Monthly Archives: December 2015

Wasted days …

So he had it on his phone’s schedule…appointment for speech therapy 3:30.

Cue sound effects, loud buzzer. WRONG!

Nope, 2:45.

I told him not to throw out the card but to put it on my desk so I could enter the times in my computer.

Did he? Nope.

Was I right?

Yep, we missed that one!

the right to be stupid

 

Dang, I thought we were done with it…

So first thing upon awakening, I hear, “I was wrong, the two appointments are on Monday. Today is one appointment for speech therapy.”

I took him to his speech therapy.

That’s two hours I’ll never get back and oh yeah, great fun, we go again today.

I’m glad I’d put ribs in the crock pot. We never would’ve had dinner if I hadn’t.

By the time we got home, it was past dinner time for the dogs and they let me know all about that.

Now I get to have a crazy day with two appointments on opposite ends of town next week.

Sigh.

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Cup after cup of coffee and…

There wasn’t enough coffee in the world to get me going. I seriously dragged butt all day yesterday.

Every time I sat down I dozed off.

If it continues through today, the shit storm will hit. I have too much to do.

I have to run The Curmudgeon to two appointments even though I specifically told him NEVER to do that to me.

Getting him to one appointment in a day is stressful enough. You have no idea what all that takes. It is worse than dealing with a group of toddlers.

However, having to drive to two different appointments at two ends of town and within a mere hour of each other is almost impossible. All it takes is ONE to run overtime due to a back up to fuck it all up.

Yes, I truly need a fubarred day and then have to get home and cook dinner on top of it.

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Errand running day

12/15/15 blood pressure is 111/68 at 11:09 p.m.

I hit the ground running at noon. I made a quick stop at Panera for a small coffee and a scone so I wasn’t starving while grocery shopping.

From there I hit the mail store and sent off a package of books to a friend for her not yet born grandchild.

Then I took my list and did the dreaded and hated grocery store run.

I arrived home in time to cook dinner for us and feed two starving dogs.

It’s time to color.

HPIM4765I iz keepingz your plaz warmz.

And so it begins

Here we go, as if I don’t have more than enough to do on any day you can name, we are now doing his therapies.

The first one was today. Thus my regular Monday grocery shopping is now moved to Tuesday. Anything I formerly did on Tuesday moved to Wednesday and so on and so on and we haven’t even started his speech therapy sessions which will shoot another day of the week to hell.

No, he can’t drive himself yet, and for how long that will be, is anyone’s guess. So now we add chauffeur to my many job titles for all my unpaid jobs.

On the bright side, we stopped for dinner on the way home–he has NEVER wanted to go out for dinner for the last several years.

After coloring for a little while my blood pressure on 12/13/15  at 11:26 was 106/67.

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The zen of the adult coloring book

12/13/15 at 11:22 my blood pressure is 102/60.

Whenever The Curmudgeon began to drive me bonkers I picked up my adult coloring book and colored pencils and colored.

I did a lot of coloring.

He went out to get his cart from the shed–I had to drop everything and help him because he got stuck and couldn’t get the gate open. I had to carry the charger to the truck, put it in the engine compartment and hook it up because he couldn’t do it but insisted it be done, no matter that I had laundry to do that never got done…Then I had to help him back to the front door and into the house.

I did a lot of coloring.

A. Lot. Of. Coloring.

Dont make me adult Lucy

Easier day

He only put me in one panic during the day, proof is my blood pressure on 12/12/15 at 9:13 p.m. is 111/64.

How did he manage to panic me you ask? I was trying to take a quick nap to make up for him and the dogs having me up very early, when I heard the front door slam.

Knowing no reason as to why I jumped to wide awake in that instant. I check outside to find him fiddling with his truck. It won’t start and he’s not happy about it.

If any of his friends would like to help him out with that, we have a charger, just need it hooked to the battery. Yeah, I thought not.

love him or shoot him

No rest for the stressed

12/11/15 9:38 p.m. blood pressure is 124/70.

He walked better but still lacks the strength to do too much of it. At least he’s alert and more himself. I am certain now that he was accidentally over medicating.

Between him and the pups I don’t think I got a moment to myself all day.

So glad I put our dinner in the crock pot so I didn’t have to worry about what to cook and when.

I’m hoping in the morning that I can sneak in a shower and a change of clothes. Maybe I can even do laundry.

beach2I’d rather be here.

Stress? Really?

12/10/15 and my blood pressure is 129/72.

The day began with me having to drag one of my sweet neighbors over to get The Curmudgeon from the floor up into his chair. Not walking well? You think?

Did he make it to his speech therapy at 3:30 p.m.? If you guessed no, you guessed right.

I took all his medications away and now am doling them out rather than trusting him to take him as he should.

I have a feeling he was waking up, thinking it was morning, he’d take his medications, go back to sleep, wake, repeat.

I can’t prove it, but from now on he will get his medications from me and not self-medicate.

Stress? Um…yeah.

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Welcome to my hell

12/9/15 blood pressure 120/67.

I just spent the entire night and day with a crazed, six-foot-tall, three-year old, otherwise known as The Curmudgeon. Also known as a night and day in hell. He refused to let me call for an ambulance and expects me to not be terrified with him acting like a lunatic.

If I had a source of income, I’d be outta here tonight. However, I quit too many jobs to help family out for anyone to even risk hiring me at my age. Forty hours short of getting any SS of my own.

the scream

Getting out of the house for the day really pays off

12/8/15 and my blood pressure…112/66.

I left the house at 11 a.m. with G. We stopped at the vet’s office to pick up the pups’ heart worm medications.

Then we went to Target and wandered around there for a while. Lunched at Applebees the Loaded Brisket Enchiladas are delicious this is the second time we had them.

Next we headed out to the malls. Beginning with a stop at Bed, Bath, and Beyond–we left there empty-handed. Boscov’s netted us several gift items for her youngest grand-daughter and some things for me.

Out in the mall we snagged another gift for her other grand-daughter and some water for both of us. Shopping is dry work.

4:00 and time to head home. I reluctantly started my car and left retail therapy for home.

579x441_LoadedBrisketEnchiladas_HalfBeer_0715LUNCH! Delicious!!!

A gentle, calm day…

12/7/15 Blood pressure 111/65. Woke at 6 a.m. to take the dogs out because Gavin was fussing to go out.

Before bed I’d prepped carrots and had everything else ready for the crock pot. So I put everything into the crock pot and started it by 6:15. Pot roast for dinner.

Then I went back to the couch, snuggled down with Lucy behind my knees, and went back to sleep. The pups and The Curmudgeon let me sleep until almost ten.

Once I got up, things were a bit busy with all my orders arriving, one after another. I now have a nice C-table by the couch where I can set my coffee cup when I sit there. A mess of K-cups and 4 adult coloring books that are supposed to soothe and calm me. (We’ll see about that.)

HPIM4765I beez keeping da Momma’s spot warm for her.