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 was getting up at 3:00 a.m. to cover them, and my hero went out and rolled them out of the rain. I forgot that I put the planter on the old rolling Bbq.
The weather changes from 88 degree heat and sun, changing to gray and rain is going to ruin my plants. But it's okay, the bunnies need to eat, so when the time comes, I can just put the planter on the ground. We can try again with other seeds best planted later.
We try but often cannot get more than 4-5 hours of sleep a night.
Everybody should try to at least rest, with the full moon now @ 100%
10:00 p.m. PST, Thursday night.
Goodnight Golden, and everybody still awake.
I wish they could collect the rain where it’s falling too much and bring it to the dry areas.
Good news - the alert for the fire south of us has been cancelled and the fire north of us is "being held" meaning it is not likely to spread, so considering the dry conditions, heat and lack of rain that is good work by the fire crews.. Our fire hazard is still considered to be extreme so we still need rain.
It's time to sell or find homes for all my collections and I'm really overwhelmed plus going through all my Mother's belongings,a whole house full.
SO,I need all the suggestions I can get.
I really appreciate it~
Isn’t it sweet how sentimental your daughter is?
My mom was so self conscious about her hand writing after she got Parkinson’s disease. She had beautiful handwriting before that.
She wanted me to sign my daughters birthday cards. I told her that she should sign them and they would not care about her shaky writing. They loved the sweet words that she wrote to them. They kept all of my mom’s cards too.
I remember those precious moments figurines.
Oh, grandpa was an amazing carpenter! He made us stilts. I got so good walking on them that I would walk around the block! My friends wanted some too and grandpa made them for all of the kids.
Grandma had one of those hand crank ice cream makers. Oh, my gosh! It was the best ice cream ever and fun to make.
I really did have incredible grandparents. I think they saved me from some of the chaos that went on at home with my oldest brother.
Oh, my gosh! I have watched that movie a bazillion times! I love it! I watched all of the Doris Day films with my mom.
Did you listen in on the party line at your grandmother’s house? My cousin talked me into it!
My son did that with some old video games and the game system all together .
Are you sure ? Someone I know has been selling some of her Beanies . Some of them are rare and collectible . You could look into that.
Which leads me to the recommendation for anyone looking for a funny movie, Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson is a hilarious example of why we shouldn't listen on party lines. 🤣
Now I have 8 , 33 gallon containers of them up in the attic that are worthless ,pretty much.
And no kids to pass them on to.
:( and that's just one collection I have to find a home for.
I'm so overwhelmed.
Thanks for hearing my whine~
Your daughter sounds adorable! My husband has a very chill personality with a very dry wit!
My kids have picked up his sense of humor too. I had a very quirky sense of humor as a kid. I guess I still do.
My cousin and I got into trouble all the time as children. She was usually the instigator! LOL 😆
I am dating myself by saying this, hahaha…We loved listening in on grandma’s party telephone line! LOL 😆
Do you remember party lines? We thought it was hysterical to listen to other people’s conversations! We tried to be very quiet but my cousin would always burst into laughter and then I would laugh. We would get yelled at for listening in, so we hung up the phone. Then the other party would call my grandmother and tell her that we were listening in on the party line again!
My grandmother was so sweet. She corrected us but she was so clever. She bought us a play phone that looked real. It was fun. It was a pair of phones with a long wire in between them. You could hear each other and we had a blast talking on our play telephones. Grandma was pretty smart!
Aww that’s cute . That’s also why we switched to the boring plain bandaids . We had that going on too .
I worked in the school my daughter went to . If her friends would come to the nurse for a bandaid or whatever mild thing that they didn’t get sent home for , later they would say to my daughter , “ I saw your mom today “. My daughter’s deadpan response was “ I see her everyday “. I thought that was pretty clever for a little kid . But then again both my kids learned from my husbands humor .
Some of the sick teachers that came down were bigger babies than the kids .
Bratz dolls have a Wikipedia page! 😆
When my oldest daughter was in kindergarten I got a call from the school nurse!
My daughter tried to fake injuries so she could get a Band-Aid with the cute characters on it.
