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Three things for Monday
12 Jun 2023 13:401. Heaven help us, Linnea is planning on fighting the court system. She was called for jury duty. It looks like it's at least in Seattle... but the expected length of the trial is... a month. If she can't get out of it (and being a student is not an excuse), she'll have to drop the math class she was planning on taking, as well as spending half her summer in a courtroom. I see two potential outcomes. The first is that they let of out of duty. The second is... the cops at my door to take her to serve. š¤£ Seriously, though, this makes no sense to me. That's a major time commitment, and I hope they'd allow people for whom it is a hardship to get out of it. Not taking the math class this summer could be bad. We shall see. Shame she can't send me in her place, LOL.
2. We finally decided to delay my mom's going to memory care. She'll spend the summer, or a good part of it, with me, and then move in with my sister once the remodel is complete. Several reasons. One is that the timing is really iffy for right now, because of my sister's planned vacations, and that my brother couldn't make it out. The other is just her continued resistance to any sort of assisted living. And she's isn't too difficult to take care of at home, the biggest issue I have is that she can't be left, so I do have to either stay home with her or get my kids to grandmother-sit (and we do pay them, LOL). It makes sense, even if it isn't the easiest choice, I think it'll be the best one for her. Plus, tbh, I don't think my sister was ready to put her in memory care.
3. I consider myself a decent cook. I've had three recipes fail on me in the past few weeks, which vexes me to no end. The blah butter cake from a few weeks ago was one. The other was a toffee recipe (American toffee) that started burning before it hit hard crack, something I've never had happen. The third was tragic: a chocolate fudge Bundt cake that failed to release from the pan. I've only had that happen a few times ever, and this one was disappointing because the recipe itself was incredible, and the cake, broken into pieces as it was, was delish.
2. We finally decided to delay my mom's going to memory care. She'll spend the summer, or a good part of it, with me, and then move in with my sister once the remodel is complete. Several reasons. One is that the timing is really iffy for right now, because of my sister's planned vacations, and that my brother couldn't make it out. The other is just her continued resistance to any sort of assisted living. And she's isn't too difficult to take care of at home, the biggest issue I have is that she can't be left, so I do have to either stay home with her or get my kids to grandmother-sit (and we do pay them, LOL). It makes sense, even if it isn't the easiest choice, I think it'll be the best one for her. Plus, tbh, I don't think my sister was ready to put her in memory care.
3. I consider myself a decent cook. I've had three recipes fail on me in the past few weeks, which vexes me to no end. The blah butter cake from a few weeks ago was one. The other was a toffee recipe (American toffee) that started burning before it hit hard crack, something I've never had happen. The third was tragic: a chocolate fudge Bundt cake that failed to release from the pan. I've only had that happen a few times ever, and this one was disappointing because the recipe itself was incredible, and the cake, broken into pieces as it was, was delish.
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