Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[neil_swann80]

Those eejits likely put their child right in front of a running motor's exhaust pipe.

Idiocracy is a documentary.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Yeah, I feel for your tiredness. In the three months after I decided to retire and move on the same day,I spent every day boxing things up and throwing or donating what I could. It felt so good when I was finally done and could relax!

Wishing you strength and energy till you can rest!

Originally Posted by Hitch

Packing and moving, even if "only" for yourself, is always a mother.

And you're doing your stuff, your parents' stuff and all that AND trying to find a house.

Now you know why people your folks' age (which I believe is the same as mine, and many/most of us here!!!) have ZERO interest in finding new homes and moving, lol. I mean. I have a mad pash on two areas north of me, in AZ, and would adore being there, but the mere thought of packing up and moving--never mind finding a damned house in the first place--makes me want to collapse. I feel for ya!

Hitch

Thanks. It also feels like I'm helping everyone; my parents with sorting and packing, my sister with things that need to be done before her apartment can be listed, but nobody is even offering to help me.

I'm currently so stressed that my eczema is flaring up. And tomorrow's yearly check up at the doctor will be fun, I'm expecting my blood pressure to be higher than normal, though I did lose a bit of weight these last couple of months.

[cromag]

Calling it a night. I was just waiting to get a text from my daughter letting me know that she'd gotten back to her apartment after traveling across the country, back from her visit here. It's late Sunday night (very early Monday morning) after one of the busiest times for traveling all year here in the States, and there were a few delays.

[poohbear_nc]

Just finished assembling a set of closet shelves - with the relentless help of Pixie cat - who repeatedly tried to bat the Allen wrench down the heating vent - and am now sitting against the heating pad.

Is there a cut off age for assembling DIY furniture? I think my joints may have reached it.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Just finished assembling a set of closet shelves - with the relentless help of Pixie cat - who repeatedly tried to bat the Allen wrench down the heating vent - and am now sitting against the heating pad.

Is there a cut off age for assembling DIY furniture? I think my joints may have reached it.

OH yes, there absolutely is.

I have a serious question--if you've completely forgotten what TYPE of mattress you need--firm, soft, feather-top, not, yadda--how the holy hell do you figure it out? I can no longer sleep in my mattress. If I do, if I spend more than 2, 2.5 hours in it, when I wake up I'm literally in tears, due to pain. (No sympathy, folks, I'm just explaining why I gotta do something here.)

I used to get all my mattresses from the companies that provided them to our hotels, right? But, that was back in "the day" and I don't do that any more. And I'm reasonably sure that my FF&E guy, the furniture provision company, has been sold to people that no longer know me and would say "who the hell are you and why should you only pay $X for a mattress?" (sigh--I used to get smoking deals on them...sigh.)

I know I used to get feather/pillow-tops, deep ones, like 17"-18" deep. But my back has, well...not gone so good the last few years. I have some arthritis issues in the Facet joint and some other crap. Yowchy crap.

The mere idea of laying on some mattress for 20 minutes or so in some damned store seems idiotic to me. And I doubt that either I want to try to lie on some mattress in a store for 5+ hours, or that they want me to, either. Ya know?

Thoughts, gang? Speaking of crap that we oughtn't be doing at 65+?

Hitch