Highs and lows
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cornerofmadnessEven more surprise snow (boy these people are so wrong) that brought a 2 hour delay (this is why I start at 10 AM spring semester)
We got a call from hospice. My uncle is entering the confused stage and they wanted someone to come be with him because it's probably not going to be much longer. Unfortunately everyone but my brother has covid and can't go. (they do not want me to come back. There is not going to be a funeral, probably a celebration of life this summer) Again as terrible as it might sound, I do hope it IS only a few more days. His quality of life is gone. I hate thinking of anyone lingering in a bed, not even control of bowels and bladder. This is not life. My brother has a much stronger belief in an afterlife than I do (I struggle with the concept of paradise but I'm glad at least one of us does not) so I think we're all in the process of letting go.
This is hard. And for me just the beginning when you think about the fact that most of my family is older than me and most of them 75 +
In better news I got my toilet and new floor. YAY. And it's a HIGH toilet, double yay. My old one I swear was 2 inches off the damn floor and everyone struggled to get up from it. This one you barely need to squat. I'm in love with that. The floor is that fake wood stuff that's become popular. It looks great BUT it's much darker.
Then the guy texts and said I didn't realize there was no base trim so I didn't bring that. I'll have to come back. You didn't know? I stood there one day one and pointed it out loudly.
they moved my monthly writers' sprint meet up to Discord. I didn't know this because someone didn't read the newsletter (whistles innocently) until about a half hour before it started. I've been trying to get back into my old discord for almost 2 years. No dice. No password I've ever used works. It will not email or text when you tell it to so I made a new one. I had totally forgotten how to do sprints when I used to do them ALL the time. I am not pleased to have discord back but I will admit it is good for this and we had a great turn out. I wrote a lot.
We got a call from hospice. My uncle is entering the confused stage and they wanted someone to come be with him because it's probably not going to be much longer. Unfortunately everyone but my brother has covid and can't go. (they do not want me to come back. There is not going to be a funeral, probably a celebration of life this summer) Again as terrible as it might sound, I do hope it IS only a few more days. His quality of life is gone. I hate thinking of anyone lingering in a bed, not even control of bowels and bladder. This is not life. My brother has a much stronger belief in an afterlife than I do (I struggle with the concept of paradise but I'm glad at least one of us does not) so I think we're all in the process of letting go.
This is hard. And for me just the beginning when you think about the fact that most of my family is older than me and most of them 75 +
In better news I got my toilet and new floor. YAY. And it's a HIGH toilet, double yay. My old one I swear was 2 inches off the damn floor and everyone struggled to get up from it. This one you barely need to squat. I'm in love with that. The floor is that fake wood stuff that's become popular. It looks great BUT it's much darker.
Then the guy texts and said I didn't realize there was no base trim so I didn't bring that. I'll have to come back. You didn't know? I stood there one day one and pointed it out loudly.
they moved my monthly writers' sprint meet up to Discord. I didn't know this because someone didn't read the newsletter (whistles innocently) until about a half hour before it started. I've been trying to get back into my old discord for almost 2 years. No dice. No password I've ever used works. It will not email or text when you tell it to so I made a new one. I had totally forgotten how to do sprints when I used to do them ALL the time. I am not pleased to have discord back but I will admit it is good for this and we had a great turn out. I wrote a lot.
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Date: 2025-02-21 12:49 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about your uncle. It must be hard for your dad not to be able to be there.
Yay for high toilet! I love not having to squat on the floor.
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Date: 2025-02-22 05:31 am (UTC)I love this high toilet
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Date: 2025-02-22 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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