Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
If one door closes,
And another one opens,
Your house is haunted
And you need to run! 🤣
“Or, if you need another joke, I volunteer to look one up for you.”
yes please. i choose this option. :)
You know that you could ask us for ideas to make your decision.
Then you would get asked tons of personal questions and you might have to defend yourself.
Then, you would get so many different opinions, it might confuse you.
Then people would start disagreements and fight between each other.
Then people would take sides, and divide into what people have called 'cliques'.
So, just offering, if you need support.
I received this advice about decisions years ago:
You have options. Always at least 3 options.
Yes
No
Or defer your decision to another time.
Or, if you need another joke, I volunteer to look one up for you.
thanks!! hopefully it all works out.
Ooh, sorry, this was not the joke thread, was it?
i need to make a decision soon…
hopefully it’s the right decision.
it would be cool to have the superpower of foresight!! then you’d always know the right way forward.
stuff.co.nz/national/129764031/boy-finds-giant-backyard-worm-that-his-mum-calls-the-stuff-of-nightmares
🙀🙀
I am thinking that caregivers are very humble personality-wise, and do not want to self-disclose what they might be good at.
Like giving ourselves a pat on the back, we are reluctant. Many are so alone, there is no one to acknowledge the daily activities done for the sake of others.
It's okay, I understand.
Yes, I know the facts, that they are rented and very expensive, but without Canada's help, there would be much less hope. So, I am going to take encouragement and hope anywhere I can find it.
Watching these huge planes skip over the water in Castaic Lake to load, then fly their mission is awesome.
So thank you Canada, and the Canadian people! 💖
Being humble
Empathy
Compassion
Able to see the whole picture of what's coming, and what to do about it
Being able to research other's issues on the internet
Encouragement
Boundaries in action
Common Sense
Personal Experience
Retired from a helping profession
Loving others
Saying you have a super power is just telling us what you are good at, what you are known for. Some have humility as their Super Power, so those caregivers may not want to mention themselves. In that case, please mention someone you know that has a Super Power!
Try it, maybe you will have some fun.
What is your Super Power as a caregiver.
It is called compassion.
ITRR, Wishing we could have some support and teaching with boundaries.
I have the book, gave it away, got another one, forgot I had it, forget to read it.
Somebody slap me now!
That's my caregiver superpower.
What are your caregiver super powers?
The slow to load had me fooled, because the forum opened up fine.
However, the navigation from one question to the next, from here to over there is very slow.
Today we took our cat to the vet. I thought I'd put my mask in my front pocket of my jeans but when I went to put it on it wasn't there. Hmmm? l searched all my pockets. Looked inside the car and around our place when we got home. No mask.
So I'm using the washroom. I turned around to wipe myself and I see something black floating in the toilet. Yep, my mask. It must have been on me somewhere and when I went to pee it fell in. So I peed on my mask today. Take that, stupid covid mask. :)
Check in here if you like-it can be a lonely journey without someone to talk to.
There was a time when it was so run down, I'd have to walk around the puddles of water on the floor, as the roof leaked really badly. But, it was close to work, very reasonably priced goods, great selection of: seafood (at least four stands), vegetables grown in Lancaster, Basset's ice cream (been there at least 120 years-same stand too-sooo gooood), chocolates, Old City coffee roaster, cheese, Amish/Mennonites on Fridays and Saturdays, kitchen gadget shop, beer garden, rickety piano for someone to pound the keys, BBQ, Vegetarian, Asian, Amish (get there early), roast turkey, Gourmet food stalls to name a few choices....all packed into what I guess is a good sized city block. Some company took it over a few years back, fixed the roof, raised the vendor's rents, made it much more tourist friendly, which I have mixed feelings about, as some businesses left as a result and they had such good meat or cheese or fish. So, that is a Philly version of a farmer's market. Up here-not so much, there was one place that was ok-but, again, sold to a company that pretty much cleaned it up, a lot of disgruntled vendors and I'm not sure if it's ever going to come back to what it was.
But now, add in the economy, home prices decreasing, interest rates increasing. I got hit in 2008-2009. Don't want to do that again. Can't do that again. Won't do that again! I am very afraid recession is where we are headed, but a correction had to come!
I didn't bother to walk through the one this month.
The new FM has a video while the market is open. It showed the health department out in force, and the host 'issuing warnings' to vendors of their presence.
There were also inspections to make sure a vendor was selling fresh, grown themselves. But it appeared they were 'on the FM circuit', doing that only, except for the Tamale vendor.
Some really nice vegetables. And loose teas, some medicinal.
It was over 90 degrees that day, so I was wondering how they could keep food cold enough with just ice in a cooler. 🙄