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nwhikerNot a rainy Tuesday, just a grey one.
1. We finished the move, clearing out the old apartment, yesterday late afternoon, after OMG so many hours. It was pretty much just dh and I 80% of the time. SIL helped not at all BUT I guess she goes to a Mormon Church now and found two young missionaries and they helped for a few hours Saturday and Sunday and were so helpful. By then dh and I were in pain and exhausted so even help that had to be told exactly what to do was more than welcome. I was still too tired and wrung out today to manage, but I need to find out who they "report" to and send a letter of thanks, as well as a check to whatever community services their Church funds. Their comment? That helping us move was better than knocking on doors. Indeed they dropped off to other young men to knock on doors in the nearby complex and those two tried to shoehorn in on the moving, agreeing that it was much preferable to door knocking. Poor kids. But anyhow. Yeah, done. We have 1000 cubic feet of storage that we need to empty, plus some things that just had to come here. I put everything that had to come here on the dining room table. Since I guess I'm doing Tday again, despite my swearing off of it ever again last year, that table needs to be cleared by then. Dh described the whole sitch of how last night felt: the heroes have vanquished the foes and are relaxing and enjoying their victory. Camera pans out to the horizon where... any army of orcs is just appearing... :) The orcs are the Stuff in storage, the Stuff in our house, and to a certain extent, the Stuff from FIL's estate that we've been ignoring. Then we can tackle our own stuff. I will not do this to my kids.
2. Eldercare crisis #2. My mom's memory care place has gone to sh*t, something my sister has been noticing and that I certainly did last time I visited. In addition, my mom has found a guy friend there and they're very attached to each other. His family is not ok with how badly the place is being run so they're moving him. It seems like a good time to move my mom as well. The physical space at the new place isn't as nice, but two things argue for the move: they do things with the residents, something the old place used to to a certain extent but stopped as they staffing situation blew up over the past nine or so months, and well, how bad the old place has gotten. I'm not going to call it actual abuse, but someone witnessed one of the (temp) caregivers yanking my mom by her arm to get her to go somewhere, which, no, not ok. Of course, my sis and BIL will be in Patagonia for 5 weeks so guess who gets to go down to Bend and do another move for a stressed out elderly person. Yeah. I'm hoping that my brother might be able to come, that would help. Larry -the guy friend- has a lot of family and they have volunteered to help, since I don't think they want to separate them either. So. UGH. On the plus side. I'd been feeling bad about going down to Bend the weekend before Tday to celebrate with my mom early, and spending Tday here, but his family, who are all local, are more than happy to have mom be part of their celebrations. So yeah. Stressful, but I'm hoping long-term ok. Fingies crossed.
3. Dems did well tonight! YAY! A bit of good news in this shitshow of a presidency, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come next year. I'm waiting on my local school district election results, probably in the next few days: two of the candidates are campaigning on 'girls sports for girls only'. While I personally have some small reservations about trans girls at some levels and in some types of girls' sports, I do NOT want people who are for a blanket ban. Fingers crossed they both lose. The sad thing is that, that 100% disqualifying opinion aside, one of them would probably have been a good person to have on the board, especially as compared to the person we voted for.
1. We finished the move, clearing out the old apartment, yesterday late afternoon, after OMG so many hours. It was pretty much just dh and I 80% of the time. SIL helped not at all BUT I guess she goes to a Mormon Church now and found two young missionaries and they helped for a few hours Saturday and Sunday and were so helpful. By then dh and I were in pain and exhausted so even help that had to be told exactly what to do was more than welcome. I was still too tired and wrung out today to manage, but I need to find out who they "report" to and send a letter of thanks, as well as a check to whatever community services their Church funds. Their comment? That helping us move was better than knocking on doors. Indeed they dropped off to other young men to knock on doors in the nearby complex and those two tried to shoehorn in on the moving, agreeing that it was much preferable to door knocking. Poor kids. But anyhow. Yeah, done. We have 1000 cubic feet of storage that we need to empty, plus some things that just had to come here. I put everything that had to come here on the dining room table. Since I guess I'm doing Tday again, despite my swearing off of it ever again last year, that table needs to be cleared by then. Dh described the whole sitch of how last night felt: the heroes have vanquished the foes and are relaxing and enjoying their victory. Camera pans out to the horizon where... any army of orcs is just appearing... :) The orcs are the Stuff in storage, the Stuff in our house, and to a certain extent, the Stuff from FIL's estate that we've been ignoring. Then we can tackle our own stuff. I will not do this to my kids.
2. Eldercare crisis #2. My mom's memory care place has gone to sh*t, something my sister has been noticing and that I certainly did last time I visited. In addition, my mom has found a guy friend there and they're very attached to each other. His family is not ok with how badly the place is being run so they're moving him. It seems like a good time to move my mom as well. The physical space at the new place isn't as nice, but two things argue for the move: they do things with the residents, something the old place used to to a certain extent but stopped as they staffing situation blew up over the past nine or so months, and well, how bad the old place has gotten. I'm not going to call it actual abuse, but someone witnessed one of the (temp) caregivers yanking my mom by her arm to get her to go somewhere, which, no, not ok. Of course, my sis and BIL will be in Patagonia for 5 weeks so guess who gets to go down to Bend and do another move for a stressed out elderly person. Yeah. I'm hoping that my brother might be able to come, that would help. Larry -the guy friend- has a lot of family and they have volunteered to help, since I don't think they want to separate them either. So. UGH. On the plus side. I'd been feeling bad about going down to Bend the weekend before Tday to celebrate with my mom early, and spending Tday here, but his family, who are all local, are more than happy to have mom be part of their celebrations. So yeah. Stressful, but I'm hoping long-term ok. Fingies crossed.
3. Dems did well tonight! YAY! A bit of good news in this shitshow of a presidency, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come next year. I'm waiting on my local school district election results, probably in the next few days: two of the candidates are campaigning on 'girls sports for girls only'. While I personally have some small reservations about trans girls at some levels and in some types of girls' sports, I do NOT want people who are for a blanket ban. Fingers crossed they both lose. The sad thing is that, that 100% disqualifying opinion aside, one of them would probably have been a good person to have on the board, especially as compared to the person we voted for.
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