
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
So is All Saints Day at our cemeteries tomorrow. It’s also known as laToussaint due to our French heritage in Louisiana.
We don’t usually have cold weather for Halloween.
You’re right about wearing jackets. If it was chilly on Halloween when I was young, I’d wear clothes underneath my costume. I didn’t want to cover up my costume!
I love Reese’s peanut butter cups at Halloween! Yep, hard not to indulge.
My husband was a vampire too. We had really cool capes, black lined in red!
I did our makeup. It was fun to wear our costumes and see our everyone else’s costumes.
Vampires are big here. Anne Rice grew up here in New Orleans. Love her books and movies!
Many vampire balls have occurred in our spooky city! There is a fabulous haunted house that is set in an old mortuary.
Anne Rice and her husband are buried here in Lakelawn cemetery, a very beautiful cemetery.
They also host special events and weddings. Can you imagine being married in an old mortuary? 🤣
It’s on Canal Street. themortuary.net
That is funny! My kids didn’t like going trick or treating at the neighbor’s house who is a dentist. He gave out toothbrushes instead of candy! LOL 😆
I remember one year my brothers and I didn’t want Halloween to end. Mom said that we couldn’t knock on a door twice.
Daddy took us to a nearby neighborhood and we were able to trick or treat again! I’m pretty sure that my mom hid some of the candy from us so we didn’t go overboard! 🤣 She was the voice of reason.
Hey, candy will be on sale tomorrow! Maybe I will try some of those.
Any dark chocolate is my favorite!
Oh wow, in the US it's made by Hershey's, everywhere else it's made by Nestle.
Nestle has 40% stake in Hershey . It was a joint agreement that’s been beneficial for both companies. I just looked it up .
My daughter’s best friend works for Hershey .
So many beautiful flowers to choose from. I don’t have an all time favorite flower. I love all of them.
Just bringing flowers. My mother loved flowers.
Thanks. Her birthday was on the 3rd of November.
All Saints Day is November 1st. All Saints Day (Catholic Feast Day) is heavily observed in New Orleans. The cemeteries are filled with beautiful flowers.
I love irises too. We have irises that are native to Louisiana that are very pretty.
I brought roses today. Mom loved roses.
Thanks, it was nice. My mother had a special relationship with my daughters.
Some of you may have noticed a pattern - my complete inability to do anything right by my mother. Ever.
My mother (in care, near me) did not recognize us during yesterday’s visit. So we got an earful about how she is not happy with her daughter. Seems Ana is getting married again July 21st, and the wedding will be where Ana lives. Mother said she knows the bride’s parents traditionally pay but she refuses to shell out a cent unless Ana moves the wedding to the city where she (mother) believes she (mother) still lives.
We did our best to keep poker faces and redirect the conversation. But my husband now regrets not probing to learn who I am going to marry.
That’s funny.
My sister was in the hospital last week and had delirium after surgery. She also most likely has vascular dementia per MRI ( they did the MRI to see if she had a stroke , because she was off the wall ). She has to follow up with cog tests for diagnosis . But I can tell you she has it . She’s doing some of the same things my Mom did .
Anyway while she had delirium , she texted me ( with poor spelling ) that I put all the old people in homes . ( She is correct , In my family that has been left for me to do) . She went on to say that I should do something good for once to help the old people . She also told me she wants her car keys back from me . ( Her son took them )
Funny part is , this sister was the only 1 out of 4 siblings that stood up for me to take car keys away from Dad and to place my mother in AL . It’s funny how their minds work .
I know , ditto with my ( late) narc Mom,
(((hugs)))
When we listened to the fabricated stories from my husband’s grandmother, we would make the comment, ‘Fact or Fiction?’ She didn’t have any dementia. She just lied!
Some of the stories were hysterical! Some were ridiculous! Some were incredibly rude!