It was a pretty easy thing with the exception of having to take her to the doctor. Getting her up and down the stairs is a pain in the ass. Luckily John, a.k.a. Buddah, was here to help me both up and down the stairs.
She’s talkative compared to Shirley. She keeps telling me; family history, how much she likes Christina, and how she worries that Shirley doesn’t want her there. All shit that I’ve heard about way to much.
She prefers to be in bed more than Shirley. Works for me.
She eats more and better than Shirley.
All in all it’s not terrible. All in all it’s still new. All in all it’s not great.
She has told me at least 3 times that she wishes she had died. She keeps that up and I’ll tell her how to end it.
It was a long day yesterday and I did a lot of driving, around 300 miles.
Marylou is here. She’s very grateful to us for taking her in, but I wonder if that gratitude will hold, and if it does we’ll do just fine. Mom, thanks for all your help during this trip and your generosity with the earlier trips. Staying with you made this possible and being with you, when not working on ML’s condo, made it fun.
This is the first time in about 16 years that these two have seen each other. While it started with excitement, that faded quickly. Seconds before I took the picture, they were holding hands. It’s like they KNEW I was taking the pic.
I’ll keep you all updated here about what happens, how they feel about each other, and other general b.s.
The Garbage Bag Kid~~Yesterday she was prancing around in a garbage bag like it was a fine gown. There’s no accounting for taste in the junior fashion industry.
She fell asleep while waiting for me to take her to Alb.
So today is the day that Nina returns home with our newest old person. Marylou will join Shirley in our version of the old people’s home. Instead of them sitting by the nurse’s station with all the other old people, they will be sitting in their wheelchairs near me watching, or at least listening, to the TV.
Speaking of TV. . . .why are TV lawyers all very good looking and real life lawyers are less than good looking? Well, maybe that’s a broad statement, but since my focus is mainly here in New Mexico I can narrow the question to NM lawyers. Yes, I’m sitting here watching the news again and there was a double up of lawyers on 2 new stories and they showed 4 of the ugliest lawyers I have ever seen on TV. 3 guys and 1 lady.
It’s supposed to be in the 70’s today. Damned winter weather! When will it let up! Hey, the weather liar said tomorrow and the next day should be the same, but the weekend is supposed to get cold again.
Crap. They’re talking about political races again on TV. Why can’t these scum give us a break on this garbage? Politicians should be limited to a 60 day period before an election to politick us poor saps and they should be given a 3 day period afterwards to say thanks to the idiots that elected them. Then they should just shut up. Just my opinion.
Erin and I had a fight this morning. Well, more of a disagreement. This happened around 5 a.m. and I sent her to her mother’s room to sulk. Why should my morning be ruined while her mother sleeps, right?
Here I sit, bored to death, watching Shirley bob her head and drool and eat. Eat your heart out everyone, my life ROCKS.
I do have dinner plans this evening though. Going to dinner with Joe and Dennis at el Rialto in Las Vegas. A guy’s night out! Since I’m the only one of the 3 that drinks, I probably should drive, right? Right?
Tori talks fast. Real fast.
Erin wants to visit Old Beppe, a.k.a. Mom. She wants her to come live with us like GiGi and MiMi. (Don’t ask)
I think this summer I’m gonna bring Erin to Michigan. I think she’s ready to go back there with me.
Found something cool on this blog program. On the calendar you can hover over the date a little box opens telling you the title of what I posted. If it is a public post you can open and read it. If it’s a private post, too bad.
At BK in Alb yesterday, Erin played and I talked to another grandparent. We spent almost 2 hours there.
Nina left me yesterday. I’m devastated. She returns tomorrow so I’ll be happy again.
If things go well with ML moving in and we’re looking for additional help to ensure that it does, Nina and I are talking about London or Amsterdam or both in May. Just a pipe-dream at this point, but who knows. We are close to the miles needed for 2 free tickets and should be where we need to be by April.
