6:07 PM – It’s been really quiet today, so far. I almost posted a video where she goes upstairs and about a minute later, she goes back downstairs. There’s 2 of them today and there was 2 of them yesterday (one of them, she enters the room after going up the stairs, sits down, gets right back up and leaves the room to go back downstairs.) I decided not to post them because it almost seems petty, although it is annoying when I’m trying to sleep. She did sit at the bottom of the steps several times today and just sit and watch me. I don’t really care for an audience, but didn’t say anything about it. So yeah, that’s it unless something happens between now and when she goes to bed.
7:02 PM – Got some phantom banging going on now. Other than that, still quiet.
10:30 AM – I just got asked, “Are you retired now?” Uhhh, no Mom. I’m only 51. Can’t retire yet. I don’t know if maybe she thinks I should be at work or what, but that was an odd question that I’ve never been asked before. She’s also hearing the phantom banging noise again. I just heard her say something along the lines of, “There’s not supposed to be any banging in this house.”
12:50 PM – Mom has gone outside several times today. This time, I managed to see that she had gone out to the back deck and sat on the steps next to her car. She then got up and rubbed it where some top-coat paint has started to flake away near the trunk. While she hasn’t been chatty lately, her Echo is evidently still on her mind.
Just some off the wall scrawling that Mom left on the counter. See if it makes any sense to you.She got a little chatty all of the sudden starting at 1:30. It’s about my Hot Red Camaro and then says “Don’t you dare hurt him. We’re depending on him to take us where we need to go.” I’m not sure who this we and us are. She doesn’t say anything else after the “Don’t you dare hurt him” comment. About an hour after the last one and about 30 seconds in, she’s going on about arresting someone, then says, “It’s up to you to arrest yourself.” I kept that because I thought the idea of cops arresting themselves was amusing. “There’s no way her keys fit my Echo.” Quiet until 1:35 when she tells someone that she’s at the house watching TV. She was told to “let you take care of it.” She doesn’t steal from anyone else, why should hers be taken from her? She wants hers parked where it belongs and left alone. Her keys should be in her purse. Someone downstairs should be taking care of her purse. She gets up and goes into her room and nothing else is said the rest of the night.
Out of the 125 clips that were triggered by the upstairs camera, those three were the only ones where she said anything. Maybe 50 of them were from her going up and down the stairs and another 50 were from the flicker of the TV setting it off in an empty room. Fairly quiet day.
This is amusing, but not really abnormal. In an earlier video, she had brought a cup of coffee upstairs. She got up a minute later and walked back downstairs. This is her coming up with another cup of coffee a bit later and discovering she already had one up here. She doesn’t say anything, just looks at the cups funny and drinks them (not worth watching the whole video.) Out of the blue, someone is bugging her and she tells them to shut up.
7:45 PM – After reviewing all of the upstairs and kitchen camera footage, the 2 videos above are all that were worth posting and the one where she says Shut Up is the only one she talks in. I will say that I think changing her channel to TV Land was a good call. I see her smiling at the TV occasionally now (when she isn’t going up and down the stairs that is.) It may also be why she isn’t talking to dead people now since TV Land doesn’t have Ghost Hunter shows on it.
About a minute in, she comes into the room talking about her Echo again. She sits down and says something about her car again, gets up and goes back downstairs. I’ve seen a lot of that so far in looking through the clips, and it’s only 12:18 on this clip. This is the first one I’ve seen her talking so far. Most of the clips I have so far today are either as a result of her going up and down the stairs or from the flicker of the TV causing the motion sensor to trigger the recording.
She decided to turn the camera around this morning. If it happens again, I may end up having to hide it.
3:45 PM – She’s hitting the cereal really hard today for some reason. She JUST had a bowl a half hour ago and she just now fixed another bowl. She had two bowls this morning that I know of. She’s going to run herself out of milk and cereal before I get groceries Saturday morning (I just got some this morning.) It probably doesn’t mean anything, I just thought it was a little odd and worth mentioning.
5:20 PM – Well, I didn’t find and chatting today. She did a lot of carrying lamps up and down the stairs. Turns out one of them has a broken switch, which is why it wasn’t working. With all the trips up and down the stairs, she had probably worked up an appetite, which is why she may have had so many bowls of cereal today.
8:15 AM – She’s starting in again. She’s in the kitchen going on about this house is not for sale. It sounds like Victoria is now trying to take the house. I didn’t include the video because she is heating something up in the microwave and it makes it hard to hear on the video. Stay tuned to what is hopefully not a busy day since I have to work tonight.
