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Can't get to this planet without 'em, can't shoot 'em.
I hear ya.
I'm the world's biggest luddite, and my mother still asks me for advice. She wants me to *build her a website.* I still freak out when IE doesn't come up immediately, and like the idiot who pushes the elevator button over and over, keep clicking it until I've got six browsers opening up.
Yeesh. Me helping her with her computer would go beyond 'blind leading the blind' and into some sort of Three Stooges routine...
Loztastic,
All I can tell you is suck it up and do it with a smile on your face.
When you kiss her good-by you'll be doing something I would give anything to be able to do again.
I was living in colorado when my mother passed, I never got to say good-by or I love you or anything else before she was just gone.
Believe me I know that mothers can be royal pains but the hole in your soul when their gone is worse than you can ever imagine. So hug her real tight, tell her you love her and do the best you can to fix her problem, but the funny thing is even if you can't she wont care because she loves you.
My mom has a laptop she got for Christmas last year from my sister but has yet to take it out of the box.
Loztastic,
All I can tell you is suck it up and do it with a smile on your face.
When you kiss her good-by you'll be doing something I would give anything to be able to do again.
I was living in colorado when my mother passed, I never got to say good-by or I love you or anything else before she was just gone.
Believe me I know that mothers can be royal pains but the hole in your soul when their gone is worse than you can ever imagine. So hug her real tight, tell her you love her and do the best you can to fix her problem, but the funny thing is even if you can't she wont care because she loves you.
+1
My mom died the night I flew down to see her one last time in College Station. We sometimes forget how transient and brief our lives are.
Loztastic,
All I can tell you is suck it up and do it with a smile on your face.
When you kiss her good-by you'll be doing something I would give anything to be able to do again.
I was living in colorado when my mother passed, I never got to say good-by or I love you or anything else before she was just gone.
Believe me I know that mothers can be royal pains but the hole in your soul when their gone is worse than you can ever imagine. So hug her real tight, tell her you love her and do the best you can to fix her problem, but the funny thing is even if you can't she wont care because she loves you.
I know it is tragic to lose someone you deeply care for - but that doesn't mean you should be everyone's idiot.
You'll miss them when they're gone no matter what. That means you'll also miss them when they're gone after not terrorising you. The future pain doesn't justify present pain.
I'm not saying you should never do something for loved ones, but they have to realise that you don't call someone in the middle of the night for something that could have waited a couple of hours until you're awake.
Seriously, they have to realise it. Because they really are causing you distress. If they realise that, they will stop, because they don't want to cause you distress.
Well, sometimes they do that.
Loztastic,
All I can tell you is suck it up and do it with a smile on your face.
When you kiss her good-by you'll be doing something I would give anything to be able to do again.
I was living in colorado when my mother passed, I never got to say good-by or I love you or anything else before she was just gone.
Believe me I know that mothers can be royal pains but the hole in your soul when their gone is worse than you can ever imagine. So hug her real tight, tell her you love her and do the best you can to fix her problem, but the funny thing is even if you can't she wont care because she loves you.I know it is tragic to lose someone you deeply care for - but that doesn't mean you should be everyone's idiot.
You'll miss them when they're gone no matter what. That means you'll also miss them when they're gone after not terrorising you. The future pain doesn't justify present pain.
I'm not saying you should never do something for loved ones, but they have to realise that you don't call someone in the middle of the night for something that could have waited a couple of hours until you're awake.
Seriously, they have to realise it. Because they really are causing you distress. If they realise that, they will stop, because they don't want to cause you distress.
Well, sometimes they do that.
True. Boundaries are a good thing, but sometimes we realize too late how trivial some things are that upset us at the time. I suppose it's a question of perspective.
I hear what your saying KaeYoss and you as well BT but I guess it's just me and my mom.
She had very little concept of boundries. This was the same woman that walked 5 miles from my house to my middle school because the truck was being used by my dad and she wanted to make sure I saw her in the front row for my acting debute in a silly little school play.
She also had no trouble in telling me to get off my ass and get her some grand kids, failing that she started bringing me girls from her church to look at as prospective brides. Again this whole boundry thing really wasn't big with her.
Anybody else have a mom like that or was it just me?
Again this whole boundry thing really wasn't big with her.
it just me?
I'm not the family member who lives furthest away from the Old Homestead for no reason.
Again, I'm not saying that anyone should completely ignore his parents, but you're supposed to have a life of your own.
She also had no trouble in telling me to get off my ass and get her some grand kids, failing that she started bringing me girls from her church to look at as prospective brides.
Thank God that A-my parents aren't this type, B-I live in Arizona and they live in Tennessee, and C-my brother is married and my sister is engaged so I don't have to worry if they suddenly become that type. :P
I presume she assumes that as you don't have children, you have more time/less frustrations on your hands. And thus, combined with the knowledge to do-it-yourself, you don't need her to do it for you.
That's the reading I get anyway.
You can imagine the fun I have, as I work in call center tech support for a major telecom company. Everyone assumes I'm their own personal tech support AFTER I do it for 8-12 hours a day.
If it is any consolation, I'm not working tech support (or any other kind of support really), and never have, but I'm still the Family Tech Support.
I've had my fair share of Calls of Horror.
I should add my mother makes my sister several lasagne's for the freezer every week, and I don't get one
the reason
"you know how to make your own lagagne, and don't have kids"
I'm not sure why these two points are connected
I guess answering the next call for computer help with "sorry Mom, I don't have time for this, I have to make me a lasagne" is out of the question?