Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Irish culture is interesting. It’s fun to study our ancestral heritage and history.
Was in Mexico and managed few, not as cheap as it used to be, few years ago you could go for $20-30 per hour.
Now about $60.00.
My daughter swears by massages too. She was injured in a terrible automobile accident years ago. She has neck and back pain and massages help her.
Enjoy your massage!
OMG, you will love it! Message is AWESOME!! You will feel great.
I don’t think I would be able to relax .
I would rather try a facial ( which I’ve never done either).
I have Irish ancestry on my dad’s side of the family.
Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
How about a quote from Oscar Wilde? One of my favorite Irish people.
I am not young enough to know everything.
What really hit home for me is what she rythum, and why people with dementia can still do small talk.
I think that is the one thing that really confused me, and kept me in denial, was how can someone with dementia still chit chat, as she put it.
Really amazed me , and will definitely be watching more
I’m writing this sitting across from my parents at the NH, just because they are here does not mean they have been abandoned. Please pass that on to your pal.
Consider referring your FB friend to our site?
Would be an education, don't you think?
And you KNOW how I love to argue!!
"I'm sorry, but I get triggered when I see good parents grow old and then left alone by the children that they raised. It is disturbing, disappointing, and a bad example set for the younger ones to see. Check on your people, love them, pray for them, go to their place and make sure that they are good. They raised you, do not leave them alone because a job demands it or a nonsensical religious belief says so. Christ doesn't want that, I assure you. Do better before it's too late. We have a limited amount of time with our loved ones, make as many memories as you can!"
He's two years older than me and I don't think he's seen or heard about caregiving cases like mine and cases from others on here. This isn't the case with everyone, but not all the parents were good to their kids. Not all the kids are actually capable or able to tend to them 24/7. Some of the aging parents actually belong in a nursing home.
God may not want us to abandon our parents altogether. He doesn't want one or both parents to enslave their kids either and kick them around. One woman commented and said she wouldn't trade the 3 years she spent tending to her mother who was battling cancer for anything. I'd give anything to have the first decade plus of my adult life back that was lost to caregiving. I wish this was all one bad dream and I'd wake up and see my mom fully mobile, my dad alive, and see myself with my own family and a job.
As someone noted in an old forum a few years back, there'd be a lot less responses if someone asked how many people love caregiving.
Congratulations to the Great Auntie!
That's just great news!
🐥🐣🐤
That’s wonderful!
Happy news for you ! Enjoy ! I hope you live close enough to play with the baby .
Now that less and less people are smoking I've been seeing more and more about weight and alcohol.
I feel that the media will always focus on one thing to keep us in fear , we have had this obesity and over drinking issues for yrs. They just haven't been addressing it.
I've gone back and forth, detoxing from the news it can get addicting and depressing and stressful.
What's really been working for me is just reading the headlines, that way If it's something I'm interested in then I can read into it, but most of the time just reading the headlines gives me enough info to know what's going on in the world.
And I realized ,why spend so much time watching news when we have no power to change anything, I really do think it's helping my stress.
When the news is on TV, I'm really not even hearing it or listening.
I'm on the boarder of NY and Vermont. Everyone hates NY , and yeah it's darn expensive. Forget going out to eat around here. But I feel relatively safe.
Yeah, I don’t see any logic at all in decisions like this. It’s really disappointing to see irrational decisions being made.
Louisiana politicians have always been a colorful bunch and not in a good way! 😁
My daughters are coming over in a bit and we’re heading out for dinner. Just going to enjoy their company and chill out with them.
please stop watching the news , now I’m going to dream that I’m 500lbs and can’t run away when the gunfire starts. 😭😭.
But seriously , it’s scary all these people walking around with guns without being properly trained to use them in defense safely. Some countries it takes an entire year to get a permit and training to use a gun is mandatory. These countries do not have the shooting problems we have in this country .
We have a new law stating that people in Louisiana can carry concealed weapons at age 18 and above without a permit.
Geeeeeez, I am not liking our new governor these days!
We already have a huge crime problem in our city.
It’s been interesting to hear the different opinions on this issue.
Many people are against it, some are for this new bill that passed, others are cautiously optimistic but want to see more restrictions such as implementing strict gun training.
Some are saying that it is going to place our police officers in more danger than they already are.
It’s definitely concerning to me as a resident of New Orleans.
Car jacking is a big problem here. Thieves pull out a gun and steal cars all the time and now there will be more guns on our streets. Where is the logic in passing bills like this?