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Sooo.....we dropped off all the paperwork today to offficially get the granny-in-law an admittance date at the "residential care facility" - This Monday, Jan. 17.

I can do 5 more days of sleep rationing. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and all that...

The place is VERY nice - lots of docs and nurses on staff, swanky rooms, and a huge,...
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imaginaryrobot:
Hey! Yeah... I've been hooked lately on this. I joined a few months ago but lately I've been stuck on this site from the time I wake till the time I go to sleep. I'm probably having SG dreams too... who knows. smile

That's kinda funny about the 14 year old kid. It's probably best that he not see auntie MalloryKnoxx's fun bags. wink

BTW Natural Born Killers is one of my fav movies!
prince_uf_pain:
lol...well at least you got them pulled before you recieved any awkward phone calls from relatives and had to deal with strange family reunions.
wink
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Yeah - so I journal a lot here.

*shrugs*

Seeing as how I'm on graveyard shift here at granny-in-law-care central....and I've been sleeping about 4 hours a day - I can't do much work on my book.....and most of my friends don't much care for 3 am phone calls....I've gotta keep myself occupied some way.
There are certainly less entertaining ways than journaling here and...
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ragefilledmuffin:
Sorry to hear about the major sleep deprivation but it is a good excuse to say what you want to say to your co-workers. And I definitely can relate to the surviving on Red Bull (or any of the imposters out there). Its so weird to feel tired but to be so wired you are shaking. I am convinced that Red Bull and ephedrine is just over the counter speed.

I am thinking of getting a shamrock tattoo but sort of celtic knotwork to form the outline on the lower part of my ankle. One of my friends is also going to get a shamrock at somepoint and we've dubbed it our friendship tattoo, even though they probably aren't gonna be exactly the same.

Good luck finding some time to relax and write. smile
freshprncebelair:
Yeah, I kinda play my cards close to my chest most of the time. That's why writing is such a good outlet for me, because a pen is a lot less dangerous in the hands of a messed up individual than a .30-06 while perched on the rooftop.
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So - I just got home from work - CRAZY busy night - which is a very good thing as the last month has been painfully slow. Most DC residents aren't native to the area, so they all go home for the holidays and the Nation's capitol becomes a ghost town.

We hired a new server last week, and I'm finding my co-workers reaction to...
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freshprncebelair:
Well I know the girls are psycho. I just don't mind it that much, at least temporarily.

As for the dinner. I would be down for you and your husband to come, but I gotta find out what is going down, and ask my mom if I can have a bunch of people over. Im thinking it's going to be a sort of dinner/hot tub bash. I need to get home first, and talk to some people before etching anything in stone.
ragefilledmuffin:
It would be really funny if this gorgeous guy ended up being gay. The girls would've been all catty for nothing and the guys would be totally speechless.
It sucks when someone is judged solely on their appearance, whether it's good or bad. But I guess we all do it sometimes.
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Urrgghhh!!!

So I'm going to be up all night - it's my turn to pull the night shift in the granny care workweek. Granny was being a pain in the ass - demanding special soup, complaining about her hot tea, and generally driving me nuts.

FINALLY I get her back to her room and to bed about 1 a.m. I've been up since about 6...
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jora:
I read about your book in the group. Is it being published yet? I'd like to read it. I have thought about writing a book on my experiences too, but cannot seem to really let go and write about it, even though I consider myself a closet writer.

Not sure what else to say...um. Nighty-night. smile
ragefilledmuffin:
I am wishing you all the luck and patience in the world. It sounds like a rather trying week. If you can spare an hour, take a nice bubble bath and chill for a bit.

I'd love to move to Chicago. But its an expensive city and I'd need to know I had a good job before making that leap. Maybe someday...

That pretty much sounds like what my promotions manager job will be. With a little bit of general manager thrown in, as well as photographer. I shot their band publicity photos before Christmas and they turned out pretty well. They are online somewhere, I think, if the website is working.

I like the new profile pic.



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Happy New Year to all

I'm glad I found this site. It's really been a bright spot in the exhausting last few months.

