I made cheese. There is not a lot to say about making cheese except it's really fun. I know there are several cheeses that you can easily make at home, I went for Farmer's Cheese. Amazingly, that is exactly what I got. It's white, pretty firm and tastes like...cheese. It's good. It is not amazing or mind blowingly delicious, but, it's good. I'm definitely going to make cheese again. Different kinds too, because I had fun and I think now that I have the basics, I can work on improving the flavor. I have herbs I need to dry, so I can incorporate those and definitely some hot peppers from the garden. If you want to try making cheese, just go to You Tube and check out the hundreds of vids on it there. Just choose one you like, they're basically the same. I promise you, making cheese is easy and cheap (cheap being my operative word). If a kitchen idiot like me can do it, anyone can.
Now, to the bitchy part of the post. Geez Louise with a crippled stick up her ass. I have to go to work so I'll try and condense this shit so you won't gaze into a glazed pile of boredom who would rather set fire to yourself than read another word of this crapola. I haven't seen Lissa since I dropped her off at school yesterday. He mom got semi-supervised overnights twice a week. Instead of feeling free, I felt uneasy and nervous without her around. So, I made cheese. Fuck cheese. Today, I get her back, but, it's a busy busy day. It's old lady check day. I know my mother needs to be escorted all over hell, so I went over there to get started at 9 am. Nope. She's not ready and doesn't want to get ready. Her 'show' is on and she wants to drink coffee and visit with her cats. Seriously. Can I come back after Meals On Wheels is delivered? She doesn't want to go until after she gets her lunch. Okay, let me clear something up. MOW is not a free thing, she pays for it five days a week. She does nothing but bitch about how horrible the food is and the highlight of her day is opening the lunch, snorting at it's contents and setting the untouched container on the porch for the cats to pick at. So, how is she too busy to go run her errands? But, she is. Period. Nope. Not a chance of changing her mind. She demands I take her after lunch. I remind her I have to go to work right after lunch (which she damn well know). Well, now I can take her later. I have to pick up Lis at school later. Then I have to take Chloie to the vet. Later she says. I will take her later. Bam. Her word is law and it's been laid down.
See, she doesn't need anything from the store, so I can fuck off and take her later. No time later? Too bad, find some. I'm out of coffee. So I go ahead and run to the store. I do some other errands. Pay bills I have no other time to pay, etc. You know the drill. All the while thinking about this place. Seriously. When I blog, even if it's about stupid celebs, I get feedback here. I feel like someone out there might be listening to me and I'm not all alone in a universe of stupid and mean. There were some things I could have blogged about, but, you have the outline of my day. It belongs to everyone else. I wouldn't mind so much, but, there are two of them that seem to take delight in fucking up all of my free time. Need I mention who? The one who gave birth to me (I think she's lying and I am not her biological child..shut up..it keeps me wanting to live) and that other one who gave birth to my granddaughter. I was there for that one or I would disclaim it too at this point. So, off to work I go and I'll take off early so I can pick up the kid on a day that's not originally mine to pick her up on (some people LOVE to change visit days to correspond with my work days because they never worked a day in their fucking life and isn't it fun to fuck up Pat's day, tee hee, and DHS lets them because someone seems to have the DHS and DA in their front pocket and I hate them all and if you can write a better run on venom sentence, go ahead) and then I will take the kid home and pick up the old lady. More fun shopping in hell with a tired whiny kid along, right? It will take her hours to choose cat food hairballess brands while I entertain said kid in the hot car. Then she'll want to go to the vet with us and hobble in and give her opinion which will be something retarded and take an extra hour. Then we can go to all the places I already went when I got coffee and paid bills because she wouldn't go the first time. Basically she's adding about 5 extra torture hours to my already full of shit day.
Lissa hates riding with Tuwella and I'm going to offer her $10 bucks I can't afford if she doesn't complain once. Let's see how that shit works out. I hate check day, I hate old ladies...oh, get this. Tuwella just knocked on the door. She's outraged at the cable company. Again. She wants their number. Like I'm a phone book, right? I'm just tying to finish this post and get the fuck out of here. I tell her it's on her bill. She sees the computer on and says, how come you have cable and I don't?? She's screaming by now. I reply that I am not a Mediacom employee, how would I know? I go over there and look and she's fucked the programing on her new Mediacom remote up for the 12th time in less than a week. I fix it. She bitches. I tell her, just turn off the tv, power on and hit 0-3. There. No, she doesn't get it. I am nearly psycho from doing this all week. WTF. Off. Power. 0-3. That's it. She wants me to write it down on an index card with an eyebrow pencil. Some one kill me now. Kill me, I demand it!!!!
