What's on your agenda for today?

GeorgiaXplant said:
Dang! A stake would have be easier than beating it to death. By the time I was done, my wrist hurt. It didn't want to die.

I suppose that I'll have to spend the rest of my life wearing a little thingie around my neck with garlic in it. Isn't that supposed to keep ghouls and goblins and vampires and such away?
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I think for the smoke alarm ghosts you have to wear an old 9-volt battery around your neck ...

And you might eventually have to call in the smoke busters.
 

GeorgiaXplant said:
I just got up. Had a full-moon sleepless night combined with a smoke alarm that decided it wanted its batteries changed at 2 am. That was an adventure. Smoke alarm will never bother me ever again. I killed it. It wouldn't open up so I finally ripped the damned thing off the ceiling, and it still wouldn't open to get the batteries out! So I took it out to my patio in the pouring rain and smashed it with a hammer because it wouldn't stop telling me "low batteries" and then had the audacity and unmitigated gall to start shrieking at me. It didn't want to give up even after many blows. At that point, I got vicious and took out all my aggression on it, every tiny little thing that had ever annoyed me, and was almost disappointed when it finally shut up because I was having a perfectly lovely time beating it to death. In. The. Rain.


Now I have two screw holes in the ceiling in my sitting room.


Oh...and so that I could see what I was doing when I was trying to get it open, I turned on a lamp. Poof! Bulb burned out with a big pop and smoke. Unplugged lamp. I guess that's dead, too. It might be a goner, has been acting strangely for about a year. Bought that thing maybe 30 years ago and paid a whopping $100 for it at a time when nobody with good sense paid $100 for a lamp. Now I'm scared of it because I think it's all part of a grander plan between it and the smoke alarm.


Sat on my patio this morning with my coffee and gloated while looking at the dead smoke alarm.
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Sounds like you had a great time exterminating that smoke alarm! Why do things like that always happen in the wee hours? Here there is a new thing with our amber alert system where it goes out to all cell phones and makes a godawful noise. Of course I got the first ever amber alert phone thing at about 3 in the morning the other day, and it took me forever to figure out what was going on, and then to find the phone and figure out how to make it stop (I am not very smart when I wake from a deep sleep). I didn't murder the phone, though -- too expensive to murder, but I did swear at it a lot.

Are you going to give the smoke alarm a decent burial?
 
So I'm talking to my mom tonight and she finally gets around to telling me that she had a TIA today and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Everything checked out; they don't know what caused it, and they sent her home. Sigh. She lives alone (no neighbors at all), she won't wear a medical alert button (won't even DISCUSS it as she says "I ALWAYS have my cellphone with me (which she doesn't...) She said at first she couldn't figure out how to work the cellphone (see, Mom???) and then she started feeling sharper and called 911.

Heaven help us with stubborn old ladies. The only way to get her to move out of that house will be to carry her out feet first. She would never, never, never come to live with one of us.
 

jujube said:
So I'm talking to my mom tonight and she finally gets around to telling me that she had a TIA today and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Everything checked out; they don't know what caused it, and they sent her home. Sigh. She lives alone (no neighbors at all), she won't wear a medical alert button (won't even DISCUSS it as she says "I ALWAYS have my cellphone with me (which she doesn't...) She said at first she couldn't figure out how to work the cellphone (see, Mom???) and then she started feeling sharper and called 911.

Heaven help us with stubborn old ladies. The only way to get her to move out of that house will be to carry her out feet first. She would never, never, never come to live with one of us.
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Wait! I think I might be a stubborn old lady -- does almost 70 qualify? Or am I still just a stubborn woman? :)
 
jujube said:
So I'm talking to my mom tonight and she finally gets around to telling me that she had a TIA today and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Everything checked out; they don't know what caused it, and they sent her home. Sigh. She lives alone (no neighbors at all), she won't wear a medical alert button (won't even DISCUSS it as she says "I ALWAYS have my cellphone with me (which she doesn't...) She said at first she couldn't figure out how to work the cellphone (see, Mom???) and then she started feeling sharper and called 911.

Heaven help us with stubborn old ladies. The only way to get her to move out of that house will be to carry her out feet first. She would never, never, never come to live with one of us.
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Good luck there!
A neighbor,both her parents have alzeimers,one more progressive than the other,she is having a reaally hard time.
 
jujube said:
So I'm talking to my mom tonight and she finally gets around to telling me that she had a TIA today and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Everything checked out; they don't know what caused it, and they sent her home. Sigh. She lives alone (no neighbors at all), she won't wear a medical alert button (won't even DISCUSS it as she says "I ALWAYS have my cellphone with me (which she doesn't...) She said at first she couldn't figure out how to work the cellphone (see, Mom???) and then she started feeling sharper and called 911.

Heaven help us with stubborn old ladies. The only way to get her to move out of that house will be to carry her out feet first. She would never, never, never come to live with one of us.
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How nerve-racking for you! I hope she's all right.
 
Jujube, I hope she's okay (at least for now).

Butterfly, you're not old yet. The older we get, the farther away old age gets:)

And...decent burial for that !#$^&* smoke alarm? Oh, hell to the NO! It doesn't deserve a decent burial. It's going out to the curb with the trash this morning.
 
Well, this afternoon I have to take my sis to the doc. She doesn't drive, so I'll put on my chauffeur hat. I hope we don't have to wait forever, and I hope this time there isn't somebody there who is loudly discussing her love life on her cell phone (like last time).
 
Butterfly said:
Well, this afternoon I have to take my sis to the doc. She doesn't drive, so I'll put on my chauffeur hat. I hope we don't have to wait forever, and I hope this time there isn't somebody there who is loudly discussing her love life on her cell phone (like last time).
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The last time I went to the doctor, there were two women who "brayed" loudly to each other the entire hour I was waiting. The room was crowded, the office was seriously behind schedule, and their loud constant yammering didn't add to the situation. I wanted so badly to go over and say, "Ladies, would you either lower your voices or take your 'reunion' out into the hall?" but I'm not brave enough.

Remember when cellphones first came out and a lot of people would talk loudly on theirs to show everyone how important they were? Apparently some people still think they are....
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Linda, the last post shown was December 29; the last activity shown was January 14. I hope she's okay.
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Yes, I saw that but I thought maybe I had missed a post somewhere along the line. I thought she was one of the sweetest people on here (besides you and I of course! :) I have given my email address to a few people so I have theirs and if anything happened to me someone in my family could email them and then they could put it on the forums I'm in. No way in hell am I giving any of my family members any way to get on my forums. Even if I am dead! :)

Bob, did you and your wife go out to a fancy dinner tonight to celebrate? You should at lest by this week end. That's a big step. :)
 
Went to the gym this morning. Had downpours off and on till mid afternoon. So hubby and I got a bit wet when we cycled to our masseuses. Had a really good massage. Every single muscle in my back and shoulders are loose.

We took tuk tuks to the neighbouring beach town area and hung out for lunch then a great people watching pub then dinner as it's my 64th birthday today. I didn't get dessert but will have that tomorrow at the Belgian chocolate cafe tomorrow. Cappuccino and some decadent chocolate concoction. Then one of our favourite cafes for dinner.

High on my agenda - finish packing! Sending out a last load of laundry tomorrow and the rest of my hand washing stuff. Just got the weekend left and leaving Monday morning for the long journey home.
 

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