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.
As for cliques - some of us have been here for a long time, we know each others back stories and have followed along through each others caregiving journeys. I think that it's natural and normal that some people resonate with us more than others and I think it's kind of cool that I "know" so many people from such diverse places and walks of life.
I was delighted beyond measure, back in the 1980s, to see from a noticeboard outside our local church that the minister in charge was The Reverend Gordon Bennett. I still have the photo I took.
I do love the whole theme of names and naming. I love the story that Samuel Longhorn Clemens picked "Mark Twain" as his pen name having so often heard it called out on the Mississippi. I can just picture his ears pricking up as the river pilots hallooed "Mark Twain!" out across the water, and him wondering to himself who Mark Twain was and whether he ever answered them. [I have been told this story is mere picturesque myth, but I refuse to believe so. It is *exactly* the kind of thing that would have appealed to him.]
And I’m talking about the person who deleted their account in a huff after saying someone admitted to trolling, and then came back and posted under another ID. That right there is trolling.
So very sorry you feel lost.
In keeping with the original spirit and intention of this thread:
Can you still find your way to an In N OUT burger place?
And I had a mamogram today, it got lost in the shuffle of moms hospital stay and my dental work.. my ladies are fine in case you were wondering.. LOL
Super Bowl LIV
Feb 02, 2020
Hard Rock Stadium
Miami, FL
So, a website has leaked the top 18 commercials for the Superbowl. That will really be something to watch! See the "Typical American" ad by Budweiser!
Using criticisms towards Americans, it is very encouraging, when truth is demonstrated. You will have to see it.
It isn't that I don't understand people's anxieties, or governments' anxieties not to be accused of not doing enough to "control" the pandemic; but I keep wondering - how many people worldwide have died of 'flu or 'flu-related complications this year that haven't attracted the media's attention because it's just the average predicted outcome? Let's get excited about that for a few minutes: they do say "a change is as good as a rest."
"I saw this card and thought f*** it, that'll do."
It made me laugh to myself all afternoon, but who could you possibly send it to?
Yep.........
I ordered you a computer online for your birthday.
Inside:
But it crashed!
The cards come printed with those 'funny' sentiments.
Gershun, that wasn't a funny sentiment.
CM was right. Who, really, are we supposed to give them to?
I stopped mailing Christmas cards. I used to send cards to people who still send them to me. I stopped that too. Kind of a pain. Some people love sending them. I hate those letters in some of them. Hahaha, sorry but I do. They all sound so rehearsed and contrived.
A pickle? That’s hilarious!
Now comes the rest of the journey. There again, in caring for our parents we are determined to give them the end of life experience they want and deserve. We are on our 3rd agency for 24/7 care and my parents are very happy with them. They both have Alzheimers and are still mobile and able to make their wishes known- they just need help and supervision. Even with 24/7 care, it sure feels like something comes up every day. One or both not having a good day and trying to send the caregivers away, clogging the toilet b/ c they put something in it they shouldn’t have, agency not able to replace a caregiver who called out (hopefully that’s resolved), MD Appts, etc.... we fought so hard to get our parents back it’s hard to be cynical about those things- so far.
I truly believe in Karma and even if you were never close to those you find yourself responsible for, doing the right thing for someone else will change your life
I know my boys have a whole new respect for the elderly and for putting others who need help before themselves. If that lesson Is the best gift I ever give them that’s fine with me.
As for my parents, they will have everything they need and as happy a life from now til the end as possible That’s the best we can do for them. What an honor to be given that responsibility.
GO CHIEF'S!!!
And the Show me State has shown 'em!!!
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They are not in Kansas anymore?
Still the same places, states apart?
Today Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri remain two separately incorporated cities but together, along with a number of other cities and suburbs, are part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area.
Where does the Tin man live?
"Are there any cast members still alive from the Wizard of Oz?
No. All of the principal cast is dead. As of the 24 May, 2018[1]passing of the last living Munchkin, Jerry Maren (who portrayed one of the three representatives of the Lollipop Guild) at age 98, every actor who received an on screen credit or spoke dialogue in the Wizard of Oz is dead."
Sad news.