Last night I had a goofy dream where Little Bro was all tweaked out because I insisted on using the ice maker in the freezer. There was some upcoming holiday or other event and he kept saying we needed space in the freezer and had to dump the ice and we could buy more ice if we needed it. (The scene was fairly reminiscent of my favorite ( Read more... )

At Christmas, our angel Sharyn mentioned that she’d recently noticed that my grandmother needed some new bedsheets, and she’d not had a chance to get out and procure them. Not a big deal, we could easily make a Target run and take care of it, which we did. An exceptionally easy task - and in the past two and a half years, there have been precious ( Read more... )

On at least one or two occasions, I have stated that whenever my grandmother shuffles off this mortal coil, I will go out to Phoenix, settle things and come home via a couple days in Las Vegas, preferably at the Bellagio. Partly cause I’ve never been to Vegas and partly because I think that *not* doing the now-too-familiar IAD/PHX/IAD round-trip ( Read more... )

Cause I’m not feeling it just yet. Could just be the sucky weather reports for the next couple days, but it’s just not been a whole lot better than 2009.

The back window in my car has decided that it doesn’t want to work anymore, which would normally be something that I’d simply leave alone for another time, but unfortunately, the window is open ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, it’s technically Tuesday, but the muse is still on PHX time.

- Carmen is about 91% back to normal. She still looks at the ceiling fans with a suspicious eye, but is back to hanging out in the living room, and decided food was the winner in the fear of ceiling fan vs. eating in the bedroom. It may seem silly that it worried me as ( Read more... )

Upon further investigation, it has come to my attention that Boxing Day does not mean I can go punch someone.  Damn.

I will say I am greatly tiring of my grandmother’s attitude.  I completely sympathize with her situation and frustrations and it is why I am completely hellbent on getting her more help to make things easier in any and every way ( Read more... )

Though there has been a bit of Festivus action today, on the whole it’s gone better than I thought it would.  We did accidentally wake her up from a nap, which had her in a bit of a mood for the first half of the afternoon.  (She doesn’t nap on any kind of consistent schedule, so the only way we could guarantee not waking her would be to not show ( Read more... )

Either my grandmother will recognize I took some initiative to make Christmas dinner just as tradtional but 100x easier, or I have ruined Christmas.

I made an executive decision this year, and it was that we would NOT be going to JB’s for Christmas dinner.  It is a perfectly fine place, but it is the only place that is open on Christmas day in Sun ( Read more... )

I brought the laptop to the condo so we could avoid going to the bank.  I think we almost have my grandmother convinced that her checkbook is in fact up to date and perfect and matches the bank records and we don’t need to run that little hellish errand.  (She has quite the reputation at the bank, and it’s not a good one.  I am still surprised that ( Read more... )

And yet, my head cold rages on.

We made it.  Grandma is still grandma, if flakier and more frail.  Nothing unexpected - she’ll be 87 in a week and has never had a healthy habit in her life.  The fact that she is still alive is amazing, though I would have to say that one good fall with a broken bone, and she’d be toast.  In talking w/Sharyn it’s ( Read more... )