shenanigans

[boxofdelights]

Someone broke into my husband's house today, rearranged the furniture, overlooked his laptop and other shiny electronics, and stole his mother's underwear bag.

Not really. But it was very hard to convince her that that hadn't happened. My husband spent two hours helping her search his house for her essential foundation garments ("Did you check the freezer?" I asked. He had checked the freezer. And the fridge. And the lettuce drawer in the fridge.)

He kept trying to convince her that there couldn't have been a burglary.
"Then one of the friends must have taken it."
"What friends?"
"You know, all those people that were here before."
"There weren't any people here except you and me and Nixie and Mungo. Susan was here earlier, but she didn't come back here after dinner, and you said you were wearing it at dinner."
"Well, I didn't eat it!"
Can't argue with that.

Then he took her to the store to replace the most essential garment. They went to one store, which didn't have them, and another store which did, but she decided not to buy one there. In fact, she remembered, she hadn't brought one from Michigan. In fact, she didn't wear them anymore. She couldn't get them to fit comfortably.


In other shenanigans, I have two teenagers with teenage social lives and teenage planning skills. Neither of them can drive now. I'm still waiting for one of them to tell me where to pick her up so I can take her back to her dad's house. A half hour's drive away. And then another half hour home, for me. She can't sleep here because she didn't bring her contact lens case.


The dogs are also not pleased with today, except for Kitsu, who managed to empty the garbage and raid the pantry. She got most of a package of Ginger-Os. She also chewed up a box of teabags. "Tea bags?" I asked her. "What were you thinking?" She looked at me quizzically. Thinking?


I said to my husband, "Three goddam dogs are easier than one senile old lady."
He said, "At least the old lady doesn't shit on the floor."
I said, "Not yet."

Comments

[wild_irises]

When my mother lived in independent living, she often talked about how people would accuse the staff of theft because they didn't want to admit/couldn't believe that they had misplaced things. It's a sad part of aging, and mistrust.

[bcholmes]

I said, "Not yet."

*laugh*

[laughingrat]

Oh dear, it's a three-ring circus. 0_o

[jesse_the_k]

Scary stories ... you're stronger stuff!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Tea bags. Gracious.

I want to say something registering dismay at the difficulties of hosting your mother-in-law. That's all I can think of to say....

We spent the weekend stripping and staining the deck of our FC house. Chun Woo completed three levels of Lego Star Wars while we used liquid sander and dissolved small portions of our own flesh inadvertently. We nearly completed staining the railings-- balked of completion by running out of stain.

Chun Woo and I will be coming up tomorrow (Wednesday) to work on finishing the railings and staining the floorboards. Could we interest you in doing lunch at The Creperie* at 1:00?


*Chun Woo wants to have a crepe, having seen crepe-makers at the Golden Farmer's Market.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Chun Woo and I will be at the Creperie at 1:00-- if w get to see you we'll be delighted. :)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Chun Woo bailed at the last minute and went to Kindercare instead. I was glad, because I could have audiobooks and Pimsleur language for the three hours or so of driving, and work by myself without helping a cmall assistant to find and perform productive work. I was surprised how little Sheeyun had got done on his sections, so just finished railings. Wanns meet for lunch ex post staining next week, with or without the Chun man?

The Creperie is quite nice, though what I got there was a croissant with smoked salmon, tomato, and alfalfa sprouts.

*love*

[boxofdelights]

I would love to meet you next week. I am available all days.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Does Tuesday work for you, at 1:00? Want to meet at a restaurant, or come up to the house?

(See! Look at me! I'm supplying a more structured proposal! :D )

[boxofdelights]

Tuesday, 1:00, your house.

(Well done!)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

See you then and there, lovely morsel. :)

And speaking of morsels, I'll bring good bread and cheese and melon and Refreshing Drink.

[lookfar.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee. My mother used to say, "Keep me at home until I'm incontinent, then - into the nursing home!" I'm not sure she meant it but she did say it. She never had to go to one, though.

I want to know if a dog who has eaten a box of tea bags has trouble getting to sleep or feels jittery.

[boxofdelights]

It'd be hard to tell with Kitsu, who has always been a nervous little dog in a big-dog body, but I think she chewed up the box without consuming much tea.

It's like the button: Politicians are like rats--what they take for themselves is trivial compared to what they destroy to get it.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

When I wore contacts, I owned multiple lens cases. It might be worthwhile, if you have the cash, to have an extra one at your place (along with a small supply of solutions).

Thinking?! As if. Hah.

[boxofdelights]

It'd be worth it to me, but my kid doesn't count costs I absorb as costs.

I would be asking how did I fail as a parent except that my other kid does count costs to people he cares about as costs (* a multiplier) to him. So I think it's more complicated. And I continue to strive to teach my elder child that yes, you are the center of the universe, and so is everybody else.

On the 4th I was trying to drive her to the house of a friend who lives very near where the city's fireworks happen, but the major cross-street I would use to get there was closed. So, as I was driving, I was trying to figure out how to get as close as possible to her friend's house. I said, "I'll drop you at Taft and Mulberry, okay?"
She shrugged and said, "Sure."
I said, "I do so wish you wouldn't act as if *you* were doing *me* a favor."

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, *definitely* more complicated.

(Periodically I wonder how, as a teenager, I treated my parents, and I simply shudder. Teenagers! But now I understand adults' attitudes towards teenagers much better.)