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Good Afternoon
Posted Oct 27, 2012
It's been a while since I visited Hootoo. Today I followed a link from my facebook page to U14997463. I discovered there was a completely different interface. Even after I signed in, my page was not displayed in Goo. I followed my link to the Classic Goo Fan Club and somehow that got my page to come up in Goo. Hope I can keep it that way. I notice there are no ads when I view it in Classic Goo. I wouldn't mind a couple of ads if it keeps the site going, but I do not want to view my page in that other ugly interface.
To change the subject, I won the prize for NaJoPoMo last year and I never posted about it here. I won a copy of The Hitchhikers Guide Earth Edition 1999-2011 A showcase of the best of h2g2. It's a great book and I love having it. It reminds me of the good old days of Hootoo when I was more active here. I appreciate everyone who contributed to it and put it together.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 30 The End
Posted Dec 1, 2011
This will be the most exciting entry of the month! Or not. Nothing to report really. Visited my mom today. Today's delusion was that her xmas mailing list was in a box with the nativity set. Not even an interesting delusion. I don't know where her xmas mailing list is, but I know it's not with the nativity set.
This year I've got to get my act together and send cards to her friends letting them know what's going on with my mom. My mom wants to do it herself, but that's unlikely to happen. She can't for one thing. She can't see to do it herself. I'd have to help her, but she doesn't really want to dictate her cards to me either so she'll try to write them out herself, but she won't be able to. By the time she's tried that it will be Easter.
So I've just got to do it myself, cause I'd like to be able to keep in touch with those people myself. I haven't done my own cards in a couple of years. I think I can get it together to at least do my own. I hope. 
to me.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 29 Bad Sleep and Vivid Dreams
Posted Nov 29, 2011
I slept poorly last night. I woke up about 5am and couldn't fall back asleep. I took 2 melatonin and a Klonopin and finally fell back asleep. Then I slept well until my radio came on at 9am to wake me up. Then I slept some more but less well and finally got up at around 11:30.
I had an interesting dream which I am starting to forget already. I was at a friend's house in MN. She had gone out for a walk with her family. While she was gone I took all kinds of liberties in her house. I tried on her slippers. I ate raw potatoes and carrots she was saving for dinner. I was looking at a copy of Time Magazine which had a front page article on how pineapples and papayas were unsafe to eat for some reason.
Then my friend came home with her small daughter on her shoulders. The daughter was very happy to see me though in RL, she doesn't really know me. My friend was annoyed at catching me eating one of her carrots but she didn't say anything.
But she was eating a pineapple like it was an apple and had eaten it down to the core. I don't know if she'd eaten the skin or peeled it. I asked her if she'd read the article about pineapples in Time and she said she had. She was going to explain to me why it was safe for her to eat a whole pineapple, but I woke up about then.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 28 Slog
Posted Nov 29, 2011
Well it's been a long slog for me, this NaJoPoMo. I was thinking it was the 29th and for some of you it already is. I thought this would be my second to last Journal Post of the event, but I realize now, it's still the 28th here. Barely.
I did NaJo cause I thought it would be good for me. I think it has been good for me. I tend to start things and not finish them and it has been a good excercise in follow through to force myself to write something every day/night. I have to sign off now or this won't get done before midnight PST.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 27 Chata
Posted Nov 28, 2011
"chata" in the Brazilian Portuguese I learned means "boring", "Irritataing", "tiresome" etc. It is a word I apply daily to our renter. We had to rent my mom's room in order to afford to pay for my mom's assisted living. The renter has been in the hospital for almost 5 months but continued to pay rent to save the room for herself when she got out, so we can't complain about that.
But she has very few family or friends and she wants us to be her family in addition to all the help she needs because she is not fully recovered from her hospital stay. We can't do that. We have our own problems with my mother which are constantly overwhelming. I am constantly overwhelmed by both my mom and my dad's stuff. My dad is overwhelmed with my mom's stuff as well as probably me since I'm not that easy to live with.
So I'm sitting in my room on my computer. I leave the door open for air circulation, but maybe I'll have to stop doing that. The renter, in her wheel chair, stops in front of my door and drones on about nothing for 10 minutes and there's no way to get away since she's in the door of my room. Chata Ela! What an annoying person.
She's alienated most of her family. She's latched on to her step-brother's family because he's a mensch. His wife doesn't appreciate it at all as she ends up doing most of the errands for our renter that she can't do. The wife often ends up yelling at our renter about what a leach she is, but our renter never takes it to heart. She just complains about having to walk around on eggshells around the wife.
The Renter's daughter came out to CA while the renter was in the hospital earlier in the year (for the same condition a bad hip replacement) and found an assisted living arrangement for the renter to move into after she got out of the hospital. The renter refused to move into assisted living. Her daughter went to her church and told them something that made the entire church turn their backs on her! Then the daughter returned to the east coast and won't speak to her mother at all and she is not allowed to see the grandchildren.
I don't know what's going on that the renter is not telling us. I don't really want to know. Instead of moving to assisted living, she convinced her step-brother that she didn't need assisted living and he found our ad in the pennysaver with a room to rent. Our house is sort of accessible, in that there are bars in the bathroom the renter uses and there aren't a lot of stairs. She convinced us she could live here unassisted, but that is not entirely true. She actually requires quite a bit of assistance for someone who thinks she's independent.
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