Not me & certainly not my mom! I have escorted her to dinner each night (on Tuesday night I was too hot, tired & sweaty to feel like eating, but the good news is if you visit Arabella at meal time they are happy to feed you!) The food is good - served café style with a fairly extensive menu & nightly specials. Last night for example, the specials were enchiladas or grilled shrimp. I really thought mom would go for those shrimp but she ordered a chicken salad sandwich, so I ordered a club sandwich. The funny thing is - she was complaining of her back hurting so I went back to her room to get her some ibuprofen. I had to hunt for it a bit (my friend Toni** who’s been a tremendous help had put them in the bathroom cabinet); I set the bottle down on the counter where mom can find them. By the time I got back, the girl had brought our sandwiches but had switched the plates, and mom had already tucked into my club sandwich. (Thankfully there’s nothing wrong with her appetite) So we wound up going halfsies! Then we split a piece of the coconut cream pie which was awesome…
** I owe Toni her own entry: she is my “friend of longest standing” (it wouldn’t be nice to call her the “oldest” because she’s NOT) but we grew up together, we met about age 6/1st grade. She retired this summer and lives literally around the corner from Arabella, so she has also been helping me out with the move and trying to help mom acclimatize. We’re going to take mom out for catfish tonight - I have invited my cousins who have all had opinions, but funny thing is, I haven’t seen any of them at Arabella yet?
Gotta quit being bitchy & get on to work, with an emergency stop by the bank - I had to take another disbursement from my retirement account to keep this Titanic project of mine afloat. But as I joked to Peran last night (yep, I asked him to kick in $5K last week so I could make payroll), who the hell cares about retirement? He never would talk to me about such plans, so obviously we’re both gonna work until we drop.
Arabella sounds great! I might want to move there! LOL. I don't get what I want to eat here unless I fix it myself and am often too tired. I would go for enchiladas, grilled shrimp, a chicken salad sandwich, a club sandwich or coconut cream pie and I'm picky!!! Anything I didn't have to fix myself.
ReplyDeleteBless Toni for helping you!! I have only known one female Toni and mine wasn't nice. Family members need to be encouraging and keep negative opinions to themselves unless they are willing to do the hard work to take help care of your mom.
A catfish dinner would be right up my alley. I have friends from other parts of the country who think eating catfish is disgusting. More for me!
Benny and I both worked until we were ready to drop. I wonder if it's the norm now.
You just accomplished a huge project!!! Congratulations!!!!