Thursday September 1 2022

We ALL slept late today. Funny, because Nannie didn't take her sleeping pill last night; she went to bed early (8:30-ish) and did not get up until after 11:30 AM!! It was 1 PM when she took her AM pills and had her 'breakfast' yogurt.

I'm going to take a shower. Will come back by here later.

G'day.

Those cakes sound good.  I'm sure they'll turn out delicious.

I had an okay day.  Busy with discharges, hanging blood, and getting an admission.  But that's my unit for you.

Off tomorrow for one day and working the weekend.  

Hubby and I 'celebrated' our last year's anniversary today. No, I say that because we had planned to go to a Chinese buffet for our anniversary last December, but for some reason it wasn't a good time to leave Nannie without a sitter. Now, because she sleeps soundly between each meal, we can slip off for a while. We told her we were going and since she'd eaten and gone to the potty, she could just nap in her recliner until we got back. It was mid-to-late afternoon, so when we were through, we stopped and got her her top-favorite 6" steak and cheese for her supper, and she was happy with that.

Hubby heard from our hairdresser that she is going to have a little studio/salon built on to her house (she had her place on the back of the house where she lived with her husband, but she's outta there now.) She already had a house, where her dad and son were living. Her dad passed away, and though her son is in his 40's, she has been an enabler for him; he says he 'can't be alone', and has panic attacks where he calls her after he's driven somewhere, and says he can't drive home, so she drops everything and goes to get him. Too bad she has babied him all his life. Don't know how many counselors and psychologists he's gone to over the years, but he says none of them worked. I guess it was more of the fact that he wouldn't work WITH them. He has his mom by a ring in her nose and leads her back to himself every time.He also has not liked ANY of her 'boyfriends' and gives her a hard time if she takes time off to vacation with one or the other of the boyfriends. As rough as my life feels at times, I am eternally grateful NOT to have a life like hers! I'd stick that son into a group home where THEY can help him learn to live a life of his own!

But good that she is going to be back in business, because I'd already decided not to go back to the last person who cut my hair.

Sorry I've been so wrapped up in my own woes that I don't chat much with you others here. Maybe the atmosphere will miraculously lift and I won't feel so burdened. I know many others have things WAY worse than I do, yet here I am, wallowing....but I am so tired of this situation with Nannie and hubby, and that things are not changing much at all. And just when I decide to do something about it, my own gypsies and such slow me down, discouraging me. (The gypsies are in my left knee, my left shoulder, and my right hip today.)

Well, BLAH!

Like the Rolling Stones used to sing....

"I Can't Get No ... Motivation."

Got my own struggles with motivation! 

Gma has gone to bed. Twin A worked an evening event at the zoo and isn't home yet. Stepson sent a bunch of texts to Hubs earlier today and managed to be vulgar and hateful enough that Hubs says he's done. *sigh*

That pecan cream pie sounds good. I like regular pecan pie a lot. When I was doing Weight Watchers years ago I could have 24 points a day. A slice of pecan pie was 12! Speaking of weight, mine has crept up lately and I've got to get it under control. OMG the picture from book club makes me look so big. In other news, the boys bought stuff to make a chocolate pie. ?

Stars, just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you can't talk about what's troubling you.

I have a friend that whenever I complain he says "well at least it's not....".   I finally had to tell him that I know I lead a charmed life and sometimes he just needs to listen and not comment.  Just listen.  

Yes I know people are getting bombed in Ukraine but that doesn't mean I can't complain that my bathroom tiles are falling apart does it?  

Yes, I know I have a job and people are unemployed but does that mean I can't complain that I've had a hard day?

The trick is not to climb down a rabbit hole and stay there that you can't see the forest for the trees.  I guess..

Rant over.