Consider Your Source...

Number 8 on the agenda today:

• Look up LYRICA on computer

I printed out information on Lyrica and gave it to Mr. Pitt.

Minutes later...

"Heather, how did you find information on this? What was your source?"

I used Lyrica's website.

"But what was the source, how did you find it?"

Oh, I googled the word "Lyrica" and found their website...remember how I wrote instructions for you on how to do research on the computer? I just typed the word, and Lyrica's website was the first result.

"Okay, but what was your source? How did the word pop into your head to search it?"

...because you told me to look up the word "Lyrica."

"....Oh...(thinking out loud to himself)...So I had a source..."

Should Have Known

First thing on the agenda today was the item "Find address book."

So. For roughly 13 minutes, I was moving and looking through Mr. Pitt's "organized piles, checking his desk drawers, moving furniture, getting on my hands and knees looking under furniture that was too big to move...all while he sat in his favorite chair and watched his stocks go up and down on CNBC.

When I asked him what he had planned for the rest of the day, he responded...

"Oh, well Scott is supposed to come over at 2. He was going to digitize my address book so I could keep better track of it."

...So...Scott has your address book.

"Ooh. Yeah! Yeah he does!"

...So...I don't need to be looking for it anymore?

He Had a Good Laugh About This One For a While

Driving around town...

"Hey! Einstein Bagels!"

Have you ever seen that before?

"Not, but they make you smarter. Guaranteed!"

Good for the Body...and the Mind

Recently, Mr. Pitt has really gotten into naturalistic medicine. He's had me purchase a book from Mayo Clinic about natural medicine, he's trying to get off some of his meds, and has gotten some advice from some sort of "medical friend" upstairs in his building.

Today Mr. Pitt told me the latest piece of advice from his "medical friend":

"Well he's got me on this B6, and that's working! I'm gettin' better. He also said something about some sort of grass...What kind, I don't know. But he says it's great for the body."

AA? AAA? Apple?

Mr. Pitt keeps his batteries and produce in the same drawer in his refrigerator.

Preriphinal Vision

Sitting in his chair, which is located near a window in his apartment, Mr. Pitt was telling me some sort of story, when all of a sudden he jerked his head to look out the window and threw his hands up as if to defend himself from an imaginary attacker.

"That plant out there always distracts me! I can see it out of my preriphinal vision."

Fans Blow AIR?

Looking at another customer's cart in Costco...


"Look at that! I guess they call those things tower fans."

Yeah...?

"You stand it up in a room and it blows air on you!"

huh.

Some People Call Them Potted Plants

At Costco today, Mr. Pitt was, "...glad to see they've got that green stuff! To put in the ground or whatever..."

If Only He Knew What Sports Were.

In the car on the way to the doctor's office (where most of my and Mr. Pitt's most argumentative conversations occur):

I have to leave your house around 4 today. I'm having conditioning for my high school volleyball girls this week. Today we're doing jump training!

(With a puzzled look on his face)..."Jump training? You don't have to do that in volleyball...it's just a bunch of moving around and being fast."

Um. There's a lot of jumping...a lot a lot...You're pretty much always jumping during a volleyball game.

"Really? I don't know..."

When's the last time you've seen a volleyball match?

(Scratches his chin)... "Ooh, it's been a while."

Only $19.95...But Wait!

Looking in the cupholder of my car:

"Ooh!!! Is that one of those iron things?"

Um...No, that's a lanyard with a whistle on the end...See?

"Oh oh oh...well...You know those iron things they have now, you wear them on your wrist and they're supposed to help with balance and circulation and all that. Only $19.95 I think. You know that's a $100 value?

Actually, I just saw someone using one of those...things...well, like a skateboard...on a big spool...to help with their balance."

I know what you're talking about. We used to play on those in gym class in 7th grade. I think it's a little advanced for you, though.