Monday March 21 2022

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 21, 2022

Good morning!

Joe, hope your workday goes well.

J22, too bad your husband keeps things bottled up like that. Once my brother spewed out in anger an offense my mother did when he was a teenager. Apparently it had deeply affected him and he held on to the anger for years. Not a good thing. My family was never good at communication. I hope the ongoing saga of your pain gets resolved soon.

Amo, are you a little excited Villanova won? ?

Stars, sounds like you've been productive and enjoyed the alone time, but it's not really alone time if you're wondering the whole time if he's coming home or not. I hope he had a good time at the wedding.

Dianah, this is your last week to work isn't it? How exciting.

Ado, it doesn't seem like you were a slouch.

I was the slouch yesterday and got nothing accomplished. I'm still off of work so I gave myself permission.

We had a lovely sunny day and best friend and I decided to go to the beach and skip watching "The House of Gucci" which I wasn't all that interested in. My slap got sunburned because I wasn't wearing a hat and my hair is so thin. I did use sunscreen on my face and bald spot. LOL.

Today, I don't want to be a slouch. I'm getting a haircut, have a mountain of laundry to do and want to go to the gym. Bowling tonight.

Have a great day.

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 21, 2022

Phone woke me up at 10:30 AM; hubby is on his way home. He called again just now and said "Have you made Momma her lunch yet?" No...because it is only 12:45 PM. Anyway he is just a few towns over and should be home soon. Guess I'll go make Nannie a sandwich.

Will be back later....

nursej22, MSN, RN · Mar 21, 2022

Good morning, from the soggy Pacific Northwest. Lots of rain last night and today. Temps are predicted to get into the 60s on Wednesday. I will believe it when I see it. Legs feel a little better today, just a little burn in one thigh. But I woke up at 4 am, which was irritating. I finally got up at 5 because I was hungry. I got groceries last night, and made a Hello Fresh shepherd's pie for dinner. We agreed that my recipe is better, but takes more time. The new season of Call the Midwife was on last night, which I enjoyed.

Stars, I hope you and hubby can enjoy the after effects of your respite from each other. I know I feel like I need one from time to time.

Dianah, yeah, the final countdown, right? Hopefully, your week is smooth.

Tweety, I have really thick hair and have burnt my scalp where my hair parts. Ouch. Hopefully, your haircut is not too uncomfortable.

Joe, with your warming weather, hopefully more birds appear. We are still in chickadee and junco mode. A few robins are starting to appear, and I saw/heard a red-wing blackbird this weekend. And we had a rufous hummingbird visit the feeder. The anna's hummers stay year round.

Ado, you don't seem like a slouch at all. I hope your new position is smoothing out some.

Amo, dh watched a lot of basketball yesterday. His dream would be to go to the Final Four someday.

Did anyone watch 60 minutes last night? Sue Bird, who plays professional basketball for Seattle, was featured.

Well, that's about it for now. Back to TB land.

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 21, 2022

After arriving home and saying he'd tell us about the wedding later, he sat down and told us about the wedding! Much of it we heard many times within an hour. Heard more of the same periodically. Lots of "Uh-huh's" on my part. Some of the repetition was because he had to explain to Nannie several times where he went and why and who her great-grand-daughter is, and, and, and. Later on, when we sat out on the porch and he was telling me how his dgt was quite worried about his health, and waited on him 'hand and foot', and said had been afraid he wouldn't be able to come up to the wedding.

The Bride said she wished I could've come, too, but he said, "Somebody has to take care of Nannie..." And then my lovely step-dgt wondered, "Do you think Nannie is going to be okay with 'Stars' taking care of her?" (WHAT???) Kind of burns my butt that she asked that. I'm the one that gave up my life and my household, to come down here to live with Nannie. Step-dgt. decided years ago who I was and what I was about, and is wrong about 98% of it. Hubby said, "She must think you're mean." (!) HUH! But why he had to tell me what she'd said is beyond me; though he said to her, "You don't have to worry about her taking care of Nannie. She'll (Nannie) will be fine." Well, I was fine, too.To me it was like sitting for a PD patient....keep 'em company, feed 'em, take 'em out if they're able, watch TV, do crossword puzzles while they nap. Since Nannie is still essentially self-care about personal care, it wasn't hard on me. Step-dgt should thank her lucky stars I am not one of 'those' wives who give their husbands a hard time about everything, which is exactly how her own mother was. (A Major Beyotch.) And, of course there is the fact that NO ONE ELSE in Nannie's family, including my step-dgt, is willing to come and take care of her for a day or a weekend so WE could get away. But that's okay.

Ah me. I know I'm good at what I do and I am nice to Nannie MOST of the time, but I don't give Nannie a hard time the way hubby does. If I feel put out w/ Nannie, I can go up to my room. Heck, I spend more time with Nannie than my hubby does. Unless she spends all afternoon sleeping, I don't let her sit downstairs all day by herself! And I know Nannie does appreciate me these days. I may be a Yankee and not her idea of a wife (not such a good housekeeper; not so interested in cooking...) but she knows I am doing right by her.

Well, I just had to vent a little. Thanks!

nursej22, MSN, RN · Mar 21, 2022

Good grief, Stars. I don't see why you hubby even related that little tidbit to you. I noticed no one suggested that Nannie should have come to the wedding, too, right? You are a saint for what you do and that family should thank their lucky stars that you married into their family.

Vent away! This is a safe place. Right gang?

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 21, 2022

Thank you j22!

The whole rest of 'em have their heads up their rear-expulsion sphincters.

Davey Do · Mar 21, 2022

At least your rants are well-written, interesting, and often humorous, No Stars.

Belinda and I have worked very hard laying a wood floor in the master bedroom since last Thursday. It was her idea, as I was okay with the chartreuse linoleum I had put in there when I built the house 30 years ago.

amoLucia · Mar 21, 2022

(((stars)))

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Mar 22, 2022

Goodness, Stars, the only way he could bring that up with any grace at all is if he were expressing righteous indignation on your behalf!

Dianah, these last days are going to fly by. Enjoy!

Tweety, sorry about your sunburn but I would choose a day at the beach over a movie I wasn't interested in, any time.

Hello to all...

Not much happening here. Rained all day. I left my phone at the hospital so went after dinner to get it. I need to call my best college friend because I'll be in her neck of the woods next month and I want to get together. But I have such anxiety these days about making phone calls. Even to my dear friend who I've known for over 40 years. I wasn't always like this and I don't understand what happened.

Editorial Team / Admin · Mar 22, 2022

Hello all!

No Stars: Some people's children... (shaking my head and shrugging my shoulders) (((((((((((Stars ))))))))))))))) Bless you for all you do. And then you come on here and entertain us to boot!! ?

Congrats on getting the new floor in, Davey! (sounds like your wife is more pleased with it than you?? You will enjoy it!)

nursej22, thanks for the bird-watching reports! Spring IS "just around the corner."

Dh took the RV to get it "smogged" today, then took it to its storage spot. This evening I paid its registration. So, DONE for another year!

I have tomorrow off, and have some errands planned. They won't take all day, though.

Not much else going on...

Have a good evening!

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 22, 2022

My brother in Michigan sent me an email that said....If you live 70 years, TEN YEARS of that will have been Mondays. OY! Ten years of Mondays! YIKES!