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bluegreen17) wrote2003-06-19 07:11 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-06-19 07:11 pm
midsummer's night...
...or is that tomorrow? in any event,it's a beautiful summer evening. the crickets are just starting to sing right now.
i went to bed around 1 a.m.,which is early for me,but i guess i was tired,because i zonked out pretty quickly. i was awakened at 7 this morning by a loud plumbing sound. it lasted for a full ten minutes,which was really irritating and so i guess that fully woke me up. so then i decided if i got up early it would be a good day to go visit my mother in the nursing home. get it over with,even though that sounds horrible. i dread it and i have to work at making myself go. it's not that my mother is terrible,it's that it's hard to visit her,because her mind isn't really good,she can't converse with me,and i never know what to do. anyway,today's visit actually went quite well. i brought her a tape deck and spent a good amount of time trying to find her headphones and a tape i made her of her piano-playing of a few years back. finally did get all that,but she didn't seem all that interested. oh,well. it was easier to leave than usual because i went before lunchtime,and she loves to eat,so when it was lunchtime i left and she didnt try to leave with me.
i feel bad because i can't really talk to any of the other patients much as they all have dementia. one woman just stood in one spot for a few minutes and didn't seem to know what to do. she looked fairly young too.
one little old lady looked up at me as i walked by and looked rather frightened,like a small child would,and said she couldn't remember where her room was. there was a nurse nearby so i told her the woman needed help finding her room,and the nurse went over to reassure her. i wonder what it's like inside their minds. i suppose i hope i never find out! who knows.
it was supposed to be rainy today but by late morning it was starting to clear up,the barometer was going up(yea! i love high pressure weather!) and the humidity down. i hate humidity. i tend to simultaneously feel chilly and sweaty. ick.
so anyway it turned out to be a beautiful day. because i had gotten up so early,i didn't feel rushed and like the day was going by too fast.
i stopped by the library in one of the towns i pass through to go visit mom. the libraries have a co-op type thing so i can use my library card in several different libraries in the area,which i love. so i got several books including a book of quotes. yep,some of them will probably end up on my lj,as i'm a quote fiend.
when i got home,i had a nice nap. i love naps,but don't take them very often!
and so,that doesn't sound very exciting but it was a nice relaxed day for me,and it was nice to get something done that needed to be done (visiting mom).
i went to bed around 1 a.m.,which is early for me,but i guess i was tired,because i zonked out pretty quickly. i was awakened at 7 this morning by a loud plumbing sound. it lasted for a full ten minutes,which was really irritating and so i guess that fully woke me up. so then i decided if i got up early it would be a good day to go visit my mother in the nursing home. get it over with,even though that sounds horrible. i dread it and i have to work at making myself go. it's not that my mother is terrible,it's that it's hard to visit her,because her mind isn't really good,she can't converse with me,and i never know what to do. anyway,today's visit actually went quite well. i brought her a tape deck and spent a good amount of time trying to find her headphones and a tape i made her of her piano-playing of a few years back. finally did get all that,but she didn't seem all that interested. oh,well. it was easier to leave than usual because i went before lunchtime,and she loves to eat,so when it was lunchtime i left and she didnt try to leave with me.
i feel bad because i can't really talk to any of the other patients much as they all have dementia. one woman just stood in one spot for a few minutes and didn't seem to know what to do. she looked fairly young too.
one little old lady looked up at me as i walked by and looked rather frightened,like a small child would,and said she couldn't remember where her room was. there was a nurse nearby so i told her the woman needed help finding her room,and the nurse went over to reassure her. i wonder what it's like inside their minds. i suppose i hope i never find out! who knows.
it was supposed to be rainy today but by late morning it was starting to clear up,the barometer was going up(yea! i love high pressure weather!) and the humidity down. i hate humidity. i tend to simultaneously feel chilly and sweaty. ick.
so anyway it turned out to be a beautiful day. because i had gotten up so early,i didn't feel rushed and like the day was going by too fast.
i stopped by the library in one of the towns i pass through to go visit mom. the libraries have a co-op type thing so i can use my library card in several different libraries in the area,which i love. so i got several books including a book of quotes. yep,some of them will probably end up on my lj,as i'm a quote fiend.
when i got home,i had a nice nap. i love naps,but don't take them very often!
and so,that doesn't sound very exciting but it was a nice relaxed day for me,and it was nice to get something done that needed to be done (visiting mom).
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People who are very into astrology sometimes calculate the times differently.
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