Posted on 03/15/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by Cajun Jihad
Edited on 03/15/2013 10:18:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I’m certain that I can be incredibly annoying if given an adequate stimulus! Lay it on me, sista!
Thanks, TC. Since my niece talked to me two days ago, crying, I did a lot of thinking, and tried to figure out ways to help her without being up to my armpits in drama.
1. I can’t help her by moving in, even though she has the room for me.
2. I don’t need to drive all over creation to try and tell her how much I love her and her family.
3. I gave her solutions to ALL of her problems if she were willing to accept them.
4. She is willing to listen to me, and has thought of the very solutions I suggested, but just needed to know that her thoughts were valid.
In the meantime, her kids (15 year old Nate and 4 year old Mattie) love the Auntie without reservation.
Picture this: Nate crawled out of his “man cave” and parked his lanky body on Auntie Nana’s lap, and gave me a hug to beat all hugs. He would have stayed there until Hell Froze Over, but his mom and I went shopping with the Little Redhead.
Life is good!
Thank you, n2i. I’m intact at this point. That is most certainly because of you!!!
I’m glad you’re on (what seems to me) the right page! My inclination is to do everything for everyone, but I’m 46 and in astoundingly robust health, not older with a chronic condition to slow me down. And even then, the Crash sometimes hits!
Trips to the mall and nail salon are on the Airfare Fund, which has a Frivolous Activities subtopic, with any remainder to the “Vacation with Anoreth” fund. We want you to have a really vacationistic good time!
And with that, I’m off for the night. Because I want to be. So, don’t hate me because I’m beautiful!
LOL!
We love you because you’re beautful (as a convenient one-word description). Have a good night!
I have to be up egregiously early to get the next Envirothon group underway, but at least I have clothes out so I don’t have to do it in my Angry Birds pajama pants. “Holy People of Walmart, Batman!”
Yes, angry mythical creatures afflicted with BBQ sauce coating are not entirely unable to ignore it. Now they are even more irritable. If they can’t take this sort of sauce in stride, they need to be relegated to the scrapheap of whatever incapable entities are relegated to the scrapheap of. No kiddin’.
I have always been a “giver,” which means that “takers” are on the lookout for me.
My niece, bless her heart, is disappointed in her mother (my sister) and has, for the first time in her life, trusted a mother figure. (Me.)
And she thinks TC is an awesome friend that she would like to meet one day, just to thank you for being so kind to me. I can give you the info through the back channels, if you want. But FYI: Her Auntie Nana is “perfect.” LOL!
I will try very hard to accept the ministrations of the Nail Salon, and enjoy my trip to the Mall. My niece would expect no less of me! (But I can’t come home without something for the Natester and the Little Redhead.)
Any time out of Vegas Valley is Vacation Time! LOL!
Of course! Bill, the Fashion Icon, shops at Hot Topic, fwiw. And the nail salon is supporting our local Vietnamese Evangelicals and gives me an excuse ;-).
Unnngh!
Need more Restorative!
“Early” is relative...0500 is “on time.”
XOXO
Foo. 5:00 is early, compared to the Rest of the Family!
I predict great success in life for Sally. Her communication skills sound superior and her intellect seems very competitive.
I blend in with the local “color.”
And there is no way I will refuse something suggested to me.
My poor niece thought I was going to NC “for good!” I had to reassure her that I really DID have priorties! LOL!
She thought my SUV was the “cutest little suv” she had ever seen, and wanted to know if she could “baby-sit” it while I was in NC! LOLOL!
Sally is really good with people, of all ages from the elderly to babies, and there are a lot of careers where that is important. Nursing, for example, or anything to do with caring for the elderly. We have Middle Child issues with her, “What can I do to get attention?” but she has a really good heart.
To this point, she hasn’t been a “good tester,” but I think she can be if it matters, just as Anoreth pulled it together to give the Coast Guard the scores they wanted.
I usually have a crick in my neck. Happy to watch them!
Faint of heart, aren’t they? Judge-eating rugs and universal solvent coffee shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone nowadays. Hmph.
You can do it! Someday I’ll tell you about the most influential persons in my life. This sounds like your golden opportunity—your purpose—your calling. I’ll shut up now.
G’night ‘Face! G’night, FRiends!
I was a middle child, and Sally should wear the title with pride! I will be more than happy to mentor her while I am there. And after, if the need arises.
And for now, I’m off to bed. Tomorrow is another day...she sez...:o|
Oy, no kidding on bedtime.
I don’t look for “golden opportunities;” I am available for those who need whatever help I can give at the time “whoever” needs it. It doesn’t matter if they are family or strangers: If I have it, and I see a need, I give it. There is nothing more in life.
Material goods, comfort, “advice,” I have it, and I can give it. I have given away much more than I will ever again have. And though there are times I regret the “gift,” I understand that to “give til it hurts” is an awesome adage. There are many things that I “regret” giving up, but I understand that the pain is part of “the Giving Process.”
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