Saturday July 19th 2025

No Stars In My Eyes · 2025-07-19T18:19:35Z

First thing this (late) morning, I got two texts from SiL trying to convince me to go to the shelter with her and get a CAT instead of the Chihuahua....she would help me pay the adoption fee and a cat wouldn't be as expensive and I wouldn't have to take it out all the time (to pee, etc.), and, like, is the dog even house-trained?..... and I'd have a better idea of the temperament of a cat from the shelter., and, and, and AND! I had to remind her that Nannie HATES cats. SiL just felt impelled to give me her 2 (or 5 ) cents. I said the people who found the dog have notices out everywhere to find the owner and they have called shelters and vet's offices, etc. That seemed to satisfy her enough that she texted me back with a 'thumbs up". .................OY! SiL said she was just thinking of ME. [huh.] If I were to get the dog, I'd have to have her spayed and chipped. But, being as she is only 9 lbs, she wouldn't be a HEAVY load to take care of. I don't even know how the search for the owner will turn out, though I have to say, I am inclined to at least MEET the dog if they can't find her owners. Maybe SiL thinks it would make me less free to take care of Nannie? Who knows? I just remember the look on her face when I showed her a photo of the dog on-line......something about it she did. not. like. Last night I lay in bed thinking of names for the dog. Nope didn't come up w/ any, because I'd want a name that fit her, and I can't know that unless I have some time with her. And now I have the dark cloud of SiL's opinion hanging over me. No sense in worrying about it all now; we don't even know how things will land with the dog and possible owners. There was another photo of her taken when they got her in a crate and maybe that's the photo I should have showed SiL. Man, I just do NOT like people pushing me, one way or the other: DON"T PUSH ME!

And that is what is going on (or NOT going on) here. Well, besides doing Nannie's SOAKED bedding and clothes in the washing machine. The usual.

I hope SiL doesn't come over here today, I don't want her telling me AGAIN that she is 'just' thinking of me and all about the expense and the 'hassle' of getting another dog (one that has not passed her approval test.) ......and make no mistake, she WILL tell me her 'objections' when I see her again, sort of apologetically, but not really. Just wanting me to know..... like I haven't had it reverberating in my mind since she first said it. *SIGH*

OH WELL!

Tweety, BSN, RN · 2025-07-19T20:23:06Z

Good afternoon.

I am not a cat person. Dogs only. I guess I have to take Waffles into the doggie ophthalmologist because her right eye seems mess up. Someone said her lens may be messed up as her cataract floats around. Maybe needs some drops and a glaucoma check. Her usual doctor moved to Michigan and they haven't found a replacement. So requested another appointment and probably will take a while as it's a very specialized field of vet medicine. But she doesn't seem to be in pain.

I walked into a patient's room the other day and a Chihuahua jump out of her arms and barked and growled at me like I was a monster about to attack her owner. Scared me to death as I didn't know the dog was there. I swear those are the devil's dogs. LOL

Started to drive to work and noticed I had a flat and came home. Luckily best friend was awake and drove me.

I am home now and going to have AAA change it. Too much work in this heat.

I got to go home at 3:30 because our census dropped and the ER was slow. I was on overtime so was able to wiggle my way into being flexed off. I told them "I'm in overtime, I have food poisoning and a flat tire".

No Stars In My Eyes · 2025-07-19T21:07:41Z

Tweety said:

Good afternoon.

I am not a cat person. Dogs only.

That's fine, but with Nannie it was different.....as a youngster, she lifted the lid of a cast-iron stove top and put a little kitten in there. I don't know if the stove was on, but I do know they didn't find the kitten until much later. You can be a non-cat person, that's okay by me, but I don't think you'd do something like she did! And I've said, "SHOO! GO ON!" to many a cat, but I have also had many cat pets in my life, as well as many dogs.

Now, my sister, on the other hand, once had many goats and goat kids, a pony, 2 llamas, 2 giant "miniature" pigs, I don't know HOW MANY dogs, and at one time, to help with vermin in the goat barn, she had 22 cats. The last cat was named "Two-too" as in it was 2 too many cats (it came to her with a 'pal' cat').

So BiL is mowing the lawn, and every single time he passed by the glass back door on the riding mower, Nannie doesn't know who he is! And EVERY time I tell her it is her youngest son who mows her lawn every weekend, all she can say is, "huh." And she leans forward in her chair to track his pathway, muttering to herself, so she still doesn't know who he is! She insists she does not ever remember him coming here before. SAD!

BiL also brought a grocery-bag full of Tupperware containers of food for our supper, Not sure what is in all of them, but it is food I only have to microwave for Nannie.

