The last 6-7 weeks have been.........very difficult. Wife is declining so fast. Have not been able to participate for a long time as I have put all efforts toward keeping my head above water. Among all other challenges, clothing repair has been something that has just piled up. My wife is (was) an accomplished seamstress and could fix/alter/make anything. Shirts and pants needing buttons have just piled up. About 3 weeks ago I decided I needed to get after it......buttons can't be THAT hard. Well ladies, my first button re attachment took exactly 44 minutes. Very frustrating. I decided I needed to get my bifocals upgraded so I did that. So, last weekend I took my sewing experience back to the sewing room to attack the rest of the pile. I sewed a button back on to 3 pairs of pants and 1 shirt in 1 hr & 15 minutes with NO bleeding fingers. I am DAMN proud. Now to the fundamental question.......why are all the buttons coming off? Thenneck
Thenneck, as to your last question, I don't think I'll go there!
As to your accomplishments - good for you! Proud of you.
I had to make all my clothes when I was young, at home. Promised myself I'd never sew when I left home. Never have, never will. Don't own a sewing machine. I will sew on a button, but mostly let the dry cleaners do any repairs.
I rented my 2 other apartments today. Have the deposits and first months rent. I just hope I am not regretting it next month. I HATE being a landlord but lack of buyers seem to necessate renting to bring in some income to cover expenses.
I have shown them to AT LEAST 40 potential renters, most of them not having any money. GRRRRRR
thenneck, i am not the one to advise you on sewing at all. i can barely do buttons myself but get a thimble at target or a walgreens to avoid pricking your finger=. good for you! .
Are you knotting the ends on the underside, thenneck? Commercial button sewing machines don't do that, but you need to if you're doing it. And you need to go thru all the holes, over and over and OVER!
I e-filed my taxes today!!! so I'm proud of that. And I'm proud of my husband that he very carefully amused himself watching tv (he LOVES Jane and the Dragon and can find that on every Saturday morning, on a channel we don't usually watch, when he can't do ANYTHING with any other TV remote, or know what day it is! ) so I could get the taxes done.
Bluedaze,...Do you agree that Once and Done is a good hard surface floor cleaner? I swear by it..and love the clean feeling of the floor. I am barefoot most of the time. and I can definitely tell the difference when I am out of Once n Done...and have to use another floor cleaner.
Doesn't it make you mad when you, the customer, go into a store and the employees are so rude or won't look you in the eye? One of my biggest pet peeves.
I am so proud of my DH today. I had bought new hardware for kitchen cabinets and planned to "help" him take old ones out and put new ones in. Well, he wante to do it - so I said go for it! He did so well, was using the electric screwdriver, etc - and got about 3/4 of them done - then he stumbled and twisted his ankle! End of that! But I can finish them. He did a really good job and was proud of himself. Now I have to doctor the ankle! LOL
I am trying hard to be proud of gathering up 30+ years of a variety of sewing materials, laces, elastics and unused silk flowers to recycle. Our club meeting is next Tuesday and I have a hugh tote full of this stuff I haven't used in over 5 years. I am going to lay it all out and let them choose things they can use. I am not giving away my Mom's quilt pieces and a few basic things. I still have more to go through but this is all I can stand right now. Withdrawl is tough. Also boxed up a box to donate to local Hope Shop. After I get over this hurtle I want to do a couple more large totes.
I am proud that I found a job in this economy. And a job I like! A job that has a salary rather than straight commission. I am proud that I am #1 in sales in the showroom for March. I love furniture & decorating. Our clientele is very upscale. I am proud that I am not wallowing in self pity that I used to feel financially secure. I am not so proud of feeling a twinge of envy that people can afford things that I sell, and I can't.
I'm proud that I did my taxes myself, with the help of TurboTax. They were efiled yesterday and both the federal government and the state have accepted them.
If you have never done this, and you have a basic tax situation, it is worth trying. When I bought the program I knew I had the option of sending everything to the accountant who has done our taxes for the last 20+ years. But each year I don't know it the tax planner was going to come in the mail or not, and last year he didn't answer some very important questions. And our tax situation has gotten so easy, it was worth the try.
my new ELIPTICAL excerciser machine is being delivered on tuesday.. i am HOPING to set up in front of the TV and watch DH nap and get with it .. deterimed now to lose the fat..divvi
Turbo tax makes it very easy if you let it walk you through. If you have money in an investment firm, it can go out and get the info from it, most likely, so you don't have to figure out where to put what. If you have everything in hand to take to your tax person, and you don't have complicated problems, you should be able to do it with Turbo Tax.
Theneck--if I bag up a bunch of things that need buttons and send them to you, wouldl you fix them for me?? (grin) What an accomplishment. I'm jealous.
Kitty--so glad you found a job. Really an accomplshment in this economy.
Imohr--good job! I can't sew any more (my eyes, you know). I gave my machine to my grandson's new wife. She was thrilled with it. I also boxed up allthe buttons, trims, appliques, etc. and gave the entire thing to my daughter. There's enough stuff in that box to keep her busy for a year. Wish I could still do it, but...oh well, I can't and that's it.
briegull, that is exactly how it worked out for me. My daughter has been using the program for years, and she told me I'd be doing "worksheets" not the actual tax forms. There was lots of help, and in one spot someone asked a question that totally answered one worry I had. It was easy.
Kitty, I'm so glad you got a job you enjoy. I've done sales myself, and know that you have to be careful so you don't get hooked in a job that looks real, but is actually a scam. Been there myself as well.
