Oh, and also...
She doesn't know how to use an ATM machine or a cell phone. She literally--yes, literally--doesn't know how to point-and-click with a mouse; she's terrified of the computer. She wants to know what the weather is back home, so I've got my weatherbug up, set for Prescott, AZ. When the screen is dark all she has to do is jiggle the mouse to activate the screen, then click on a little icon to check the weather. She won't do it. She's afraid she'll do something wrong and mess up the computer. You should have seen her trying to point and click on the icon when I made her try. You wouldn't believe a person could make it so difficult. Shoot me.
Oddly enough, she's very different this time than she was when she and my father came together. Back then she took over the kitchen to make whatever my father wanted. I had to go to the store with a shopping list of the coffee he wanted, the crackers he wanted, the donuts he wanted, etc. etc. Now that he's gone she wants to help out in the kitchen, but she doesn't know what to do. Mike and I have an "every man for himself" approach to food; meals are catch-as-catch-can. We eat out a lot--we get take-out and we order pizza. I hardly ever cook and I don't want someone to cook a big meal for me when I come home from work. I eat a large lunch and I have almost no appetite in the evenings. I like to come home, fix myself a drink, and have a snack or a very small meal. Mike likes to cook for himself. I can't let my mother starve while she's here, but when I ask her what she wants she won't say. She says "If you don't eat I won't eat either."
Oddly enough, she's very different this time than she was when she and my father came together. Back then she took over the kitchen to make whatever my father wanted. I had to go to the store with a shopping list of the coffee he wanted, the crackers he wanted, the donuts he wanted, etc. etc. Now that he's gone she wants to help out in the kitchen, but she doesn't know what to do. Mike and I have an "every man for himself" approach to food; meals are catch-as-catch-can. We eat out a lot--we get take-out and we order pizza. I hardly ever cook and I don't want someone to cook a big meal for me when I come home from work. I eat a large lunch and I have almost no appetite in the evenings. I like to come home, fix myself a drink, and have a snack or a very small meal. Mike likes to cook for himself. I can't let my mother starve while she's here, but when I ask her what she wants she won't say. She says "If you don't eat I won't eat either."