I'm "bad".....I thought if SiL came over I would change into the socks my sister gave me as a gift, It would be pretty passive-aggressive to do this, as the socks say "DON'T PUSH ME!" 😠 What can I say? My sister knows me! She also gave me a carved and painted sign that says, "The crab is in"....and it's not just because my birthday falls in July! I really AM a crab .... well, as are my siblings, with each other especially. We've just come to expect that of each other and don't often take offense. But we don't shout and argue, we just say our piece, and there it stands.

It is already 4:45 PM.....about five hours to the Nannie-person's bedtime! She has told me 8 times that she doesn't know who that is out in the back yard, and she says "He sure doesn't know what he's doing," // But now he has come inside and she asked him if she could go with him when he leaves! And she'd be very happy to help him with whatever he has to do.

I told her it was too dangerously hot outside for an elderly person to stay out there for long, and BiL told me that when I was upstairs a little while ago, she walked outside to see what he was doing, and he had to walk her back inside to her chair again. So if anyone ever wants to know why I sit down here in the den all the time, that is one of the reasons. She must also be the one who comes upstairs in the very early morning, and unlocks both the locks on the front door! I lock them just when I am going up to bed, and every morning this week I have found them unlocked! Too bad restraints are frowned upon now. Just as well, because I sure don't want to get hauled in for elder abuse! GADS!

Tweety, BSN, RN · 2025-07-19T21:31:36Z

No Stars In My Eyes said:

You can be a non-cat person, that's okay by me,

It was just a statement about me, not needing approval.

My sister is an animal person. Right now she has two cats plus a couple of strays that she takes care of that wonder around. She feeds the geese that come daily to her yard. She with my parents now and that's it. But when she was here she had a lizard and two rats and four cats...in a mobile home. Her daughter is almost like her. She has now two (one recently passed away) dogs and one is huge, I can't remember the name but it's big and fat, but very gentle.

Spare tire is on. AAA came and spent all of five minutes. It would have taken me an hour to figure out the jack and change it in his miserable heat.

Can someone explain why they only put temporary spare tires in your car instead of a replacement?

nursej22, MSN, RN · 2025-07-19T23:16:04Z

Tweety said:

Can someone explain why they only put temporary spare tires in your car instead of a replacement?

Because they would have to know the size and type of tire you need? Thats just a guess.

By the way, I'm more of a dog person than cat. Litter boxes gross me out. Most other animals belong outside.

No Stars In My Eyes · 2025-07-20T02:14:53Z

Nannie, watching a baseball game

1.) [After I mention that the Braves score is 5 to nothing:]--- "A loose person.....is a woman....and she's coming in.....about six." (??)

2.) (pointing at her shoes) "I've got two of them, and look...look...(she pulls up a pant- leg and shows me her shins, above the socks) "See that? See?"?

3.) "He's talkin' about them and how they don't have to, uh, uh,uh. oh I don't know. It's like this" (She pulls on her jersey hem), "and these" (she shows me her sleeves)

4.) "Oh look, there is something wrong with his eyes" (he's Asian.}

5.) "There's a man and a woman there." (I told her the stands were full of men and women,) "Ayah, but oh, never mind."

6.) "When they went to play, his face was too fat to go underneath, and they go all over to pick them up."

7.) "There's, they're trying to push them back....in the neighborhood. If they go out and use those things that they left.

8.) "That girl has pizza." (It was an ad for Marco's pizza!) "She shouldn't be allowed to eat on the field."

9,) "That guy almost got hit in the cooter." (Um, that is not what guys have, Nannie!)

10.) "Look at what he's got on his shirt!" (what?) "His shirt says 'LOST SANTA. They shouldn't allow him to do that." (it was a pitcher with the last name of De Los Santos)

Welp, she wound down and got quiet. Hope you enjoyed the 😳 'conversation' from this evening! 🤪 I sure didn't! I figured if I had to sit here through this (the above) and lots more which I couldn't catch, maybe I could bring y'all along for the fun!

No Stars In My Eyes · 2025-07-20T02:17:37Z

PS: Can someone explain to me why they don't even give you ANY spare tire with a KIA SOUL?

And Tweety, I approve, whether you need it or not! So there!

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · 2025-07-20T03:19:13Z

Growing up I was much more of a cat person but we have had dogs that I loved and now I think most dogs are wonderful. Hubs thinks chihuahuas and other small ones are indeed the devil's dogs. My sister's dog, for example, is very yappy.

Besides meeting my friend for lunch it was an uneventful day. 97 degrees, full sun, "feels like" 102.