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I think we all need to head to Costa Rica. I saw a report today on TV that people there are the happiest. What a great place -- no military and no wildlife hunting allowed. Sounds a bit like paradise. Except maybe those poisonous frogs and snakes. Have to watch where you put your hands and feet.
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Oh my Veronica91, I'm as old as dirt!! Lol
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I'd prefer a chalet in Switzerland. Cozy by a real fire. Not those gas ones. With cognac and massages of course. I've had enough of the hot weather. She says as the sweat drips off of her nose. :P
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All of these gettaways sound good I am game for each and everyone. That would be cloud nine for a very long time. I saw a request for a brat story. Well this was not done intentionally in all true honesty. When I first moved back into my mothers house, because my landlord sold hers in order not to lose all, it was a very hostile environment.

She has always been one to say close the door just before you close it . I I say the sky was blue shed say red. At this time she was reveling in the fact that I had to come to her and actuallt plea for a place to live. So any chance she got there was an order to do something even if to wipe a drop of water off the table. I was often bombarded with a nasty tirade if the wind blew a door open about leaving her doors open. So much that I would explode in the mist of a tirade and then it would quite but was always walking on glass and I felt crazy. Welll anyways one evening I was going out and the backdoor was open. Id gotten so crazy from all this chaos that I thought I left it open. So I said to my self youd better close that door or you will never hear the end of it. So I did. When I came back she was like you locked me in back yard, my sister had to let her in when she came home. I was like here she go lying again! So I went and asked my sister and she nastily said yeah like who are you kidding. Of course between the two of them I had done it on purpose and of course I was condemned and punished. But in the mist of it all the Brat in me was tickeled to death. I would never have gone threw with a thought of locking anyone out. but she had made me so crazy I thought the I'd left the door open. So I was like hey is that Karma or what. Lol. I almost lmao But then I was sad at how crazy the ugliness had made me and how much confusion it brings when you constantly have to question self.
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Jessebelle, I already have to be careful where I step, or I may fall down.
But getting away to almost anywhere sounds like a trip to paradise.

Didn't we caregivers take a fantasy trip by RV last year to Vegas?
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California has resort spas that help you lose weight. When I went to the oaks at ojai, near Santa Barbara, my friend and Iskipped the exercise class and walked to get chocolate candy instead. But the massages were great.
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My sister and I bought a Jane Fonda workout tape when we were young. We went to my sister's apartment and watched it while we ate pizza. Said things like "Man that looks hard" as we passed each other more pizza.

Speaking of brat stories, my F I L is a real braggart, blowhard, know it all. He is a doctor and is the best doctor in the world according to himself. Whenever he starts in on one of his long, nauseating stories about how he saved someone's life I always get up and walk out right in the middle. He actually stops talking and watches me walk out of the room. His wife says "Are we boring you" Once I said "yeah, actually you are and by the way, God decides who lives or dies, not you" and walked out.
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Sitting, watching exercise videos has become too strenuous for me now, so I have switched to watching cooking shows while ordering in.
Pass the pizza, please.
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Did you know Jane Fonda released two new DVDs in 2010 aimed at an older audience? They might be less strenuous to watch. LOL
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Really enjoying the hair colors with the older stars as models, Diane Keaton is one. Using that product and still trying to breathe is more than enough exercise every six weeks. Life gets more dangerous as one ages.
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Oh Send,, Mom and I love the cooking shows! Chopped is a favorite. No wonder i'm plump!
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Cwillie, U R so brilliant, I love it because others will barely get that you are being funny. Lol.
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An old lady and an old man were sitting outside in front of their nursing home in Florida. The old man says to the old lady, "I bet you can't guess how old I am?" The lady ignores him. The old man says again, "I bet you can't guess how old I am?" She looks at him and says, "Stand up." He stands. She says "Pull down your pants." He does. She says, "Pull down your underpants." He does. She sits there staring at his penis. She says, "You're 94." He says "That's amazing! I AM 94! How did you do that?" She says,""You told me yesterday."
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Pas the popcorn, please.
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OK. I am a brat... MIL in hospital for broken hip ( seems to be doing OK post surgury, see other post,,,) She is on oxygen at hospital. SO I said to hubs... great, she will probably go home on O2 too..... BIL and SIL always bitching about tubing all over the house, etc... I just looked at hubs after that.. and we both starting grinning....
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Another brat moment. Lol. Took an odd shift at my job, could be gone for hours! Told my hubby it was for the money, but true fully, it was just to have some quiet time so I could read! (Front desk at a motel).
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352 replies! I didn't look at this thread for a couple days and look at it now! I've got a lot of catching up to do as I don't want to miss a single brat moment! Evidently the "inner child" in a lot of us is indeed, a complete brat! Rock on, my brat sisters and brothers!!
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NeedABreak... Too funny!!
I had a bad fall last night & injured my ribs. In so much pain! I feel like such a brat, though... My Ma usually won't eat unless I cook for her, but I rested today & she did just fine. She actually fixed her own meals! All I had to do was give her meds!
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Glad you're in my time zone PDT
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Mom's agitation is off the charts - she even hates me and I'm her favorite so we get a urine sample at memory care late yesterday to test for UTI - it will be her 5th since moving there in February - of course when I call tonight to see if the lab results came back they tell me they had to do the test again because the lab never picked up the sample yesterday but I digress

