Thursday September 11th 2025

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 11, 2025

Tinker seems to think it is time to wake me up every day around 10:30 AM, and she is relentless. So I am up and dressed, fed Tinker, made my coffee......but I'm not very awake yet. This is the Thursday that the new CG doesn't work, but she will be doing Thursdays from next week on.

It's just after 11 AM and in a minute I have to take Tinker out so she can drag me around, Last night when she did that....she was straining at her harness with great enthusiasm and PULLING me and trying to LEAP forward. It occurred to me that though she is a Chihuahua, she would make an excellent MUSH-DOG! So this Winter IF we get any snow, I will sit on a sled and let her 'mush' me around the yard! For an under-10 pound dog, she sure is STRONG! YIKES!

I've got some of my laundry to do, and a few of last night's dishes to wash. Today is also "Gather The Trash Day" and after supper I will drag the bins out to the end of the driveway for tomorrow AM's trash pick up. I've lost track of the recycling day...it is every other week. And Dear Abby, my iL's don't pay attention to which bin is trash and which is recycling; apparently at home they don't separate the recycling from the trash. Oh well. I am not the "trash police". My sister would be, but I am not going to stand with arms akimbo pointing out which bin is for which kind of trash, nor will I put up signs nor go through the bins after they have been here, to separate everything 'correctly'.

.I have got to go upstairs.....no, FIRST I have to take Tinker out, and THEN I will go up to the kitchen and sear the pork-loin roast, then start it in the crock-pot with the broth and veggies, It would be VERY NICE if Nannie stays in bed until I am ready to tackle the start of her day. Oh excrement to the max, I think she may be up, because Tinker is tipping her ears toward the direction of her bedroom door. Hope those ears are wrong! I will carry on with my current plan, unless she appears in her doorway.

Note to myself: don't close your eyes and lean your head back, not even for just a minute! Wake up! Wake up!

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Sep 11, 2025

I didn't win my race against the clock to finish my book before it was snatched back by the library app. So I put another hold on it and am 20th in line. What I get for picking something that's currently being read by lots of people.

Meanwhile, I have another one still on loan for 2 weeks and I could check out the latest book club selection. The church book club started up again last night. Since the person in charge is a school librarian (upper elementary) her choices are often books for that age group, but they are good selections, and easy to read in a short time since we meet weekly. I put a hold on the actual physical book but will look into getting the ebook if it doesn't come up pretty quickly.

Since I bought all that almond flour to make the filling for the crescent rolls, I've tried some recipes. Last night I made blueberry muffins. The recipe only used a little maple syrup for sweetening and, frankly, it's not enough. They aren't terrible, but they're not good either. The recipe that was pretty good was chicken pot pie with the crust made from almond flour, mozzarella cheese, and cream cheese spooned over the top of the filling.

Twin B has been inspired lately to pick up his trumpet again and he wants to try participating in the New Horizons band at OU again so we plan to go to rehearsal tonight. I think I'd make a pretty good retiree -- books and music, the occasional volunteer gig for things that matter to me...

nursej22, MSN, RN · Sep 11, 2025

I too am struggling to get my eyes open. We went to the baseball game in Seattle and didn't get home until 1:30. I slept until 9. Eldest ds bought us tickets and I drove. It was a beautiful, and the Mariners won in the 12th inning.

Before leaving, I spent 3 hours volunteering at the demo garden, weeding and removing spent blooms. I reported an apparent water leak in June, but it was deemed "not that bad". Yesterday, there was standing water around the spot. So the park guys who do the maintenance came to fix it. I was fearful that they would dig out my roses, but it was quickly fixed.

The doggos were very lethargic after their vaccines, but this morning they are full of bounce! Punch is supposed to lose 2 pounds, so I've cut down his nighttime feeding, and now break treats in half.

I have a meeting at 4, but no other plans. I know I need to clean up dog waste in the back yard. Ah, the joys of pet ownership.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Sep 11, 2025

I'm struggling to stay on task. And failing 🙂

A small kitten appeared at the hospital door by the maintenance dept. It looks just like the 2 cats that hang around and get fed (they're all tortoise-shell kitties) so maybe one of them had kittens. So one of the housekeepers is going to take it home where she has a cat with kittens of a similar age. But it makes me wonder if there are more kittens out there somewhere. I think the best thing someone could do is trap the two adults that hang out here and get them neutered. They like being fed but do not want to be approached or petted, so trapping would be the only way to get it done.

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 11, 2025

I forgot to tell y'all about the tremendous 'fight' I had with Nannie last night. I let her sleep from 7:30 to 10 PM in her recliner and I shouldn't have waited so long to wake her up. She was sooooo crabby-stubborn, and would NOT open her eyes; kept saying "I can't". She swatted me off, told me to leave her alone, go away, etc. I on the other hand started using my outdoor voice to penetrate her 'refusal-to-hear-and-cooperate' barrier. I prayed loudly to God and Jesus to come down and help me get her going! Then I cussed her out "like I own her". I threatened to make a call to the ambulance, I got right down in her face and said if she would not help me, open her eyes and wake up so she could stand up, she would have to go to a nursing home where two large women or a man would man-handle her into the bathroom and into bed. I told her she could get mad at me, but I wasn't going to stop and I wasn't going away. She calmly said, "ha ha ha". I tapped the front of her shoes with my foot, I made the recliner go up so far that it would dump her on the floor if I pushed it up another inch. I yelled even more! EVENTUALLY 'we' made some headway.

My gawd, it took me TWENTY FULL MINUTES before I could get her up on her feet, and even then I had to keep telling her to open her eyes. Also to put her hand out on the door, the wood work, or the counter (etc) to help me help her to keep her balance, because she wouldn't do so, and almost fell 3 times. I picked up her right hand and put it on the wall for her and she said, "Ow. You're going to make me fall!". (HAH!) When she finally got seated on the toilet, she again closed her eyes and her head started drooping, and I hollared ,"NO! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FALL ASLEEP ON THE TOILET!" It took a while, but I got her out of her wet clothes and into dry pj's, then shuffled her as best I could to go sit on the side of the bed. I took her shoes off and swooped her feet up and onto the bed, saying as always, "Head on the pillow!" (something we always do and she always has liked to do, saying "Whoooo!".....). Once horizontal, she smiled at me with open eyes and said "Ah, that feels so good!" I did not react. But I did tell her to NOT get up at 3 AM to sit in the den like she did the night before. I got her innocent smile and she said, "Oh, I did? I'm so sorry, honey." Yeah, so once she was in bed, she acted nice.

So, right she is, the sorriest of all. Me? I am sorry I lost my cool, but y'know, it felt good to be able to yell at her. I knew she wouldn't remember any of it in the morning, anyway. I don't want to be accused of elder-abuse, but I know that part of what she was doing was "On-Purpose" Caregiver Abuse. Anybody who has known her for any amount of time would not be surprised how she was acting. She used to think it was funny to make people frustrated. (brat) I could tell you stories, but enough is too much!

And now she has fallen asleep in the recliner, so I may have several hours to cool my jets, because even just narrating this has me kind of 'het up'!

Maybe Tinker and I will go outside and look up the tree trunks and into the branches to see if we can find any birds or squirrels. She really tickles me when she does that.....which is pretty much all the time now, very alert and hoping for the possibility to dash at something....anything! She also has started playing "fetch" with one of her toys, something new, and she LOVES it. She POUNCES on that toy, "kills it" and then brings it back to me.

Obee-Kaybee, over and out! (WHEW!)

Tweety, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2025

G'day.

I'm tired for some reason. Work was okay. Nothing much major went on.

Have a good evening.