Monday September 15th 2025

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 15, 2025

I have 3 + 1/2 hours before I have to go retrieve Nannie. Going to get dressed and once again make a visit to the bank and then the grocery store .... for dog food, yogurt, TP, and the like. Exciting. At least this week and from here on out, the regular Thursday's six afternoon hours will be (or are supposed to be) covered again.

Supper last night was quite okay, as it was just SiL, BiL, Nannie, and me. The food was delicious and I ate heaping helpings and ignored dessert. We were only there for 1 + 1/2 hours before we headed home, and Nannie wondered, as usual, if I was about to take her out somewhere, right after we got back. 🙄 I sometimes fight the urge to tell her that if she wants to "go", she should.

Hope I get my new hearing aids soon; I doubt it will help too much with Nannie, though, because she has that soft, blurred-words pattern of speech in the soprano range. I have started getting pretty good at just nodding my head even when I have no clue what she is talking about. I also KNOW that Nannie doesn't really know what she is talking about either. If you asked her to tell you more clearly (louder, and separate the words more distinctly) what she said, she can't find her way back to what she initially said, and sometimes just says "yes" as if she already had accomplished her conversational 'goal'. She really is continuing her slow, but profoundly declining, path to 'complete' dementia. I am sorry for her, but she doesn't realize she is so 'gone'. And, yes, I am sorry for me, too.

Oh well! That's it for now. I have to use these next few hours (before my 'next shift' begins), to "git 'er done".

Tweety, BSN, RN · Sep 15, 2025

Good afternoon.

Just up from a two-hour ish nap. Got up to to some competencies at work that took an hour from 7:30 to 8:30, stopped at McDonalds for breakfast and came back and took a nap.

Just a normal Monday. Going to the gym, and hope to clean the bathroom and then bowling tonight. We are tied for last place after two weeks. Plenty of time to go up. We are usually not that lowly placed but mostly in the middle.

Have a great day.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Sep 15, 2025

It's a little cooler today, but sunny. It rained off and on yesterday. I went for a little bike ride in the light rain, but not so heavy that I couldn't see. I've been drafting a newsletter for the Master Gardeners, and will meet tonight with the education team to discuss.

Eldest ds went to ER yesterday with chest pain but nothing serious was discovered. He was seen by one of the cardiologists that I used to work with. Quite an intelligent person, but always late and rather arrogant. ds said that described him perfectly. I remember that he used to round on people at 10 pm at night, after the family had waited all day and finally left and patients were asleep. He consulted on my dad, once, but I knew his habits, so I stayed and waited until he came, LOL. And then we had a disagreement about whether to put an internal defibrillator in an elderly gentleman with dementia.

I took the dogs along with dh to water the plants at the demo garden. We were in a remote corner and I let the dogs run off leash. But the ranger saw them, brought them back. Oops. We well away from the road, but we weren't technically in the off-leash area.

I made a peach pie to practice for the dessert contest at a picnic next Saturday. After I made it I realized the pie I made years ago was a peach custard pie. The pie I made was okay, but not a contest winner. I use a better pie crust recipe that I will use in the future.

Do you know the difference between swine flue and bird flu? Swine flu requires oinkment, and bird flu requires tweetment. LOL.

Editorial Team / Admin · Sep 16, 2025

Hello all!

Joe, I would feel irritated as well, if my cousin DC'd plans we'd made (with me accommodating hers). I hope your cat is OK.

Tweety, I'm hoping for good scores for your team tonight! Or, to enjoy the evening, no matter what scores happen!

No Stars, I have been considering getting hearing aids for awhile (mainly for dh, LOL!). I will be following your progress with them! I hope your respite hours from Nannie continue. Pats to Tinker!

nursej22, peach custard pie sounds wonderful! I'm glad your eldest ds was OK after the ER trip. I had to giggle when I read about the two flus! Good to know the difference!!

We got up early yesterday, and made it up to Oak Glen by 11:00. It is apple harvest season, and we played music from noon to four p.m. Our bassist joined us, and it was actually lots of fun -- doing songs dh and I were used to, and then doing songs we weren't really familiar with, that bass player did and we just followed him. We came home with a crumb-crust apple pie, yum! On the way home, we stopped by the Greek restaurant and dh got a Gyro. He says he must have been hungry, for he ate the WHOLE thing! I got a great Greek salad with feta cheese on top, drizzled with olive oil. So yummy! He ordered another Gyro to eat at home, and I had half of my salad for lunch today.

I just got the fourth load of laundry in the washer, and actually folded two loads and put them away! Today I called T-mobile and discontinued my Smart Watch. It's become more of a burden than a help. It's nice to have nothing on my wrist -- at least, nothing as bulky and heavy as the Smart Watch! Dh took it over, and is working on connecting it to his phone, to carry instead of his phone. It's beyond me, I'm glad to be done with it. The only thing I really used it for lately was tracking how many hours I slept -- and I can figure that out without the Smart Watch, I think!

Earlier, I had a nice chat with oldest ds, and we talked movies! He and some friends watched O Brother Where Art Thou? yesterday. He has recommended Knives Out to me, I need to watch it! I recommended the following to him: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Cary Grant), Born Yesterday (1950, William Holden and the GREAT Judy Holliday), and Adam's Rib (1949, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and Judy Holliday). All classics, and I could watch them over and over!

I did some exercising, between doing laundry loads and while watching an old movie (Let's Make It Legal, 1951).

That's all for now -- have a good evening!

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 16, 2025

OH! I just LOVE the movie Born Yesterday, it is one of my all time favorites! Judy Holliday was brilliant in it!

I go to get my new hearing aids on Friday at 3 PM!!!!! I am just a little bit excited! 😁

So, after all this time of having Tinker and trying to get her to "get it" about using the chux if she has to 'do' something while in the house.....Well, finally, tonight she did it! Right in the MIDDLE of the fresh chux I had put on Nannie's bed before I took her to the bathroom to change into her pj's. OMG! I could not believe it when I walked Nannie into her bedroom and saw that! I wondered if it was an editorial comment about Nannie always having to be taken care of first, before Tinker is! I was trying not to laugh out loud when I saw it there, and I knew I had to get that 'used' chux off her bed before she saw it, and get a fresh one down in place on the bed. It was a also a little funny, as I told her (hurriedly) to put her hand on the dresser to keep her balance, she did....but then started to tilt backwards ALMOST falling, and I blurted out, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, don't fall! Sit down....all three of you!" Then Nannie started laughing so hard at that, she fell onto the bed (in a sitting position, thank God,) so I could laugh about Tinker's deposit on her bed without giving anything away. WHEW!

An unbelievable exclamation point to the end of my day! I'm still smiling about it, and never said a word to Tinker about what she did.

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 16, 2025

And to be perfectly clear, Tinker did NOT urinate on that chux.