AGING PARENTS

Another sibling. Mom was the second born, the twins came after her, then two more sisters she's also not talking to.

I liked it better as Mom being passive-aggressive about her own birthday.

love it

PBKR's interpretation was what I thought at first.

Seemed more Mom-like.

The 'real' is colder though

Ahhhh... Nothing says summer break like spending the day picking up dried up cat vomit in my mother's squalid apartment.

Sitting here watching Gunsmoke w/ my aged p’s because their helper had heart palpitations/panic attack (because of Henri?) and left to go to her doctor in the city and the rest of my generation just was exposed to COVID.

Just think; it could be the Waltons.

Gunsmoke rules

I think they show The Waltons on this channel too! Thought I saw a profile of Grandpa Walton on the website.

Yes, never really watched whist growing up but Gunsmoke is in fact pretty good.

The Virginian is better, and so are The Big Valley and The High Chaparral, sorry to be a dick

No worries.

Feel like we should have a thread called itt we ask Josefa about old tv shows and NYC restaurants

oh man the waltons was on in the clinic when i got my second vaxx and it was brutal. i'd never seen it before!

That would actually make me feel special. I would take the responsibility seriously.

Btw what with the pandemic and everything it feels like every NYC restaurant is an old NYC restaurant now. The system crashed in March 2020 and we’re trying to reset it still.

It was Gunsmoke reruns and The Waltons all over our TV in the late 70s.

we got METV years ago before we stopped dping cable & i watched at least 5 seasons worth of gunsmoke

surprsingly, the last season color eps, which seemed super weird, are some of the best!

I only acknowledge the radio version.

There's an early-ish color Gunsmoke where the Doc has to quarantine a sick rich dude & his entourage on a train and anyone living the past two years knows how that turns out.

Miss Kitty refuses to take the smallpox vaccine?

OMG LOL ROFFLE ETC ETC ETC

Sorry, I actually meant that, but the allcaps probably made it seem sarcastic. The intranetz, how do they work?

Festus won't wear a face mask.

But seriously, the rich guy doesn't want to quarantine and tries to bargain his way out because he's got business in another town that just has to be settled, but soon he's too sick to do anything. One of his bodyguards tries to escape but gets killed by some townies who-lacking Doc's compassion-don't want no sick people in Dodge. They form a rebellion, knock out Marshall Dillion, and set the train on fire, getting a number of themselves killed in the process. Doc, the rich guy, and his pregnant trophy wife manage to escape.

The ep is called "Death Train" and it's from season 13 in '67.

chilling

…and today we’re back to earlier in the day viewing, Little House on the Prairie.

Well, at least you will have The Price is Right to look forward to tomorrow.

Michael Landon had one of those punchable faces.

Lol, quincie.

lessons i learned rewatching little house

- paw is legit terrible farmer
- mary is a pain in the fucking ass
- that song mr edwards sings all the time is super annoying
- there is waaaay more jesus in that show than i remembered from watching as a kid

i still kinda like the show though, all that being said. i love the opening credits where baby carrie trips & falls down the hill

There is waaaay more Jesus in the show than in the books.

In college, one of the girls in my first year studies group (Melora, later the star of the film LAMBADA) had been one of the random school kids in Little House with lines here and there, and one week her friend Matt came to visit and sat in our seminar. Several other students made the faux pas of calling him ‘Albert’. Melora just looked like she wanted to kill them.

lol

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Now onto The Hallmark Channel. Chesapeake Shores.

Warming up to the teasers for Sweet Pecan Summer.

This stuff is easy to make fun of but seems to fill some of the void left by most regular movies being about superheroes and such.

Treat Williams and the actress playing one of his daughters are now singing a tuneful version of “Tura Lura Lura,” although maybe not as good as the one in The Last Waltz.

Treat Williams possibly not a Covidiot tho.

lol.

These are like the non-auteur versions of that recipient of a noted Morbius zinger, They All Laughed.

Will refrain from live-blogging Todaytoday.

Don’t hold out on us man

Can’t go there right now

Starting to lose it after a very short period of time, don’t know how Neanderthal does it.

Not trying to be weird or brag or anything, but truly happy that my early 70s parents don't watch TV or know anything about the internet.

I wish you the best ET, I empathize with your situation, and I recommend a book called Stuff by Steketee/Frost. It was very compassionately written and totally not stupid. It changed my relationship with my mom after she read it.

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:14 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Steketee/Frost book is great. Recommend it to anyone dealing with this.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, January 4, 2014
Thanks yall! (also to quincie, actual student of Prof. Stetekee). Just started reading it. Elvis, I seem to recall that somewhere you recommended a particular kind of shredder---crossbolt?

Starting to lose it after a very short period of time, don’t know how Neanderthal does it.

― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, August 23, 2021 4:10 PM bookmarkflaglink

shit, I lose my mind all the time. gotta make sure to carve out the time for yourself every so often <3

good news:

*we got a new walker for dad, and he walks better with it
*we rearranged the furniture in the house, and he's moving better as it's a straighter shot from his chair to bathroom
*we got a portable ramp for dad outside, and that's nullified the risk outdoors, where he had his last fall
*we've had temporary physical therapy prescribed for him again which is helping
*mom is going back to work part-time doing a relatively low risk, low intensity job, and that will help

bad news:

*I'm hemorrhaging money, despite making 70k a year. that seems impossible, but ...here we are. It is costing me wayyyy more to live here than it did last year as the rent is more expensive, mom spends a lot on groceries for us and stuff for dad like diapers, adult day care visits REALLY adds up and I split it with her/my bro. I'm going to have to approach the conversation about their cell phone bills, which I've paid now for about 6 years, and maybe taking their phones and finding their own plans, since they barely use their phones anyway. It's like over $100 a month, and adds up. yes, some of it is me being lazy and spending too much on food, but....there's definitely more expenditure than I expected.

*(don't get me wrong, I still have plenty of savings, but I can't lose money at this rate, esp if I'm finding it difficult to rebuild my savings)

*I'm having to renew this lease for another year. mom can't do it on her own. unfortunately, the idea I had of conning my brother to move in with us couldn't materialize (even though he needed a place to live) as we were closing in on our 60 day cancellation period, and it is way too risky to have us opt out of our lease with nowhere lined up to go. the thought of doing this another year is....ugh. hopefully we get the HSBC Waiver approved next year.

all in all, things are going better-ish lately, but my life feels very *on hold*. mom keeps trying to encourage me to date, but between pandemic and LOL this living arrangement, how even could I? fortunately I have zero desire to do it right now.

but...i am carving out pockets of time for me, so at least there's that.

my mother is just so brutal to my dad these days it's taking me everything not to scream at her.

I have held off because she has a lot of physical pain but the poor guy shuts down around her because she does nothing but yell at him and say he isn't trying.

but it's kind of poetic, dad screamed at mom all the time growing up, now they've reversed roles. cute.

I still have an anxious reaction like I did as a kid when it happens too. regress to my teens.

Just started reading it. Elvis, I seem to recall that somewhere you recommended a particular kind of shredder---crossbolt?

Crosscut. If you have a LOT of shredding (boxes and boxes worth), it might be worthwhile to contact a third-party shredding service. My local box & ship store has one and I'd probably take stuff there rather than kill another shredder with the volume.

hope the karma bank is paying triple interest to neando