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Feb. 15th, 2006 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI'm very glad tomorrow is my last day on this particular job. Another day spent washing binders, broken only by a few hours doing housekeeping and throwing out boxes. My fingers are all sliced up. Whine, bitch, moan.
I don't think I ever mentioned it, but Mama Ticky came through her hip replacement and is doing well. She's a little insane actually (paranoid, memory loss) as an aftereffect of the morphine she was on, but the nurses say that's normal. She'll be in hospital until Friday at least and have a live-in nurse for a week after that. We've decided, I think, that I'm not going down to keep her company, though I'm still willing if she wants me to. We sent her a book of landscape photography and a robe, both of which she is apparently enjoying.
Lucky was the only one of the three brothers to go down to Houston and see her on Monday, when she had the surgery done. I have a fairly low opinion of his brothers and their wives, but I find this especially ridiculous. Older Brother works ten minutes from the hospital and Younger Brother lives barely half an hour away; Older Brother's wife doesn't work and Younger Brother's wife is his secretary. And yet none of them could come in for a few minutes before and after the surgery? Lucky took a day off work and drove three hours each way, and he'll be doing it again on whatever day she gets out. None of the (Houstonian) grandchildren have been to see her either, despite three of the four being currently unemployed and in Houston. #4 has an excuse, as she is in Italy, but I don't like her anyway. *sulks*
In other news, I have a wristwatch for the first time in five years. My beloved carabiner pocketwatch is still functional, but I had a whim. I have whims so rarely that I followed it. My new watch is similar to one I had in my late teens, with two watch faces side by side for two different time zones. Left (yellow face, ordinary numbering) is set to Central Standard; out of habit I set Right (black face, Roman numerals) to Greenwich Mean.
Because I can't do math that involves more than two time zones. Stfu. :D
I don't think I ever mentioned it, but Mama Ticky came through her hip replacement and is doing well. She's a little insane actually (paranoid, memory loss) as an aftereffect of the morphine she was on, but the nurses say that's normal. She'll be in hospital until Friday at least and have a live-in nurse for a week after that. We've decided, I think, that I'm not going down to keep her company, though I'm still willing if she wants me to. We sent her a book of landscape photography and a robe, both of which she is apparently enjoying.
Lucky was the only one of the three brothers to go down to Houston and see her on Monday, when she had the surgery done. I have a fairly low opinion of his brothers and their wives, but I find this especially ridiculous. Older Brother works ten minutes from the hospital and Younger Brother lives barely half an hour away; Older Brother's wife doesn't work and Younger Brother's wife is his secretary. And yet none of them could come in for a few minutes before and after the surgery? Lucky took a day off work and drove three hours each way, and he'll be doing it again on whatever day she gets out. None of the (Houstonian) grandchildren have been to see her either, despite three of the four being currently unemployed and in Houston. #4 has an excuse, as she is in Italy, but I don't like her anyway. *sulks*
In other news, I have a wristwatch for the first time in five years. My beloved carabiner pocketwatch is still functional, but I had a whim. I have whims so rarely that I followed it. My new watch is similar to one I had in my late teens, with two watch faces side by side for two different time zones. Left (yellow face, ordinary numbering) is set to Central Standard; out of habit I set Right (black face, Roman numerals) to Greenwich Mean.
Because I can't do math that involves more than two time zones. Stfu. :D