Shirley talked to me this morning when I asked her if she was ready to get out of bed. Nothing since. *Cue the Twilight Zone theme song*
One of ML’s banks sent Nina a letter requiring documents that aren’t possible to generate. Address verification shit that is complicated by the fact that the county gives us one address and the USPS gives us another one. Dumbasses. Government should be banned.
Only 2.5 hours until I leave and go to dinner.
Long day tomorrow. Meeting in Las Vegas for the tourism committee and then a presentation from the state tourism board. From there I head to Alb. to pick up Nina and ML. Busy day and lots of driving.
I’m having trouble finding the new S & W’s I was looking for. Oh well, they will show up eventually.
65° outside now. This is more normal for us than the stinking cold we’ve been having this year, and last year, and I think the previous year. I’m feeling the cold more lately.
Stupid bank holidays! Just screws with my schedule for no real reason other than the government employees pimp the government into giving them an asinine amount of paid time off. Now I have to eat breakfast at home.
Yesterday Erin and I went to the Pecos National Monument just outside of Pecos. She ran the entire 1.2 miles and I walked it at a stiff pace. Pictures are in a preceding post here. Every time I go there with her, I see new things that she brings to my attention. Her energy alone makes the walk more of a workout than normal. In this church ruins she disappeared. Popped up a few minutes later in the rectory ruins and I have no idea how she got there.
I enjoy watching the news while eating breakfast. It starts here at 5 a.m. and runs until 9 a.m. I just leave it play until it ends and do chores after breakfast while listening to the news. Sometimes I find it aggrevating when the news readers try to spin shit to suit their beliefs, but there’s no stopping the idiots.
Should be in the 50’s today. I may head to Pecos again today after dropping Nina off at the airport. I may even bring Erin to Alb so she can join me again.
2 kids in Alb. run across a street in mid-block, jaywalking obviously, and they get hit by a person driving legally on that same street. Minor injuries and driver was found to be NOT AT FAULT by the cops. How much you wanna bet that the driver is still sued by the families of the kids and let’s throw in a secondary wager of how much do you think the jury will award the parents of these little bastards?
Our legislature has recently gone into session. New Mexico has a weird system, volunteer legislators, staggered sessions of 1 month one year and 2 months the next, and while not so strange lately we have a mostly Democrat powered group of legislators. Phil Griego is our senator and his granddaughter works for us. I saw him yesterday and congratulated him on him working again. I asked for a $200K legislative grant and told him to sell my damned business now that he’s powerful again. I actually kinda like our system, it limits the damage politicians can do to the state.
New Mexico has a balance budget law. No budget can be passed that places the state in a deficit. Pretty nifty, ehh?
During my recent illness, thanks Marylou, I managed to dehydrate myself. It’s been many years since that happened, but I think I may be back to normal again, or very close to normal. I hate when that happens. The last time I spent 4 hours in the hospital with an IV stuck in my arm while they rehydrated me with a saline solution.
I think next year and all following years I’m gonna get a flu shot. This year I got taken down by the flu and I’m not willing to do that again.
Well, it’s Sunday again. Nina and I are going to breakfast and then to Lowe’s for something I forgot during last week’s visit. I’m thinking of taking Erin with, but I’m sure Nina will veto that notion.
Erin was a little devil yesterday, but that devilish attitude was sprinkled with some serious cuteness at times. One of these days I’ve got to video her interactions with Shirley, it is Erin at her cutest. It shows a level of caring and gentleness that her energy belies.
I’m thinking of buying 2 guns and selling 1 gun to pay for them. The gun I’m selling would be my Kimber and I should be able to get $1K for it. The 2 guns I’m looking at are a pair of S & W .380s with laser sights. One for me and one for Nina. They sell for about $480 each. After taxes it should be a wash. If you’re reading this and want the Kimber, I’ll assume you know how to contact me, do so please.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
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