Things are already looking up for the new year. We've found a great place for Granny to spend her remaining days, and plenty of people to look after her.

This will allow my hubby and I to finally sell this house and........
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lain:
Heh. thanks.
Its what im here for LOL.

Happy New Year to you to
abadinfluence:
Well ... your husbands account I can understand ... it doesn't go by cancellation date ... it goes by sign up date. So if he signed up on say Jan 1st and on the 3rd, decided he didn't want the account anymore and cancelled it, he'd still have access until the 1st of February ... or whatever denomination of months the account was for.

Apparently I am here until the 13th ... so says a good friend who figured it out for me. Sure ... I coulda gone back through my journals myself to find the date where I said "Hey ... I'm back!" from the last time I went grey ... but damn ... that takes work. There are too many things and people to talk to and about here rather than going back and finding something I said. LOL
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I have to say - this has been a brutal 10 day period of time. My husband and I have run at fill tilt, sleeping in shifts so that we can look after his grandmother. We have both gotten to the point that we have literally collapsed and come down with the flu.

After a depressing Christmas day of going over and over various angles...
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abadinfluence:
You aren't abandoning her ... nor should you feel guilty.

The fact that you have realized that the care she needs in beyond your means and that you are looking for a reputable place for her to go where she can get all the care she needs (and be as bossy and manipulative as she wants) shows a lot about your character.

And it's a good character ... not a bad one.

I love your analogy about Jessica Simpson. Nice one.

So .... you're writing a book? Any chance you might let someone peruse it ... like me?

*huggles* Don't stress yourself out hon ... things will work out in the end and you'll understand that it was all worth it and you'll be a better, stonger person from it all.

freshprncebelair:
I applaud you taking care of the grandmother.

You are giving it your best, and that's all anyone can expect you to give. I hope the folks upstairs don't forget about this when you are old and need a helping hand.

That's why I try to always hang out and help my grandparents. When I am that old, I don't want people ignoring me, and not helping me. I also enjoy talking with my grandpa. He's a very smart man. He is the main reason for my conservative/libertarian leanings. I talk to him, and then I talk to all these liberal teenagers at my school who know everything and think anyone who disagrees is dumb. People tend to forget that the elderly are quite wise. Institutional memory is quite valuable in my eyes.
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So my boss just called to see how the granny situation was going (he's cool like that). He mentioned that there is practically NO one in DC right now- it being Christmas week and all, most people have gone home to be with family and our little bistro will be pretty much dead. He asked if I'd like stay home, and I said yes thanks!!...
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abadinfluence:
*sigh* If only I knew how to make webpages ... I mean ... sure, I technically learnt how in college ... but the programs they used were so archiac it wasn't funny.

I'd have a blast writing content for that though! lol
lillithvain:
Thanks so much for the nice comment you left on my set!!!

kiss kiss

That sounds great....find me an agent too while your out there.. wink I hope all is well.... kiss
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Well - the aforementioned moral dillemma has been solved by a trip to the emergency room - granny has deteriorated to a point that full time care is now required, and leaving is, well, not an option.
I'm going to need to steel myself for future dealings with ka-ka and bleeding.
At times like this - I almost wish I wasn't an atheist.
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underfallingsky:
You can choose not to be an athiest, there has to be something more than humans right?
underfallingsky:
I dunno, the way I've chosen to look at it is that humans are limited by the capicaty of our brain, humans can only percieve about 1 millionth of reality as we know it. There are things/ideas/entities/insert 'x' here that exist that the human mind will never be able to comprehend, this awesome wonder to me embodies spirituality/god/religion/insert 'y' here.. I read that Einstein was of a similar thought, that nature/physics=God, just an idea someone had, not original to me by any streatch.
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Sooo.....husband and I are seriously considering moving on to L.A. much sooner than previously anticipated.
We are looking after his elderly grandmother, and feel some obligation to stay for her.
However, when said grannny is nearly identical in personality to Tony Soprano's mother Olivia, it makes life extremely unpleasant.
We will, of course, hire a caretaker.
The situation is approaching red-line levels of toxicity.
Such...
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