Thursday December 12th 2024

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Dec 12, 2024

What kind of cake are you making, Joe?

Turns out we have choir practice the night of my book club's cookie exchange party and since the choir is so small I feel like I really need to be there. I still want to try the recipe I found for cinnamon-spiced hot chocolate cookies.

No Stars In My Eyes · Dec 12, 2024

The only thing I can tell you about today's weather is that the sun is shining and as we are about an hour away from sun-down, it is getting colder and the breeze is pretty icey feeling.

Chatty CG is here today (YAY!) I let her get Nannie up and dressed; I brought the breakfast tray downstairs and then I did last nights dishes. And I had to put my comforter in the wash because Momo peed on it, because *I* forgot to put the chux on top of it, at the bottom of the bed as I always do (except for this time.) OH WELL!

Now, at 4:17 PM I am eating a small, cheap, "supreme" frozen pizza. Two and a half minutes in the microwave, easy-peasy, and it fills the hunger-hole, which is all I was interested in.

I have given myself the day off and have been mostly resting in bed, reading and perusing computer stuff.

SiL has an appt on Monday at 1 PM for Nannie to have an "assessment" at a new-ish senior daycare place to see if she is a 'good fit', so maybe we can have her there 2 days a week. It is a different one from the one we are STILL on a waiting list for. I will follow SiL and Nannie to the place, so I can know where it is (It might not be an acceptable excuse 🤨 to say "I don't know!" when/if someone says to me, "Where is Nannie?") Anyway, she will be there for 4 hours and I will have to pick her up and bring her home at/around 5 PM. Oh boy and hot-diggity, I get to drive in the rush-hour traffic while it is getting dark. But, if she does end up going there, that will be a regular thing: SiL is up early all the time, and she will get Nannie up and transport her there in the AM, and I go get her at the end of her day. It MIGHT end up with me having more than 4-6 hours to myself, if it all works out. SiL also said we will keep Chatty CG through the holidays, and MAYBE as an occasional PRN sitter sometimes. SiL says she is excited because "we are getting there" insofar as some respite for me. I did not say that maybe ONE DAY I will have a life of my own! But, a lot of the places I have looked at to see if I want to participate in/with, their programs are often at 7 PM, which does me no good, but we'll see....maybe there is something I can do in the afternoons, like go out with a walking club or something. Who knows! But, I am not excited yet myself. Maybe during the New Year things will have worked out nicely.

BiL has to bring all of Nannie's receipts (food, household goods, disposable needs, clothing, OTC meds and/or products) to some gov't office soon because he officially has the guardianship, and they have to check up to make sure we are not using Nannie's money to buy ourselves valuable jewelry, gold, and vehicles, or to fly to Hawaii and Paris every week....

The only other chore I have to do today besides fixing -- (uh, preparing!) Nannie's supper and getting her into bed, is to put the trash barrel out at the end of the driveway for tomorrow AM's pick-up.