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Well, its holidays so I have a few minutes of spare time to update this!
Yesterday I actually took the whole day off from life - very weird. I watched about half a season of Buffy - the end of the season 3 - which is a lot for me. A did a tiny tidy up of the bedroom but that was about all I did.
So, where are things in my life? As I mentioned, its the holidays, but since I work 3-4 days a week, and I have a 20,000+ word essay to research, the only "holiday" part of these 2 weeks is the fact that I'm not actually going into uni. Anyways...
My mom is currently in SA. She'll be back on the 9th September. Grandpa is doing well - he now has a permanent room in the frail age part of the retirement home where him and my gran were living. Gran is still in the little flat, but grandpa can't actually walk around so he needs constant care and assistance. Poor guy - he is/was so independent that this must be awful for him! Anyway, his mind is coming right - he isn't having an mental side effects from the stroke - its just the muscle problems that are affecting him. He keeps saying that he'll be back in their flat as soon as he's better, but no one knows when that will be. So, mom's there - its sort of a "farewell" for her and her father - which is incredibly sad. Dad was saying that his biggest fear at the moment is that something happens to grandpa just a few days before mom leaves - it will tear her up if she has to go in the middle of something bad happening. He thinks that if grandpa is still alive when mom leaves that she will be ok with anything that might happen in the future - at least she had one last chance. That something that I'm struggling with at the moment - that I haven't had the chance to "say goodbye". But, having said that, at the moment, my final memories are waving him goodbye at Auckland airport, which is much nicer than watching him, all dependent, lying in a bed. So, its probably a good thing - but the fact that his mind is fine at the moment makes it harder - I could be there having all these random conversations with him - there is so much that I still don't know about his life. As Alistair said, and I totally agree, grandpa would rather I be here, studying and carving a future for myself that stuffing up this semester - which I would do because I couldn't miss too many of my classes - or weekly assignments.
In other news, Lisa and I took a day trip up to Whangarei the other weekend. We had been told about a store there, Snazzi Gifts, and so we went to check it out. Yes, we took a 2.5hr drive there to see a shop, but hey. It was an awesome day. We bought a dragon table, some gargoules, a picture for Bronny, and a incence dragon - the smoke comes out of his nostrils - very cool. We took our time about it , so only got home late on Saturday night. Bit of a bummer that we missed the comedy club with Luke and co. because Lisa and I had been talking about going again. Oh well, next time!
So, this past weekend I worked on Saturday and Sunday we visited Dad - since he's all on his lonesome - did a few chores and tried to relax for a few minutes.
I'm cold! The sun is just catching my arm, which is nice and warm, but the rest of me is freakin freezing! I've got my ug-boots on, but no difference!
Anyways, I'm outta here...
Ciao
Sam
Yesterday I actually took the whole day off from life - very weird. I watched about half a season of Buffy - the end of the season 3 - which is a lot for me. A did a tiny tidy up of the bedroom but that was about all I did.
So, where are things in my life? As I mentioned, its the holidays, but since I work 3-4 days a week, and I have a 20,000+ word essay to research, the only "holiday" part of these 2 weeks is the fact that I'm not actually going into uni. Anyways...
My mom is currently in SA. She'll be back on the 9th September. Grandpa is doing well - he now has a permanent room in the frail age part of the retirement home where him and my gran were living. Gran is still in the little flat, but grandpa can't actually walk around so he needs constant care and assistance. Poor guy - he is/was so independent that this must be awful for him! Anyway, his mind is coming right - he isn't having an mental side effects from the stroke - its just the muscle problems that are affecting him. He keeps saying that he'll be back in their flat as soon as he's better, but no one knows when that will be. So, mom's there - its sort of a "farewell" for her and her father - which is incredibly sad. Dad was saying that his biggest fear at the moment is that something happens to grandpa just a few days before mom leaves - it will tear her up if she has to go in the middle of something bad happening. He thinks that if grandpa is still alive when mom leaves that she will be ok with anything that might happen in the future - at least she had one last chance. That something that I'm struggling with at the moment - that I haven't had the chance to "say goodbye". But, having said that, at the moment, my final memories are waving him goodbye at Auckland airport, which is much nicer than watching him, all dependent, lying in a bed. So, its probably a good thing - but the fact that his mind is fine at the moment makes it harder - I could be there having all these random conversations with him - there is so much that I still don't know about his life. As Alistair said, and I totally agree, grandpa would rather I be here, studying and carving a future for myself that stuffing up this semester - which I would do because I couldn't miss too many of my classes - or weekly assignments.
In other news, Lisa and I took a day trip up to Whangarei the other weekend. We had been told about a store there, Snazzi Gifts, and so we went to check it out. Yes, we took a 2.5hr drive there to see a shop, but hey. It was an awesome day. We bought a dragon table, some gargoules, a picture for Bronny, and a incence dragon - the smoke comes out of his nostrils - very cool. We took our time about it , so only got home late on Saturday night. Bit of a bummer that we missed the comedy club with Luke and co. because Lisa and I had been talking about going again. Oh well, next time!
So, this past weekend I worked on Saturday and Sunday we visited Dad - since he's all on his lonesome - did a few chores and tried to relax for a few minutes.
I'm cold! The sun is just catching my arm, which is nice and warm, but the rest of me is freakin freezing! I've got my ug-boots on, but no difference!
Anyways, I'm outta here...
Ciao
Sam