Last night I'm trying everything to calm her done until the seroquel kicks so I'm rubbing her shoulders and talking to her but she's convinced I hate her and have stolen her money and blah blah blah finally I ask her I she had a happy nap in the afternoon and she says no she had a grumpy nap - I reply, well then it worked 😜
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Ms. Madge,
You may be in my time zone, but you probably were not awake at 4:00 a.m.? Going to sleep soon, when, I don't know. Time stamp on AC is messed up too.
Isn't that a coincidence?
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Grumpy nap... I love it!
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No brat moments to report today. But Im cracking up. Im reading some really cute stuff all over the place. Only a brat would find this uplifting. Lol.
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DDDuck, Yes, you are kinda bratty, thank you for your contrbution!

Maybe Gershun, who is co-creator and hostess of this thread, (or is that co-conspirator?) can affirm your membership here. Whaddya think, Gershun?
Is the Duck a brat, or what?
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No one wants to exclude anyone, and I have seen Caregivers Behaving Badly on other threads out there. They too are brats, but please make yourselves known on here-your very own thread! I am restraining myself, would not want to start naming any names....
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Once a brat, always a brat!
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My dH says that Sunday is a day of rest. I told him, what are you resting from, taking a break?

Just reading over the comments on here gives me a chuckle, and knowing that all this time there were other brats out there too, just needing a little encouragement to act out. You are all so good! Or is that bad?
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You set a lovely table, Send - is that inside the RV?

Well once again the lab didn't pick up the urine sample taken yesterday at memory care so day 3 and no results and her agitation and peeing are worse

My mom noticed a tattoo on the arm of her caregiver of her daughter's name so I ask my mom if she wants to tattoo my name on her arm and surprisingly she says yes only later when there aren't so many people around - Sunday's are a zoo at the facility with family visiting but I digress

So then I ask what about the names of my never visit siblings and she says, "I'll put them on my ass." I agreed that would be the perfect spot.
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Yes Send DD Duck is definitely real brat material. Everyone has a brat inside them just waiting to come out. I find the best brat moments are in places where you are supposed to be solemn, ie.church, funerals, weddings.

Speaking of real brat moments. This is a real bad one. When my brother died, we were all out at the funeral home checking out their headstones, etc. For some reason my sister and I got into a horrible laughing fit. I think partly cause we were feeling emotional, so it was either laugh or bawl. I couldn't stop laughing. I became hysterical. We were all in this little golf cart type vehicle going back to the funeral home. I turned to my sister and said " I can't stop laughing" Finally I had to slap myself in the face. I hit myself so hard that it left a big red mark on my face.
We were all trying so hard to not start laughing again. My sister apologized to the funeral director. She said "Oh, don't worry, it was kind of refreshing"

Like I said, I am a big brat.
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