Wednesday May 27th 2026

G'day!

Joe, hope your day goes well.

Nothing much going on. I need to meal prep for three days of working coming up and keep the house in order. Going to hot yoga class soon.

Generally feeling good,. That feeling of irritability and being in a sour mood has passed. I'm generally pretty easy going, while not necessarily being a pollyanna.

Have a great day.

Tweety said:

I'm generally pretty easy going, while not necessarily being a pollyanna.

You wouldn't know it from reading my posts these last 10 or so years, but I USED TO BE the same way. When I was young I tried very hard to be a Pollyanna, and sometimes felt I succeeded. I would watch that Hayley Mills movie and try to convince myself that was the best way to approach my life. I swung to a 180 and back again since then, and round and round. I FEEL like I am easy-going on the outside. Probably you guys are a few of the ones who know there is a lot of turmoil inside, as well.

Welp, I would post a bit more, but I have things to do, places to go and people to see! Maybe might be back a liddle laydah!

Greetings from the Emerald Princess, sailing through the islands of British Columbia. We will reach Juneau in the Morning. The weather has been mostly sunny, around 50. We saw some whales last night swimming along side the ship. :). We've been exploring the ship, sat outside last night to watch F1 on a big screen, and sipped a glass of wine. Today, booking reading is on the agenda.

My dogs will de-stuff a toy pronto, then ignore it. But they love one little "skin" that they continue to play with and chew on. Goofy dogs.

Tweety said:

I'm generally pretty easy going, while not necessarily being a pollyanna.

You wouldn't know it from reading my posts these last 10 or so years, but I USED TO BE the same way. When I was young I tried very hard to be a Pollyanna, and sometimes felt I succeeded. I would watch that Hayley Mills movie and try to convince myself that was the best way to approach my life. I swung to a 180 and back again since then, and round and round. I FEEL like I am easy-going on the outside. Probably you guys are a few of the ones who know there is a lot of turmoil inside, as well.

Welp, I would post a bit more, but I have things to do, places to go and people to see! Maybe might be back a liddle laydah!

It can be so draining to maintain a calm, easy-going exterior for our patients and coworkers while feeling like a whirlwind of stress is happening internally.

Nursing has a way of turning even the most optimistic Pollyannas into realists after a few years at the bedside. Balancing that outward professionalism with your inner turmoil is a skill that takes a real toll on your mental energy.

When the internal pressure starts to feel like too much, here are a few things that have helped me stay grounded over the years:

• Micro-debriefing: Take sixty seconds after a hard interaction to just breathe in the supply closet or break room before jumping into the next task.

• Journaling the wins: Write down one thing that went right each shift to help counteract the negative internal loop.

• Peer support: Keep leaning on this community or a trusted work buddy, because sometimes just saying the "turmoil" out loud takes away its power.

We spend so much time caring for others that we often forget to check in on our own internal weather. How do you usually decompress once you finally get those places to go and people to see out of the way?

Just trying out the AI response. I guess it doesn't know you're retired. But a decent response nonetheless.

I am having a debriefing afternoon, because...........

BiL and SiL came over and sat down. UH-OH! Come to find out because BiL is the guardian and not the power of attorney, and because Nannie is not going to get well enough rehabbed to come home....they will have to sell the house .... "on the courthouse steps"! She will be living in the facility permanently and it costs about $13,000 per MONTH! YIKES! DOUBLE YIKES! I mean I knew it was coming, but I had no idea it would be in, what? SIX WEEKS?!

😝So there goes my "inheritance" money. I will now have to get by on UNDER $2,000 mo.(approx) of SS. UGH! Anyway, I have left a message on the phone of my friend in Fla. I don't know her husband's cell # and I don't know their on-line address. The message on her phone said she wasn't available to take calls right now, so leave a message at the beep. I sure hope she checks her messages soon, because I have until about until 7/10/26 to get packed up and get out! I decided this afternoon I was not going to flip my internal and mental switch into high action immediately. There are a LOT of things to figure out.

SO! I have started thinking! I will probably rent one of those POD things....I can pack it with what I decide to take or need to take, and then it will be transported down to their house.....but first she has to call and tell me what their address is, because I'll be derned if I know where I put it. Frankly I don't know how this will work out financially; probably by the skin of my teeth, as the old saying goes!

I'll need to know the size of "my" room (I know she said it was pretty big, whatever dimension that is!) There will be a lot of things I'll probably have to leave behind, but the GOOD news is that I only have to pack and take what I want that I can fit in the POD, (which will probably have to be the 8'x 8' size) I will need to know what furniture is there or not there. I will have to have my mattress if there is a bed in that room, because I can't sleep on a 'soggy' mattress. But I don't know that I can take the platform for my mattress. We'll see! I also want to take a few pieces of furniture, like my mother's little Queen Anne desk and the shelf she got to go above it; plus a rocker that was in Nannie's old bedroom. (They said I could take anything I want from here) I will have to thin out my belongings like crazy! Talk about your DOWN-SIZING! It would've helped if I could get some money out of this house being sold, as I was kind of counting on it, but Nannie is, like I have said before...."too mean to die." And there is also an old Yiddish saying that basically says "Man plans and God laughs"

Anyway. I decided I don't need to get in a tizzy now, of all times! Whatever I don't or can't take I can just leave behind. When they get ready to sell, they will have to clean it out anyway, and at least SiL said she doesn't want to put 'all that' on me. So, at least that is a relief to not have to worry about how the house looks or what to do with the stuff I can't take.

SiL told me they talked with the Social Worker about how to handle all this, and explained the circumstances to her about me. The social worker said that since I am single, with only SS income, she could get me into an Assisted Living place and I could still have my car 🤑, which would probably be about the only blessing. But I COULD take Tinker 'since she is small.' I mean, I'd rather go to my friend's place on Florida.....if she would only call and tell me where😆 it is!! It will all work out, but in the meantime.....

I should probably stop here or my post will run into tomorrow if I keep thinking of things to tell y'all. I don't want to send a text so soon to my sister up in Maine or she will be loading my inbox with messages on what to do about......well, just about everything! She will prolly have some helpful things to say, but right now I don't want to be overwhelmed, and she can do that "trying to help", very easily.

---SIX WEEKS!! 6 weeks! (OMG-OMG-OMG!)

Goodness Stars that is real curve ball. On the one hand your Nannie duties have officially ended and other the other hand.......

Sounds like you do have some options and I hope your friend in FL gets back to you soon.

Wow, Stars, that's some news. I admit, I wondered if Nannie would ever come home, and that she would need the value of the house to pay for her care.

As Tweety and Dianah, this is a huge weight off of you, to deal with selling a house.

I hope you hear from your friend soon and this next life chapter treats you well. <3

We just saw dolphins swimming along side of the ship.