She starts pointing around when she comes in the room, then goes into her bedroom. She doesn’t say anything, just points. I’ve seen her do this a lot in other videos, but there was more of it than usual in this one, so I posted it. I have no idea what she’s pointing to or why.
2:30 PM – Mom has actually been quiet today. The way she was talking in the kitchen this morning, I thought for sure all hell was going to break loose. She spent a lot of time in the kitchen rearranging things, which I had to put several things that I use back where I like them. It just makes sense to me to have the coffee stuff next to where you’re going to be using them instead of on the other side of the kitchen, right? Anyway, she also kept herself busy upstairs for several hours today, trying to untangle some yarn. In fact, she’s up there right now doing the same. I get a bit of a chuckle out of it because it looks worse than when she started, at least from the camera’s view.
Right after I wrote the last sentence above, I looked at the camera to see how she was doing on her tangle and seen her mouth moving. At the 1:45 mark, she starts going on about her Echo and Victoria again. There a few gaps, but she’s talking about it this whole clip. Near the end, she states that her sons decided she shouldn’t drive anymore. She forgets that she handed the keys to me. More of the same, but you can see and hear she’s getting mad. We find out she thinks she’s talking to me when she asks, “How would you feel if someone took your Hot Red Camaro?” She asks, “How would you feel if I took your car and damaged it?” Yeah, I no longer keep my keys where she can get to them as easily.
3:00 PM – She’s still going on about her Echo, Victoria, my Hot Red Camaro and grand theft. Meanwhile, her Echo is still sitting in the same place, untouched and undamaged. I’ll stop posting the videos since they are just repetition at this point. If anything changes, I’ll be sure to post it.
3:15 PM – GRRRRRR! I hate it when she takes leftovers that I intend to finish off from my CLEARLY marked shelf and decides that she must have fixed it and eats it herself. Oh well. She can just continue to pay for my groceries if she’s going to eat the stuff that I make. In other news, no changes from the Dr. We’re playing it by ear since she’s been quieter the last few days. If it ramps up again to where she’s stomping and slamming doors, that’s it as far as I’m concerned. Oh, I remembered to look to see what Mom sprayed under the door last week or 2 weeks ago, whenever it was. It was hair spray. Suave Max Hold, to be exact.
Prior to this, there was just a couple of short comments about her Echo. Now, complaints about banging. I mentioned the banging to the Dr. today and she agreed that it was probably phantom noises not uncommon in Alzheimer’s patients. At the end, she tells someone to be careful who they’re aiming at. “There’s a farmer that farms in that area.” At the 37 second mark, she says, “The house on the hill is mine. Need a place to stay, right there.” I don’t know what house she’s talking about here. Not sure what she’s saying at the beginning, but shortly after, she says, “Victoria has her own place to live. I’m not giving up my Echo for anybody.” Silence for the rest of the clip. More banging. “No banging, period.” “If she needed a place to stay, there should be plenty of room in the house on the hill. Just make sure nobody else has decided to live in it instead.” Silence. “If we have to call the police officer, we will.” Silence until 1:07 when she says, “No banging is necessary, period.” The chattiest clip yet for the day: “There’s room enough for all the Geiger people, period.” Silence until 1:37 and, “If you’re going to keep the whole neighborhood awake, that’s not the way to gain any.. thing.” Quiet until 2:11. “Everything was in good repair, so why is it taking so much banging?” Silence again until 2:47. “Just remember, you’re just living there. You’re not owning it.” Silence the rest of the clip.
Nothing else was captured after the last video. Not a very chatty day again. No attitude problems today.
