Xtra Good News

If you don't remember the apartment I was blogging about in the 3rd week of January, scroll down to see specks. We secured said apartment yesterday and are able to move into it now. But now we have rain :( . Why is it when you want to move valuable to you items it always rains or snows and get slick and might break crap because of conditions. It's good that we don't have to move today unless we want to. I will have some pictures of it when I unpack my battery cord for the camera my sister gave me. There's plenty of room for fam to stay over. Smoke-free, cat-friendly home seeks relative visit very soon. :)

I'm Back

I returned really late last night from my voyage to ye old Michigan. On my way up the 13 hour trek there, I ran into what they call a mild snowfall (I call it a tornado of snow) where I saw that a car had slid off the road and ended up upside down in the lower bows of trees. That scared me half to death and I slowed down dramatically. I hope everyone was allright. My grandmother, whom we call Mor-Mor for mother's mother in Dansk, is not in good shape by any means. She was able to walk around on her own and was quite remarkable in her speech and recollection of everything. She's all there in her mind and heart, but she needs help with preparing meals and setting up her bed and anything that requires lifting because of her breathing. One of my grandmother's wishes was that she could get a four-generation picture with herself, her daughter, grand-daughter, and great grand-daughter. If you would like to have a picture then you will have to privately e-mail me for it. For privacy reasons I am not posting the picture on here.

My sister is supposed to go up there Friday. I hope she has a good time and everything. It's been so long since she's been up there, it's going to be weird for her. I know it was really awkward when I went up there almost two years ago. After a day it felt much less weird. (If anyone has a synonym for weird and awkward, please let me know) Now I feel very comfortable there.

Michigan Part 2

Right now Becca is in Michigan visiting everyone without me. I'm super bummed I couldn't go with her, but work issues are making me wait until next weekend. I'm looking forward to my visit, but also waiting to hear how things are from Becca's POV. I'm really glad she was able to still go up this weekend and get some quality time in with the family there and not be forced to wait the extra week for me. She'll be back early next week, I just thought I'd share that she made it there and is currently visiting everyone =)

Michigan

I wanted to make sure everyone in the family that could have seen this blog already knew what was going on before I wrote it. My grandmother is very ill with lung cancer and it moved from her left lung to her right lung and now is attached to her heart. She doesn't have much time left and I'm hoping both my sister and I get to visit with her and say our goodbye's before she passes on. I'm going up on the 19th of this month and Regina is going up on the weekend after that one. I'm really going to miss her; she and I have always been close. We've talked at least once a week since I was 15 years old and I used to spend a few week every summer with my sister and mother before then. My grandmother knows everything about me and everything I've ever done, good and bad. The last time I was up there was right after my sister's wedding reception in 2007.
The other part about this that is concerning is that my mother is disabled and living with both of her parents. My grandfather is losing track of time, forgetting whether he took his insulin and sometimes double dosing on it, and is becoming very depressed with my grandmother's condition. He just wants to lay in bed all day. I'm fearful that both of my grandparents on my mother's side will pass on this year. My mother is schizophrenic and is wonderful when she's on her meds but if she's off of them is horrible. In addition, she is diabetic with a thyroid condition combined with back and hip problems she's had most of her life. She has no drivers license. I don't know what she's going to do when they both pass on. She definitely can't drive herself around to appointment, grocery shop alone, or push a vacuum. I can't live with her and help her because we are great separated but together in the same house, there are no boundaries. It may be selfish, but I just can't stand to live with my mother. Half the time she treats me as an adult, but it's the other half that bothers me.

Layoffs

Well, what do I say?? My father is being laid off at the end of March. Phil's father was laid off yesterday. When's is going to be us?? Should we go ahead and get our own apartment or just offer to pay rent until it's a little better?? It won't be in the next two months that things get better and I don't want to be stuck here forever in his parent's house.
I haven't really been paying much attention to politics lately, or rather, ever. When it's on CNN or FOXNEWS I tend to zone out because of bordom. The screen gets all fuzzy and I just sit there in my own world. When did we tank?? I only know it started way before the new administration was elected.

Apartment

We didn't get the apartment. Instead we fixed the Buick and got it tagged so we can drive it legally. That was truly important because the tag was expiring at the end of March which would have snuck up on us quickly. The prospective landlord told me to call about the third week of February if we were prepared to rent March; at which time she would tell me if she still has it available.