Who Cares What Nansi Thinks?

All things considered, life is pretty dull right now. Dull is good!

Mom and her roomie, Frances, have had a bit of a trauma, but have recovered well. The second week in January there was a water main break at the nursing home. At first they thought moving them to different rooms was for a night or two, but the damage is taking WEEKS to repair.

Both ladies were extremely upset at being apart. They were across the hall from each other, and each of their temporary room mates were none too happy with all the yelling across the hall. "JAN???? You OK over there???" "I'm FINE FRANCES, WHAT DO YOU NEED?"

Cuties.

After complaining from four different families, the nursing home shuffled things around and got the rabble rousers back together! Peace has at last been restored.

I love how these two ladies have bonded. They are so opposite, it's not even funny! Frances never worked a day in her life (outside the home.) She was a fastidious homemaker. Mom's pretty worldly. She's owned her own businesses, worked in factories, restaurants, and DISNEY WORLD!!! Oh and do I need to tell you that Mom wasn't a fastidious homemaker? I've mentioned that, right?

Frances is way into soap operas, Nascar, and reality shows. Mom likes the news, 700 club and infomercials. Mom's an evangelical Christian and wants to win the world for Jesus. Frances worships God in her heart and considers it an extremely private matter. (Go Frances!) I think she messes with Mom by refusing to engage in religious conversation. Mom's scare to death that her room mate's going to Hell. Her room mate thinks it's none of her damn business.

With all those differences, each is lost without the other. When Mom was in the hospital in January, Frances lost five pounds. She wouldn't eat. When Frances was so ill that all she did was lay there, Mom drove the nurses NUTS trying to make sure Frances didn't want for anything.

Now they're both pretty healthy, happy to be back together, and waiting for a spanking new room!