Update from the MIL frontline:
It's been four days of painting, redecorating and putting new furniture in the room adjacent to the living room. I installed a new antenna jack and electrical outlets in the room just on the other side of the wall where the outlets for the TV in the living room are. My wife found a wooden cupboard kit as a stand for the old TV on the homepage of a hardware mart in the city and we did the trip to fetch it, she varnished the pieces and I later put it together. I also had to move the radiator under the window about 40cm to one side, to make room for a nightstand beside the sofa where MIL is supposed to sleep now.
Yesterday afternoon MIL was on the sofa in her new room, and this morning I find her sleeping on the sofa in the living room again.
Why am I not surprised? She tells my wife the cushions of the sofa in her room are "uncomfortable" in spite of having spent all summer saying how that sofa was so much more comfortable than the one she's been sleeping on. My wife has ripped open the cushions this morning, bless her, to try to calibrate the filling to be
just right. I'm not at home today and before leaving I asked my wife to not turn on the new TV in the living room under any circumstance. MIL is fortunately unable to understand the new remote of that TV. The battle will continue...
Problem is, I fell into a home improvement rabbit hole and don't have time to sketch right now. When I do, I'll be aiming for "portrait of a sixtyish bald man with a worried look, feeling as if the world is falling apart and not being able to keep up". In the meantime here's what an AI came up with:
