Smarter minds and, uh, butts in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Things are getting scary down Ocala way. Last night, FIL didn’t recognize his wife of 70+ years and kept telling her he wasn’t comfortable having her in his house. She called their youngest son and had him come spend the night, just in case. FCD called this morning, but she wasn’t able to talk freely… It appears the adjusted meds aren’t having the desired effect after all, and he may have to drive to FL lots sooner than we’d thought. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for my MIL.

Alzheimer’s sucks. Parkinson’s sucks. Diminished mental capacity sucks. Why do our bodies continue to live when our minds get lost along the way???

:cry:

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Today I learned a thing!

This is a very poignant sentence.

Please, pour your happiness onto us! I can comfortably speal for all Mumpers when I say, we are thrilled for your good news.

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Good morning! Today’s plans include the longish trip to the eye clinic to (hopefully) pin down the elusive Melissa, dog-walking, and the gym.

Happy Nettie Day! :birthday: :gift: :champagne: :confetti_ball:

Kitap, a big congrats on the great numbers! I loathe liver. It’s the texture (shudder). Liver sausage is yum but really high in fat. I’d go with the iron pills. Hopefully the anemia resolves soonest.

FCM, so sorry about FIL. Sounds like MIL realizes she can’t continue to care for him in his current state. Is the next step a care facility then? Or youngest son sleeping over every night?

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Great news on the numbers kitap! May they continue to be fantastic.

Happy birthday seanette!

{{{FCFamily}}} I hope that your MIL has figured out that it’s time for assisted care.

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of towels / sheets in the dryer, a load of clothes in the wash. Once KP is done, I’ll clean up CasaRoja and go to the grocery store.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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I have lost 90+ pounds since this started; I ignore calories and fat at th emoment. Yeah, I was dangerously overweight but I’m trying not to keep disasterously losing weight, but rather at a healthy rate.

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Tappy (my suggestion for kitap’s Mumper name), we have so many tales of woe around here; it’s wonderful to hear of your triumph over such a horrible illness! May you have many healthy years ahead!

If you’re new around here, a hearty welcome. If not, welcome back. (I haven’t been Mumping as long as most, and haven’t seen you before.) Hope you stick around.

The Red Cross has been begging me to donate platelets for a while, and I’ll be doing so today. They say it takes three hours, so this is me reminding myself to bring my portable phone charger. And I’m drinking lots of water this morning so I don’t clot up like the last time I tried to give blood.

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I understand completely, and kudos on your sensible approach! I forget that not everyone is an old fossil like me and therefore don’t have to worry about unhealthy vs. healthy fats, so just ignore me, please.

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Morning all. Up after midnight solving a crossword puzzle so stayed in bed until near 8am. Paper retrieved and pill taken, the morning foraging is next. Swimmin-n-sauna are planned as is coaching soccer (the 9-year olds today). Only a 1-in-5 chance of rain, so hopefully won’t drown like 2sday’s practice.

So let it be Written; So let it be Done

Tappy (just to break it in), congrats on the awesome numbers. And I concur with NO LIVER–even if I do eat braunschweiger several times a week-so much for logic. Does ice cream help with anemia? (grin).

SmartAleq (have to cogitate a bit on your Mumper name), condolences for your loss.

Happy Orbit Completion Day, Nettie!!!

FCM, it sounds like FCD’s parents independence is going to have to end, one way or another, very soon. I feel for him, but he and family will have to be firm with them.

Sometimes modern medicine let’s us live longer than life planned for us. I have the same fears these days and just hope I stay mentally aware as long as I live.

Wheelie, good on ya for donating, hope most of the hours are fairly painless.

OK, time to fix some grilled cheesers (w tomatoes) which i just decided upon while typing this. Take care now.

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Well, good morning my fellow Mumpers. I have missed you!

It’s currently 62 degrees and cloudy with an expected high of around 72 and partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. This is fine by me, as temps had been in the 90s this week.

