Well I had an interesting day today, well to me it was interesting. First of all I went over to see my mum who is in a nursing home and she was in one of her moods where nothing is right and she thinks she is well enough to come home. Let me explain first of all what is wrong with my mother, she has alzheimers, she is a diabetic insulin dependant and has heart problems and the main one is she has pulmonary fibrosis, in other words her lungs are stuffed, she relies on an oxygen tank to help her breathe 24 hours a day and today well not only today but every time I go up there she wants to come home and yes i can understand that but because of the alzheimers she just doesn't comprehend what is wrong with her and that she needs to be there and looked after properly. Today it just really got to me her wanting to come home and not understanding why she can't come home. I have days like this where it does get to me.
Well I leave the nursing home and go and do my grocery shopping, oh yeah my eldest daughter is with me also, she comes with me everywhere most of the time, doesn't like to leave me alone for too long, thinks I might get myself into some sort of mischief...hahaha....anyway off we go to do the shopping, didn't buy anything that I don't normally buy and actually didn't buy a couple of things that I would do so normally and then get to the check out and the check out girl is scanning it and I look up at the metre thing that tells you how much it is all costing so far and i nearly drop dead on the spot, she hadn't even got through half my items and it was already up to $113.00, I was gobsmacked, could not believe what I was seeing, thought there must be a mistake somewhere on there so I looked at Bec (my daughter) and she said wait until it is finished and we will check the docket out, the total of the grocery bill was $172.00 and the worse part about it all was there was no mistake on the docket. I could not believe my eyes. I have never paid that much for groceries before in my life, well I have at xmas time when you are getting everything you need for the festive season. I know a lot of people out there do pay heaps for there groceries but they have a growing family and so on, this is just for 3 of us all adults and none of us eat that much anyway. I am now convinced that groceries are all going up because of the petrol increase but no ones pay packet is going up at all to meet the demands of this ever increasing life we live in.
Well all that aside I had an appointment today at my hairdressers as she has just got this massage bed in and she was having a free trial day today and well this bed is just totally unbelievable, it is like a water bed and you lay on it and then this thing moves up and down your entire body massaging it and it is just so relaxing, the trial was just for 5 minutes but I could feel myself drifting off to sleep, when you actually buy your time on this bed it is for 10 minutes at a time so i can see myself actually falling asleep at times. I have decided to go on the days that I go and see my mum so then at the end of the day i can surely feel a bit relaxed after being stressed for part of the day.
Anyway that is it for me for now. Take care

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