Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
Send,
I'll take a massage therapist - they all say no but every time I massage mom's shoulders and upper arms she says how good it feels
Problem most massage therapists think they're working out sore athletic muscles and don't realize a light touch is needed with older folks
Another part of the being immobile in bed, is probably muscle and bone pain. I suggested a massage therapist but the answer was no.
Susan, take that inflamed, pinched nerve to bed, and please stop over-exerting.
Your health matters most at this time!
Gershun, Playing Santa on rapid transit, that was so nice of you!
Susan, Even the grocery stores have so many gifts available in a hurry-even though it is not exactly what you want. Or, a nice card, saying come by for your gift in the New Year when I am healed? Is that tacky?
MsMadge, You always have the best ideas for fun!
Pammzi, Just send us your holiday greetings-because we care!
Send, I hope you were able to replace the small item with something else. With losing Mom this year and all the other stuff going on, I have been remiss in keeping my gift closet stocked, so I've been scrambling last-minute this year, which I hate. It means I'm less able to give the things I'd like to. I normally shop clearance sales and online specials all year long for gifts to keep on hand for Christmas and birthdays for the kids and grandkids, friends and family - not this year. So it's a skimpier holiday than normal. Next year I'll be back on track, hopefully.
I think we all should arrive at luckylu's on the eve of her birthday - say 2:00 am and take her out for pancakes in her pjs
Constipated and tired = exhaustipated
Hope it was a small item lost and not a treasure
Guess what happened to me today. I went to the mall to pick up last minute Christmas stuff and when I got home discovered one of my purchases gone. I was on the busy rapid transit and I figure someone stuck their hand in my bag and took it. Nice eh! Tis the season for peace on earth, good will toward man isn't it?
It is right? Anyone?
Hope they enjoy it whoever took it. :(
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But helps sleep!!!
Luckylu has a birthday, just after Christmas, and the day before my hubs b-day.
So, Luckylu, if I forget, Happy December birthday to you! Hope your birthday brings new peace and happiness to your life, and on into the new year! You are one special person!
I hope to keep a low profile, not get over concerned.
Maybe we can empathically send out some greetings this year? Do you know how? Me neither.
Thanks for your funny post about all the wonderful things I forgot this year! I am becoming more and more thankful for the forgetting part of getting older.
We have not received even one Christmas card this year! However, we have plenty because I have saved some from years past. There is just no place to string them up. Still working on it. Maybe I could start mailing them out to people with other's greetings and signatures on them? Or even more fun, start returning the years past cards to the original senders! Lol.
As for Christmas cards, it makes me sad to receive fewer and fewer each year. A part of me "gets it." I've grown weary of sending them myself. Altho most years I git-r-done.
Most folks probably think that their well wishes on social media are sufficient. That leaves me out, cuz I don't do facebook or twitter or snapchat or instagram. Perhaps there should be a new Christmas carol: "We text you a merry Christmas, we text you a merry Christmas...."
I try not to waffle on about the good old days. But I remember being a kid, and at least one Christmas card arrived every day in December. We made a garland (of sorts) out of them, and it framed the kitchen doorway.
The high point of my holiday season was our family Christmas dinner, a downscaled version of our annual party, because I was in no shape financially or physically to do the party. I did, however, make a point of standing up to make mention of those we had lost and to thank everyone for coming - to which one sibling had to snarkily comment, "Oh, here's the 'speaker of the house'!" - and I replied, "Yes the 'house' that needs a roof, new basement and mold remediation, right??". The response? "Welcome to the real world!" (As if I have been living in la-la land for the past 4 years while I cared for Mom.)
All said with smiles on faces, of course, but we all know what the meaning was behind it. (sigh) I give up....
11:30 pm at night and she wants a snack
Maybe I should add that I am applying for a new luxury electric scooter and it will even have Lithium batteries. i think I will get a red one to match my new walker. I have decided what i want for Christmas and that is one of those stair lifts so i can get up the basement stairs again! or maybe a walk in bath tub.
Ah well we can only dream. At least my daughter will spoil me rotten over Christmas
Then there was the time she dropped her drawers in the hardware store and made use of a display toilet.
Then there was the time in the restaurant when you thought she had gone to the restroom but she went to the kitchen and spat in the soup telling the chef he should be ashamed of himself.
Have you forgotten that outing to the seashore from the senior center, wasn't that fun?
And the trip to the ballet where she rushed up onto the stage and pretended to be a swan. It took two ushers to return her to her seat as you were hiding in the ladies room.
Wow and I almost forgot when she asked that nice police man who was helping her across the street and she asked him when he last had sex.
I won't even mention the Christmas party at MIL's or the fact that she has now been banned from the garden club, the knitting guild, nor can she volunteer at the hospital since she helped an elderly gentleman escape down the fire escape.
Yes send you have a lot to share this Christmas. And one last one she put $1 on the plate at church and took out five as her change.
So much to share so little time to write.
Have a good one Send