As I leave, what do I see on the porch? The goddamn meals on wheels lunch, untouched and ready for feline consumption. I'm going to work. Someone totally psycho could come in today and tell me they are going to murder the whole town and I'd assume they were normal. Come on, psychos, today is your day. See ya later. I'm sorry for this now. Maybe you just read the last sentence in this giant pile of irritation that feels like the painful bleeding hemorrhoid that is my sucky life. If so, still stands. Sorry. Go make some cheese.
22 comments:
fucking blogger!!! i wrote a reply and it ate it!!! let me try to remember it all!!
i can relate to being a phone book! i am eddie's phone book, dictionary, paralegal, secretary, vet tech, sometimes mechanic, computer tech support, etc.....but i know it's different cuz he's like my brother and i like him.....but i understand the frustration and it gets so aggravating and things just pile up....
that is such an abuse and waste of mow....i know she's paying for it, but still....someone who would EAT the meal could be having that!!!
i have no idea why the da and dhs is so enamored of her....how many times does this have to happen?? this happens again and again and again and again and are they BLIND???? apparently so!! they are suppose to be there for the CHILDREN....lis is so lucky you are there for her....
i have to go run errands myself....i hope your day is not as bad as you expect it to be!! ((HUGS))
Thanks. The worst blow of the morning came when I accidentally bought Ameretto coffee creamer packaged to look like regular. I hate sweet coffee and fancy coffe. The whole point of running around early was ruined for me. This is just a shit day. And hours and hours with the old lady on her walker just GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! And my ex DIL..don't get me started on her and the DA and DHS. OMG, I could just spit. All this will be copied and pasted and presented at some meeting. AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! I despise being censored. I DESPISE it.
I'm sorry your day is so awful.
I'm out here, and I hear you.
I just keep hoping that Lissa's mom will continue to screw up just enough to lose custody. (Without any actual harm coming to the children.)
As for your mom, can you give her a time frame and hold to it? Leave her at the store if she doesn't hold to it? Let her find her own way home, or maybe tell her that you will give her two hours for errands, and it is up to her to decide how she wishes to spend them? If she chooses to weigh her options on cat food for an hour, that means only one more hour available to her?
I only make these suggestions because of concern for you. Both of these toxic people will use you up completely, given the chance, and will bitch about it afterwards. You need a safe place, and time to call your own. I hope you are able to have that.
As for being censored, I wouldn't worry about it as long as you are telling the truth. I know, it's still irratating and I'm sorry you have to go through this. I'm sending hugs for strength to help you get through this day.
Also on that Ameretto coffee creamer...if you send Xmas gifts to Lis' teacher, that makes the best hot cocoa mix ever. I think I have the recipe somewheres. I'll look for it if you want it. I'm not one for cocoa mixes, but I got this one year and had to have the recipe.
I opened it and tasted my coffee and spit it all over the floor. What shit. I'm late for work now, I have to run, BUT, if anyone wants to know what I'm bitching about with the kids mom, email me and if I know you, I'll tell it. It aint pretty.
Also, I always tell the truth on here and in life. Learned that lesson as a kid. I may be a bitch, a shitbag, an asshole, just plain dick sometimes. I own it (and I've learned to apologize). I never lie. Lying makes you sick in the head and you always get caught. Always. Why even go there?
I don't lie either, it always made my stomach knot up as a kid if I did. Its something my brain won't allow. Either don't say anything or say the truth. Simple! Either way, you aren't lying. My day has been a shit day. Very very personal and BAD. B-A-D!!!! My son is about to have a nervous breakdown over it & tomorrow is his 29th b'day! Now its all shit on. We had a great b'day pary for him on Saturday night. It was Harry Potter and we made it so real. Detailed and real. You see, he may be 29 but he's never had a b'day party before. Just in the last 10 years we have even celebrated, because we left the jehovahs Witnesses. So, you think...why would a 29 year old man enjoy a HP party? Because he did! We all did! I had a perfect McGonnagall costume, his dad was a perfect Hagrid, the dogs even dressed up! His sister was Luna and his girlfriend was Draco Malfoy. It was awesome. We made realistic magic wands and had a Sorting Hat ceremnoy. The props were like an amusment park. So, I hope he remembers last Saturday as his b'day and not tomorrow. Our family is pretty eff'd up. I don't talk about it, but the subject did come up! We all deal with incessant BS all day long and it stinks. 'My g'ma never ever ate her MOW food either. It just kept piling up in thr fridge, container on top of container. Garbage, wasted food. Its a shame. She just didn't eat, period. Ok enough. We all have shit we deal with daily and we get thru it. Thank you all.
xo
rox
I didn't read the whole thing but, sorry.
