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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
Bah, ignore the clueless ones.
I'm working on getting some pictures! Some of 'em I might post to the thread, the generic ones, but I'll collect a few of the neighborhood and email those to you...
Wonderful! That'll make it a bit more real. ;-)
It won't be really-real until you get out here, I know, but we can sure work at it...
I wonder if it's possible to get to the roof of this building - it's one of the tallest around, six stories. That would be an interesting view.
Eek! Don't kill yourself trying to take pictures!
No, I know there's a stair that lets onto the roof, what I don't know is if it's "authorized personnel only". And don't worry, I like heights but avoid edges.
Yeah, did you see Hair's self-portrait?
Heh...I'll be posting mine tonite.
Heh... I was just bein' brazen...
ecurbh wondered what I'd do all day here by myself while he's at work. We've been together nearly 24/7 since his arrival here, with just short exceptions.
I said "I'll probably just walk around naked"
He said "Gasp... you never do that when I'm here"
I said "Exactly!"
Eh, newlyweds...
Speaking of things you don't do when other people are around, wife just told me Nana practically walked in on her in the bathroom just to say "cheese makes me constipated."
~sigh~
We got four more weeks before the surgery...
I feel your pain...
I am so glad my parents are young. By the time they get aged and decrepit, my sibs and I should have grown children we can make do half the work ;-)
I'm tellin ya, the older they get, the younger they get; act just like kids did when they were toddlers!
We've started telling people we have five children: Jr., Luke, Nana, Sam and Abby.
But you're right, it's like having another child to care for.
I know I'd likely be singing a different tune if I didn't know now what I didn't know then, so to speak...but I wish my mother had had a chance to GET aged and decrepit.
It never occured to me until a month before she died that she wouldn't be around until she was in her eighties or nineties, like the rest of the wimmin in her family.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I would rather look after my parents myself until they're 102 than suffer like you have. All I meant to get at was by the time they need help, most of us should be not just self-sufficient but at a point where we can really care for them. It's not so easy to take care of an old person and a toddler at the same time, as Corin has illustrated for us.
Now, my grandmother, her we're going to put in a nursing home...
Right, plus by the time they're in their nineties I'll be in my seventies... eep, good thing that's a long time off.
Yep.
I understand Rosie. I'm just two and a half years younger than my dad was when he died. I feel cheated out of a lot of time with him.
Still, it's hard (in a different way) to watch them get old.
Nana doesn't ~want~ to be a burden. And I'm guessing she really doesn't see how much she ~is~ a burden. Her problem these days is that she's mostly stuck in her room and we're the only people she sees.
I don't suppose teaching her about message boards and finding one (OldLadiesWithWeirdProblems.com?) for her to spend time on, during the day, would help? She might just be too old for that...
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