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hahaha   It feels good to laugh out loud.  No Xanax?  Love it Midkid58.
MsMadge, how did your Mom get called  the Viking?

Last weekend I was at my BIL's funeral and nearly laughed in the service.  It was a high mass complete with the incense ball swinging.  I  immediately thought about the story of an altar-boy/man who got arrested for putting marijuana in the incense bowl. I started sniffing to cover up the inappropriate chuckle.
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GrannieAnnie

l've never cared much for the incense ball swung over the casket but I'd be hard pressed not to chuckle if it was medicinal mj

mom is pure Norwegian and the Viking in her started appearing with dementia- she once told a male resident at her facility who was bugging her that she's been known to kill 10 at a time when she goes berserk-

while I was surprised initially by what she said, I also understood how scary it is for her to be in constant contact with other sometimes violent demented folks

what I didn't know initially was that the word berserk is old Norse and a berserker Viking was a formidable warrior going into battle without shield - evidently, mom was channeling her ancestors
when I tell her to put on her Viking face, she'll bare her teeth 😆
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3 days and counting.
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A while back I got the Viking one of those piggy banks that looks like a slot machine 🎰

finally got around to putting batteries and quarters in it and took it to Friday night fiesta

she loved it

feeling guilty I didn’t put more effort in to playing with it in the early days of hoca when she was mobile and could have benefited from the entertainment
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Don't beat yourself up for what's in the past MsM, she loved it now.
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MsMadge - The slot machine bank sounds like fun.  You said something that I still say a lot...when 'I finally got around to it' means we were VERY busy doing what had to be done first, and we were / are tired.  Getting to rest our own bodies also 'should' fit in there too.  When that guilt pops up, I remember someone saying, "Don't 'should' on yourself."

My MIL once gave me something she found useful - "a round tuit", a joke decoration, since I often do not get around to it!
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MidKid,

Satan in a muu-muu! That’s just too funny 😂. Thanks for the laugh!
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So here I am rolling with laughter already this morning. Satan in a muu-muu, slot machines, Mary Jane smoke, the round tuit ( also on the side of my fridge, MIL's), and Berserk, a favorite word of our family on here! Send, I just read your message to me the other day and I love you. I sent you 1 back. Well Happy Palm Sunday, Passover etc. my peeps! Ya'all gave me stuff to think about in church. That's possibly going to be the only hour today when I WON'T be behaving badly!
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I didn't get a round tuit. I would much rather hand those out than Easter eggs.
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My dear, departed MIL had "a round tuit" on her fridge too (a pot holder of some sort). I could't figure out what it meant, had to ask.....oh, "around to it".
So, if I didn't get around to it, she'd give me her Round Tuit. (play on words.) Cute.


Maybe they'd have better attendance at mass if they put some "green incense " in that swingin' ball! Better participation too. Hallelujah !


Speaking of behaving badly, ya' know that in the early 1900's, 75% of Victorian ladies suffered from 'hysteria' (including headaches and fits and rough language). They went to the doctor for "treatment" (pelvic massage). The patient would wind up with a "hysterical paroxysm" (orgasm) and be temporarily cured. Since this treatment was so popular, the doctor's worn out fingers gave way to the first electrical vibrator. Since the 1980's vibrators have been "out of the closet". Shame on you ladies behaving badly. ;)
( info from Broadly.vice.com).

Oh my goodness, did I just write that? :0 Maybe I'm behaving badly too!
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Lol Sue!
No one is going to post after your last behaving badly. Ha ha ha.
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Sue, so freakin 😆 funny! Thanks for the laugh.
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"I'm the master of the 'hysterical paroxysm'," I wonder if they said that to all the girls back then.
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I've just spent the last hour googling hysterical paroxysm - I haven't laughed so much in ages🤣🤣
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Physician assisted paroxysm sounds so much better than
physician assisted suicide, imo.
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Soooo, if a woman is hysterical, it is her husband's fault? Lol.
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There was a wonderful play here in NYC a couple of years ago about just this subject. It's really amazing the gifts that electricity brought us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Next_Room_(or_The_Vibrator_Play)
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hahaha...of course I had to look it up!
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I googled Hysterical Paroxysm too!

The trailer from the movie Hysteria came up. Mrs Parsons and her hat cracked me up.
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MsMadge,
Is there a Friday night fiesta?
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This explains everything...................:)

I can die with ease now.
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Gershun,
This information is useless if it is the husband who has hysteria.
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True that Send.
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It sure explained alot for me too Gershun.Iv'e always wondered what that thing was in my Mother's closet~
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The movie
road to wellville
had these treatments too

i vaguely remember it had something to do with a spa connected to Kellogg’s

maybe thats where the slogan
they’re grrrreat comes from 😂
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not much of a fiesta tonight

the Viking’s asleep so I just made her roomy some chamomile tea

I went out to the common area for awhile and when I got back the tea bag was open

do you think she ate the grounds ??
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Wow, is roomy still awake from the caffeine?

Should be safe, but kinda awful tasting?

You could try it Ms.Madge.

Do you think she snorted it? lol.

Or, like snuff, put the grounds inside her lip?
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There is no smoking in the rooms at hoca, right?
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Wasn't the commercial, "Put Tony the Tiger in your gas tank?
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Chamomile is decaf

I was hoping it would calm her since she's up a lot at night and brags how she's cusses at mom -
she actually grabbed her arm when I was brushing mom's teeth last Saturday night because she wanted us out of her bathroom
so I wasn't too pleased about it
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