it's still february
Feb. 24th, 2020 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenni_blogI am getting my monthly post done in time seeing that it's still February, the shortest month that seems sometimes like the longest.
Hard to believe that when I first got on LJ and various Yahoo groups back in the early 2000's that I was able to post more than I do now! Yes, I wasn't working for a couple of years back then but I have been retired since 2016! Why is it that I have NO TIME at all these days?
I'm sure that if I looked hard for the answer I'd find it. I'm spending more time on other online activities for one. Various games, Twitter and other sites are claiming large parts of my days.
Lots has been going on around here. My daughter wants to move back to Ontario again. Vancouver is too wet, raining for days on end and dark all the time. Because she suffers from depression (although she's been handling it really well the past few years) she needs the sun to come out once in awhile and it's not happening there. Perhaps it's the rainy Vancouver winters, but it's too much.
They'd like to purchase a house somewhere in this province where homes are cheap. The cheapest seem to be in Eastern Ontario, i.e. Brockville, Napanee or Cornwall, all near Lake Ontario. Farther north good-priced homes can be found in smaller towns around Ottawa, i.e. Pembroke or Perth. If they can, they'd like to pay full price and be able to move in as soon as they return. I sent her a link to Purple Bricks, an easy-to-use real estate website that isn't too annoying and has detailed information and photos of available houses.
As for my son, he has had two stressful things to deal with lately which makes me worry about him a lot because I'm such a bleeding heart mom.
First, for the last two years he's been taking extra courses in his field - heating and air conditioning - with a view to getting into the union, which is one of the most difficult ones to join. I'm happy to say that he wrote his final exam two weeks ago and has passed! This will guarantee him a $5 per hour raise and will allow him to apply at the Toronto District School Board where he worked at a summer job the entire time he was in college. He earned almost $30 per hour as a student and now, if he gets hired as a unionized technician, he can make upwards of $50 per hour.
Also, his girlfriend wanted him to go back to university to study engineering, if he can keep his job and study at the same time. I don't know if he'll do that though, at least not at this time.
But his girlfriend is another source of stress for him. She suffers from bipolar disorder and was fine while on medication, but because she had this idea that her meds (including birth control) were somehow bad for her (she said the birth control was making her too sleepy which wrecked her back from lying down too much) she decided to go off of them last month, cold turkey!
As a result she went into a manic phase and decided to go down south to Palm Springs where her two sisters were vacationing. My son told her not to go but she insisted and wanted him to go too, but he tried to explain he couldn't because he took holidays already at Christmastime so they could go to New York and also he was studying for this upcoming exam.
So she went by herself and promptly fell out with her sisters and then got herself in a lot of trouble. She picked a fight at her hotel with the staff, claiming they tried to bill her for something she didn't use, and was therefore blacklisted from all hotels in the area. She told me that she had to sleep outside on a pile of garbage bags because she couldn't book a room anywhere.
My son got a call from the police saying that she was causing problems in an iPhone store and that they were going to take her to a hospital because they were worried about her. They took her kicking and screaming and now she is suing them and the hospital for the bruises they left on her arms and elsewhere.
There's a litany of things: she dropped her Google phone into a puddle so it wasn't working for a few days. Nobody could contact her for a few days and she ended up buying herself a new iPhone. She got into a fist fight with one of her sisters who tried to take her dog.
She has a little chihuahua/terrier cross who is a designated service animal and she subjected the poor little mite to all kinds of hardships while she was down there. People kept telling her to come home but she kept resisting and eventually had to get her mother, who is a doctor, to call the hospital and make them release her.
She's still mad at my son for not going down there with her. He's had to put up with a lot from her. She's still manic too. At least he got her to go to the hospital here to get some help but she is adamant about not going back on medication.
She's currently on medical leave from work, where she's a financial advisor. She had managed to save up $50,000 and was so proud of it, but has blown at least $10,000 of it in Palm Springs and thereabouts. This will kill her when she comes to her senses.
Everyone feels badly for her but it's an exasperating set of circumstances to have to deal with. I have my hands full here with my husband whose short-term memory loss is so severe that several times each day I have to repeat things to him because he can't remember what happened up to a month ago. Trying to pay the bills, which I had to do today, is a nightmare because he can't remember buying anything and I have to explain it to him over and over again.
Okay, I've stressed myself out enough so I'll stop here.
Hey! Next month (in a little less than a week) the final B2MEM will start! I can't believe it will be for the last time, at least in the same way it has been for the past ten+ years.
I will be helping out this year again by doing the tagging along with Indy1776. Can't wait! Maybe this year I can manage to put my writing hat on again and get something done! I haven't written anything for ages outside of grocery lists and the like.