I have read but retained only a little. This week was crazy and I was in the office every day and then off to the site where we were holding our state wide meeting. I got the office every day around 5:15 am and wasn’t home until 5:30 or so, so long tiring days, sucktastic evening commutes and way too much going on. The meeting itself was great and generated some of the outcomes we desired. I don’t know how much the program training will stick, but the other stuff was good.

I want to send my hugs and warm thoughts to all of you who are dealing with health and other woes.

Tappy, congrats on your great news!

FCM, I am sorry about the in-laws, and as Metal Mouse has mentioned, I think their days of independence are at an end. That’s going to be rough, but I think you know that. I am sorry you both are having to deal with this and do all the heavy lifting. I am sending my best supportive thoughts, which I know doesn’t really help with the hard stuff, but I hope helps in knowing that you have people in your corner.

I am damn tired, that’s all I’ve got. I’ve forgotten how much I hate doing that commute on a daily basis. Next week I am back to three times a pay period (two Mondays and the second Wednesday), but I gotta say, I’m not thrilled about having to head back in on Monday. I shouldn’t bitch, because my telework schedule is generous, and in the previous administration, I was commuting four days each week.

JtC, has your municipality looked into a grant or loan from USDA Rural Development for broadband? It is one of RD’s many, many programs. It’s not a fast or easy process, and I’m not the subject matter expert, but it’s worth looking into. Your town/municipality/county has to apply.

Ugh, speaking of work, I need to log into my work computer and certify my timecard. I hope you all have the best day possible.

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So both SSLAWS worked. So TVCTPMO overloaded the belt, took away half our help, and had spills on both slides at the same time. Plus 4 boxes fell on my foot. On the other hand it is Founders Day, and Brown is 115, almost as old as the building(as God is my witness, the electrical panels are written in Sumerian). I bought some beer on the way home. Alex Catt had crawled into teh beverage box nook I had built, so when I shoved the case of beer in:
< scratch thud thump ruslte rustle thump scratch >
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTESSOR!
Oops.

:partying_face: :birthday: :champagne:HAPPY NETTIE DAY!!! :champagne: :birthday::partying_face:

That sounds scary, FCM. I hope the inlaws don’t try to keep doing this on their own.

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I totally missed this earlier. (I think we simul-posted.)

Anyway, my heart goes out to your MIL, as well as to you and your husband. That must be so heartbreaking.

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Happy birthday seanette! :birthday: :candle: :candle: :candle:

Congrats on the numbers, tappy! :tada: :sparkler:

Hugs for everybody at the Fairy Chat Estates. Taking care of someone with Alzheimer’s is really tough and is not something that someone can do on their own. Most caretakers wait too long before asking for help.

Somehow hubby and I missed out on the exhaustion part of the bug, but he got extra coughing. Today I picked up meds for it, and I expect he’ll be able to sleep a lot better tonight.

Even better, we’re having a little thunderboomer activity, which would really help us sleep well.

If it was, at least it would be on time. (Ba dum tsh)

Time for vegging in front of the tv.

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Congratulations, Tappy!

I’m so sorry to hear about your in-laws, FCM - like everyone else I sincerely hope that they choose assisted living.

Taters, I feel your pain. Every time I have to commute into work I wonder first, "How did I manage to do this every day? And then I drive home, exhausted, my people meter completely topped off. Then I feel guilty about complaining. But you know what? They’re expecting you to complete the same work you would’ve completed in 10 hours less per week depending upon your commute time to & from.

I’m so thankful it’s Friday. Mom is still doing well to the point where I feel comfortable going out with friends tonight. So that’ll be fun. My eyeballs hurt from working to catch up with everything I’ve missed this week, but I’m earning my chil time I hope.

Hope everyone has an amazing day or a less bad day at the very least.

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Actually, those days really are past, but we can only do so much.

In fact, we’re just back from erranding, which included a stop at Cedar Lane to turn in an application for an apartment. It’s a lovely little community, a step removed from assisted living, but they have someone at reception 24-hours and emergency cords in all apartments so help can be summoned quickly. It’s about 9.5 miles from us, and much closer to the hospital, the various Dr offices, and our dentist, who FIL saw when they visited us. The manager we spoke to is a really nice woman who offered some good suggestions and convinced me that this would be a wonderful place for them.