The nurse thought she was cute and went along with it the first few times and bandaged her imaginary injuries, but then she thought it was time for her to put an end to it so my daughter wouldn’t empty her Band-Aid stash! LOL 😆
I had a talk with my daughter about not going to visit the school nurse during recess time.
I forgot about those dolls you slam on your desk . Lol. When I worked as a school nurse . The other nurse that worked with me had a BS button in her desk drawer . Lol. For when we had those days where it seemed like only the fakers trying to get out of a big test came down to us . We used to watch the kids and see how they were acting when they thought we weren’t watching them . They were too young to realize you should act sick the whole time you are at the school nurse not just act like you are dying when you walk through the door . Lol The kids would start kidding around with each other , laughing , then could not understand why they got sent back to class . The other nurse would push the button in her drawer if we had a rare moment that we cleaned out and had an empty room, before the next wave .
Thanks for the laughs! Y’all are awesome!
So far, GI Joe has a lot of compliments from you, Way and I! LOL 😆 I said, Cool!, Way said, “Hunk!” You said, “Fine!” Love it! Too funny!!!
Seriously, Burnt…
I am cracking up right now. I honestly can’t think of anyone else on this site that could design a line of senior brat dolls better than you could! They would be perfectly designed if you did it!!!
May I make one suggestion please? Remember the ‘Dammit’ dolls that people slammed on their desk to release stress? Could you come up with a catchy phrase like the Dammit Dolls had? Oh, Gosh…that might have to be censored! LOL 😆
That is hysterical! I love it! 😂
Sure, I remember dime stores. Let’s see, we had Morgan and Lindsey, Woolworths, TG&Y, Kress, etc. My mom bought all kinds of stuff in them! Some had lunch counters too!
I guess KMart and Walmart sort of took their place. Same thing happened with the neighborhood mom and pop hardware stores. They bit the dust too.
I spit my coffee out on the desk laughing when I saw that comment that I should create a line of senior brat dolls. LOL!!!
I too had my Barbie doll dating my brother's GI Joe instead of a Ken. GI Joe was fine ;)
@Way
The senior brats are an occupational hazard in my line of work. When I worked for agencies before going private cases only the last 15 years in the field, it certainly seemed like I was always on duty for some senior brat. Or they'd have me on hospice cases alone in the house with clients who were so bad off they should have been in the hospital.
When I went private duty only I could pick and choose what cases I wanted.
I met some very interesting old people over the years who were cool and never complained about anything. I learned a lot from them too.
This is why I came here. I am so thankful for the responses and advice. I needed a place where I and others could relate and bounce ideas off each other.
Mom has advanced dementia. 73. Dad is 74. When I was 12 my mother moved my grandmother in to our home who was dying from cancer. We had a hospital bed in the family room. I watched my own mother care for hers. So...I believe that is where I got the idea in my head to do the same..
I am an only child, and was almost like a 3rd small adult growing up. Not a very matrure one mind you.
I am an empath and find it difficult at times to seperate my feelings from others. (Makes all if this way more fun!) 😬
Mom has been unable to get social security since she was seperated from work in 2017. She was born in a different country, and SS and immigration refuse to acknowledge her as a citizen or not here in US. She came here on a Navy ship as a baby and has worked, voted, held a business owned real estate, etc since she was 2.
Dad does not want to go into any kind of assisted living and mom can only get Medicaid..buuut, the house has been in the family a long time and we are trying to avoid them coming for it.
We moved in with a small savings, used it all on vital house repairs and, yes, now this has been a way to save again for our future.
Idk what comes after this. It is hard to see beyond each day. I am really trying to work on myself while here..
True story I think my freshman year of college is when Cabbage patch dolls came out. I worked part time in like an old. 5 and 10c ( five and dime store ) . Remember those . Lol. Or was that just a North East thing ? Idk. Anyway they had gotten a hold of a couple of them . Don’t know how . But they raffled them off to the employees . If your name was picked you could buy it for $20 if you wanted . So my name got picked . They gave me the bald baby infant. So I bought it . The infants were hard to find they were in demand . I don’t want it , I thought it was ugly . My boyfriend ( now husband ) . Saw in the newspaper someone was looking to buy an infant boy cabbage patch doll. The guy was desperate , his daughter wanted it so bad. My DH sold it to him for me for $100 in 1984.
Go for it! You have my full support!!!