Saturday December 28th 2024

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Tweety glad the roof repairs have started even though it's proving more expensive than expected

Stars we've been having similar weather here

Ado glad you don't have to follow up with the cardiologist

Dianah hope you sleep better tonight

Work was busier than expected yesterday, lots of new documents to review, but otherwise was not bad.  Rest of the day was quiet, just exercised and relaxed in the evening.  Was kind of a feeling down day, not sure why.  Though it has encouraged me to reflect on where I am and where I'm going

Hoping today will be better.  Will do bird watching this morning, then my sister and family are supposed to arrive this afternoon to exchange presents and go out for Vietnamese. Though their plans can change pretty rapidly so we'll see

Going to be unusually warm today, up to about 50.  Thankfully the rains of yesterday have stopped

[No Stars In My Eyes]

50 degrees and raining. Tomorrow it will get up to a whopping 60 degrees and still more rain. // Momo woke me up at 11 AM, but I managed to ignore her until 11:30 AM. After I got dressed and came downstairs, I saw Nannie in the recliner, all 'stove-over' (crumpled up) and not looking at all comfortable, but she was sound asleep. I gave myself a few minutes to slurp some of my coffee, and then woke her up. // Have been having to instruct Nannie again in how to swallow her pills; she puts the pills In her mouth but sips and sips at the juice; I have to tell her to sip the juice and then BEFORE she swallows it, toss her head down (or back, depending how much attention she is paying to what I am telling her) and swallow. // Now she asks me . when she picks up her yogurt and spoon, "Am I doing it right?" After she eats all her yogurt I have to remind her to put her spoon DOWN on the tray, she does not need to hold on to her spoon to drink the juice or the BOOST. What makes me berserk is when she starts re-arranging the things on the tray. I tell her to just put the things on her tray, and then I grab it away before she starts making her tray look "perfect", with everything rearranged and all the stuff nested into itself. Then I have to take it all apart because some of it goes in the sink and the rest of it goes in the trash. Petty, I know, but so many things she does now makes me crazy, especially when she asks me if she is "doing it right." But she is happy to have on the outfit she wore yesterday....everything is her 'favorite' and when I take things off her at night, she frets about what I am going to do with her jacket. Jeez, I'm going to hang it up like I always do, because, I tell her, she doesn't wear jackets to bed. "Why not?" she asks. Because the jackets are dry-clean only and "we" do not want it to get pee'd on overnight. 🙄

And, no, we aren't going out anywhere today. // I have misplaced my previous 'brain' and have no idea where it is. Had to start another notebook-brain so I can continue to try to keep track of myself. Hope the old brain is somewhere in my room of the car, but who knows where it is or what I did with it. I need to keep everything attached to a chain to wear it all around my neck, so I don't put it down and then become distracted.

Not sure of today's itinerary. I need to put all the various piles of paper scattered around,  into a box and sort it all out. I used to have certain places for certain things, but lately all I do is toss it down and think "I'll get to it later." And the later it gets, the worse the mess. 

Nannie is starting to doze, so I am going to put her little pillow behind her neck to keep her head from toppling off. (maybe I need the same thing, to keep MY head from toppling off!) I want to sneak upstairs and do some of the 'cleaning', prior to the cleaning! It just never ends.....or maybe when it ends and looks better, I start tossing stuff down again. I can't dawdle long enough to keep things picked up the way I'd like to.

So, wow, oh woe is me: the same old same old. Y'all could probably recite my itinerary for me, from memory, because it doesn't change much day to day. 

Pillow + Nannie's neck = deeper sleep = a bit of time for Stars to putter about upstairs.

Bye for now~

[No Stars In My Eyes]

RATZ. No sneaking upstairs to putter around. Nanny keeps "coming to" periodically, waking herself up by talking in her sleep, then squinting at me to find out what's going on. What IS going on?? NOTHING! There's nothing going on, close your eyes again and continue napping!

Anyway, Momo and I are snuggled together on the sofa. Though Momo is not a cat, this could still qualify as being able to say, "I can't __[whatever]___because I have a cat in my lap !" That was the excuse my sister and I used to use to avoid answering the phone or the doorbell, and it was a good'n 'cause most of the time it worked!

Okay, I will just continue to do nothing much, as it is approaching time for supper. Fortunately, yesterday SiL delivered us some chili and beans, some fresh fruit, and some chicken salad, so I don't have to think about what we'll have for supper, or cook tonight!

Monday, Nannie has the Senior Center to go to, from 9 - 4:30 . Thursday is Chatty CG's day, and I'm not sure which day SiL is going to take her for the afternoon. Some one of these days (daze!) I will have a LOT of my time to myself; just don't know when that might take place.

PS: I did not win Mega-Millions. *sigh*

 

 

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

Funny, Stars. Hubs was just telling me that his mother is driving him insane. Thing is, he's been hiding/napping in the bedroom while I have been taking things away from her -- like the box of Christmas goodies Twin B received from a coworker. And the cat water fountain. Which had been on the floor and plugged in but I heard slurping and she was sitting at the table trying to drink from it. There was water all over the table. She clawed me when I took things away. I gave her a glass of water. 

We frequently use the cat-in-the-lap excuse. "I have feline paralysis" or "purr-alysis." I guess you have canine paralysis.

The boys have gone to a friend's catch-all holiday party. Though Twin B does work tonight. Hubs and Gma and I will soon have stew and cornbread. I'm working on getting laundry done. Exciting times here!