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Think you know vocab? I thought I did, but some of that stuff left me scratching my head. It is hard.
Past that, it's been a productive day. Got all but one needed piece of maintience done on my car (the latch for the seatbelt sticks a little. They have to order a new one, should have it during the week), visited for a good while with my grandparents, got some cash because my grandparents are wonderful, bought toilet paper, and applied for 8 more jobs, 2 in Akron, 2 in Columbus, and 4 in the Dayton area.
My granma and I sat down and talked about a bunch of stuff while my uncle and granda rested after an early lunch. Things covered included politics, why my granma, despite being a fairly conservative Christian, really dislikes The Passion of the Christ, and telling her more about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skarlette. (Mostly things like if she had sisters or brothers, how her school stuff was going, etx.) I learned that Granma is cautiously optimistic about Lisa, but somewhat guarded because she's felt I have made some very bad dating choices in the past. (And in her defense, I have.) However, she admires that I still have a trusting and loving soul despite all I've been through, and that made me blush and hug her.
Granpa both surprises and worries me. On the up side, he's not only fairly cheerful, but actually up on crutches and walking around only a day after his knee surgery. (I know mine was a lot more major, but I didn't really make it around the way he is for at least 3 days, if not a week.) He's relaxing and enjoying watching golf without anyone daring to change the channel, and in general is just shrugging it all off as nothing major.
On the down side, the X-rays and exams came back not so good. According to granma, his other knee also needs surgery, his apnia is getting worse, and his diabetes is starting to affect his eyes. He'll need at least 3 laser surgeries before the end of the year, perhaps as many as 6. Even worse, he's starting to look thinner, despite the fact that I know he's eating about the way he always has. That doesn't seem good.
Granma is also starting to...well...show her age. She admitted to me that her stamina is really getting low, and she and granda are going back to Norway this summer come hell or high water because she's not sure if they'll have many more chances. I never admitted just how far into their seventies they are, because they've never acted like they were in their seventies. Now...
I've been blessed by my grandparents. and I tried to be brave and encouraging while I was there, for all they've been there for me.
But I have to admit, I'm starting to worry that they don't have much time left.
You left 0 questions unanswered.
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/schmies.html
Think you know vocab? I thought I did, but some of that stuff left me scratching my head. It is hard.
Past that, it's been a productive day. Got all but one needed piece of maintience done on my car (the latch for the seatbelt sticks a little. They have to order a new one, should have it during the week), visited for a good while with my grandparents, got some cash because my grandparents are wonderful, bought toilet paper, and applied for 8 more jobs, 2 in Akron, 2 in Columbus, and 4 in the Dayton area.
My granma and I sat down and talked about a bunch of stuff while my uncle and granda rested after an early lunch. Things covered included politics, why my granma, despite being a fairly conservative Christian, really dislikes The Passion of the Christ, and telling her more about
skarlette. (Mostly things like if she had sisters or brothers, how her school stuff was going, etx.) I learned that Granma is cautiously optimistic about Lisa, but somewhat guarded because she's felt I have made some very bad dating choices in the past. (And in her defense, I have.) However, she admires that I still have a trusting and loving soul despite all I've been through, and that made me blush and hug her. Granpa both surprises and worries me. On the up side, he's not only fairly cheerful, but actually up on crutches and walking around only a day after his knee surgery. (I know mine was a lot more major, but I didn't really make it around the way he is for at least 3 days, if not a week.) He's relaxing and enjoying watching golf without anyone daring to change the channel, and in general is just shrugging it all off as nothing major.
On the down side, the X-rays and exams came back not so good. According to granma, his other knee also needs surgery, his apnia is getting worse, and his diabetes is starting to affect his eyes. He'll need at least 3 laser surgeries before the end of the year, perhaps as many as 6. Even worse, he's starting to look thinner, despite the fact that I know he's eating about the way he always has. That doesn't seem good.
Granma is also starting to...well...show her age. She admitted to me that her stamina is really getting low, and she and granda are going back to Norway this summer come hell or high water because she's not sure if they'll have many more chances. I never admitted just how far into their seventies they are, because they've never acted like they were in their seventies. Now...
I've been blessed by my grandparents. and I tried to be brave and encouraging while I was there, for all they've been there for me.
But I have to admit, I'm starting to worry that they don't have much time left.
