No Stars In My Eyes

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  1. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday September 24th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Tweety~ Hope you are not in the evac area! We are supposed to get storms Thurs and Fri ... rain, wind, and the whole shmear. Lots of storms whirling around down there in Fla, and out there in the...
  2. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday September 23rd 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    SiL brought Nannie back home at 6:30 PM, and came in to chat for a few minutes. While she was here----for 15-20 minutes, poor Nannie asked every few minutes whose car that was parked outside the back...
  3. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday September 23rd 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Afternoon~ I woke up at 10:45, went down to feed Momo, and there was Nannie sitting in her chair, drapes still closed. I asked her how long had she been up and she told me she got up at 6 AM. Not...
  4. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday September 22nd 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Joe~ Gee whiz! Maybe there isn't anyone else willing to admit that they are "over 50"? But I'm glad the other over-50 person is keeping it up with meetings, and is good, interesting company! And glad...
  5. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 21st 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Laundry, laundry, laundry, dishes, and laundry. The End. Tune in tomorrow, for more of the same. Boredom X 25, Resentment X
  6. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 21st 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Laundry will be done when the dryer buzzer yells out: BZZZZZZTTTT! It is the last load, thank goodness. Nannie has been sleeping ALL afternoon! YAY! It happens when the pre-poured meds have a...
  7. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 21st 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Got Nannie up and dressed and fed. Started one load of laundry, and will now put it in the dryer. Then I have to go upstairs and take a shower. Then I will come back down and start some more laundry....
  8. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday 9-20-2024

    No Stars In My Eyes posted a topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Ima try to start todays topic, which is ....today! It is just after 12 noon, BiL has arrived to mow the lawn, and says he feels better today. I'm not doing any 'lectures' to him about his...
  9. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday September 19th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    I didn't come back here yesterday because, well, I was worn out!! It took me 45 minutes to disimpact Nannie! 😩 And there was still a 'good' amount of firm stool that scooted back up inside her, so...
  10. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday September 18th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Okay, so far this AM things are going well. I woke up at 11 AM and got up 20 minutes later, got dressed and brought my stuff downstairs and fed Momo....then SiL arrived and got Nannie up and washed...
  11. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday September 17th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Tweety, I have NEVER seen Slowbro move as slowly as he is doing in that photo! 🤣 And Waffles looks like QUITE The Little Lady; it is a very sophisticated pose! 🤗 I love dogs so much,...
  12. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday September 16th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Nannie conked out, so I went to the store to get stuff that we always run out of the quickest. I also went to the bank and deposited my check from BiL and SiL. It is in the upper 60's and low...
  13. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday September 15th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    I posted for today at the end of yesterday's posts.... I have some Grain Bandage, Drain Dandruff, Strained Antlers.......or maybe Brain Damage? I can't talk about Nannie's short attention span...
  14. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 14th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Quiet day. YAY! The iL's came and got Nannie about three hours ago. I've got some of her laundry going in the washer. Washed a few glasses and pieces of silverware. Changed Momo's pee-pad....
  15. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 14th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    😖 😫 🤯 It's tough to remain polite and calm when Nannie will just NOT stop talking; it would be different if she made any sense, but she changes the subjects several times at any point...
  16. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday September 14th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    It is Nannie's 95th birthday today but it isn't going to be mentioned until tomorrow, and tomorrow is when they are taking her out to eat somewhere. She really won't remember ANY of it by the time she...
  17. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday September 13 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Oh, hey, it was a couple of years ago you told that anecdote. I tell mine more often than you do! Like I said, imagining you trying to walk in a frozen sitting position was quite a memorable image!...
  18. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday September 13 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    tmb~ Hey...I actually remembered when that happened and you posted about it. It was the 'permanent sitting position' you had from your clothes being frozen that clicked in my brain. BRRRRRR! I guess...
  19. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday September 12th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Gouda Aphternooon! I have decided that Nannie's bowel problem is chronic megacolon. I diagnosed it using my super-xray-vision. The lower bowel is not meant to hold clay-like, impacted stool the...
  20. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday September 11th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Did not sleep well last night; woke up every hour until 6:40AM and then I FINALLY fell asleep....But was awakened by the tree guys cutting and throwing limbs into the chipper. Got up at 10:30, knowing...
  21. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday September 10th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    I was awakened by the phone, with a message saying it was a collection agency for the Eyecare Ctr, and it said "tap here for secure chat." Well, I have a dumb phone that does not work that way....
  22. No Stars In My Eyes

    I give 2,640 meds to 35-40 residents by noon

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Had an LTC job passing meds, and all the other related jobs (lots of etc, etc, etc) for nearly that many patients. My problem was trying to stick it out and trying to improve my ability to deal with...
  23. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday September 9th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    3 vomiting cats, 2 turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree? Yikes! I hope their tummies stop rebelling and you don't accidentally step in any of it! I know Tweety has had the 'stepping-in-it'...
  24. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday September 8th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Could not remove the lightbulb from the reading lamp....it has 4 short cigar-shaped bulbs joined together in a row, they are attached to a base from which you supposedly can remove the whole...
  25. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday September 8th 2024

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    ARGH! After I got up from my seat on the sofa, I realized I had sat on a pee-deposit on the underpad. Usually I can SEE if Momo has peed there, but I didn't know it was there until I got up and felt...