Monday April 28th 2025

Tweety, BSN, RN · Apr 28

Good morning!

My roof saga is over and done. Only took four months of aggravation. Painters are coming back soon to finish the ceiling inside where it leaked and then then I can feel like I can move on and close this chapter of my life.

My colonoscopy is at 8:30 tomorrow so for me that's a good thing to get it out early. I'm feeling a bit fatigued and hungry and will be glad when this chapter of my life is over.

On to whatever is going to go wrong and aggravate me next. Well there is still my broken refrigerator. Always something.

toomuchbaloney · Apr 28

Tweety said:

Good morning!

My roof saga is over and done. Only took four months of aggravation. Painters are coming back soon to finish the ceiling inside where it leaked and then then I can feel like I can move on and close this chapter of my life.

My colonoscopy is at 8:30 tomorrow so for me that's a good thing to get it out early. I'm feeling a bit fatigued and hungry and will be glad when this chapter of my life is over.

On to whatever is going to go wrong and aggravate me next. Well there is still my broken refrigerator. Always something.

At least there's a good choice of options for American made refrigerators.

No Stars In My Eyes · Apr 28

My agitation at least has an explanation, which doesn't make it any easier to deal with, but I can say to the doctor in all honesty that I do NOT need any more medication to deal with it, and I don't have to wonder WHY I am agitated. *sigh* My diagnosis is relative to these circumstances in which I live. Hubby and I used to 'comfort' ourselves by saying THIS TOO SHALL PASS, but so far we've been wrong; and, I am still wrong! I don't see any evidence that it WILL pass. That's discouraging, to say the least! Even though I try to pray NICELY about it, by giving it to God, there is no action being taken that I can tell. Some speculate that Nannie has a scheduled appointment for another place, not 'up', but down, and the ruler of THAT place gets great joy from her still being here to wreak his havoc. Regardless, she keeps waking up breathing every day, so there's nothing I can do about it. Just more laundry and dishes and trash emptying. I'd still be doing the same if she wasn't here any longer, but it would be at my own pace, and the accumulation of chores wouldn't be so "EVERY darn DAY"!

Yup, so I guess since all I have to do right now is uselessly complain about her, it would be better to take care of myself when I get these few hours to do so. You know how on-line they say about those who complain about tRump: "You have TDS" and "he lives in your head rent free"? I have Nannie Derangement Syndrome. It is difficult to evict her from my brain while being immersed in her presence and all that entails. As the t-shirt proclaims, "Somebody should do something."

Enough, enough, ENOUGH!

I have been lounging in bed, enjoying the peace and quiet. I do need to take a shower and do my laundry. Maybe there is an old movie I can find to watch on TV. Alas, as the drinkers might say, "It is always 5 o'clock somewhere" All too true, because that is when I have to go get the Nannie-person from daycare.

No Stars In My Eyes · Apr 28

Changes, changes, changes! SiL is going to pick up Nannie this afternoon and is taking her to get her nails done before she brings her home. Then, she has to get up early in the morning, and although Nannie does not usually go to daycare on Tuesdays, she will go tomorrow. SiL will come by and get her to daycare, and am not sure if I have to go get her tomorrow afternoon. Then, I guess Wednesday will be a Nannie-filled day. Hopefully Chatty CG comes Thursday.....we haven't heard yet. Anyway, SiL has to take her mother to get a stent placed....I don't know where or which day. And then she (SiL) is going up to the mtns this W/E to see her sister and her niece who has something going on (again, I don't know what). I will get up early on Friday and I think BiL will take her to the daycare, then I go get her again, at 5 PM. Stuff and Nonsense!

I tell you what, when SiL comes back w/ Nannie today, I'm going to get her to repeat it all so I can write it all down! Wonder what THEY will do IF I ever get a chance to get real honest-to-goodness time off for ME.

I have been watching TCM....saw a 1939 silent film starring Lionel Barrymore. THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND! Weird movie with strange underworld creatures....one was an alligator looking thing with a horn coming up out of the top of it's snout, like a rhino, and it's back also had things spiking up from the spine. Also something they called a "most dangerous blob of a creature" which resembled an octopus. Somehow they got away from the human like creatures in 'the abyss' and after Lionel blew up the island where he had built the submarine-like ships, he was going to die, so he had them put him in the 2nd ship and he sent himself to the bottom of the ocean to die.....and nobody would know anything about how he built the ships, or even that there were those ships at all. Very dramatique! The only sounds were of guns shooting and blowing of horns,

Now Lionel is in MATA HARI with Greta Garbo, which I will sort of watch with half an eye, and when SiL's car drives up, I'll turn the TV off.

WHAT'S FOR SUPPER? Helifino. I can barely care at this moment,

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Apr 29

I answered the WHAT'S FOR SUPPER? question with a really easy and not-particularly-healthy rendition of chicken enchiladas. The boys bought a huge package of tortillas and while I'm sure they would freeze OK, we might as well use some.

I spoke too soon and at bedtime last night Gma felt warm and had a temp of 100.8. This morning she was fever-free but it came back later in the day. She doesn't seem to be having the congestion/drainage/cough that Twin B and I have.

I'm hoping to use my forced fast (just no appetite and no energy to fix food) to give up diet coke and to cut back on sweets. We shall see. Those are lofty goals for this gal.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Apr 29

Tweety, Hooray for closing the door on the roof! Or something like that.

I tried making some of those cheese crisps (dianah?). I used Swiss cheese and pepper jack. Yummy. And would give me a tummy ache if I ate too many, so ... maybe I can show a little self restraint?

I ticked off the main hospitalist today. Sorry not sorry? I guess he wasn't having a great day but neither was I. Hoping for better sleep tonight.