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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 16 Shopping
Posted Nov 17, 2011
I took my mom shopping today. Not a pleasant way to spend the day in the best of times. She never finds what she wants so we always have to go out again. These aren't the best of times because she can no longer walk so I have to take her in the wheel chair. I don't have a lift in my car or anything, so with great difficulty she transfers from the wheelchair to the front seat of the car and back into the wheelchair. Then I fold the wheelchair and put it into the trunk. So far I have not put my back out doing this.
She is also mostly blind and suffers from mild dementia. But one of the things she wants to buy is a calendar that she can see. There were no calendars at Kmart so we went to Staples. They had plenty of calendars including a couple that she could see as well as she'll be able to see any calendar. But no, she has to keep looking. My brother will be in town next week and he'll take her out and perform some magic which will allow her to find a calendar she can see.
The pants (not underpants as some of you might be thinking. I'm not sure what you call them. Trousers maybe? Slacks? The ones we were looking at were knit) at Kmart were not to her liking either. We have to find some magic pants that will be right.
I guess I should be grateful that my mother is still around. In some ways I am, but I am also resentful. We never got along that well, though we get on better than she does with my dad. This journal only touches lightly on my ongoing frustration with my caregiving situation. I really want my life back.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 15 Busy
Posted Nov 16, 2011
1. Visited Mom around 11:00. She wasn't feeling well so I stayed longer than I'd intended and didn't have time for lunch before
2.13:45 Appointment with an hour+ to kill afterwards so stopped at Starbucks. Too crowded at Starbucks so ate the sandwich in the car before
3.15:30 Knitting with women from Unitarian church which finished at 1730 leaving me with two hours to kill so I went to Target and bought a container for beverage stuff for Cactus Club which in currently contained in a falling-apart Pollo Loco box followed by a bit of shoe shopping before
4. Atheist Meetup at 19:30 - the least stressful part of the day. Even knitting was stressful as the conversation was getting on my nerves - left Meetup around 21:30.
5. Arrived home to distressed dog who'd pined for me all day though my dad was home. Walked dog and am now ready for
6. Bed. Now.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 14 Some Little Rants
Posted Nov 15, 2011
I'm sorry that with the Cactus Club sale and everything happening this weekend I've gotten behind on reading other people's journal entries. I had been doing pretty good at keeping up.
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I just got off the phone with a survey taker. I have no idea what the survey was for. It was political and it went on forever. The survey taker was barely literate and kept mispronouncing "deficit" as well as other words. She was very difficult to hear or understand. I *think* it was a push poll to try to get me to say California's taxes are too high and there is too much wasteful spending. The survey taker wasn't really bright enough to be aware of the push though. And it went on and on asking the same questions re-worded over and over. What a poorly written poll. I could have done it better and I am mostly clueless. It irritated me greatly. 
I guess I'm a little irritable right now. The Cactus Club sale was fun but sales were down substantially from last time. We just finished counting up the money from it and I don't know if we made our expenses this time. And the people counting with me were getting on my nerves. Such attitudes. It can be fun, but I get sick of it sometimes. There is a surprising amount of politics involved in Cactus Club. It's disheartening that some of these issues just won't go away with certain people. I know I'm being vague, but it would bore you to tears if I went into it all.
I'd like to settle myself down for a little nap before I go to knitting tonight, but I may be to riled up and also may have had a little too much 
. Maybe I should walk the dog instead. Yeah, that's it. With a little Pandora to distract me. I think we'll do that.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 13 Error
Posted Nov 14, 2011
I just realized that I have two Day 9's in my list of journals. One of those is supposed to be a day 10.
I made another error over the last couple years in thinking that I had outgrown getting stupidly huge crushes. I hadn't had one in years. But over the weekend a little teeny tiny crush I had on another member of my Cactus Club blew up into a super crush and I'm a gloppy mess. Jeezuz H Christ, I get mad at myself for being like this. I am too bleeding old for this.
Also I am having trouble getting this journal entry to stick. It keeps disappearing. So sorry if it's been posted several times.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day 13 Error
Posted Nov 14, 2011
I just realized that I have two Day 9's in my list of journals. One of those is supposed to be a day 10.
I made another error over the last couple years in thinking that I had outgrown getting stupidly huge crushes. I hadn't had one in years. But over the weekend a little teeny tiny crush I had on another member of my Cactus Club blew up into a super crush and I'm a gloppy mess. Jeezuz H Christ, I get mad at myself for being like this. I am too bleeding old for this.
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