Sunday March 24 2023

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Ado hope Dory calms down

NJ22 hope your allergies don't start flaring too bad

Dianah hope the exercise can help address the insomnia

Tweety hope for less irritable people at your next shift

Stars I hope she settled down and the pain went away

Busy day yesterday, out early to attend a bird watching event with the over 50 group.  It was only me and the organizer from this group, although other groups attended.  Interesting but quite cold

Did some grocery shopping then met dad for lunch as usual.  Worked on my shopping list for the week and exercised and then watched most of Svengoolie

Today will go to church for Palm Sunday, thankfully this time have nothing to do at church except help with the offering.  Will do the cooking for the week prior to church. Going to make a quick salmon recipe along with a chicken dish.  After church will try searching local park districts for pickleball games, might do some CEUs as well

Going to be warmer today, in the upper 40s

 

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Got up at noon and fed Momo, and she did her biznezz on the underpad on the floor. (What a g-o-o-d dog!) I was having my coffee, when SiL arrived....a nice surprise! She got Nannie up and gave her a shower and dressed her, gave her her pills and breakfast. BiL came over and put new lightbulbs up on the dark side of the house, one of those on-at-dusk-off-at sunrise lights. It hasn't worked since I moved here, but it works now. I imagine there will be repetitive explanations to Nannie about why there is light shining outside the seldom-used back door of her bedroom. But it is a nice safety feature to have. 

SiL left after a couple of hours, but first I ran to CVS to get some more heat-wraps for my lower back and right hip. Got her a package too, to try, because she has been doing a LOT of yardwork at her house and has had some aching going on for several days. She said she is coming over to get Nannie tomorrow, and she will also have Nannie's great-grand-dgt, for the day. They are going to dye Easter Eggs, and *I* get a quiet day to myself. 😊 

Now that we have longer days, I won't mind driving over there to eat supper with them and it will still be light when I drive Nannie and myself home. I just hate driving in the dark around here, nothing looks the same and I am not familiar with roads here like I was in Asheville or Nashville. But I was working PDN and staff relief in both those cities so I had a reason to know all the roads. Here, I just go do errands and come home, and there have been more than a few times when I thought a certain road was a short-cut, but wasn't, and I got thoroughly lost. It hurts my feelings that my sense of direction is no longer something I can depend on, even if there is a perfectly good reason for losing my way now and then.

I get my SS check tomorrow (YAY!), so I can mail off the bill payments. I am lucky in that the post office and bank where I go are on the same street. Too bad they had to close the bank over in Mt. Pleasant, because it is a shorter drive and a smaller town. I wouldn't mind living over there, but won't plan on it until after Nannie's demise and selling off some of the furniture and then selling the house. We would have to have a good bit of cosmetic work done in order to be able to get a more decent price on the house, None of the windows open but the one in my room, and all the panes are being held in by dry, peeling putty. But all that work is in the future. 

Thank goodness I am in a better mood today, and as soon as SiL and BiL left, Nannie leaned back and closed her eyes. BUT! She won't be spending 36+hours in the recliner any more. I was SO frustrated with her yesterday, I wanted to yell and walk away. But I got through the day hour-by-hour,(*sigh*), and today is a different day!

Sunny and 58 degrees today, rain tomorrow. Daily, the temp goes down and then back up like a yo-yo. 

BiL also brought over a shepherd's hook on which to hang the plants out in the yard, right off the patio, where Nannie can see them. I am not going to worry if the bird decides to try to build a nest in one of them. There is no 'shelter' over the flower pots, so the birds will prolly not want to nest there, once there is a good rain....which will be soon. It's not like there aren't a gazillion places over in the woods for her to make a nest.

I don't know what SiL put in the fridge for supper, but she did say she put something up there. I'll find out what it is when I go up to do the dishes. Meanwhile....I'm thinkin' that tomorrow I will go down and prowl the shed to see if I can find some of my stored, framed pictures to put up on the wall in my bedroom.....if they aren't in too rough of a shape. Maybe I can find some of my favorite knick-knacks, too; it will be like Christmas for me!

I will find out from the TV providers if I can get the channel the Braves games are on; we have already missed at least two games. But I told Nannie that if they tell me I have to end up having to buy a larger package of channels to get that one, we won't be watching any games this year! I am not paying a monthly car-payment amount to watch TV , it is outrageous! 

All for now.....

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

This evening, Mom was a B-A-A-A-D girl. 😖 She peed on my sofa cushion, MY seat, while I was upstairs making supper. When I sat down, I couldn't see it was wet (the cushion-cover doesn't change color when it is wet), and didn't realize it until I had to get up and help Nannie with something, and THEN I felt my whole butt was saturated. I let out with an "AUGH!"  But at least the pee-pad was on the sofa cushion, under the cover. I had to go up and wash off and change my clothes; guess I'll be doing some laundry tomorrow! 🙄

oops, I meant Momo, not mom!

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Arrrrgggghhhh, naughty MoMo! 

I changed sheets and towels, and did some exercises.  Thunderstorms predicted this afternoon/evening, so we are staying at home.

Have a good evening!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

G'day

Home from work.  Took a while to wrap things up.  Garden variety busy day.  

 

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Hi, what started as a cool foggy day, resulted in a cool sunny day. When I returned home from my bike ride to breakfast, my fingers were so cold and stiff I couldn't undo the clasp on my helmet. I've cleaning house, doing a little deeper than I usually do. I should have worn gloves. Sports ball has been on the TV for most of the weekend. Ugh. The sound of the announcers is just so irritating. Maybe that's why I was on a cleaning kick: to work out the irritation.

dh is outside now, and I've been dozing in the recliner. 

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Binx sprayed my side of the bed again. It gets the comforter and sheet that hang over the side. I think this must be REVENGE pee for making him take pills. But then he wants to cuddle. Grrr. 

Dory has been pretty good today. Yesterday she and I took a good walk around the block. Naturally she pooped at the edge of a neighbor's yard and I was unprepared so when we got home I got a paper towel and we walked back down the street to take care of it. She seemed to enjoy the walk. Darby had reached the point where she refused to leave the yard on a leash. I guess either she hurt or she knew she would be too fatigued. 

Another weekend has gone by without me accomplishing much. I did get groceries and my laundry is done. 

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

Ado, doing laundry and getting groceries count as "getting something done!"  🙂

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