I'm really dreading this election year...
Mom keeps saying she is going to stop watching the news, because it causes her to worry so much, but the next thing I hear is the news. She has it on most of the day. She fights depression and it only makes her more depressed and have a bad attitude towards everything. If I go in sit in the same room with her she will let me change the channel, but she continues to talk about how bad everything is. Even though I live here and am her full-time care giver I can't sit and watch TV all day. Does anyone else have this issue?
I don't hear that much about what she's heard/seen on Fox News anymore, though. I think her hearing's gotten worse, she isn't following what they say, or she just doesn't care.
I used to get her books from the library, and she doesn't even want that anymore, either.
She does get the newspaper two days/week, and she does still think she's a financial guru and try to tell us things from the financial news.
Wonder how much was deleted by ad min.
My 87 yr old mom gets more upset by the local "Crash and Burn" news. She wants me to get them a security alarm system. She can hardly use a phone. I can just imagine the fun we'd have with silence codes, false alarms to the cops, resetting issues. Ain't gonna happen.
Blackhole, I think you're right about the cycle of bad news, especially that coming from Puerto Rico. The extent of the devastation is unimaginable. Add to that the mass shootings, plus the political fiasco and shananigans...
Sometimes I watch This Old House just for relief; I can't understand what the tradesmen are doing with all the new and probably expensive devices for renovated houses, so I'm lost in seconds, and that confusion replaces the anxiety of the cable news channels and their endless parade and endless obsession with the playpen that the White House has become.
Windy, after my house was burglarized a decade ago, I investigated various types of alarms. One I discovered would have been very effective, but would also have disrupted life in the surrounding areas. It didn't just alarm, it played some kind of trumpeting sound accompanied with strobe lights. I can't remember what it was called.
It probably would have scared all the four-legged wildlife away as well.
But the audaciousness of it is comparable to the audaciousness of the political performances on center stage now. ...sometimes like entry of a Roman legion....cue the mikes, lights, cameras, grab the podium, turn one way or another while letting hair flop in face. It's like an orchestrated comedy.