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 have seen Mother and Son - it was good too.
I don't watch much TV any more but I will watch Britcoms. Love the British sense of humour.
Those shows were classic British comedy. I watch the reruns of 'Good Neighbhors' with Felicity Kendall and 'Are You Being Served?'. Classic.
If you can get it where you live, try the Australian series 'Mother and Son'. It's old (1980s-90s) & a little slow to start but hang wait til you meet Mother. The actress playing her is just supurb.
I'll try to find a YouTube clip.. may not work but here's a couple.
https://youtu.be/W3IoZ9jMcKg
https://youtu.be/hsrZ_iEMBQg
I remember all of those shows!
I watch some classic shows. I am enjoying BritBox. I adore British humor.
It’s funny, my husband has a very dry sense of humor and he’s Italian and French.
I am predominantly English. I can’t tell you how many episodes I have watched over and over of Faulty Towers. Love it!
There is a show on BritBox about the elderly living in an assisted facility. It’s called, Waiting for God.’ It’s so funny 😆!
A lot of the shows are really funny.
British comedy shows are great.
I'll have to look for that Dick Van Dyke show with Perry and Hamilton.
Also a big fan of Andy Griffith Show, always a good lesson learned. I use to watch Adam-12 but have seen the reruns so many times I know them by heart.
I have been looking out my front windows and not liking seeing the snow that is piling up in the driveway. Today I got a wonderful surprise. Three 1/2 ton trucks, 3 dads, and 6 young sons arrived all with shovels and cleared it nicely and quickly. They brought a drink container and all the lads were given drinks when it was done. I saw some very nice father-son interactions too. I opened the door and thanked them. The nearest father smiled said "All done in 5 minutes and we will be here all winter! Wow!!! God is good and provides in abundance. What a great example and training for the young ones. I'm blown over.
The company that did it about a week ago still hasn't billed me. Maybe I got a freebie from them!
FF, where do you watch Perry Mason. That was a good one!
Started with Golden Girls, then to Andy Griffith, most recently Dick Van Dyke. One by one they were taken off of YouTube. It took awhile though. I found Lassie on YT, then Car 54. Neither cut it very well. A dog barking in my room as I am falling asleep was not a good.plan.😕😕 And Gunther Toody is just plain irritating as falling asleep!😁😁😄😄
I just started to try to find Dick VD and found him on an Amazon Channel called The Best TV Ever. It is a subscription for $.99 a month. There are many old classics there. Cheap fun entertainment and sleep aid! Thought others may want to check it out. There is a free trial period. I will sign up for the trial in the morning.😊😊
“Mailbox vandalism increases during the summer months, and we need to encourage everyone to be aware of any misconduct that may occur in their neighborhoods”, said Milwaukee Postmaster Kim Quayle. Mailboxes are protected by federal law, and crimes against them and the mail they contain are considered a federal offense. Violators can be fined up to $250,000 or imprisoned for up to three years for each act of vandalism.
Explain that to the ER you little rats. :-)
Snowplows can do a lot of damage to rural boxes too.
https://arkvalleyvoice.com/buena-vista-post-office-listens-to-frustrated-residents-will-offer-free-po-box-services-starting-2023/
https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/elizabeth-spends-200k-on-mailboxes-but-cant-get-mail/
The problem with this second case is the Town did not get approval for the location, placement of type of cluster units. Town has a history of just forging ahead and doing what it likes.
CW, I know of a similar blindness case where the box was across the road. Eventually, the post office relented and allowed the customer to move the box across the street so blind person wouldn't have to cross the road..... This was a rural area.
I have gone as paperless as I can but a few important things still arrive by the paper route, and some parcels. In the winter I don't pick up my mail daily - closer to weekly depending on the weather.
The ongoing Relocation Soap Opera. I won't regale you with all that has happened but this is worthy of mention. A month or so ago R's car was stolen and in it were many of his tools and - also - all our condo keys! Fortunately you can get in the main door with the passcode, but he had to replace our condo unit door lock. I haven't yet informed the powers that be. R thinks there is little danger of the thieves knowing what the keys are for and thus having access to the main building. He also assures me that the keys are difficult to use - you have to now how. I thought Life 101 teaches us that you don't put all your keys in one place. I told him to get a copy of our door key and give it to that friendly neighbour next door (who keeps offering to help) as required by the condo rules. I really need to get down there to look after some things!
Back when my mom first lost her eyesight she was living on a farm with the mailbox across the road, we knew that was a disaster waiting to happen so I rented a box in town and I would collect her mail when I came home on weekends. Now that I'm older and wiser I've wondered whether we could have asked for an accommodation due to her disability, that PO box rent went from under $50 per year to $300 and it always ticked me off when I had to pay for what everyone else got for free.
Of course you should be discussing your mother's health conditions with her caregiver. That is common sense because you know her the best and a caregiver who is well informed on their client's health conditions will be better at their job.
Discussing the abusive personal relationship you have with your mother with her caregiver is completely inappropriate.
I don't believe that your mother's doctor advised you to discuss the abusive relationship the two of you have with her caregiver. Please explain this.
FYBKIHYD - the only thing they could do, other than talk to that driver, was to pick up the bin and return it to the house and then, in future, not do it again. I left the bin there till suppertime and then went and got it myself. It was a bit "creepy" as 5 mins later I got the COMPLETE email. About the future, I am moving soon so it won't matter to me then. I do think there are times to be very persistent as you have been. BTDT. I completely understand about the frustration of using your time to deal with someone else's incompetence. I get other people's mail in my mail box too often and always return it in the mail slot. I haven't complained but if I was staying here I would. I wonder how much of my mail has been mishandled and disappeared. This coincides with the arrival of the community mail boxes 1/2 a block away which are extremely inconvenient at 40 below and when it is icy. We get 4-5 months of winter here. Don't get me going on those or the notices they put on my door that I wasn't in (I was) so I have to go to the post office to pick up the parcel!!! Small things but they add up. Deep breaths and another cup of coffee lol.
Please keep hounding the sanitation department until they make things right. It isn't unreasonable to ask that they do their jobs correctly.
The postal service and UPS and a few other companies have done astoundingly incompetent things and then had the gall to mark my messages as "resolved" or "complete" without ever fixing what they had done wrong. I have had to follow up two, three, and even four times until they made things right. It made me super uncomfortable to do that, but I tell myself that I'm not really being a Karen in these circumstances.
I just wish that all the follow-up on my part hadn't taken up so much of my freaking time. I always have trouble deciding whether to let a complaint go unresolved (thus saving me the frustration of fighting the incompetent powers that be) versus fighting tooth and nail to get the satisfaction that I deserve (and spending a lot of time and energy to get it).
Me: mom what are you looking at down there?
Mom: I'm trying to figure out where I'm going to set all the plates of food down here so we don't have to worry about putting it all on the table first.
😶
Time to lock the fridge.
cm -I have never cared that much for society norms or being "nice". Yes I pay for garbage collection so I am entitled to give feedback for a job badly done, in fact I see it as my responsibility. All my situation needed was a word to that garbage truck driver to be careful to check with their side mirror that the bins are placed back properly, and then a word to me that it had been brought to their attention. It's not so difficult.