Plus they’ve got experience with people moving in via PODS, including having a recommendation of local movers to un-POD the furniture and such. So we’ve taken the first step. And if the inlaws refuse to budge, all we have to do is call and have the application canceled.

Apart from convincing them to move, there will be the challenge of downsizing to about half the living space. FCD will go there any day now and discuss this with them. He’ll have all the literature and all the information. We’ve even gone so far as to research specialists around here for their medical issues. So we shall see how it all goes.

Mowage will not occur today. But laundry will - at least a load of unders. I need to get that going. I just finished inhaling my leftover Chinese from last night’s supper - yum! I think I need a Peanut Buster Parfait - wonder if I can persuade FCD that he needs one also…

Thanks to all for your commiseration. I hate dumping all this crap here, even tho that’s part of the charm of the MMP.

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You will pay for that transgression, methinks. Start checking your shoes before you put them on.

Tonight is the 80s Dance at school, so everybody is dressed in 80s “fashion.” The look was silly the first time around. It isn’t any better this time.

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Monkey got some outside time, though he spent a good portion of it lying under my car. (Sucks to be a black cat on a warm, sunny day.) He’s now snarfing down a can of gooshy-food, so I expect he’ll sleep through most of my work shift tonight.

Tonight’s my Late Nite shift, going in at 4 pm and getting out around 2 am. Need to remember to leave a lamp on - it seems ridiculous to switch on a light in the middle of broad daylight, but my house’s nightlights have burned out and are conveniently :roll_eyes: located where they’re not easily accessible (old house, very few outlets) so if I don’t leave a light on for myself, when I come home I have to shuffle carefully while a black cat tapdances around my feet in the darkness.

I did finally clean out Charm’s old tank (she got upgraded to a bigger tank, which among other amenities has room for a bigger water bowl) and put that in the spare room so I’m not tripping over the damn thing.

Think I’ll feed her today, too.

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P.S. Having discovered an “oopsie, forgot about that” in the fridge, I have now also taken out the trash.

Plus, I folded & put away one (1) blanket from the clean laundry hamper.

Tremble before my productivity!

/s

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I have a couple of varieties of these and I can recommend them highly. I set a couple when we travel, just to give the illusion that someone is turning lights on and off in the house. You might find one handy.

Unders are in the dryer. FCD rode ol’ Johnny D around the back yard. I’ll push the Toro in the morning. We’re opting for a mostly lazy day.

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Happy Birthday Seanette!

Congo rats on your numbers, Tappy!

I’m sorry for your in-laws troubles, Mom.

{{{{everybody}}}

I think today will be a sloth day here.
Yesterday I took Gibbs down to the park (in the car). Because of his heart, the vet said we shouldn’t take him for walks anymore, but he dearly loves ‘walking’ to the park, and so we put him in the car and drive him there. He runs around peeing on things, and then he ‘drops trou’ and does his business, and very happily walks back to the car for his ‘walk’ home. It used to be Vinnie’s ‘thing’ when he was alive and Gibbs just went along because he loved Vinnie, but now it’s his thing. Dog logic.

Anyway, after we got home I got a wild hair and decided to replace one of the stair treads on the stairs up to the back deck. Keeping in mind that it was 94f out there at the time. (I’m not real bright sometimes). I thought it’d take me 15 minutes, tops. Yeah, right. The battery powered drill wasn’t powerful enough to back those 3" screws out, so I had to take out an extension cord, and a vise grip for screws with stripped heads, etc. It took about 45 minutes, plus about 10 minutes of hauling a metric butt-load of various tools back into the basement and putting everything away. I was soaking wet.
Today my back hurts.

Anyway, today Ima emulate Swampy.

Enuff from me.

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Well, the platelet donation was a bust.
After a lo-o-oooot of sticking and poking and prodding, they were unable to position the needle in my vein well enough to get a flow going.
I let them talk me into trying again next week. I really do want to help, but if this happens again, I’m done.