Sunday, January 31, 2010

Pants unsewing

Perhaps mom finally starts to let go. She found a puddle of pee on the bathroom floor this morning. The volume was not leakage, but a whole bladder. The cleanup took an hour. Her breakfast (oatmeal) was all cold when she was done. That was what she told me when I got up in the afternoon, and she asked me to contact the social worker. She was also talking about a church friend's wife who's been going to an old folk's daycare. Looks like mom has had enough. Yeah, it's overdue.

The sewing machine is used almost everyday now. Dad keeps dismantling his own pants, especially when he sits on the toilet. No wonder why he sits there for half an hour each time just to pee. Mom keeps having to mend his pants. She's fed up. Just now he took the tag off which mom had sewn there to mark the back of the pants. This drives mom nuts. I don't know if dad likes to dismantle things, or he just tries to do whatever he can or knows how to. Then it's sad that he only know how to destroy things. If you ask him if he's done something, the answer is always "no", "don't know", or "don't remember". Or, no answer at all. (Maybe silence = admit?) But of course, when such a question arise, it's always something bad that he's done.

Pants on the knees

(Picture was taken on Jan 4 and is unrelated to subject.) Dad just went to the washroom. You can tell he's done when he "clears" his nose directly into the bathroom sink making a disgusting "spraying compressed air" noise. As usual I went to remind him to flush, and saw him wiping his face with the shared hand towel again. (He always leaves booger behind. Gross!) The top of his pants was down to his knees, and legs were rolled up to his knees too. Yeah, it's like, why wear pants? I understand the top, but why roll the legs up? I wish I didn't need to see his butt. Luckily, nothing else.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Mac

S brought a Mac book Pro today! Woooooooow... congrats!

Friday, January 29, 2010

More beads

(Picture was taken on Jan 12 and is unrelated to subject.)
Micro beading continued. Had to wear the clip-on magnifier all day. Killing my eyes. (T_T) Well, OK, the stringing was done around 2, and I switched to filling 1/12 scale small trays with flat back nail rhinestones. Needed to be placed one by one. Same deal. Not any easier on the eyes.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Japan Roller

From a family friend. Thanks! Hmm... since we weren't given the outer most packaging, not sure where it's made in (or expiry date). Looking at the web site, it should be Taiwan. But the taste is suspicious. How should I put it? First of all, this leans towards salty but also heavy in sugar. The texture is like Cheetos but denser. It's fried and you can feel the grease bursting in your mouth. It's yummy, but soaked with MSG! The "Japanese" part seems to be seaweed. Overall, very unhealthy.

BTW, the company is call "Odor King"! What the heck!?!?! (Engrish?!)

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Cardiologist

Took dad to his first followup appointment with the cardiologist after his aneurysm surgery last month. He's got some swelling around the incision on the right but not a problem. According to mom, dad's balls were swollen so much right after the surgery, his dick was completely buried. (Of course I absolutely don't want to see that.) Well, when dad had his kidneys and bladder function test, the urologist didn't say anything, so it should be fine. And the cardiologist didn't say anything either. Of course that's not what he treats dad for, and mom shouldn't be throwing this same question at every medical personae or friends and relatives. Sigh...

Finally, dentist time for dad. Managed to get an appointment at 2:30 (we stopped-by around noon). One of his last two real teeth had broken off with the cap. It's been at least 2 months now? He keeps saying he's fine, so we haven't been straight. There were the aneurysm surgery and urology tests too. The tooth seemed to be a low priority. Well, it got extracted. Now dad only has one tooth left. The dentist even modified dad's dentures, sawing off the loop where it catches the broken tooth, so that dad doesn't have to see the denture guy. Today's appointment was considered emergency. Maybe that was why we got it so soon. Either way, $$$$ sigh...

Apparently, the number of teeth is related to brain health. (Got it somewhere from the web.) That sensitive layer between your teeth and jaw bone is like the whiskers of cats. People who have Alzheimer's tend to have very few teeth left. Yikes... So, keeping as many teeth as you can may reduce Alzheimer's risk? I've already had 4 completely good teeth removed for braces. Wisdom teeth are gone too. Only 24 left as to a full set of 32. OMG... (T_T)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Beaded out

Stringed micro beads onto wires all day. My eyeballs are falling out. (T_T)

Usual eat-out day with my brother's gang.

The rash on my neck flared up again.

The giant Christmas Toblerone was actually regular Toblerone with a Christmas wrapper!