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Today started off well enough. Anthony and I went and pretended to go to mass then we came home and hung a load of laundry out to dry. (No, we don't have a dryer.) Then we left to get out of the house. (I need to spend time out because for most of the week I'll be trapped here.)
We went to New Hope, PA. It's a really charming tourist kind of town. Shops everywhere you look, and with anything you could want too. (Oh, we told the in-laws that we were going to a park near here because Frank freaks out about going too far from home, even if it is a half hour away.) So, we poked around New Hope, had lunch (the best french onion soup ever.), and the left once our parking meter was expired. (We would have stayed longer, but I was out of quarters.)
Then we headed off to Princeton and just walked around. We got coffee at Panera's. They have really great chai. Once we had our coffee we roamed around the university. They had tons of stuff going on. Apparently it was the day where all the students show up for fall semester. Their marching band was out. Oh My GOD! They looked soooo funny. They were wearing these bright orange plaid coats and flat-top straw hats with a band that matched their coats. I couldn't help but laugh some. Their was even a band member in a kilt made from the same stuff as the coat. (Now that was the gay Scot, bro.) I wish I had a picture.
After Princeton we went to B&N and I picked up the next Harry Potter book. I wish we could have stayed out longer, but the in-laws wanted us back home.
When home we got our laundry off the line, and it looks like the washer has done something to my only pair of good black dress pants. There's this white stuff, that's not lint, all over the legs. The only reason I wanted to wash them was because the cuffs were a little grubby, and then the came out of the washer dirtier than when they went in. I think that was today's breaking point for me because I went upstairs to cry.
I've been doing that a lot lately, really. It seems like there's constant disappointment, and that nothing wants to go right. And I swear to God that it's the house that's doing it. I'm fine whenever I'm out of the house, but when you get in there's just this overwhelming sence of negative energy. It starts to eat at you and you can't help but feel it...
We're also looking into assisted living places in WI. Ideally what we want to do is move us all back to WI. Because his folks aren't well enough to keep a full house by themselves, but they are well enough to stay out of a nursing home. And I certainly don't know what to do to help his mother with her health problems. I wouldn't begin to know, and I'm not exactly sure that I want to being a lot of it is icky and I don't think I want to turn into her nurse-maid either. But hopefully by the spring we'll be on our way. It all depends on his father. (More stubborn than anyone I know. It's amazing that Anthony hasn't picked up the same traits... Thank God.) But again, it all depends on Frank. But I think he'll change his mind eventually, or at least I hope that he will when he realises that it's best for his wife to be able to have someone nearby who can take care of her when she needs it.
Just wish us luck. We need it.
We went to New Hope, PA. It's a really charming tourist kind of town. Shops everywhere you look, and with anything you could want too. (Oh, we told the in-laws that we were going to a park near here because Frank freaks out about going too far from home, even if it is a half hour away.) So, we poked around New Hope, had lunch (the best french onion soup ever.), and the left once our parking meter was expired. (We would have stayed longer, but I was out of quarters.)
Then we headed off to Princeton and just walked around. We got coffee at Panera's. They have really great chai. Once we had our coffee we roamed around the university. They had tons of stuff going on. Apparently it was the day where all the students show up for fall semester. Their marching band was out. Oh My GOD! They looked soooo funny. They were wearing these bright orange plaid coats and flat-top straw hats with a band that matched their coats. I couldn't help but laugh some. Their was even a band member in a kilt made from the same stuff as the coat. (Now that was the gay Scot, bro.) I wish I had a picture.
After Princeton we went to B&N and I picked up the next Harry Potter book. I wish we could have stayed out longer, but the in-laws wanted us back home.
When home we got our laundry off the line, and it looks like the washer has done something to my only pair of good black dress pants. There's this white stuff, that's not lint, all over the legs. The only reason I wanted to wash them was because the cuffs were a little grubby, and then the came out of the washer dirtier than when they went in. I think that was today's breaking point for me because I went upstairs to cry.
I've been doing that a lot lately, really. It seems like there's constant disappointment, and that nothing wants to go right. And I swear to God that it's the house that's doing it. I'm fine whenever I'm out of the house, but when you get in there's just this overwhelming sence of negative energy. It starts to eat at you and you can't help but feel it...
We're also looking into assisted living places in WI. Ideally what we want to do is move us all back to WI. Because his folks aren't well enough to keep a full house by themselves, but they are well enough to stay out of a nursing home. And I certainly don't know what to do to help his mother with her health problems. I wouldn't begin to know, and I'm not exactly sure that I want to being a lot of it is icky and I don't think I want to turn into her nurse-maid either. But hopefully by the spring we'll be on our way. It all depends on his father. (More stubborn than anyone I know. It's amazing that Anthony hasn't picked up the same traits... Thank God.) But again, it all depends on Frank. But I think he'll change his mind eventually, or at least I hope that he will when he realises that it's best for his wife to be able to have someone nearby who can take care of her when she needs it.
Just wish us luck. We need it.