@mims Thank you! Sis & I are working hard w/the memory care staff to make sure both mom & dad have support. It's a process & man it's hard, there's so much stuff to take care of. I think it'll be so good for both of them tho'. They'll be able to focus on doing *good stuff* together instead of dad struggling & mom not having the right kind of care.

I'm debating getting her a pillow with dad's face printed on it & spraying a bit of his fave cologne on there or something... might be too weird. Maybe good to wait & see how much she misses him once she's moved in.

@KarenSohne I love that, somehow, people still keeping connections with one another. Dad won't be able to stay over with mom, but he can visit all the time, & take her out, & go for dates again, & stuff like that.

I'm heading over to their house tomorrow to help mom pack the stuff she wants to take. Dad's already got plans to clean up the house after mom is moved, & put stuff away, donate stuff, work on projects he can't do while she's there... stuff like that.

@northernbassist Thank you! Definitely an enormous relief. So good to know mom'll be cared for, dad can have a break, & everyone in the family can now enjoy spending time with mom without having to worry about the majority of caretaking.

It's hard. She's sad about that. & she's still really positive about moving. She's really excited to do things like decorate, & choose her bedding & the pictures she wants to hang on the wall, & all the things she'll get to do while she lives there.

& she's totally stoked about moving in. The only sad thing that gets her is it's finally dawning on her Parkinson's-muddled mind that dad can't move in with her. :(

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This is fucking awesome. I'm so glad. Mom's needed memory care for a while now & it seemed like dad was in some denial about her needing it, & didn't know what to do. Well he can't care for her on his own, she needs more intensive care than he can provide, so thank Athena Hygeia, we found a good place. & reserved a room.

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Good news: we found a place to house mom. She loves it & dad is totally on board. Just spent the afternoon w/mom talking about family history & memories, as much as we could, while dad got some time to complete the paperwork.

@Sr0bi Nah looks like he was just let back again recently & started tweeting after his arrest.

Ugh, everything hurts. Hips, back, shoulders, neck; muscle & tendon & joints. I'd like a new spine, please, thanks.

There were a lot of reasons to leave & stop tweeting; DJT coming back just seemed like it was time to actually *deactivate* all my accounts there.

It's finally official: the bird site let That Fuckin' Guy back on, so I've deactivated all my accounts there. It's finally done.

Today I learned that https://www.reddit.com/r/RealBeesFakeTopHats/ is a thing, in which subreddit users Photoshop top hats onto pictures of bees. (Usually badly.)

UGH.

@Agatha Ugh, MAGA thinking is like a nasty infection...

@Agatha Yep, totally. We didn't even care if people there were documented or not; wasn't our business.

It's also interesting to see what kinds of occupations are listed in old censuses. Most of them are familiar: things like truck driver, carpenter, fireman, and so on. Most of the wives are listed as "none", which contrasts with other years in which "housewife" or "homemaker" was an option.

Most interesting occupation I've found so far: "Christian Science practitioner".