 1AM.  I woke up at 7AM and found my phone in bed with me.  Thank goodness I accidentally found it because I never would have thought to look in my bed.  I didn't take my benzo last night for the first time in about 3 weeks as I'm beginning to feel my travel and generalized anxiety lessen.  I just need to, as always, work on the sleep hygiene a bit.  Going to try to keep busy and go to bed at a more decent hour.  Soon I'll have to get up at 5AM for work.  

I got my vacuum cleaner last night from Amazon and will put it together and vacuum the spare bedroom.  Such excitement.

 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

As usual, I went to bed very late (early AM hours) and woke up about every hour or so, until 5 AM, and then I slept well until 11:30 AM. 

I told Nannie we were taking her to the doctor this afternoon, and she gave me a scared look like a deer in the headlights. I told her not to worry, it will be just a check-up and renewing her meds. And after the appt we will go out to eat supper. I never tell her the night before an appt like I used to, because she lays awake worrying and fretting, and then gets herself up WAY too early. We don't even have to leave here until maybe 3:40 PM, so there's no sense in her freaking out overnight. But, maybe she's forgotten already, because she has her eyes closed; I hope she does nap until SiL gets here.

I should use my time productively, but Ppfftt! I do not feel the call of house-wifery, right now. It'll all still be here waiting for me when we get back. It's never-ending because there's always something that needs attention, and right now it is attention I do not care to give! 

Maybe I'll be back here later~

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Good afternoon. The sun is out! I took the doggos for a long walk, and since then they have been in and out, playing in the backyard. I finally just turned off the heat and left the door open, even though it's only 44 degrees. I have been playing happy homemaker, cleaning the kitchen, laundry, vacuuming. dh just got home from volunteering with the food bank and brought me a London Fog. So I am going to look at my computer for a while. I looked at the wrong office visit notes yesterday, and there were no changes in dh' meds. He told me he got 2 new ones, but they were just refills. At least his labs looked good. His tummy may be slightly better? He is so vague, except to say "I just don't feel right." 

Lemon bars do sound good. I think I had an issue with hard crust, soft top the last time I made lemon bars too. They were tasty though. 

I misplace my phone 2 or 3 times a day. Luckily, my watch has a button that I tap and the phone makes a sound. 

Dianah, I'm glad you've not been too impacted by the storms. I follow the Big Bear Eagles on facebook, and it's fascinating to watch them sit on their eggs in all the snow. 

I used to get up at 530 every day. Now I wake up, look at the clock, and go back to sleep. 

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

We said goodbye to Darby today. I don't know which was harder -- losing the dog or watching my grown son sobbing over his dog. 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Ado~ Oh, I am so sorry you had to say goodbye to Darby. That photo shows such a sweet face. This is a difficult time for y'all, I know. *sigh*  It definitely takes time to get over it, if we ever really do. Thirty-two years later I find myself wishing I still could  share my life with Moosie, who I had for 10 years. He did nine years of Home Health visits with me; he loved everybody, and everyone thought he was a really great dog. Because he was! I have saved his ashes to be strewn with my ashes when my time on Earth is up.

SiL and I took Nannie to her Dr's appt, and she is 'good for another year', he said ( for med refills, that is.) The Dr drew me aside to hug me and ask how I was doing since hubby died. He told me if I needed anything, to be sure to call him, even if it's just to talk. That little town where the doc is is a good place to walk, AND there is a new Senior Center being built right near the doc's office, which I was glad to learn about!

After we were through with Nannie's appt, we went over to pick up BiL, and on to the restaurant for supper. It was okay, but not as good as they were bragging about. Don't tell them I said that!  I had an appetizer sampler, and ate a little of Nannie's sub sandwich, about which she said, it was 'okay', but not as good as Subway's. I also had a taste of the pizza B+SiL got, and it was good. We brought the left-overs home, so that may be supper tomorrow night, too!?  SiL said, "Isn't this fun? You do need to and deserve to get time to get out of the house more!" 

SiL said she would be coming over sometime tomorrow; she is thinking of weeding out the 2 "Christmas closets", and the other various spots where Nannie had also stored Christmas decorations, like the large bottom drawers in each bathrooms' vanities and the top shelf of the upstairs linen closet, and odds and ends that are stuffed here and there. Imagine having a coat closet available near the front door! (Because it is needed, since hubby had crashed the coat-rack into multiple pieces!) And now we have the empty trailer back to fill up again, for another trip to the dump. Probably more trash this time than furniture.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

My condolences Ado.

[dianah, ASN]

((((((((((((((((( Ado and family )))))))))))))))))))))