by JudyJB » Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:49 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
Florida is a funny place with a lot of clothing with palm trees, sea shells, and flamingos on them. I saw a visiting lady at the Memory Care facility today wearing a really cute Hanukka t-shirt today--instead of candles, it had a row of pink flamingos with beaks ready to light. Not sure how "kosher" that was, but it was cute and very "Florida."
I went out there at 11 today and ate lunch with my aunt and uncle, but I am just really burned out from shopping for them, returning stuff, and trying to carry on conversations. Basically, it is the same conversation over and over that I cannot answer or help them with. Uncle wants to know where his car is, wants to go to bank to get money, and wants to move to beach house. Also asks a lot of nonsense questions about some "project" that he wants the status on and things like who decided to get them a larger room. Aunt is upset that facility will not let her move pictures of trees from the hallway into her room, when she knows she and uncle spent a lot of money buying and having all those pictures framed!! Also, she cannot find anything and believes she has seen other residents wearing her clothes that she has misplaced. (If you saw their room, you would not even know where to start to look for stuff because their are piles of stuff everywhere.) Anyway, I left at 2:00 pm telling them I had to get home to call my kids. She was really peeved and said I had only been there twice, when I had been there 6 out of last 7 days!!
Got back to Myakka River State Park and changed clothes to shorts and then drove to "birdwalk" and enjoyed the fresh breeze and taking photos of birds and some wild hogs for a couple of hours. That really helped make me more calm and feel 100% better. Relaxing with TV now and having a crazy, completely unhealthy Christmas dinner!! Tomorrow I return some stuff, look at a couple of other facilities, and not go back to facility. Might even try to get a bargain or two for myself. Heading to Ohio on Sunday for three days with younger son and his family, then a quick stop in Oregon for doctor appt, and finally flying to Napa to visit with other son.