Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
MsMadge, how did your Mom get called the Viking?
Last weekend I was at my BIL's funeral and nearly laughed in the service. It was a high mass complete with the incense ball swinging. I immediately thought about the story of an altar-boy/man who got arrested for putting marijuana in the incense bowl. I started sniffing to cover up the inappropriate chuckle.
l've never cared much for the incense ball swung over the casket but I'd be hard pressed not to chuckle if it was medicinal mj
mom is pure Norwegian and the Viking in her started appearing with dementia- she once told a male resident at her facility who was bugging her that she's been known to kill 10 at a time when she goes berserk-
while I was surprised initially by what she said, I also understood how scary it is for her to be in constant contact with other sometimes violent demented folks
what I didn't know initially was that the word berserk is old Norse and a berserker Viking was a formidable warrior going into battle without shield - evidently, mom was channeling her ancestors
when I tell her to put on her Viking face, she'll bare her teeth 😆
finally got around to putting batteries and quarters in it and took it to Friday night fiesta
she loved it
feeling guilty I didn’t put more effort in to playing with it in the early days of hoca when she was mobile and could have benefited from the entertainment
My MIL once gave me something she found useful - "a round tuit", a joke decoration, since I often do not get around to it!
Satan in a muu-muu! That’s just too funny 😂. Thanks for the laugh!
So, if I didn't get around to it, she'd give me her Round Tuit. (play on words.) Cute.
Maybe they'd have better attendance at mass if they put some "green incense " in that swingin' ball! Better participation too. Hallelujah !
Speaking of behaving badly, ya' know that in the early 1900's, 75% of Victorian ladies suffered from 'hysteria' (including headaches and fits and rough language). They went to the doctor for "treatment" (pelvic massage). The patient would wind up with a "hysterical paroxysm" (orgasm) and be temporarily cured. Since this treatment was so popular, the doctor's worn out fingers gave way to the first electrical vibrator. Since the 1980's vibrators have been "out of the closet". Shame on you ladies behaving badly. ;)
( info from Broadly.vice.com).
Oh my goodness, did I just write that? :0 Maybe I'm behaving badly too!
No one is going to post after your last behaving badly. Ha ha ha.
physician assisted suicide, imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Next_Room_(or_The_Vibrator_Play)
The trailer from the movie Hysteria came up. Mrs Parsons and her hat cracked me up.
Is there a Friday night fiesta?
I can die with ease now.
This information is useless if it is the husband who has hysteria.
road to wellville
had these treatments too
i vaguely remember it had something to do with a spa connected to Kellogg’s
maybe thats where the slogan
they’re grrrreat comes from 😂
the Viking’s asleep so I just made her roomy some chamomile tea
I went out to the common area for awhile and when I got back the tea bag was open
do you think she ate the grounds ??
Should be safe, but kinda awful tasting?
You could try it Ms.Madge.
Do you think she snorted it? lol.
Or, like snuff, put the grounds inside her lip?
I was hoping it would calm her since she's up a lot at night and brags how she's cusses at mom -
she actually grabbed her arm when I was brushing mom's teeth last Saturday night because she wanted us out of her bathroom
so I wasn't too pleased about it