Wednesday February 21 2024

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Tweety no kidding, I'm wondering if I would be better with the sites than the apps

Stars that is a lot to handle, I hope by next month things are smoother

NJ22 I think my pharmacy offers that service too

Ado hopefully you can at least get some respite care

Work was good yesterday, not too busy and had time to help others at the end of the day.  Rest of the day was fairly quiet too, exercised and watched some more Peanuts and spent more time on the dating apps.  Work day was quiet enough to get laundry done by lunch rather than after work

Sleep is still a bit messed up, woke up twice during the night and earlier than I normally do.  I think it's stress related to the dating.  While the counselor can't make our usual appointment tomorrow, I may see if she can fit me in at another time as I think we need to talk about this

Little annoyed with the dating app Hinge, I noticed it was showing me people I previously rejected, which may indicate I've already used up the people in my area who it says are compatible.  I could adjust the criteria or look at people who don't show as compatible, but surprised that we reached this point in less than a week

Today have grocery shopping after work, will stop by the library too

Another unusually warm day here, will  get up to 60

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning!

Joe, hope you get better sleep.

I didn't get new glasses last year as my prescription didn't change that much.  I will this year.  I shudder to think what inflation has done to the price of glasses.  But I'll use my health savings account, so I'm ready.

My father who is in his right mind at 90 wouldn't surrender his retirement and SSI for a nursing home as along as my sister's there who says my parents while they need full time assistance don't need a nursing home.  Time will tell how it will play out as they age and need more hands on.  

Yesterday I wasted an hour and a half of my life in traffic trying to get to yoga class.  Besides rush hour, there were two wrecks and road work.  Oh well, I tried.

Spent an usual amount of time settling on what to cook today for meal prep and decided on a chick dish and a tofu dish found on Pinterest even though I have dozens of cookbooks.

I'm on my third load of laundry and found sheets in the dryer that I put in there last Friday.  opps........

 

 

 

[dianah, ASN]

Hello all!

Joe, hope you can arrange an appointment with the counselor.  I would be anxious, if I were going out on dating sites!  That's weird that the one site is presenting ppl you have already declined. 

Tweety, too bad about the traffic and your yoga class.  Traffic is so unpredictable and can be frustrating!

We did our music last night at the live program.  The speaker was good.  Our first song went better than I expected.  The second one, since we had been sitting about 45 minutes, my voice wasn't as warmed up, so I was a little wobbly.  Oh well.  

Today I have a few errands to do.  Tomorrow we will take Toby to the vet for a check-up.  

The rain has stopped and the sun is out!  Temps will be in the mid-70's through the weekend!

Have a good day! 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I'm tired of grousing, but here I go again: Today is my 'day-off from Nannie". What I did was.... sleep 'til noon; did bill-paying; then went to the post office and bank, drugstore and grocery store. I've put away all the groceries. Now it is 5 PM and I still have to do the dishes in the sink, but will put off laundry until tomorrow. Not exactly a day off, is it?! I haven't even gone in the little bedroom to do the pick-up-toss-out-donate routine that I had sort of planned to do. 

SiL got Nannie up at noontime, bathed and dressed; then she took her over to her house for the afternoon; then after supper, after dark, she will bring Nannie home again. 

I have got to start some kind of routine or schedule things for ME every day, so I can get a few little things accomplished for myself! It seems that instead I avoid everything because I have STUFF I have to do as part of my "taking-care-of-Nannie-and-the-household." responsibilities. I have to be responsible for myself and my time, because, after all, this is MY life and I am not an indentured servant. I rush around and make more of a mess everywhere, so I am always having to pick up after myself, as well as Nannie. 

I'm going to have to sit down and figure this all out so I can stop feeling so put upon. I could use a good long week of being ENTIRELY alone, by myself, with no tasks or chores except as I feel led to do for ME! It doesn't help, when I feel like I am feeling, to just sit down and do NOTHING, and so far that's been my go-to method to feel better.

While I was pulling things out of the frozen food section at the store today, I decided my name might be "Stars Cook-a-lot", with my middle name being "Doesn't". ? I nuke things, mostly. SiL is kind and is always dropping off portions of suppers of left-overs and home cooking that she does, and that is a big help. She said she will be bringing some more when she brings Nannie back today. 

It's hard to feel guilty and p.o.'d at myself at the same time, but I seem to be pretty adept at it, dammit!

Oh, and I read a "health tip" that I will pass along. It made me laugh, and I don't actually know if it actually helps ? but this is it:  "If you feel anxious, try eating avocado." ? Would that things were so simple!

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Stars, if it makes you feel any better, today was my day off for me.  I swept and mopped, did three loads of laundry, went grocery shopping, cooked and cleaned toilets.  

 

 

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

It's raining, which put a kink in my plan to work in my garden. I took the dogs for a short walk when it was only raining lightly. I watched a couple of tutorials on line for an online platform to use for emails for the master gardeners. It doesn't look too daunting. And I went to a meeting about the same, then stopped in the grocery store to pick up ingredients to make spaghetti for dinner. Eldest ds sent me an email to wish me an early happy birthday. The rest of the family, except for MiL will likely forget. 

We, youngest ds and I,  played online Trivia last night, and came in first. The questions were easier than usual. There was a category about past presidents, Wayne's World, music from 1984, and Dr. Seuss books. When my kids were little they wanted me to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas every night. I got to where I would skip pages because I got so sick of reading the same thing over and over.

"Every Who down in Whoville loved Christmas a lot, but the Grinch who lived just north of Whoville, did not."

I do not cook much, either, and it is usually the same thing over and over. dh has printed off a whole bunch of recipes, hole-punched them, and put them in a 3 ring binder. He made one, a fish stew, ate one bowl, and then left it in the pot on the stove for a week. I wasn't going near it, but with dd staying over the weekend, I got rid of it. I was gagging. 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Eeeaauuuuwwww! Left fish stew in the pot, on the stove, for a WEEK? YIKES! 

(((((((( j22 ))))))))

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Stars - could they arrange for nannie to stay "respite" in a facility for a week to give you that much needed break?

[No Stars In My Eyes]

CrunchRN said:

Stars - could they arrange for nannie to stay "respite" in a facility for a week to give you that much needed break?

Ah! A light in the darkness! That's a good idea; I think that's going to have to be what happens. The iL's had said something about them going to the beach (on the coast, a # of hours away) for a long weekend, and mentioned that I should go with them, "just to get out of the house". I don't really feel like going to the coast with them. It might be nice some other time, but right now it is solitude I am yearning for. I believe once all the bureaucratic nonsense has been settled (and we are near that point) that I can get their help in arranging such a respite for me. Oooh, yeah!