OKAY. Lots of things have happened in the past month. Quick summary ( Read more... )

So, most recent Thing in my life - my grandma (mom's mom) has cancer. They think she has about 3 months left. I'm heading up to say goodbye to her on Thursday - it was kind of short notice getting the time off, but I want to see her while she's still lucid. I didn't get that with Grampy.

Gonna try to keep it together this time.

I'm slowly beginning to realize that I don't - quite - trust my mother anymore.

( Non-abusive but unhappy and uncomfortable issues behind the cut. )

Making the pumpkin pie is never, ever uneventful at my house, starting with my very first attempt, in which I mixed up the tablespoon with the teaspoon and made Salty Bob's Salty Pumpkin Pie of Saltiness. (I have yet to live this down.) Another year saw the Great Cinnamon Upset, and this year we lost the can opener which led to Dad showing me how ( Read more... )

The funeral was today. It was genuinely very nice. Everyone had a lot of nice things to say. Dad's eulogy was about as awesome as eulogies get ( Read more... )

( But this is what happened. )

My grandfather passed away last night.

More later.

So, I'm off to see the family. (See previous entries under the family tag to know why I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about all this.) Don't wreck anything irreplaceable while I'm gone.

After I come back, I'll think about this DOTM thing.

So one of the seven zillion things I had to do last night was make a cabbagey salad thing for the 'cookout' at work today. (In quotes because, due to Heat Factor Whoa Nelly, it was more of a cookin.) I got the recipe from here, and yes that's the foodporn website. So I made that last night, and it tasted pretty good to me, and I was all *proud of ( Read more... )

So, my grandfather's cancer has spread again. They're stopping chemo. He's got anywhere from two to nine months to live. I just hope he lasts long enough that I can see him one more time.

*head in hands*

With that said, complaining about my mother seems petty, but - I have got to move out, before we kill each other. ( Again I say, ugh. )