I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Way - hope your plants have survived and you got rain,
My whine is that Rocky digs the dirt out of her little garden on the balcony that I made in an old roasting pan so I have to sweep. My only recourse is to keep it very wet. Then she doesn't dig, but I haven't managed to keep it that way. 🐈
On the plus side , rain coming tomorrow followed by more moderate temps .
I also just saw the Farmer’s almanac is predicting a cool Autumn this year in my area. I hope they are right . Some recent years it seems to stay summer too long .
Here we got up to 25C (77F) which is one of the warmer temps here this summer.
That must of been so upset to deal with! 💕💕
If this roommate doesn't have dementia, why is he sharing a room with your father who does? The NH should not have put them together and it's good that you're having your father moved to a different room as he should be.
Good for you giving it back to that guy. Even when they have dementia, there's nothing wrong with letting someone know you will not tolerate nasty, abusive behavior. The nurse doesn't have to take it either and should not. If this guy is that bad, he needs to be in a different kind of facility where his behavior can be dealt with.
Dad was happy to be moved to a quieter room with a very nice considerate room mate who realized Dad was dying .
I continue by saying that my father's roommate is a nasty nasty SOB and he does not have dementia, so no free pass. You should hear how he speaks to the nurses. He is a miserable human being. I hunted down the nurse and finally found her taking care of my father's SOB roommate.
I had no expectation that the nurse had to drop everything to take care of my father but I told her while she was in there that the plates needed to go back on which she said she would do when she was done. But the roommate seemed to think I wanted her to leave and started yelling at me. I all said that this needed to be addressed.
Anyway just before I left I went into my father's room to check how his room was. And of course roommate started to rip me a new one. And instead of keeping quiet and just leaving I started yelling right back. Pretty much told him who the f he thought he was talking to anyone this way. Called him a nasty miserable human being and just yelled right back.
It was bad. The head nursing came running in and had to break it up. I told her told her what she already knows but could not agree with, that the guy is a mean sadistic nasty piece of work. I have managed to keep on his good side for almost a year but today I lost it with him. No one, but no one, gets to talk to me this way.
I went back to the sitting room and the nurse stopped in to talk to me and I told her I am considering moving my father to another room. She said that was my right to do and the only thing she could do was make sure the what happened with the feet plates does not happen again. It's true, this never would have happened if they were on the chair. But as I said to her, if it wasn't this situation it would be something else. But I don't know if moving him is a good thing. He's been in that room for 2.5 years.
I went & bought one of those tins of fibre/fibre drinks. 2 x day. I'm telling myself it will improve my gut/brain chemicals, therefore reduce tempation to binge drinks/snacks on weekends. In reality.. ? The effects are not too bad 😂🍊💩🍊💩
I gained my 5 lbs back, I lost and been walking again. 😊 I know it doesn't make me very popular 😔 having the opposite issue of weight.
way - it's harder as you get older. unless you run marathons, The guideline is 80% of weight loss is diet and 20% exercise. But both exercise and diet are important especially in keeping the weight off.
Here to Daisy. I was looking forward to sitting out on the balcony, but not today! I am so glad we are out of the forested area - don't have tp ve concerned about being burnt down.
So hard to get rid of this 10-15 lbs of menopause weight that creeped .
I was always thin before with no efforts .
Good for you losing weight and getting healthy. Beatty is right about FIBRE (or fiber as us Americans say). I lost a ton of weight over a year and a half and it was walking, taking my dietary fiber drink every day, cutting out sugar, and using a natural sweetener made from monkfruit. For some reason the monkfruit sweetener in my tea really curbed my appetite. I think therapy helped too.
@Beatty
Looking at trees can only be good for you and anyone else. At some point during the day, I find time to take my shoes off and let my bare feet be on some grass for a while.
I've really been slacking on my physical routine, the last few months. Tried to keep up a little and just walk around the block when I could, mental get in the mood, and when it wasn't raining. Played boccie last night, and played for 2 people, played my spot and we traded playing for my husband, he played a little which was awesome. So I can barely move this morning. To keep him his spirits up I sit around with him a lot.
We both have gotten a bit of bug phobia. When you think this thing the size of dot did this to a bull of a 6"5 man, it's nuts.
Way, walking is so good for you and everyone, even if you eat more , it's ok it all evens out in the end .
I've noticed, moms not wanting to get outta the house as much, I told her I was free Friday and we could go out to any of are usually places, and she just kinda shrugged. So maybe we will just go for a ride, but this is definitely a turn . I'm not concerned, she is getting close to 90 this is what happens, and I have had enough worries, I'm not adding to them.
But exercise has so many benefits. It makes me look at trees instead of ruminate about rubbish.
The magpies are nesting and screeching to warn Rocky off the balcony.
Someone mentioned forest fires. We are not in a forested area any more, thank goodness. Grass fires do burn west of us but not near here so far. I did see fires have started in other areas. 🙁😦 Rain would be great!!!
I hope you get some nice weather soon.
I went on reddit, r/upstate to warn people, it's become quite the issue, around here. My sons fiancee mom, has Lyme for the 3rd time in, Im not sure how many years.