Well, well, well, lookie here, I'm back!!! Please don't faint, but come along and share my day with me.
Last time I wrote in here, I was more than a little perturbed, and I am still quite upset, but have decided that almost nothing I can do will change the situation, so will just have to let God take care of it all. I am still puzzled how two supposedly adults can behave so childishly over an incident a few years ago, I carried grudges like that, I simply could not function. I will no longer cater to these two and their antagonistic actions towards each other. I do not get paid enough to wipe their noses and burp them, so to speak, so if they need to battle, they can and perhaps I will sell tickets!! Just kidding.
My day today has been rather productive, mostly because Tom was off farming again. He is loving being out there driving tractors and doing field work again, after all it has only been about 35 years since he was doing his own farm chores. I enjoyed my day by boxing up for storage an appliance not used in about 6 years. It has been taking up counter space for that long, so now our new crock pot is sitting in that spot. I removed a few other things off that counter, so it sure looks different, not to mention clean!!
Got the dishes washed, played my games on the computer, then headed for my cave to see what kind of trouble I could get into. Ended up sorting thru a couple of storage totes and came up with some pretty old pictures of myself looking pretty spiffy, if I may be so bold. Not sure what to do with all the ones from #3 wedding, because I looked almost skinny in those pics. Also found some of an old flame and me, and not sure I want to dispose of those. Found a bunch of dishes from long ago in that container, so brought them up to wash and use. Wanted to sew, but my fingers preferred to keep digging thru that tub, so did that until it was time for food. Came up with a bunch of teddy bear fabrics, so need to sort those and store them with the rest of that grouping. Also found a whole lot of flannel, so that will go on the shelf, too.
I am in the process of making a dozen teddy bears out of a man's shirts, for his girls and grandkids. He passed away in June, so asked his wife for the shirts when she was ready to sort out his clothes, with the intent of making bears. I am also going to make her a small quilt out of the sleeves of those shirts, so she will continue to have his arms around her for a long time. I hope she will like it. I am making Majestic Mountain pattern, using the shirt fabric for the mountains, and her favorite color for the sky area. She told me her favorite color is lavender/purple, so that is what she's getting. Thought it might look strange, but so far it is fine. Almost done putting those blocks together and have half of the bears sewn and stuffed. Have only 4 of them all done, but at least I am steady working on them. Actually sewed #7 today and it is waiting for stuffing. Getting fabric from Illinois to make 2 more "memory bears" tomorrow, thanks to a fellow who works at the bank here, who spread the word that I do such stuff, after making him 2 bears out of his Dads flannel shirt last year. Free advertising is always a good thing, I think.
Have a box started to take to Goodwill next time we go to Mason City. Bits of odd fabrics and a bunch of crafty type stuff. I have a huge bag of too big clothes to take along too. Not sad about that, either.
Now I am tired, but want to finish closing up this white checked teddy bear before heading to bed. I am making a large batch of pie crust so it can freeze it for later. Been trying to get that job done all week, which would have been lots more fun than dealing with 2 spoiled rotten old ladies!!! LOL
Will relate what is going on with the senior center tomorrow. Take care, stay well, and God Bless!
Ele
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
I am ashamed with myself. I have not been in here to say or do anything in a very looooooooong time, but my current state of mind needs relief, so figured this would be a good thing to do, even if not a single soul will read it. I have journalized many times in my many years, but have sadly lacked in that department for seemingly too long. My mood is nasty, hurt, bewildered, and debilitating for me and I need to deal with all that. Hold on, here goes!!
Today is November 12, 2013 and the phone call I just received has me so angry and upset, my hands are shaking so bad, my spelling may seem awful, and for that I apologize in advance. Somewhere along the way, it will get better, I promise.
About 3 years ago, I was elected to be president of our local senior center, having been personally selected by the outgoing president, who was, and still is, dealing with multiple medical problems. I did not chose to be installed into this job, but took it because most of the others in the group seemed so willing to help when needed. Most of the time that has worked, up until we were losing the then current manager for the place. We managed to find a replacement, who would also be the Meals on Wheels cook. For all of that to happen, we had to do upgrades to our old facility, but getting that done allowed us to pass rather stringent state and local laws pertaining to on-site food preparations. All that has been up and running rather nicely since February this year.
One of our members, who is both V-P of the group, and a member, is also one of the trouble makers!! Let me say that the membership of our rapidly aging group has dwindled by over half in the 5 years I have been attending functions there. My husband plays music there once a month, so that is how I got involved in the first place, but none of what is going on is in any way related to him.
The phone call I go earlier was the cook/manager telling me that she was about to walk out the door and leave us high and dry because of this one person!! Seems there is an unpleasant history between these two women, which neither seems to want to give up. One will say something mean about the other, then be hurt when retaliated. Neither of these people are young anymore, so I felt in the beginning that they should just put on their "big girl panties" and get on with the rest of the world.
But nooooooooooooo, they keep picking and digging at one another, either directly or indirectly, and I am about ready to knock both of them out with steel 2X4's. Not being a violent person, it is very hard for me to believe I have said that, but it is how I feel right now. Meals on Wheels would become extinct in this town, and we have a lot of homebound people who rely on this service, who would no longer get at least one hot meal a day. Not anything I want to see happen, however.
