I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I came into the kitchen, and he is stiring what looks like 3 + cups of milk/water in the pan. Asking him, what recipe did you use to get that much liquid? What? That cannot be right, you are adding only 3 1/2 tablespoons of Minute Cream of Wheat?
Seems he wanted 3 servings, so added the liquid for one serving, plus two servings. He took the tablespoons for one serving. He took the liquid from nearly 4 servings. Then, he added salt, from what recipe? First thing I tasted....
I intervened, saying I would help stir, so he abandoned the project.
The box expired in Sept. 2018.
I told him kindly, that if he messes up a recipe, that won't get him out of cooking occasionally. I do it all the time, and not on purpose.
We ate.
Ain't moving fun?
Pile the boxes along the outer walls and some windows, instead of the center of the rooms.
It will provide extra insulation, and no one can hear when you scream.
There are white tablets of vitamins appearing very much like the white Tylenol caplet.
One is Bromelain 500 mg. that I take for pain caused by physically over exerting.
This is just one type of pain, I know.
It is a pineapple based enzyme, and may be contraindicated for patients taking certain meds. So check with a doctor. I am not recommending this, only as an example.
If you put the Tylenol in the pill minder, then keep the bottle nearby with only a few
"white tablets", Mom will think she is still in control and not miss the extra tylenol.
There are so many pain solutions, but right now, if I had to choose just one product, it would be Doterra Deep Blue, topically applied essential oil.
I understand your Mom is in lots of pain. Has her doctor tried other meds?
1 - Some years ago, there was a water shortage in my parents' town, so they bought a watercooler they are using since.
2 - Due to mobility issues, my mother now wants to have always a little bottle of water with her. You know, those small, 300 ml ones.
On with the story:
She (M) asks me to call my brother (B) on the phone. After the pleasenteries:
M - I have no water.
B - Oh, I will drop some before lunch, can you wait until there?
M - You can take even longer.
B - Let me understand, is there any water at all? In the cooler?
M - No, there's water in the cooler, I just prefer the brand x one.
B - Ah, ok, I thought you were dying of thristy.
M - Who said anything about it?!
B, on the phone, me at her side - you just did.
M - My two sons are against me!!
How can I make her understand the diference between "I have no water" and "can you buy me some water, please?" without being even more confrontational in her head?
Me: I ignore (because I actually have a job that I work from home) and later walk on the patio because I thought it was my daughter and her boyfriend and was being funny and said ok, I'm calling 911 ! Turns out it was Mom talking to the dogs. So, she again says....
Mom: I want to talk to you ...
Me; Ok, what
Mom: You don't need to spend the money to get the bathroom redone. '
Me: I've got it, Ma.
Mom: persisting... going on and on about it
Me: I've got it Mom! I will take care of it.
Mom: Well I want to go back to my home. ( 3 hours away in another town; has been living with me begrudgingly for 1 1/2 years)
Me: (seriously thinking to myself now... you know what ... this last year and a half has been miserable for a good portion of the time.... she is so ungrateful... maybe I will just pack her up and take her back... BUT I will NOT be visiting, NOT be taking her to the doctor, NOT doing all the errands that she CANNOT drive to) and just wait for a call from the police saying something is wrong.
She can afford for her bills to be paid, but she CANNOT pay them herself, she gets mixed up and overwhelmed about all of her medications, OMG.... another Friday night ..... should have gone on my vacation out of town and had daughter keep an eye on her......
Hub's Dad is a perv. and I hate the idea of him looking at these pictures of me. In fact it grosses me out.
Borrow them to make copies, telling his Mom you have lost your copies.
My brother thought he was being funny when he started to shove a dead mouse at me.I fell and hit my head and shoulder and hurt for days afterward,then he denied doing it.
I don't know why our grown brothers won't grow up.
Funny, not funny!
Had a furnace repairman who thought everything was a joke..drove me up the wall.
Within the last half hour, mother has again spouted off about going back to her house to live ( 3 hours away) by herself and be alone. Unfortunately, I lost my temper and yelled that does she have any idea how sh***y she makes me feel each time she talks about that and says she does not want to be here. She never thinks about how anything she says makes anyone else feel..... talk about narcissistic. She is the definition of the disorder.
My whine today, apps running in the background on my Fire tablet. Don't know what I need to have, but have to manually stop apps that I don't know what they do or I didn't download. Several Alexa apps I don't even want. And of course I cannot find a list of apps that are necessary to run my Fire. And many of them start themselves.
And these apps drain the battery very quickly.