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.
Looloo - I work from home and make an effort every day, even if I don't feel like it - but I tell you, some days, like today, it's *really* an effort. LOL I don't dress up, but I get up, shower, brush my hair, make breakfast for Mom and I, etc - otherwise, I'd just be a mess all day.
I'm going to get up and do some housework and laundry - sitting here just makes me feel worse. Need to move. I think it's time to set my old timer app back up again on my computer or my phone. It reminds me to get up and move for 10 minutes every hour. Working from home and being busy as I am, it's so easy to just sit here for hours on end - and then I wonder why I'm bloated and my legs swell! Sheesh.
If I worked from home, I'd probably slide even more. Brush my hair?? Why??? LOL!!
betsys son has a couple years of tech school in automotive repair and is working in a chevy dealership .
both young men are still rather lightweights but if they ever learn one scrap about engine controls ill screw the top of their heads off , get what i want , then screw their scalp back on .
real cold morning here . the wind chill is fixin to drop 9 degrees in the next hour . the woodstove is sittin over there glowing at me . makes me glad we reworked it a year or so ago .
so really , nothing to whine about this am .
She told me that that doesn't sound like a realignment problem but maybe my steering wheel needs oiling or something. The mechanic will check it. She comes back with a list of things wrong with my car. That estimate of $300 went up to $1300.00. I stood there shocked. I kept muttering, "OMG! What am I going to tell my sister?" (Sis says that mechanics like to cheat me since I'm a female and I always fall for whatever they tell me is 'wrong' with my car. I've been known to charge $1300, $1100 or $900 auto repairs to my credit card.)
This time, due to the poor economy, I have had a major pay cut and less hours when it's slow (without pay). I cannot pay $1300-some repair. So, I looked at the service customer and said, "Of all these repairs, which is a Necessity. That my car won't die out in traffic or I lose control and crash into someone else?" We narrowed down that $1300 to $800-some. But, when I went to pay it, the customer service person, took the invoice, went and adjusted it again, then came back with a $500-some repair.
So, the next time, when my car's air con broke down, my BIL made the call to the mechanic, spoke to them, and then drove my car there. I only paid $255.00 for it. Darn! I have never paid an air con repair for that low! I think the lowest I ever paid was $800-some. Moral of the story - have a male go with you when it comes to auto repairs. (My niece brought her car in, they quoted her a $1300-some repair job. She called her ex-boyfriend to tell him the cost. He said it doesn't cost that much. He went down to the shop and blasted them. They lowered the price - below $1000.00.!!!)
I remember when mom was belligerent... haha, I do believe I now miss those times. Least she was feisty!
Doesn't matter how much I try and distract myself, how much I say she will be happier, it cuts me to the core. God Dammit.
i feel simple stress , depression , and tension all
three . im gonna try to modify how i percieve my stressors . the stressors arent that big were just too cynical or overwhelmed to downplay them .
Working on getting all of this back on a good track. Mom is getting frail(er) ever single day, which makes it harder. Then again, it makes me that much more determined to give her all I have. Vicious a** circle if you ask me. Ying Yang/Push Pull. phhhhbbbbbtttttttt
Stupid commercial "A body in motion stays in motion". Guess that means a body at rest turns into a slug. Meh.
nature is pretty bitchin , its just " us " who dont get it ..
it isnt just women who get ripped off . i had a pair of bike carbs hot tanked one time and some punk kid tossed two corroded needle valves on the counter and told me that was likely what was wrong . the carbs had new needle valves and seats in them , i just wanted the carbs properly , chemically cleaned . i just gave him the agreed upon 100 bucks and let it go . i had longer range ideas than standing at a counter arguing with a freakin kid . another example of " screams of no reply " i guess .
ill still make the 1900 bucks from the customer but he'll get more product from me later and ill be employed up to my eyeballs . its kinda like milking a job 'cept nobody gets cheated .
gonna get wicked cold for the next couple of nights . the renter left for a couple of nights with her son . seems she is out of good firewood but the thing is her two truckloads of firewood are already here on the property she just hasnt asked for them . she created a dilema instead just to get out for a couple of days . i made sure her son knew the firewood is here and she knew its here . pathological drama queen !! lying around me is likely to have blowback effects ..
My mother is in a nursing home for rehab. You would think they would have better rules for how they handle diabetics when it comes to meals and snacks. She asks for toast or something hot to drink like tea or hot chocolate but they do not have those items to give her. She asks for cake or ice cream and they give her both within half hour of each other. Did I say she is a DIABETIC. At each meal there is a dessert on the tray. I asked that it stop being put on the tray or put a piece of fruit in place of the dessert. My mother is a fruit and vegetable person, something that has been missing in her diet for a couple months now since she has been in hospitals and nursing homes. Anyway, the nursing home informed me they have to put the dessert on the tray...it is a DHEC rule. Is this world crazy or is it me? You have a diabetic and DHEC says you must put a sugar dessert on the tray? I have lost my mind. Please help me to understand the logic of this insane rule. I mean, all they have to do is increase her insulin if her sugar level increases right? So why should I be upset or worried. He!! give her a whole cake, pie or gallon of ice cream! What difference does it make.
I found one way to quickly stop a door-to-door salesman who is trying to sell new windows, roof, etc is to say "I don't own the house.... it's property managed".
I LOVE sea salt body scrubs... ohhh yeah and a glass of wine
Hope, where do I get my "I do what I want because I can" t-shirt? Great idea. Heehee!
Scrubbed her feet with a back brush while she was in there, so she got a pretty good all-over cleaning this time. Now I get to trim her toenails (gag) and then slather her feet with lotion or coconut oil and put socks on to try and soften the endless scaly dry skin on her feet. Yay.
Had to take my Ma to the doc yesterday morning for her knee injections – going down the ramp (backwards, so she doesn’t fall out of the chair) struggling between the snow-burdened bushes and the ramp railing, then over half-as*ed shoveled snow, and on into the street where at least there was a dry spot to load her into the van – poor Ma bouncing all over the place – me praying she wouldn’t fly out of the wheelchair. I asked her if she enjoyed the 2-wheeling. Not so much. She was pretty happy to get back home.