Wednesday May 11 2022

No Stars In My Eyes · May 11, 2022

I have been watching LEON the LOBSTER on Youtube. Someone got him at a grocery store and took him home for a pet. Got to see him eat and molt. w00t!

Had my hearing aids "deep cleaned" (whatever THAT involves!) and had my hearing checked (it hasn't changed any) and had the left hearing aid 'fixed' so I can adjust the sound up or down without it affecting the right one. Much nicer. I told them that I had to rip my left hearing aid out when hubby was talking ... he has a loud voice, from talking to Nannie, and I have to make a motion with my hand (down. down!) to remind him that he doesn't have to talk so loud. But now I can just set the left hearing aid at a lower setting and the right one stays as it is set. Before they both worked off the same volume, NOW it's beddah!

Taking a break for supper....

No Stars In My Eyes · May 11, 2022

So....We've done et, and I'm back!

Earlier today hubby and I were sitting out on the front porch, sort of dejectedly talking about the expensive things we have to take care of, like TEETH and new glasses, etc (ETC x 10 ?). During a pause in the conversation I looked up into the sky and said, "Dear God, Please send me a LOT of money!" So, Just now the mail ran; I went out to the mailbox and got what was in there, I started laughing. I told hubby that it was like God was --sort of -- answering my prayer by saying, "Uh, well, I don't have any cash or checks right now, but HERE ARE TWO BIG, FAT ENVELOPES FROM PublishersClearingHouse, so you can enter for a couple of CHANCES to win a lot of money!

?{Well, thank You!} ?

I sure hope the Braves do better tonight than they did last night. It was a pitiful and boring game and we lost to BoSox 6-3.

As the old highway signs used to say: IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE HOME NOW.

If the game gets bad (or good!) I may come back still yet again. Y'never know, with me!

Is everybody out playing hooky?

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · May 11, 2022

Just got home and taking a little break before throwing together a meal. Hubs and his mom are watching some Korean drama on the TV. Twin B in the living room on the PlayStation. Presumably Twin A is doing the same in his bedroom. But by all means let me be the one to cook ?

Choir practice tonight. Another very warm day. We had a food truck today for Hospital Week. Indian tacos.

nursej22, MSN, RN · May 11, 2022

I'm here. I peeked in earlier, but didn't take time to post. I did my presentation today for the nursing students. It was a great group. They are in their final quarter, and just finished their preceptorships. I got some good questions about did we really use faxes to send info (yes) and how do we find people when doing contact tracing (it can be a challenge) and what do you do about vaccine hesitancy (good question). I could tell a couple students wanted to talk about Roe v. Wade, but I tried not to step into that, other than I personally think health decisions should be made by the person and their health care provider.

We went out to eat with my three kids and 2 grands last night, just for a burger. We sat outside and it was quite nice. But this morning dh found out his second cousin died of an aortic dissection last night. Very sad, was only in his 40s. And he was a really sweet, loving father.

Ugh, health care costs are weighing on my mind. Even though we feel relatively healthy, both dh and I have some price-y meds. I know I need to talk to a insurance broker, but it is overwhelming.

I will be preparing a Hello Fresh meal tonight, not sure which one. I'll just open the fridge and be surprised. I am trying to get youngest ds to prepare them. They are relatively easy and not too messy.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · May 12, 2022

Didn't make it to choir practice. The meal (Hello Fresh meatballs with bulgogi sauce) took a little longer to prep. Not helped by the fact that Gma was in a complete stew. Just angry and spoiling for a fight. Kept asking Hubs why he lives here and insisting she is going back home to Indiana. This is not her home. The dogs make a mess of their food (they do). She had a meltdown, I had a meltdown, Hubs had a meltdown. Time for some seroquel for her. All I could think was how much I wish she *could* go back home.

No Stars In My Eyes · May 12, 2022

I totally 'get it'! Whew! (((((((((((Ado Annie)))))))))))

I know this is awful, but sometimes when I pass the cemetery where my FiL is buried I say, "Bless your soul, (his name), and please come and get your wife."

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · May 12, 2022

Sometimes even Hubs, who loves his mother, winks at me as he's giving her directions to the bathroom for the umpteenth time that day, and says "Go toward the light..."

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · May 12, 2022

And oh, yes, I must share that she kept calling me a "son of a b****" last night. Twin B whispered, "She's misgendering you" ?