Tuesday January 6 2026

Good morning!

Joe, hope you have a smooth day

Ado, hope your sister improves.  Sucks about the c-diff and hope that runs it's course.

I'm addicted to coffee plain and simple.  It doesn't seem to make me anxious or keep me up at night and there are now numerous studies showing it's antioxidant and other health benefits so I go with that.  I usually have three a day, morning, before lunch and afternoon.  

My left groin/hip pain is improving on 800 mg ibuprofen every 8 hours, so it must be some kind of inflammation.  But still very annoying.  Will talk to the MD about it but probably won't do anything further at this point.  

I went to the monthly work committee meeting I go to . There were four of us there and the manager.  Nothing comes of these meetings, it just looks good on them to tout that nurses have input on how things are run.

I need my coffee in the morning. Usually have 2 cups each morning, though when I'm at home I drink less. After that, I usually only have it as a treat with a sweet snack, and not very often. When we first moved here, after nursing school, and Twin A and I were living with my parents, I'd work a night shift, then come home and have a cup of coffee with my mother, then go to bed. I couldn't tell that it bothered me much. 

No new word from nephew.

Tweety, my experience is that when I try to bring something to "those" meetings that actually needs to be addressed, then I'm somehow going about it wrong. 

It is in the 60's and sunny. Now, at 1 PM, gotta get my butt up off this sofa and go into Nannie's room to get her up. Whoop-de-dooooo! I don't have anything in particular planned today, except to put Nannie's laundry in the dryer. If I get too bored, I hope I don't go around the house and pee ? like j22's pups!

Feels like Saturday. Wish I had some "loose money", (ie not needed for anything else)... so I could go shopping. I need another lamp for my bedside..... the one I have now, you can't turn it OFF! I had to unplug it last night so I didn't have to try to sleep with it shining in my eyes, like I have for the past two nights. Don't know why I didn't think of unplugging it before, but I guess it was because it actually doesn't bother my sleeping if the light is shining right in my face, There is a small lamp in the former main bedroom but it has a really country-patterned with froofroo lace and pleats and ribbons. UGH! 

And since Tinker has started de-stuffingizing the cow-toy she got for Xmas, I have to find something fuzzy WITHOUT the stuffing. I had to take it away from her last night as she was viciously pulling the cotton stuffing out of the cows neck! And I need to get her another "bully bone" as she almost has the one I gave her the day after New Years Day, chewed down to the point where the chewed-on end has almost been chewed smooth. And I need a non-slide thingy to put under the den rug so it won't wander and make little waves bunch and pop up when ya place yer feet's on a certain area....because I am tired of almost stumbling over the rug and then cussing. I prolly should stop cussing about almost EVERYTHING.... and I WOULD ... if everything would just behave!

It's going to be "a day", because Nannie-Banannie has already begun lifting up her sweater hem to show it and the jersey under it, followed by my attention being called to her SLEEVES! Why, why, WHY? She isn't "obsessed" with things so much as she is in a deeply-grooved RUT she must really like. Clothes are and have been forever, her "thing". I know it is the dementia that causes her brain to hiccup and repeat everything like a needle stuck on a record. (Mebbe 'at's whut is wrong wit' my brain, too! ?)

Yah, yah, okay. She is staring into the backyard and I hope her eyes close because it is "very bright out there"....or so I hear! I keep telling myself I need to be grateful for the beneficial things in my life instead of grousing all the time. I THINK that once-upon-a- time I was a happy little camper with a fairly optimistic outlook. Nannie grinds me down to a powder, like the pill-crusher does her medicine. 

The song I heard playing in my head when I woke up?  The Chambers Brothers "TIME Has Come Today!" Geeze, maybe it is a message  that I should go out and get some scratch-off tickets because it is (as the ads on TV have it) "FIRST Tuesday!" and my time for winning is TODAY! Be-cept , I ain't so sure I should spend anything from my very 'thin' wallet, as there is still about two weeks until my SS check is deposited. Ah me, oh dear, and RATZ!

I'm'a-gonna shuddup now for a while. 

It's been very wet and windy today. There is heavy mountain snow, and low level flooding predicted. Some people lost power, not us. The tree trimmers came today, and cut a whole lot of branches overhanging the power lines, the drive was and the house. And they chipped them up and hauled it all away. Yay! 

I got a dental cleaning today, and didn't need an exam or X-rays. They say because my teeth and mouth are healthy, I can go longer without such things and save $$. 

And I got my hairs cut. Whacked off about 6 inches, and got lots of layers, so my curls can curl. I like it for now. I need to make some calls for sister, because her insurance is denying the MRI the new neurologist wants, and no one has called to schedule her EMG. And I need to write something nice about a coworker who is retiring. She used to drive me crazy with her OCD, but she really knew the ins and outs of TB. And I need to start this month's newsletter. But I just want to nap. 

Apparently while I was gone my boy dog kicked the little girl out of their dog bed and peed in it, right in front of dh. Maybe he was disgruntled about the tree service in the yard. He has be clinging to me since I got home, begging for forgiveness, maybe. 

My husband decided to hold a meeting of his (our) education committee in order to talk about another meeting he going to hold. At least they are on Zoom and I don't have to act interested. 

A meeting about another (future) meeting? I would GROAN if I had to be involved in that, regardless of what it's about. I must confess I was not always well behaved at meetings at my agency when we were told they were "mandatory". Oddly, though, maybe some of the comments or responses I made were actually NOT bad enough to get me "talked to" or fired! It's a thousand wonders, but they didn't even blink! I guess I had a certain reputation for reliability,  and that made me valuable enough to keep around.   I'm happy for you, j22's, that you don't have to pay attention too closely!