Well, it's official. My mother has now completely gone mad.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

I just watched her dust the retractable clothes line reel on the deck for about a solid two minutes, go back and windex it.

I'm staying in my room today until I eventually go out to the bar.

[Lady Effingbroke]

1. Sounds like a good plan to me!

:D

[Heidi]

2. This can happen to moms.

Man your battle station, gf. :scared:

Our first clue was when my mom started wearing knee-high pantyhose and polyester "slacks." ;)

On edit: correction, with all due props to Oedi! :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Knee-high *panty*hose??

Musta made her fall down a lot. :shrug:

[Heidi]

11. Ha!

I guess they were just knee-high hose, though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Mom has devolved to knee-high pantyhose. :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. At least my mother doesn't wear that.

She does wear Abercrombie & Fitch and bikinis though. At least she has the body for it. My mother is a well-preserved hottie. I think she sleeps in formadehyde or possibly channeling her hero, Cher.

[Heidi]

16. Oh, yes, I've got one of those tiny little mothers, too.

She's better looking at 61 than I will be at 45. :eyes:

Wait a minute. CHER? :scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Yes, Cher.

I think she owns every CD ever produced by Cher and the BeeGees. Oh yeah, and she has a Dido CD too. Fortunately, I totally take after my father, including musical tastes.

At least, I can steal my mom's shirts. If only she had the same pants size as me...grr...

[Haole Girl]

3. Hey, cleaning is therapy for some people

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Nah, she uses paxil, xanax, and vicodin for "therapy."

This is extra weird. Normally she just checks *everything* three times.

[Haole Girl]

9. Three times, huh? A little OC?

And, that is whaaay too much medication for one human being. Doctors today...sigh...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Yeah, her doctor prescribed *me* anti-depressants because she told him to.

She actually went off everything for awhile and she was comparatively normal. She went back on them "as a safety net" and she's all weird again. She doesn't take the vicodin daily though.

Edited to add: When she's medicated she thinks everyone else needs to be medicated around her, so she told him I was depressed and next thing you know, I had a prescription because she went to her physician.

[Haole Girl]

18. OMG

We'll have to discuss this later when I have more time. I swear, my sister is just like her!

[eeyore]

4. Sounds like it may be time to find your own place.

You'd probably get along much better from a distance.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. I did that for a couple years. I can't afford it anymore.

I moved back to save money. I was paying $1100/month for a tiny apartment. I also lost my super-cool cushy job and haven't found a new job yet. Any job, not just super-cool cushy jobs, like getting paid to be an accessory.

[jukes]

6. lock your door

lest the cleaning frenzy strike your room whilst you're occupying it!!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Maybe the clothes line got dirt on the clothes as they

flap around in the breeze or where the clothespins clip the clothes to the line?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. We don't use it. We never will.

She finds them an "embarassment."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Ohh... well then... good luck with that.

[liontamer]

10. well nobody else was going to do it.

And you'd be amazed at how dirty things like that can get.

[reyd reid reed]

20. Well, y'know...

it has to be asked...if she's gone mad, did you draw her the map?

My kids keep telling me I've gone nuts when I start doing odd things (what they don't realize is that I've Always done these things -- they just don't notice until they get older) and I always explain to 'em that if I have, I'm just following the map they gave me.

And, y'know, cleaning the clothes line thingie really isn't That strange...she Could be going through the drum of the washing machine with a toothbrush and a pipe cleaner. She Could be down on her hands and knees, picking miniscule pieces of lint out of the carpet fibers. She Could be soaping the tracks to every drawer in the house. She Could be out in the yard with a pair of manicure scissors and a ruler, making sure every blade of grass is Exactly the same length...

She Could be cleaning that so that she doesn't have a tantrum about something that isn't anyone's fault but she has no control over, either. Kind of a release valve...

Just try and stay out of her way until it passes, whatever 'it' is.