Fall [NOT 7/10/23]

7/10/23 ManchuCandidate 16

What are your favorite fall activities/things?

I guess it’s the season to be curled up on the couch watching movies or reading a book while eating comforting junk food.

I actually don’t mind raking leaves because I find it therapeutic… but it’s all fun and games till tiny leaf debris get in your eye and turn the eye red/puffy/covered in pus… not that it has ever happened to me… (well, it has twice.)

Least favorite fall activities/things?

I like pumpkin pie but does it have to smell like pumpkins, nutmeg and cinnamon everywhere? The smell has lost all meaning to me now.

Where a certain team named after a certain leaf does its usual “will they or won’t they” optimistic build up till the big spring dance where they emotionally kick their fans in the emotional “goolies” leaving them with the beer tinged moans of “Next Year!”

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16 Comments

  1. shaving

    its also my least favourite winter, spring and summer activity

    kinda like doing the dishes….or mowing the lawn

    no matter how often i do it……i have to do it again soon after

    its fucking insanity i tell you

  2. I love fall clothes. I wore jeans and a sweatshirt on our walk this morning. Then had the windows open most of the day. I can’t really think of a fall activity I don’t care for.

  4. Hi mom?

    I went to my parents to drop off some food and my mom comes out, starts screaming about sleeping in a hotel room and losing all the blankets.

    I was completely confused. So was my dad who told me that they never left their house.

    Mom started screaming at dad and me about how we’re both ungrateful shits and that dad was being mean to her all day. Again, my dad was telling me later that she was screaming at him most of the day and he didn’t understand why.

    Then she acted sane and demanded that I quit my job and become their slave, er, assistant. I told her no I was not going to do that. Despite the fact I loathe my employer and not a fan of the job but it gives me financial independence and some self worth as opposed to helping my dementia inflicted mom whose grip on reality is disappearing. I realize that it might sound like a good idea, but I have emotional baggage with my parents and have no actual caretaker training. It sounds horrible to say no, but I can’t do that.

    She bolted out of the house and I ended up having to follow her. I forgot to bring a coat and went back to get my car. I spent 20 minutes trying to find her and then when I found her another hour to get her back to their house.

    I gave a running commentary to my one of sisters as I drove around looking for her then herding her home, explaining what dad has gone through with her. She said I was being a good son, but I don’t really feel like one right now.

  6. sorry manchu…that vid had nothing to do with anything you said…i just woke up again at 3 am and obliviously dumped it in here without reading the rest of the posts

    now that ive caught up…it probably wasnt the place to do that

    i’m sorry…for the post..and for the shit you have to deal with now

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