She’s been quiet up until about 28 seconds into this clip. Apparently, she thinks she’s being accused of stealing something or someone stealing something from her because it matches what they have. She’s pretty mad about it. I come into the kitchen to find out what’s going on, but she doesn’t want to talk about it I guess. A little while later, she tells someone that they are supposed to be dead. Unfortunately, that wasn’t caught on video. I only heard it from the living room. She goes on about the Echo and Victoria again. Then does the “I’m Sandra Smith-Geiger-Murphy.” thing again. Silence the rest of the clip. She mentions that she doesn’t have a cell phone and doesn’t answer doors unless they identify themselves. At 1:08, she mentions that Jerry Feester died of a heart attack a long time ago. The story on him has changed I guess. Silence until 3:00 mark where she says she does not lie to anyone and goes on to other topics. Silence until 4:10 when she says “It’s my house.” A few seconds later, she’s mad at Victoria because of the Echo. Apparently, Victoria has one similar to Mom’s, at least in Mom’s head. She doesn’t like Victoria it seems. Her boys will turn her in and put her in jail. Silence the rest of the clip. Victoria and the car. I guess I should be at work by now. She doesn’t realize there’s any danger here. Silence the rest of the clip. At about 47 seconds in, she mentions that I lock the doors when I leave and that someone has already busted in (not that I’m aware of.) Silence until 2:20 when she says something about my car and messing with hers you could lose your license to be a police officer. Quiet to 3:45: “If he messes with my Echo, he’s breaking every law that could be broken.” “That’s actually theft. She didn’t have permission to use my car. She committed a crime right there.” She goes on about it some more and she clarifies that it’s Troy’s little girl. She tells someone to arrest her etc. “There wasn’t a scratch on that golden Echo.” “Call her parents then. What she just committed was a grand theft.” She gets up and walks downstairs. Nothing else on the clip. Silence until 3:40: “If it were me, you’d give me a big ticket. For some reason, Victoria’s gonna get away with it.” Silence the rest of the clip. “She broke every law there is to break. Arrest her. Make her pay for it.” Shortly after that, she mentions that she hasn’t seen “him” for a looong time now. Then after a pause, she says, “No.” She appears to be answering someone with that “no.”
There was one more clip where she mentions that her Echo is not for sale and that it’s worth more than what she bought it for. Then, at about 8:45, she went to bed. She wasn’t as chatty today has she has been, but she’s a lot chattier than she was for the last few days and it all seemed to start after 3:00 PM. I don’t know if that means things are going to ramp up again or not, but I guess we’ll find out.
She started early this morning. She doesn’t seem to know where she is, thinking that she had this house build at the Geiger Compound on the hill (I’m guessing at Big Lake.)
8:45 AM – After finishing the bowl of cereal in the clip above, she crocheted quietly for a bit and just came downstairs and fixed another bowl of cereal. I guess she was hungry this morning.
She’s been really quiet, except for a brief comment about a police officer, since the capture this morning, and the constant up and down the stairs. At the 2:05 mark, she wants to know why she’s breaking the law, it’s her house and she’s Sandra Smith-Geiger-Murphy. At 1:37 she looks up like she’s hearing something, then says, “I don’t go anywhere. So what am I getting involved with?” The she listens, eye roll and head shake. Silence for the rest of the clip.
7:00 PM – That catches us up! There was a brief comment in a video from about an hour ago: “She should not have been driving my Echo in the first place.” That’s all there’s been, except for a lot of going up and down the stairs again today (I didn’t count the trips today.) She mostly just kept herself occupied with the Find A Word puzzles.
I decided to scan through the kitchen cam footage and seen this one. She was hearing phantom banging noises again. By the end of the clip, we again find out that I’m a police officer.
7:30 PM – That was all from the kitchen cam. The only other thing I seen worth mentioning is that she opened the side door 3 different times to make sure her Echo was still parked out there. So, it’s been another relatively quiet day. I have no idea what changed. Eating habits seem to be the same. The coffee drinking is the same. She still seems to be sleeping about the same. Nothing different with medications. Weird. The only thing that seems to be different is that she has been doing Find A Word puzzles. Maybe she just needed that distraction or something.
8:48 PM – Mom came down and demanded her car keys and called me a thief. We argued back and forth with me reminding her that she handed them to me back in 2018 because she was having a problem remembering where things were. I flat out refused to give her keys back to her. She demanded that I check into it because it’s “My car and you’re not supposed to be giving it to anyone.” I told her that no one is taking it. Besides, it doesn’t have plates or insurance. She’s not getting the keys.
7:50 AM – Mom decided she was going to do laundry sometime yesterday. Well, we’ve always sorted whites from everything else so they can be bleached. Everything was sorted and she decided to throw it all in the washing machine and even dug into my work clothes to add to it. Seems pointless to sort it if you just throw it all together anyway! Well, I went to do my work laundry this morning and discovered that the laundry detergent didn’t look right. It appears that she may have added fabric softener to it. I guess I don’t understand her reasoning for adding things to soap. I’m sure it won’t hurt anything, but still, why? *shrugs*
5:08 PM – I ended up sleeping until the alarm went off at 5:00, so I’m not going to go through the footage today since I have to work tonight. The times that I woke up today, I didn’t hear any talking, so it may have been a relatively quiet day again as far as talking goes. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. 🙂
