Timing

[susandennis]

This morning I woke up to clouds and cool - heaven. I read the paper and had my coffee and talked to Mom and it was still cloudy and cool so I thought... Hmm wonder if it's cool enough for a walk? I think we'll just give it a go....

We did and it was. And about 4 minutes after we got home, the sun came out. Hopefully, it won't last and it will stay cool but if it doesn't, I can crank up the air conditioning and be grateful that I was able to sneak in my cloudy walk. Got pix, too! (but, alas, the service I use is still experiencing delays... Hope they get that fixed soon...)

My sister finally leaves Mom's today. One of her children broke a jar of barbecue sauce on the carpet in the hallway in front of Mom's apartment. She couldn't get the stain out but, as she told my sister-in-law "I'm sure they will understand." Oh yeah. I hope she gives us another two years of peace.

Mom seems ok. She's got tremors from some of the medicine they either aren't giving her any more or new stuff they are giving her. She can't read what she writes so she can't make lists to what she wants to remember. This is really not good. I don't think she even mentioned going back to her apartment today.

I am so bad on the telephone. I hate telephone chatting with a passion because, I think, I so suck at it. After we chat about the ballgame, we're really out of stuff to talk about. I need to come up with one or two more simple topics to cover... Mom was so desperate today she even asked about the cats. She has never ever ever had any interest in any animals of any kind. But, it's clear that the morning phone call is now required so I need to put on my thinking cap.

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[susandennis]

I wouldn't carry a cellphone that I couldn't get my email on... That's for sure! And I don't mind an information call but it's the chatting ones that do me in.

[joyofmacs.livejournal.com]

I hate talking on the phone. And I also hate it when people don't talk loud enough because they don't know enough to put their mouth close to the receiver.

I'm not going deaf, it must be that their mouth is not close enough.

And when I finally force myself to call my sister I am always relieved when I get the answering machine.

I feel sad about your Mom, Susan. Your Mom posts were always so fun. Gives my hope for my old age. Well things may improve. Meantime we have the Moonie drama.

I would never go confront someone like Moonie did to you. If I think someone does not particularly care for me email communication is fine or a simple hullo in the hallway.

I hate work place drama. Mine has improved but it will get bad again. I don't even say hello anymore. Easier that way.

Back to the pool. I want to buy space at buzznet but as you pointed out, ever since the email they are slow. I am already paying lj for slow and I don't want to pay for poor service.

And am about to ditch my cell phone cover for it messes up my pics. Hardly use the digital camera any more.

I should of put all this in an email. sorry!

[susandennis]

Yeah, I hope Mom can get back to her computer or doesn't linger - bored and not able to do anything. I guess only time will tell.

And I'm with you on the confrontation. If someone doesn't like me, I don't really care. If I really want them to, I try to find ways to tailor my behavior to be more palatable to them. But, mainly, I'm of the 'fuck 'em' mode.

And, I'm with you on the digital camera. There's a new Treo coming out in November with a better camera. Once I get that one, I'm thinking the digital camera may be permantly retired...

Buzznet will get better... I know it will - but I wanted more than 10 pix a day for my walks. Most days I post none but some days I want to post 20 so it was worth the $3 a month to me...