I am proud and enormously relieved that I have sorted, organized, and turned over to our CPA three years worth of forms and documents to get tax returns filed for 3...yes, THREE!...years... of delinquent filings. DH, a procrastinator all our married life. had filed for extensions and paid estimated taxes, and then the AD disabled him to the point he couldn't get his mind around even sorting stuff and taking it to the accountant. He is still saying, "I'm going to get that finished up as soon as I clear off my desk," and he hasn't even noticed that I smuggled the boxes out of the house. CPA let me use an empty office space to sort items, and a good friend came with me three different mornings to help sort and to lend moral support. Now I have to work on 2008, and like every other year it includes a corporate return as well as a personal one. What a mess! I just hope the dealings with the IRS don't get too nasty once the returns are in. I may have to resort to Atavan to get any sleep.
eeewwwwww. I finally, finally, FINALLY got the info figured out to send to the CPA firm to do the corporate returns for 2007. (I kept thinking the problem had to be in the last six months, which I was figuring out myself, and went over and over and over all the records. Finally had to learn enough QuickBooks to see what my idiot ex-accountant had entered for the first six months. Found out he had made more than $40,000 in mistakes.)
Cannot begin to imagine ... and certainly don't want to try ... doing corporate AND personal for three years, all at once. Wow, susanhere, that is MORE than something to be proud of!
If the records are there, once you get the first year done correctly, the two additional years should go smoothly - just time consuming. The end of November I spent 10 days catching up a guys books for him. I use to work for him in the late 90s - 2003 before that business shut down. Now he contacts me yearly to enter all the years info for the plant brokerage business he does plus their personal. I hate doing it but the pay was good and much needed.
Thanks Mawzy & Starling. I really love this job! I am still #1 in the showroom. It is great to be able to accomplish something outside of dementia. I came home tonight, really full of delight & gratitude, and my husband and I sat down to dinner & TV & he kept asking, what is this about, what is this about, etc. I actually can't wait to get into work & to the world of the living & thinking.
Today I spent reading blogs. I have a 10 year old granddaughter that I have not seen nor had contact with since she was 1. My son has tried to contact and set up visitation in the early 2000s when he had to go to California, but her mother never showed up. He doesn't have the money to fight in court to get his visitation. His 2nd wife was searching and found where she was now blogging and also was letting granddaughter have he own blog. So I spent the day getting to know her. The marvels of computer age.
When they had their bitter divorce, her mom agreed to allow me to send presents on birthday and Christmas and in return she would send pictures yearly along with a letter of what she is like. The first couple years she sent pictures but no letters. Then I had to start begging and a couple years I did get pictures. The last time, 3 years ago, she emailed pictures - one with makeup on and two that were so far away we couldn't see what she looks like. Now I can keep up with her.
Charlotte--I'm really happy for you. I know how it had to have hurt you to not be in contact with your GD Maybe she will send you some pictures of herself for you to enjoy! I got some photos via e-mail I printed them and framed them. Not the best quality, but better than nothing!
Charlotte, my two granddaughters are the light of my life. It would be pure torture if I couldn't see and talk with them. You have been deprived of so much. I'm so glad you are getting to know her through the blogs and hopefully when she is older and away from her mother you will be able to establish a relationship with her.
I forgot to post this yesterday - March 31 but it has now been 365 days since either my husband or I smoked ...... we had both smoked for over 50 years.
Last March 31st (2008) my husband had, what I thought was, a TIA - I took him into emergency and there we sat - waiting for admission. While being interviewed by the Triage Nurse she asked my husband if he smoked and he said no - I guess he momentarily forgot he was a smoker ....... I don't know what made me do it but I quickly jumped in and said "that's right dear, you don't smoke any more" ........ and that was the end of it ...... we both quite cold turkey right that moment in time ......
I was getting very worried about my husband smoking - other than for the obvious health reasons - he was becoming a fire hazard as he'd began to forget to use an ashtray and often just set his cigarette down on the table or what ever piece of furniture was near him.
I'm proud of you too. And you're posting.<lol> We're working to get my DH off the cigarettes, but are fighting his mind set. The only time he takes off is to go get them and it's not safe--has to cross a 5 lane street twice, and nearly collapses when he gets back. Plus, couldn't find the Cigarette store (It must have moved. NOT). He hitched a ride. He sells things (a chain saw for $12 dollars). He hasn't the capacity to resolve to quite and follow through. We would reinforce him if he did. As it is, we keep working at cutting back. At this point in time, the only way to have him quite woulkd be to put him in a locked unit, restrained or drugged totally out because he would go balistic.
You're right Charlotte !! ........ about $500.00 a month with both of us smoking ....... isn't that awful, when you think about it ..... what a bloody waste of $$ over all those years ...... I'm really quite ashamed of myself :(
I can go for a walk and not huff and puff; I can climb the stairs without having to stop to catch my breath ..... other than for my sore knees - LoL !!! but, best of all, I'm not coughing, coughing, coughing all the time and we don't stink of stale smoke any more and neither do our house and car ...... yaaaaaaaaa for us !!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU Kadee ! ........ I'm not one of those reformed smokers who think and say everyone should quit ...... I think you have to do what you need to do for yourself. I truly enjoyed each and every puff I took, all those years, but it isn't right for ME anymore so I don't do it.
I am proud of all of you and the accomplishments we have gone through to be where we are today. I am proud that we have not given up faith or hope for another good day ahead, whether tomorrow , next week or next month. I am proud that we take less things ,even those little things, for granted as we did when everything was normal!!