adjusting (1st week)

living with a 58 yr old woman with COPD, partially deaf, chain smoker, who's only been in Tahlequah for 6 weeks is quite the challenge.  i need a lot of prayer for her over-bearing personality.  she's out of some of her meds and had given some small loans to a former roommate, who has a gambling problem; so she's going to have to 'hang in there' until her next pay period to get her meds.  unless by some miracle one of her kids or this former roommate or the do-do neighbor pays her back the money they all owe her this weekend, so she can get her meds and chill out! 

the straw that broke the camel's back tonight was the extra noise she made by bringing her breathing treatment machine into the living room while we were watching t.v. 

so when she finished her treatment and went outside i turned on the closed captioning to finish out the show.  J is loud in her regular speaking voice, and insists on talking while the show is on, rather than wait until commercials.  this is also how she misses half of the show and will ask me during the next show what happened in the previous program. 

i get that she's been by herself at this house for almost a month, and she is quite the chatterbox but PLEASE be considerate of others. 

i've listened to her drone on and on and on about her oldest son & his problems, the do-do neighbor that nobody likes, her last roommate, basically everything that has happened around here the last 6 weeks...no i'm not her counselor but i need to carve out some quiet time so that i don't get sucked into her drama and get side-tracked myself. 

next week i have appointments every other day, so i will be out of the house away from her for a couple days next week.  trying to stretch out those days as much as possible with my limited travelling monies. 

i may spend half of the weekend in my room reading just to keep my sanity.