Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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ChristmasTrees
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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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Jackielou wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:37 pm More like thinking down the road....Not sure if we would stay here or move the the city our youngest lives in. It would be 2 hours closer for our eldest DS as well. Hubby is not a big city person, but the older we get, the more I would like to be around specialists and a bigger/better equipped hospital.
Well..it is good to think ahead. I am very rural..but my kids live on the property next to me..so some security there. But...they could decide to move someday too.
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MackerelCat
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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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Clem, I am sorry about your aunt. It's hard to lose the last ones of your parent's generation. (((Hugs)))

I am so tired. I stayed late at work cleaning out a closet in my office that had Covid supplies stored in it. A lot of that stuff is heavy: a case of 200 bars of soap or a carton of vinyl shower curtains weighs more than you would expect.

Tomorrow I may be installing a mini blind and moving a small bookcase, but I hope that's it for manual labor.
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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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Update:

It has been bright and sunny today but the temps are not warm...I have already covered the plants outside, look like a bunch of little ghosts hanging around. Supposedly this is the last time I should have to do this.

DD told me the creek at the campground is way out of it's banks...really glad my camper hasn't been placed for the summer....son in law would be moving it to keep it from getting flooded.

DD2 stopped for a bit after work, she said this weather is getting to her also.

Jackie, I had also been thinking about selling and building a smaller place over by DD...but decided to put it on the wayyyy back burner when I talked to some contractors and was told that the prices of building materials were off the charts and they would not even be able to guarantee being able to get the stuff needed in a timely manner or and this was the big one for me...that they could not guarantee there would not be massive cost over runs This people are friends of mine and to be honest it scared me.

So I am just doing delayed maintenance here...just about all done... and staying put. I do love my home and since I moved my bedroom downstairs am much more content. It's a lot to think about.

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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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MackerelCat wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 12:35 pm FrugalMom, did you DH's doctors put him on an anti-depressant after his heart attack? Heart problems in men cause depression. My DH suffered badly from it after he had a cardiac catherization and stent placement that went poorly. His cardiologist put him on an anti-depressant and eventually had to increase the dose before he started feeling like himself again.
No, he is sensitive to meds and the way he is I don't think he would even take one! But I will ask him, and yes, I am sure he is depressed he can't do things he used to do any longer and like getting decrepit in his mind. He just doesn't like the fact he is getting old I guess. I hurt here and there and everywhere too, but you just have to deal with it. But yes, I will go ask him-he probably will rant and rave when I ask him-I mean it is like getting to be constant.

I was just parking in the driveway and how I did it wrong :roll: bc it was not close enough to my black bark area and I was taking up too much room on the driveway-it is his way or the highway! I call him out on it and of course then I am arguing with him (no I am not,just matter of factly saying there are different ways of doing things and I do not want to park too close to the black bark area bc I do not want to step on black bark!). Like nonsense things like that-sigh. I am usually a positive person or like to think I am and he is more of a negative person normally, but it is getting too much lately. I still heard about my bed and why did I get a fancy canopy bed,these things don't last,etc,etc. Heaven help me...grant me patience....
clemencia2us
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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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I also think about moving to a smaller more modern home

They are building a new subdivision here with 380 homes. The roads are being built now

Then I wonder about noise. There is no one around me now except on one side. And he is hardly ever there. There are open fields behind my house and we own a back acre.

But it is a lot to take care of. And since is is a 1920s house, doorways are narrow and there are steps leading down from the porch etc. Not good for an old person.

We shall see.
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Re: Daily Check-in May 11, 2021

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clemencia2us wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:35 am Good morning all

Didn't get much sleep. My aunt passed away last night

I was up contacting family members. We were texting back and forth. My cousin, her daughter called me late and then this morning another cousin called early.

My aunt was such a sweet lady. Everyone is going to miss her. But she had been saying that she wanted to be with her husband and children. She had already lost two sons. She was ready to rest. Her body was giving out. So she is at peace.

Will probably just piddle around today. I am tired.
I'm so sorry, even though she is at peace, it's hard for the family.

IC
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