I have to go to the center this afternoon for our regular card playing day, and I am going to do a great deal of ranting!! I may lose a couple of friends, but my heart is telling me I have to say something and right now. We may end up not playing cards after all. LOL This has always been a fun day of the week for me, since I started going there. Never played this card game in my whole life, until I learned by going on Tuesdays. My blood pressure is going to be off the charts in a little while, and I will be using words that have not come out of mouth for maybe 50 years, but if that is what it takes to get them to listen to me, I can certainly do it. Sure glad Tom won't be there to hear, as he would faint.
The senior center has been active for about 45 years, but has declined drastically in the last 10, because none of the former members have been replaced with new folks. This is a pretty old town, but nobody wants to be identified as "old", so they stay away in droves, except for the monthly birthday luncheon, when the place is full. A concept my brain doesn't seem to grasp. We usually get between 5 and 9 card players, but can get as few as 4, because of medical appointments or funerals. both frequent with senior citizens.
If we lose the meals, and it looks like that is gonna happen, we will also have to dispose of the physical building housing the center. Thank God all those arrangements were set in place by the original members, and they are still viable. Without the Elderbridge involvement, we will not have enough money to handle the normal operating costs for very long, and God forbid we have a large maintenance cost, we will lose it all. Very few of the original memebership are still able to have any interest in the place, nobody new wants to care about it, and now 2 bossy, selfish, mouthy women are gonna just flat kill it.
Can you tell I am not in a good mood?? One good thing, my hands are much less shaky than when I started. When my internal "lion" starts roaring, the shaking will return!!!
More after I get home, in about 7 hours or so. Have to go man a booth at a local ladies night out attraction, dealing with our quilt guild table. Hope my mood lightens a bunch before I start on that, which should be quite festive. Quilt guild is also suffering financial deficits. Oh what fun we are having at my house!!!
Today is November 12, 2013 and the phone call I just received has me so angry and upset, my hands are shaking so bad, my spelling may seem awful, and for that I apologize in advance. Somewhere along the way, it will get better, I promise.
About 3 years ago, I was elected to be president of our local senior center, having been personally selected by the outgoing president, who was, and still is, dealing with multiple medical problems. I did not chose to be installed into this job, but took it because most of the others in the group seemed so willing to help when needed. Most of the time that has worked, up until we were losing the then current manager for the place. We managed to find a replacement, who would also be the Meals on Wheels cook. For all of that to happen, we had to do upgrades to our old facility, but getting that done allowed us to pass rather stringent state and local laws pertaining to on-site food preparations. All that has been up and running rather nicely since February this year.
One of our members, who is both V-P of the group, and a member, is also one of the trouble makers!! Let me say that the membership of our rapidly aging group has dwindled by over half in the 5 years I have been attending functions there. My husband plays music there once a month, so that is how I got involved in the first place, but none of what is going on is in any way related to him.
The phone call I go earlier was the cook/manager telling me that she was about to walk out the door and leave us high and dry because of this one person!! Seems there is an unpleasant history between these two women, which neither seems to want to give up. One will say something mean about the other, then be hurt when retaliated. Neither of these people are young anymore, so I felt in the beginning that they should just put on their "big girl panties" and get on with the rest of the world.
But nooooooooooooo, they keep picking and digging at one another, either directly or indirectly, and I am about ready to knock both of them out with steel 2X4's. Not being a violent person, it is very hard for me to believe I have said that, but it is how I feel right now. Meals on Wheels would become extinct in this town, and we have a lot of homebound people who rely on this service, who would no longer get at least one hot meal a day. Not anything I want to see happen, however.
I have to go to the center this afternoon for our regular card playing day, and I am going to do a great deal of ranting!! I may lose a couple of friends, but my heart is telling me I have to say something and right now. We may end up not playing cards after all. LOL This has always been a fun day of the week for me, since I started going there. Never played this card game in my whole life, until I learned by going on Tuesdays. My blood pressure is going to be off the charts in a little while, and I will be using words that have not come out of mouth for maybe 50 years, but if that is what it takes to get them to listen to me, I can certainly do it. Sure glad Tom won't be there to hear, as he would faint.
The senior center has been active for about 45 years, but has declined drastically in the last 10, because none of the former members have been replaced with new folks. This is a pretty old town, but nobody wants to be identified as "old", so they stay away in droves, except for the monthly birthday luncheon, when the place is full. A concept my brain doesn't seem to grasp. We usually get between 5 and 9 card players, but can get as few as 4, because of medical appointments or funerals. both frequent with senior citizens.
If we lose the meals, and it looks like that is gonna happen, we will also have to dispose of the physical building housing the center. Thank God all those arrangements were set in place by the original members, and they are still viable. Without the Elderbridge involvement, we will not have enough money to handle the normal operating costs for very long, and God forbid we have a large maintenance cost, we will lose it all. Very few of the original memebership are still able to have any interest in the place, nobody new wants to care about it, and now 2 bossy, selfish, mouthy women are gonna just flat kill it.
Can you tell I am not in a good mood?? One good thing, my hands are much less shaky than when I started. When my internal "lion" starts roaring, the shaking will return!!!
More after I get home, in about 7 hours or so. Have to go man a booth at a local ladies night out attraction, dealing with our quilt guild table. Hope my mood lightens a bunch before I start on that, which should be quite festive. Quilt guild is also suffering financial deficits. Oh what fun we are having at my house!!!
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