Sunday November 9th 2025

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Tweety I tend to self sabotage with food too, when I'm not over controlling what I eat

Stars hope today was a quiet day

NJ22 hope you don't have jury duty

Ado I don't think I've ever made cinnamon rolls

Went out birdwatching yesterday, very few birds, although I did get a nice and fairly long nature walk in.  Had lunch with dad and then made a pumpkin spice cake.  And was reminded why I rarely bake.  Going forward I'll have to find ways to simplify.

Heating was acting up yesterday, turns out a valve needs to be replaced.  Since the system won't be able to regulate the temperature it's going to be left on continuously.  Which should be OK as it will be getting fairly cold and snowy

Today have church, then will do some cooking.  Was planning to get together with a friend this evening for coffee but not sure it's going to happen given the weather

Going to only get up to 40 today, some snow on and off then a Winter storm this evening and tomorrow morning, could get a foot or more of snow

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning!

Joe sounds like a good, if cold day.

Our cold weather is approaching on Tuesday.  It always makes the news when we have a cold front that drastically drops the temp.  They are predicting 40s here and some in the 30s inland and north.  I hate it.  My air conditioner has been coming on in the afternoons and then I'll need the heat in the same week.  Bleh........At least it doesn't snow and hurricane season which ends the 30th has been essentially called over.  Thank goodness.  Couldn't do a hurricane again anytime soon.

I tossed and turned a bit and got up and fed the dog so I could try to go to sleep and not have to get up again to feed her.  I was thinking it was about 5AM and it was 2:30..so she got fed real early.  She didn't complain.  I did manage to sleep again until about 7:30 and was glad she didn't have to wake me up to be fed.

Going to best friends and he's hosting "fruit and cereal" for a couple of his friends who also happened to be my former next door neighbors.  I'll probably just have coffee and fruit.

I cleaned up my Florida room and boxed up a couple boxes of books that were just sitting around there, mostly cookbooks.  Looks a bit neater in there.  I rarely use that room and there's no furniture, just some storage and some bookshelves.  Once upon a time I fancied a reading room and library but the relationship broke up and finances didn't allow it.

I was feeling down in the dumps and doing something productive like that, and cleaning up the garage some helped lift my mood some.  Not sure where that came from.   

Have a good day.

 

[No Stars In My Eyes, LPN]

Warm and very windy. If I didn't already know it was obviously windy, I wouldn't be so tired of Nannie already today, because she has remarked about the wind a dozen times in as many minutes. 

Yes. I still have a lot to do and take care of, but unless she falls asleep I can't leave her on her own and go take care of MY stuff. I am hoping I can make myself get up earlier tomorrow, after Nannie is whisked away to daycare, and actually have the positive energy to tackle what I am always putting off doing. 

When I took her clothes off her last night she said "Wait. Those are mine! I want to keep them!" Does she think I am going to toss them out or give them away? Anyway, since they were clean and dry, I put them on her again today, so she is as happy as....what? She was surprised (genuinely!) when I told her that her room was FULL of clothes she likes just as much.

Tinker and I did our walk and she is now pressed up against my thigh, dozing.  

I have nothing interesting to add, so......I'm outta here.

 

[No Stars In My Eyes, LPN]

It is 3:20 PM and we have been descended upon. BiL is mowing the lawn full of leaves. SiL just gave Nannie a fast shower and shampoo, and is now giving her a perm. I haven't been wearing my hearing aids lately (why? can't understand a word Nannie says anyway.) but if I want to hear SiL I had to put them in.

[No Stars In My Eyes, LPN]

SiL nixed the perm for now, but she did give her a shampoo and curled her hair and used a ton of hairspray on it.

 They brought us two takeout boxes from a seafood restaurant, so I just have to put the food in the oven in a while to warm them up, and there's our supper!

45 minutes later and they were out the door! WOOSH!

[No Stars In My Eyes, LPN]

Entry #IV: Tonight Nannie told me that the female sports announcer on our local channel (someone who she doesn't even know) is a Jehovah's Witness, And about a woman in a commercial for skincare, she said "That girl looks dead." And during an HGTV show "Those men are trying to boss those women around." Then ten minutes after I got her to the bathroom and back in her recliner, she asked me, "Where is the bathroom in this place?" I pointed it out to her and she started to try to get out of the recliner.....I told her NOT to get up on her own, to wait for me to let the footrest down. I asked, "Do you have to go to the bathroom again?" She said she didn't know she had already been in there. I told her she had just come back into the den from the bathroom, and she had had a large BM while she was in there. Oddly, she looked very disappointed when she said, "Oh." Then she fell asleep for 15 minutes and woke up and said, "What did you tell me about the bathroom?" And I didn't answer her, I just said "Would you like to go to bed now?" and she said she thought that seemed like a good idea. So when I walk her into the bathroom I have to tell her where to put her right hand, and touch it and say,"This one...." (because she doesn't remember left from right.), to help steady herself, as in "Put your hand on the railing, Now put that same hand over on the woodwork, Now put the same hand on the doorknob." And she told me she can't hold on to "all those things at one time." While I was wrestling her feet free of her pantlegs, she REALLY shocked me by calling me by my (real) name, "Stars, What are you doing?" I said I was preparing to put her nighttime pull-up and pads on her, then her PJ bottoms. "Where on earth did you find pajamas?" [-----"In your room."] -----"I have a room?" 

These are the 'conversations' we seem to have here, like, practically 24/7. It's why I have to 'talk' so much to you guys. She is slipping more mentally and I only hope I can  outlast her. 🤪  She makes my brain turn into aggravated sludge.

Tomorrow AM I have to get up early to get her dressed so BiL can take her to daycare. SiL has to go in to work at the ABC store at 6:30 AM to start taking inventory. Don't know if I'll be "lucky enough" to have to go pick Nannie up at 4:45 PM. This ain't much of a life. Last night I dreamed I was looking for a new place to live.