The Old Gods convert one more! Possible spoilers!!

[NenadBulaja]

A Star on the computer

Would love to meet miss Elise.

[Timba]

Needle, this tale made my day at the end of a long tough week, THANKS!

[The Imp]

Originally Posted by Needle

Thanks guys! I will be with Miss Elise again tomorrow, I will stay strong and just say no! Instead of running away like I have been!

P.S. I gave her the printout of this page and now she is telling all her friends she is an star on the computer!

That's priceless

[Needle]

Update: I have been sticking to my no info policy with Miss Elise so she has been a little pouty! Thought I should do something nice! So I went to Amok's website and printed out his character drawings, made a little montage for her. I am back in her good graces! It took her all of 5 minutes to call her grandson to bring her a big picture frame from home! Hung it up right by his picture!

[The Imp]

Originally Posted by Needle

Update: I have been sticking to my no info policy with Miss Elise so she has been a little pouty! Thought I should do something nice! So I went to Amok's website and printed out his character drawings, made a little montage for her. I am back in her good graces! It took her all of 5 minutes to call her grandson to bring her a big picture frame from home! Hung it up right by his picture!

awwww

does she have HBO, or access to it?

[Needle]

No, they have satellite but no HBO. When it comes out on dvd her grandson has said he will get it for her, if he doesn't, I will but I think he will, he loves her very much, which is fortunate, so many have no one. I find myself spending a lot of time coloring pictures for their walls. I can't draw a stick figure but give me a coloring book and I become an artist!

[Wiggum]

You do good work Needle

[Timba]

Originally Posted by Wiggum

You do good work Needle

Indeed, my mother spent her final 7 months in a nursing home and while I was able to visit for lunch every day she felt alone and abandoned and, really, there was no one coloring pictures for her walls. well done, your caring is shining through.

[Needle]

Thanks you guys! I find myself sleeping less and less but the look in their eyes when they get the smallest thing makes it all worth it!

[NenadBulaja]

Don't over do it. What you do is truly great, but, like with everything in life, you must find the fine line when to stop.

Give my best to Miss Elise!

[The Imp]

Originally Posted by Needle

Thanks you guys! I find myself sleeping less and less but the look in their eyes when they get the smallest thing makes it all worth it!

I used to do Social Work at a nursing home, and my wish for every resident in any such facility is that they have caring staff people such as you. Some of these elderly people have no one other than the people who get paid to care for them, even though they may have family that lives only minutes away. I remember people being visited only on their birthday (if they were lucky). Miss Elise is blessed with at least one caring relative and you,

[Timba]

Originally Posted by The Imp

I used to do Social Work at a nursing home, and my wish for every resident in any such facility is that they have caring staff people such as you. Some of these elderly people have no one other than the people who get paid to care for them, even though they may have family that lives only minutes away. I remember people being visited only on their birthday (if they were lucky). Miss Elise is blessed with at least one caring relative and you,

So true, when I saw my mom for lunch we use to intentionally pick a table with someone eating "solo" just so we could chat a bit. I am not much of a polite chat kind of person but it always felt very rewarding and my mom was of course happy to share her "son." Or perhaps that was brag on her son, whatever, I think we all enjoyed ourselves.

[Needle]

Well all, I should have seen this coming! I got a call today at 7:00 am, a nurse I work with asking could I please come in and speak with Miss Elise. Says she is very upset, all she can get from her is something about a book and that poor little girl and asking for me. Oh geez! So I went.

As I sure you have guessed by now, she had come to the Red Wedding! And worse yet, Arya and The Hounds axe!

I was forced to break the no-tell rule enough to tell her Arya is not that easy to kill! It was that or valium!

I managed to get her calmed down but she is super pissed at Mr. George! And I thought I was obsessed!

[Timba]

You know it is probably not much solace but she should be aware she is not alone. Each of us enthused by this grand tale have had a favorite character suddenly eliminated, been appalled by a sudden turn in the story. In this way the story seems much like real life where the good die young and the wicked seem to run for office over and over again. She has been around long enough to have seen all the highs and lows in real life, I am sure she will find a balance.

A little anger at Mr. George may be a good thing, anything that might light a fire under him would be a plus in my book Besides, there is always "the list" and the promise of retribution it represents

[Mesanna]

Aw Needle that's so sad, I hate to think of the poor soul traumatised by our story! I think it's wonderful though that she was able to talk to you about it. When I first read the books, I didn't know anyone else who had (though I've persuaded a few people since then) and I was bursting to hear what others thought. It's good to be able to bond with someone over a shared experience, even if it is just the love of a story.

Why not try to distract her with some of our crackpot theories? Has she thought much about Jon's parentage or whether Tyrion's a Targ?

PS I think you asked somewhere else, but yes, I did take my screen name from WoT (though I spelt it differently cos no-one ever seems to spell Mesaana correctly). I loved the idea of Mesaana being the serpent in the tower, and hiding in plain sight, plus I just like the sound of the name. (Though I'm not so keen on what eventually happens to her in the books, which I won't discuss for fear of spoiling for anyone! )