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Conquered by Love
Nov. 30th, 2012 08:26 pmI am back online. Sort of. If it was only going to be a little while, I was prepared to wait until the internet connection came back, using the connection at work for paying bills and such, but today's paper confirmed that it will be 'many weeks' before our internet connection is back on (my landline isn't back on yet either). That's a bit grim, isn't it? Mobile reception is working, though, so I have bought myself a USB modem to get me through.
While I was offline, the Innovations Christmas catalogue arrived, and that's always good value. They are still offering advanced pillow technology. Side pillows, body pillows and two different head-cooling pillows. Are many people being kept awake by their freakishly hot heads? Apparently so. My pick of the gift suggestions was the washing glove stand, to facilitate air drying of rubber gloves. I want to laugh, but I'd actually like one of those. I think it would come in handy for knitting gloves. Not that I've ever knitted gloves, but I might if I had one of those stands.
My mother's friend, Colleen, lives about an hour from here, and she usually calls my mother when she is in town so they can go out to lunch. Nothing doing there, what with the aforementioned phone problems, so when she came over last Friday, she drove past my house on the off chance that my mother was visiting. (My house is not far from the nursing home where Colleen's mother lives, so it was on her way.) Colleen was in luck, as my mother was here, telling me how hard it is to buy UV-resistant lycra. (On a side note, does that seem like an unlikely thing for someone who doesn't like swimming to want to buy? I think so.) Anyway, Colleen told us about her visit to her mother's nursing home. Her mum is in the advanced stages of dementia, and lives in the secure wing that requires a PIN to enter and exit. Colleen said there was an old man waiting at the door when she went to leave, who tried to slip out behind her when she entered her PIN. She wouldn't let him, and he got quite upset, and she was relieved when she finally managed to get out and leave him behind. She found one of the staff and said that one of the residents was trying to escape. The staff member looked at the man standing on the other side of the door and said, 'Oh, no, he's just visiting his wife. He can never remember his PIN to get out.'
While I was offline, the Innovations Christmas catalogue arrived, and that's always good value. They are still offering advanced pillow technology. Side pillows, body pillows and two different head-cooling pillows. Are many people being kept awake by their freakishly hot heads? Apparently so. My pick of the gift suggestions was the washing glove stand, to facilitate air drying of rubber gloves. I want to laugh, but I'd actually like one of those. I think it would come in handy for knitting gloves. Not that I've ever knitted gloves, but I might if I had one of those stands.
My mother's friend, Colleen, lives about an hour from here, and she usually calls my mother when she is in town so they can go out to lunch. Nothing doing there, what with the aforementioned phone problems, so when she came over last Friday, she drove past my house on the off chance that my mother was visiting. (My house is not far from the nursing home where Colleen's mother lives, so it was on her way.) Colleen was in luck, as my mother was here, telling me how hard it is to buy UV-resistant lycra. (On a side note, does that seem like an unlikely thing for someone who doesn't like swimming to want to buy? I think so.) Anyway, Colleen told us about her visit to her mother's nursing home. Her mum is in the advanced stages of dementia, and lives in the secure wing that requires a PIN to enter and exit. Colleen said there was an old man waiting at the door when she went to leave, who tried to slip out behind her when she entered her PIN. She wouldn't let him, and he got quite upset, and she was relieved when she finally managed to get out and leave him behind. She found one of the staff and said that one of the residents was trying to escape. The staff member looked at the man standing on the other side of the door and said, 'Oh, no, he's just visiting his wife. He can never remember his PIN to get out.'