You brighten my day so much with your posts. I'm so sorry you continue to go through this hell. I think about you often and try to send positive thoughts your way. My sil is a family law attorney. I'm happy to talk to her and see if she has any advice for you if you'd like.
DD, you have my deepest sympathy. Smartest thing I ever did was put my mother in the alzheimers unit at the nursing home. She was too crazy to leave in her home by herself. Figured one day I'd get a call from the police or fire department about her, plus she lived 45 minutes away. For a very brief period of time I thought she could move into my home. My house is plenty big enough & she could help with my expenses. Took me less than 24 hours to go stark raving mad (and realize money isn't everything) ... yelling at my sister "get her the hell out of my house". By the end of that week we had her in lockup! Best thing I ever did. Paid people took care of her & I visited ... then left.
I can definitely relate to what you're dealing with. Didn't have ex DIL problems, but was dealing with an almost EX husband & my siblings at the same time. Yeah, ya can't get away from the crazies.
HUGS to you & Lissa ... you will get through this. We're all behind you sending positive energy.
Sing it, sistah, loud and clear.
I had a coffee SNAFU, too. I like plain, mellow, mild beans. Coffee that is coffee flavored. What did I do? Grabbed a can of the Pumpkin Spiced beans, made a pot this morning, blew it into the goddamn sink, checked the label and fuck all.
Now don't get me wrong, I like pumpkins and I like spices and I like coffee, but not all in the same damn pot.
I wrote you and also, I have sent you and Lis a care package to cheer you a bit. It may not solve the big problems, but you might get a kick out of it. Hugs and a friendly punch on the shoulder -
Mary_Mary
PS - Can we just "Arsenic and Old Lace" the old broad and call it a day? Hee Ha.
oooooo mary_mary, let's go dig in the panama canal after we pass the elderberry wine!
4 generations of women, 4 different worlds. All are so lucky to have each other so near however painful it may be at times.
People in the early stages of dementia may not be able to tell the truth from lies and sarcasm from sincerity.
I think mary mary could cheer up a constipated gorilla! The girl has a knack! And erin, I think pics of the baby would help. I could just pinch his chubby lil cheeks! He would certainly cheer anyone up!
DD...I still know a guy who" knows a guy". We could send him mary's arsenic idea and see what happens!!! Or you and your problems can come down here for a visit. I'll show THEM the alligators. They eat anything and leave no tell-tale traces.
I read you every day. I have a messes up life also. But reading your blog helps me get through what i have. I am tryingto blog release the stress i have..keep you chin up and just keep on going thats all we can do Karen
Sometimes your days make mine seem pleasurable by comparison.
hey pat, i emailed you something....you might already know it or had seen it....
Two thumbs up for Jane & mary_mary's suggestions.
and this is why we all read here. Seems like a lot of us have had to deal with "difficult" family members, who seem perfectly fine to the "outside world". I have 5 siblings and only 2 (and out of duty only) deal with our surviving parent. People who did not grow up in households like ours have NO idea what it was/is like.
Thank goodness most of us have survived and are better parents/caretakers then the ones who were entrusted with our care.
Pat...you are good for Lissa and she is good for you. Keep doing what you are doing and she will know that you were the one who loves her and has her best interest at heart. Hopefully, the powers that be will get their heads out of their asses and wise up!
Good vibes are sent your way.
Lucy
Oh, Jane, I love you for that.
Being Italian, I got uncles and dose guys can get wit' your guy who "knows a guy" and we can take care of dis, see?
Concrete shoes anyone? Time to sleep wit' da fishes, no?
I'm sorry. I think it will kill me if I have to see my grandchildren suffer because of another adult in their life. I had actually thought that Lissa would remain with you for good. It's sad that she is consistently put in harm's way by going back to her mom. I wish you guys the best.
I haven't made cheese but I would love to try and make mozzarella. I will give it a go someday. My sister used to make lebanee (?) . It's yogurt that gets drained and becomes like cream cheese.
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