My moms on Aricept.....

it's making her worse I think. Basically what this drug does, is keep it from getting worse but won't cure it. Problem is it makes them pretty dang loopy. You ever go to Costco and buy a huge package of hamburger and forget about it for a few days and it starts to smell funny, but it's not "bad" yet, so you stick it in the freezer? The freezer won't make it "good" again it just keeps it from getting worse. That's what this drug does. Freezes her brain in the not qutie bad yet. Problem is you can only keep the meat in the freezer for so long before it gets freezer burn. Once you take them off the meds apparently they go down hill quite fast. If she's on 1/2 pill she gets very combative and OMG BITCHY! but she sleeps all the time on the full dose pill. I guess I would rather have loopy and nice than combative and bitchy. I caught her.... umm, well lets just say she was not the master of her domane... the other day. I could have lived my whole stupid life without THAT image in my head. But she was happy. Good Lord what a trade off.

And everyone wonders why I go to Disneyland so much.

It's trash pick up this week and I don't even care. I must be depressed

The woman has lost her mind....

No I'm not talking about my mother. I'm talking about the Octomom. Dr Phil hired a full time nanny service for her. The deal was supposed to last for a minimum of 18 months. It lasted less than a week. With Dr Phil and the nanny service on board I was willing to give this nut case the benefit of the doubt hoping she would be a good mother in the long run. Now I hope CPS steps in and takes the children as a single person raising 14 children alone is impossible.

hmm note to self: Don't piss off Dr Phil

can you say ADOPTION??

DL Savings time

I could go on a rant about changing the stupid clocks but I'm too sleepy to bother. I actually like the time this way, and I wish we would not fall back in Nov. Pick one already.
The Christmas decorations are still UP and show no indication of coming down anytime soon. I think they enter the city Christmas decoration contest every year and it appears they just leave them up and turn them on. Kinda seems like cheating if you just keep them up all year and flip the switch Thanksgiving night. I think I will stop with the updates and only mention it if they actually come DOWN.

I haven't done any photos lately. I have been too busy cleaning out the china and getting ready to drag stuff to my sister. I'm not terribly thrilled about having to rent a van but it will get the stuff out of my house which is good I guess.

My mom isn't doing well mentally. She is basically completly out of touch with reality. She was packing a box this morning because she wanted to go home. I told her this IS your home and she said "oh come on!" As you all know, this is not the first time I have had to deal with loopy family members both past and present. (read into that what you will, roll eyes :) but I was not expecting this of my mom at this age. Even the specialist at Kaisar said she was one of her younger patients. She is not the person I knew. I'm not all freaked out about it, except is that going to be ME in 30 years???
God spoke to me in that still small nagging voice about 2 years ago. He told me " you need to go to a lawyer and get the Trust looked at. You need to do it N O W!!" I didn't fully realize at the time just how urgent it was. Had I waited we would not have been able to make the changes we did. I kept saying to Leana "I have this feeling I need to do this NOW for some reason" so I did. Now 18months later I see why. The old trust could have easily been challenged in court by my sister and she could have forced a sale of the house and I don't know where I would be then. Probably living in some trailor in Kansas. Sheesh.

I should go. I am waiting for the Cable guy to come over to hook up the phone.

Janette Monteil........Good Day!