Onwards and upwards, eh?
Hard to believe that when I first got on LJ and various Yahoo groups back in the early 2000's that I was able to post more than I do now! Yes, I wasn't working for a couple of years back then but I have been retired since 2016! Why is it that I have NO TIME at all these days?
I'm sure that if I looked hard for the answer I'd find it. I'm spending more time on other online activities for one. Various games, Twitter and other sites are claiming large parts of my days.
Lots has been going on around here. My daughter wants to move back to Ontario again. Vancouver is too wet, raining for days on end and dark all the time. Because she suffers from depression (although she's been handling it really well the past few years) she needs the sun to come out once in awhile and it's not happening there. Perhaps it's the rainy Vancouver winters, but it's too much.
They'd like to purchase a house somewhere in this province where homes are cheap. The cheapest seem to be in Eastern Ontario, i.e. Brockville, Napanee or Cornwall, all near Lake Ontario. Farther north good-priced homes can be found in smaller towns around Ottawa, i.e. Pembroke or Perth. If they can, they'd like to pay full price and be able to move in as soon as they return. I sent her a link to Purple Bricks, an easy-to-use real estate website that isn't too annoying and has detailed information and photos of available houses.
As for my son, he has had two stressful things to deal with lately which makes me worry about him a lot because I'm such a bleeding heart mom.
First, for the last two years he's been taking extra courses in his field - heating and air conditioning - with a view to getting into the union, which is one of the most difficult ones to join. I'm happy to say that he wrote his final exam two weeks ago and has passed! This will guarantee him a $5 per hour raise and will allow him to apply at the Toronto District School Board where he worked at a summer job the entire time he was in college. He earned almost $30 per hour as a student and now, if he gets hired as a unionized technician, he can make upwards of $50 per hour.
Also, his girlfriend wanted him to go back to university to study engineering, if he can keep his job and study at the same time. I don't know if he'll do that though, at least not at this time.
But his girlfriend is another source of stress for him. She suffers from bipolar disorder and was fine while on medication, but because she had this idea that her meds (including birth control) were somehow bad for her (she said the birth control was making her too sleepy which wrecked her back from lying down too much) she decided to go off of them last month, cold turkey!
As a result she went into a manic phase and decided to go down south to Palm Springs where her two sisters were vacationing. My son told her not to go but she insisted and wanted him to go too, but he tried to explain he couldn't because he took holidays already at Christmastime so they could go to New York and also he was studying for this upcoming exam.
So she went by herself and promptly fell out with her sisters and then got herself in a lot of trouble. She picked a fight at her hotel with the staff, claiming they tried to bill her for something she didn't use, and was therefore blacklisted from all hotels in the area. She told me that she had to sleep outside on a pile of garbage bags because she couldn't book a room anywhere.
My son got a call from the police saying that she was causing problems in an iPhone store and that they were going to take her to a hospital because they were worried about her. They took her kicking and screaming and now she is suing them and the hospital for the bruises they left on her arms and elsewhere.
There's a litany of things: she dropped her Google phone into a puddle so it wasn't working for a few days. Nobody could contact her for a few days and she ended up buying herself a new iPhone. She got into a fist fight with one of her sisters who tried to take her dog.
She has a little chihuahua/terrier cross who is a designated service animal and she subjected the poor little mite to all kinds of hardships while she was down there. People kept telling her to come home but she kept resisting and eventually had to get her mother, who is a doctor, to call the hospital and make them release her.
She's still mad at my son for not going down there with her. He's had to put up with a lot from her. She's still manic too. At least he got her to go to the hospital here to get some help but she is adamant about not going back on medication.
She's currently on medical leave from work, where she's a financial advisor. She had managed to save up $50,000 and was so proud of it, but has blown at least $10,000 of it in Palm Springs and thereabouts. This will kill her when she comes to her senses.
Everyone feels badly for her but it's an exasperating set of circumstances to have to deal with. I have my hands full here with my husband whose short-term memory loss is so severe that several times each day I have to repeat things to him because he can't remember what happened up to a month ago. Trying to pay the bills, which I had to do today, is a nightmare because he can't remember buying anything and I have to explain it to him over and over again.
Okay, I've stressed myself out enough so I'll stop here.
Hey! Next month (in a little less than a week) the final B2MEM will start! I can't believe it will be for the last time, at least in the same way it has been for the past ten+ years.
I will be helping out this year again by doing the tagging along with Indy1776. Can't wait! Maybe this year I can manage to put my writing hat on again and get something done! I haven't written anything for ages outside of grocery lists and the like.
Onwards and upwards, eh?
