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.
Ms. Madge will know.
The new sleep solution? Here is mine: Practice the new art of not giving a (four letter word) and just drink water, eat a little, and go to sleep. Do not think about what will happen, because if I am not there to support, to take care of tomorrow, no one else is going to help. Today I took a 1/2 tablet of anti-anxiety med to get the sleep started. Feeling better now. So much better now!
I understand that many caregivers cannot do this, but should try to take care of themselves all along. You go caregivers! Just when we think we cannot go on, there is a new burst of clear sky allowing us to see things more clearly.
There was traffic everywhere today, an accident blocked our travel to his work, he was late! and because HIS life is so full, being supported at every turn, he casually got ready, did not shave, stressed me out to rush him off so I felt, well, like all of us on this forum feel at times, and have written about for years.
So, after buying a washing machine to decrease laundry expenses, support my own exhausting efforts to help him, I came home and went to sleep all afternoon.
Something's gotta give because my heart is throwing off PVC'c while I push myself beyond my limits. The treatment is to immediately decrease stress, so I did. hello?
person for a live in caregiver.there's lots of reasons
people become homeless. Some just hit hard times
and have no family to help. Of course a background
check would be first.
Another late nite at the hotel California - walked in after 10 pm to hear another resident yelling at mom telling her what a horrible person she is - sigh
Let the dog out to tinkle then separate the foes and give them each a candy bar
Get mom to bed about midnight and try to figure out why mom's recently deceased roommate's belongings are still in the corner - so I toss it all in a plastic bag and haul it to the laundry room and push her wheelchair out into the tv room
I'm taking odds it finds its way back
There are plenty of others for sale, but the other sellers look... suspicious... like they're new accounts and also probably they put in the 2 dollars for one paper on the corner newsstand and took the entire stack to resell. That happened all over Chicago, I heard.
I might go back and buy a couple more of the other papers and sell them online. It's nice to send these to people who otherwise don't have a chance to get them. :-) It's nice to make a few dollars doing this, too. lol
This week, I started watching "Dexter" on Netflix. It's about a serial killer who works in forensics in a police department and kills bad people. I like it! Others I know have made reference to it in the past, but now I'm finally watching it. I get the appeal. :-)
Fried pickles... lol. The pub I went to for Game 3 had fried pickles. I almost ordered some. Got myself a half pound angus burger with grilled onions and mushrooms instead, mmmm.
Oaklawn park - would like to go there in the spring
Send
Always nice when a 8:1 pony hits the board and you're holding the winning ticket
Hope I don't have another late night at the hotel California - race day starts early tomorrow and I imagine I'll miss the first couple
Maybe it was a unicorn for all I can remember now, because a whole lot has happened since then.
Churchmouse, Thanks for trotting by and joining in on the horsies. I guess they do have great races in the UK too!
You never saw the Clintons at the racetrack because they were busy running a different race! Yeah but, you can say, they were still acting like a horse's behind.
I mostly bet on the long-shots (not too long), because they would be in the rear running, and then pass them all by! Some good memories, now starting to doubt how I actually saw Secretariat race....but it was a real famous top horse.
Name that horse Ms. Madge!
Must have been something to see secretariat - the Belmont ?
Even a bad day at the track is a good day
I had mom's 90th bday party at Santa Anita with a race in her honor and a photo in the winners circle - it was a very fun day
You have gotta love Art Sherman - a humble hard working guy that has made it big at the end of his career
As for the prospect of running his horse on a wet track – there is rain in the forecast for Friday –Sherman said he is not concerned.
“I’m not going there until I see the racetrack, but knowing this horse, I don’t really think the racetrack is going to have a lot to do with it,” Sherman said. “He seems to handle just about everything that we’ve tried. I’m from the old school. If you’ve got a horse that can run, he runs on anything: grass, dirt. A runner is a runner. You can’t make excuses about racetracks.”
Are we related? I think we have the same love of thoroughbred horses.