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.
DONT FENCE ME IN
Work cut in half.
Alone not worth fixing supper salad, take out or pop a can.
Enjoy it while you can.
What a trip down memory lane. I remember; "Don't cook tonight....Call Chicken Delight"!! We had one down the street in San Francisco about 53 years ago! As I remember, it was delish! Yum, I'm hungry.
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zero, number of times I will not tolerate this anymore;, zero, number of times I will ever work outside with dH again, UNTIL, t h e n e x t t i m e ....grrrrr.
6, Number of approximate hours before bed after zero dinner!
Next time put DH up on the ladder and you can go pee for an hour.
Went out to help again, came back and only 3 minutes has passed since my last post! The time, and the pain seemed interminable, not just 3 minutes. Now, it is me leaving the jobsite, ha ha ha, as he went to pick out just the perfect screw!!!
Cwillie, thanks for the laugh, but laughing is hurting my back.
Is the deck second story? Can a cheap shed fit underneath? Or, they make huge deck boxes now, 2 ft. tall, 4 ft tall, 5 ft. tall
The vinyl shed are better now. Our tarp is silver, very thick, folded, trimmed, edged, not too bad, just covering the roof, not flying in the wind. (That is if it gets finished tomorrow.
Mom had a mess in her pull up through to her pink French terry pants - her overnight caregiver walked in when I was trying to clean her bottom and she got miffed and sarcastically asked if I was gong to invite anyone else into to watch ?
I said yes I'm selling tickets and there's a line outside the door
Finally got her to bed and had her say her prayers - she put a new spin on the Lord's Prayer beginning with God almighty instead of our Father 🙏 And then speed talked her way through to the end saying there are you happy ?
Immensely 😏
You are right about the snow it drops over the house and have 3 feet on the deck in no time. SOMETIMES YOU JUST CAN'T WIN!
You could try a roof or screened in porch over your deck-if it could hold it?
Sit outside in the sun or rain. You have it built to code, is recommended.
We cannot have dH construction stapling O-2 tubes to the beams! The kitty might just love the new room, and climb up the screens at 4 a.m. (just a downside).
Isn't it fun to imagine a solution for our needs being easier?
By the way we can't drive the tractor through the kitchen onto the deck or up the outside stairs.
I replaced a garage door once.
Don't get me started on that, lol.
How much space do you have behind your garage?
You could put a shed behind it, no doors, pushed up against the rear wall of your garage, open a door in the rear of the garage, add doors, that when open, the tractor, rarely used, will be driven into the shed, doors closed, both cars into garage. Think that would be my last far-fetched idea. Guess it would be easier to staple gun a tarp under the deck, higher on one side, lower on the other side.
Or, how about a huge tent, covered with a tarp?
Maybe we should adopt Send's message and not feed the 93 year old Scandinavian trolls - a thousand Swedes ran through the weeds chased by one Norwegian
I'm all too familiar with the stop walking to talk and then get mad because she can't hear syndrome - I think it's definitely a Scandinavian trait - as is the hearing loss
We've coined a new phrase for her - don't poke the Viking - anyone dares to touch her walker she screams and threatens to call the police - what other 93 year old woman would take on a 67 year old man without fear - God almighty
DS and I had come home from football practice and everyone was hungry and on edge. The kids started bickering just to bicker and I had just shut that down. Then Mom starts in on DS and how he is bad etc. I told her to leave the kids alone and stop poking them - she tries to instigate.
Well, I was rushing to put dinner on the table and was at the stove with my back turned and I herd Mom tell DS "its bubble gum". I instinctively knew she was talking about the nickel sized piece of chicken I had given her and saying it was chewy. That's when I lost it.
I am so tired of going out of my way to cook delicious, nutritious meals only to have her criticize. I have tried to make at least one thing that she likes but screw it. I don't care anymore.
She is ungrateful and selfish and I am tired of it.
Assess your snap potential early on by asking yourself:
Are you too hungry?
Are you too angry?
Are you too lonely?
Are you too tired?
The acronym HALT is used as a coping tool in many recovery programs. It is used to remind that at these times, a relapse in recovery is more likely.
My condolences Mom2Mom that you are frequently being pushed beyond your limit. Your kitchen actually sounds fun to me, as you are handing out bubblegum/
chicken pieces, children gathered around in chaos-That could have happened only once to me, and we would be bringing home chicken delight forevermore!