I am the errand runner for my mom. My mother spends her day watching TV. She also reads the newspaper but they don’t make drugstore reading eyeglasses strong enough for her. I need to take my mother to the eye doctor to get her a new set of glasses but I dread the idea.

My mother goes through prescription glasses like water. This is why we have been buying her the drugstore reading glasses because they are relatively cheap so when she breaks them it doesn’t hurt as much to replace them. Sam’s Club sells reading glasses in packs of eight for about $20 and mom goes through them in about two months.

Her insurance will pay for one pair of eyeglass frames every two years.  So she is due for a check up and a new prescription but it still pains me to get the new glasses. I also know that when she breaks this pair, and she will, I will have to make a trip to the optometrists office to get them repaired which really means dropping them off, picking them up a few days later and bringing them out to my mother. Rinse and repeat.

We do this with jewelry too. She has been wearing her wedding ring, engagement ring and my father’s wedding band on a chain for the last few years because she has lost so much weight they don’t fit on her fingers anymore, and dad’s never did. I’ve bought so many chains for her and each one breaks within weeks. The chain I gave her for Christmas broke a few weeks ago. I haven’t rushed out to fix or replace it because I know I will just have to do it again.

I should take care of these things, it’s just more guilt if I don’t but the expense, an unnecessary expense in my book, just prevents me from rushing out and taking care of it. That alone makes me feel even worse. My mom doesn’t ask for much so it seems silly that I can’t take the time to take care of these two little things but I’ll be damned if I can’t get motivated to do so.

Does anyone else have these kinds of jobs that they just don’t want to do, because they have done them so many times and will have to do them again, that they stall on it?

As you might have noticed I have moved from blogspot to my own domain. It might take me a bit to get the place in order. I can already tell I am in need of new paint and some drapes. Bare with me as I get things in order. All the old posts are here but I haven’t yet unpacked my blogroll or anything like that. I have to reorganize the categories too so if you are looking for an older post just be patient please, or try google for now.

Less than 48 hours to go! Is anyone else as excited as I am to have the new school year start?

I will soon be able to blog on a much more regular basis. In anticipation of that I wanted to post a few reminders.

If you aren’t already following me on Twitter please do. I follow back everyone who follows me. You can also follow me on Facebook too. I think it’s the right link. I was just going to type that I don’t understand how people can spend so much time on Facebook but when I went to get the URL I lost 20 minutes. Hmmm….

This here blog is now available on Kindle. Of course if you found me here I don’t know why you would want me on the Kindle too but then I don’t have one so I have no idea how the whole thing works. If you have a Kindle and you subscribe to blogs please leave a note in the comment section and let me know how you like it. I’d love to get one but I don’t commute on a bus or train, I don’t actually commute at all, I can open a book easier than a Kindle as well. The price tag alone keeps me from purchasing one but they do look cool. I’d love to be able to download a book in the middle of the night.

That’s about it for now. Starting Tuesday you can look for more regular posts on this blog as well as the others.

This past week I had surgery. The kind of surgery isn’t important but you can read about it here if you are so inclined. If you went on to read the post you will noticed I complained that I had very little support.

I have been the caretaker in my family. Everyone counts on me to take of them so when I need care it is overlooked. I don’t mean to sound so harsh. I don’t think my family tried to ignore me. I think they take me for granted. I am the one who does the scut work. Work that is taken for granted. If you are a caretaker you know what I am talking about.

I am looking for resources for caretakers, places the caretaker can go for help and support. If you know of any please let me know.

Get out and Vote tomorrow!

I haven’t posted here in a long time. Nothing new really. Mom is still hanging in there. I think she is waiting for the election results. It is the only thing she is the least bit interested. Mom is an Obama girl. We don’t talk politics much.

I have been struggling with her dog, the one I refer to as the rental dog. You can read all about my struggles here on my other blog. I have not discussed this with her. But I am tempted to.

Mom still has not desire to talk about anything but herself. She is not interested in her grandchildren and rarely asks what I am doing. She does however appear to have accepted that she is not moving to her own apartment or duplex anymore. And that is a wonderful thing.

If any of you are going to the Republican National Convention and need parking be sure to check out my auction on eBay for my monthly parking pass. You can view it here. My parking ramp is four blocks from the Xcel Energy Center and right across from the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Capital City Plaza Parking Ramp on the corner of 4th and Cedar. The ramp is open 24 hours and you can come and go as often as you please. The pass will work from now until the end of September.

I haven’t posted here in a long time. I have pretty much consolidated my blogs to my other blog Redheadranting. I probably should have mentioned that here.

Mom seems to be doing a bit better. She still can’t speak above a whisper but her movement is less stiff. She hasn’t put on any weight but she doesn’t seem to have lost anymore. She is more coherent and thus a little more irritated. I’m hoping she doesn’t go back to her full blown temper tantrums but the doctor thought that was a good possibility. Keep your fingers crossed.

I called the home this morning to find out how mom was doing. They had decided to order an x-ray since mom was complaining of pain. Turns out she has a broken clavicle. They can’t really put a cast on it or set it so all they can do is give her Vicodin. I wish I knew what to do.

I have to have a privacy policy to run adsense. They don’t really go into great detail about what it should say but this is what I have gathered it needs to include.

I use Google and

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
• Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

I think they kinda say the same thing but I want to cover all bases as I do not want to piss off the Google Gods.