Stuff and Things
I've been neglecting to write in here lately. Just busy.
I haven't had a chance to see Wanda again, but I know that last week she got discharged from the hospital and went home. She's still getting treatments but at least she's not stuck in a hospital room the whole time. And that means she's doing better. I feel a little guilty about not being able to go see her, but there's so much going on lately that has kept me too occupied in my own little world, and in some ways that is bad.
Dustin's father is doing better too. Last week he had some extreme swelling and needed a walker to get around. This week the swelling had all gone down and he can move around fine. He actually looks as if there's nothing wrong with him, and he says he feels pretty good. That can be attributed to the fact that he's between rounds of chemo and won't start his next one til December 1st. The doctors' most recent diagnosis is still that he will be lucky to see Christmas, but at the moment that seems so grossly exaggerated with how well he is doing. But that is definitely a good thing, and right now everyone is a bit relieved and happier for it.
11 days of school left, with 6 papers due in that time, and then a week of pretty much nothing, then 2 finals, followed by graduation ceremonies. Exciting! It's coming up so soon. There's something else to be happy about. I just have to get through all those papers.
My car is progressively dying. Dustin's friend Shaun said it sounded like the transmission is going. It kind of works, a little, on good days. But basically it's a brick on wheels. We found a really good personal mechanic who did some great stuff on Dustin's car for a hugely discounted price, so we might take mine to him just to get a better opinion, but mostly it seems like it is dead and I should get rid of it. It's sad that for most of me having my first car it has been broken. I was so excited to be able to drive myself places and have that freedom and it really only worked out that way for a month or so. Sadness. My mom has been procrastinating for weeks and weeks on sending me the title of the car so I can sell it, so that hasn't been helpful at all. I would at least like a bit of cash to invest in a new car, but she has a new excuse every time I talk to her, just like she did when she supposedly got me a new car herself. So very, very annoying. How hard is it to put something in the mail? For her, apparently very, since this is definitely not the first time it has taken her a month or three to get around to sending me extremely important things. I would really like to somehow get the money together to buy myself a used car that is better than this one (which is most cars) by Christmas.
Dustin and I are hosting Thanksgiving for assorted family and friends this Thursday. It is exciting and also intimidating since it will be the first time either of us has attempted something like that. But we have everything we need planned out and purchased. It definitely will make me feel much more like a mature adult to pull this off. Sadly, my brother canceled on coming yesterday because his work offered him time and a half to work on Thanksgiving Day, so that bummed me out a bit. I was actually looking forward to him being there, and that's saying a lot with a little brother. Oh well, it will still be quite a few people and it will be fun.
Oh, and I dyed my hair red, with a temp dye. But now it's mostly faded out to an interesting shade of dark pink. It looks good and I've gotten a lot of compliments on it. Just something fun I wanted to do before I'm done with college. Pictures on facebook if you're wondering how that turned out.
I haven't had a chance to see Wanda again, but I know that last week she got discharged from the hospital and went home. She's still getting treatments but at least she's not stuck in a hospital room the whole time. And that means she's doing better. I feel a little guilty about not being able to go see her, but there's so much going on lately that has kept me too occupied in my own little world, and in some ways that is bad.
Dustin's father is doing better too. Last week he had some extreme swelling and needed a walker to get around. This week the swelling had all gone down and he can move around fine. He actually looks as if there's nothing wrong with him, and he says he feels pretty good. That can be attributed to the fact that he's between rounds of chemo and won't start his next one til December 1st. The doctors' most recent diagnosis is still that he will be lucky to see Christmas, but at the moment that seems so grossly exaggerated with how well he is doing. But that is definitely a good thing, and right now everyone is a bit relieved and happier for it.
11 days of school left, with 6 papers due in that time, and then a week of pretty much nothing, then 2 finals, followed by graduation ceremonies. Exciting! It's coming up so soon. There's something else to be happy about. I just have to get through all those papers.
My car is progressively dying. Dustin's friend Shaun said it sounded like the transmission is going. It kind of works, a little, on good days. But basically it's a brick on wheels. We found a really good personal mechanic who did some great stuff on Dustin's car for a hugely discounted price, so we might take mine to him just to get a better opinion, but mostly it seems like it is dead and I should get rid of it. It's sad that for most of me having my first car it has been broken. I was so excited to be able to drive myself places and have that freedom and it really only worked out that way for a month or so. Sadness. My mom has been procrastinating for weeks and weeks on sending me the title of the car so I can sell it, so that hasn't been helpful at all. I would at least like a bit of cash to invest in a new car, but she has a new excuse every time I talk to her, just like she did when she supposedly got me a new car herself. So very, very annoying. How hard is it to put something in the mail? For her, apparently very, since this is definitely not the first time it has taken her a month or three to get around to sending me extremely important things. I would really like to somehow get the money together to buy myself a used car that is better than this one (which is most cars) by Christmas.
Dustin and I are hosting Thanksgiving for assorted family and friends this Thursday. It is exciting and also intimidating since it will be the first time either of us has attempted something like that. But we have everything we need planned out and purchased. It definitely will make me feel much more like a mature adult to pull this off. Sadly, my brother canceled on coming yesterday because his work offered him time and a half to work on Thanksgiving Day, so that bummed me out a bit. I was actually looking forward to him being there, and that's saying a lot with a little brother. Oh well, it will still be quite a few people and it will be fun.
Oh, and I dyed my hair red, with a temp dye. But now it's mostly faded out to an interesting shade of dark pink. It looks good and I've gotten a lot of compliments on it. Just something fun I wanted to do before I'm done with college. Pictures on facebook if you're wondering how that turned out.