Grandmommie's memorial was today. I spoke, and was in tears at the podium. I wasn't the only one; there were a lot of people who loved her. A friend of the family presented my mom with his medal from the Special Olympics ( Read more... )

While I'm sure the Bipolar diagnosis is going to be a good thing in the long run, right now it's complicating things liek woah. Mostly because grief is complicated, non-linear. It comes in waves. But right now, knowing about the Bipolar is causing me to doubt things. Doubt myself, doubt my emotions. It's the "is this the wonky chemicals in my ( Read more... )

Lying awake. I've got an 8:30 class tomorrow ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, Grandmommie fell and broke her hip. She's had pins put in, and she came through the surgery okay, but I know the odds. (Tomorrow I'm going to the memorial service for my great-aunt who also fell and broke her hip.)

So far, 2010 isn't looking like it's gonna be a rainbows-and-unicorns year.

She Says: Oh, no, you cut your hair again! You should let it grow. You need more hair ( Read more... )

Being unemployed means I've actually got (until school starts) the time to clean my apartment, which Grandmommie's constantly bugging me about. So I'm taking a bag of trash down and she starts complaining about my not helping her with her jigsaw puzzle.

Can we have human cloning NOW, plz? There needs to be at least two of me!

So I came home from Ceece's (we watched Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and talked about our next crochet projects) and Grandmommie was watching the news. So far, so normal, right ( Read more... )

Anybody who knows me knows I'm messy and disorganized, but I've gotten a lot worse since I've moved in to Grandmommie's. Part of the reason is that I'm basically living in her storage unit; most of the shelves are already taken up by her stuff ( Read more... )

The sad thing is, the whole "what to do with Unlocked isn't even the main thing I'm worried about ( Read more... )

Grandmommie's supposed to be seeing a hematologist, but every time I bring it up to her, she says no, she only needs to have the bone marrow biopsy and she can't do that until she has the angiogram. (She needs shots to keep her hemoglobin up, so she doesn't have to have to have transfusions AGAIN ( Read more... )