Relative Issues
Hey there.
So I'm not gonna do a quote/song/album etc list today, because A) I haven't thought of one, and B) it might stop Mark from complaining... this post at least...
I have come to the conclusion that this time of year sucks. Not because it's stressful or anything like that, but bad things tend to happen around this time. Like realitves dying. Ok, so no-one has died this year, which is nice, but instead other relative issues have come about. My parents have started the proceedings to get divorced. "Happy Christmas, have a divorce"
Only it's not going to be that, cos mum ain't coming over to my dad's for Chrsitmas anymore. She's going down to see Penny instead. Apparently we're doing Christmas at mum's on the Saturday night after the match, or the Sunday morning before she leaves. Course she has yet to tell the kids or my dad this, but they don't know where this blog is, so it's not like I have to hide it or anything.
Course if that wasn't bad enough, I got some scary news about my maternal grandparents yesterday from my mum. She went down to visit them last weekend with Judi (VOLUNTARILY!!! This is a big thing cos these are the grandparents that she normally wont go to unless she has about 6 bodyguards and a 6 foot barge pole to keep her distance. They seem to have this love-hate relationship... they love to hate eah other. And so for her to go down at all is a miricle, but to go down voluntarily means we'd better check the temperatur in hell, cos I believe it may have frozen over...)
ANYWAY... My grandad has arthritis. Quite severe now. And according to my mum, it has gotten so bad that the tendon in his left elbow has snapped. Or something like that. Anyway, the result is he can't elevate his arm, can't use his hand, nothing. So he's being looked after pretty much 24/7 by my nana. Who is going blind. She had a routine eye exam a couple of weeks ago, and the optromitist took one look and sent her on to the optrometary hospital or something. Turns out she's had a bleed in her left (i think) eye, but at the one point on the eye where the vision is centred before going off to the brain. Anyway, the result is that she has lost all colour vision in that eye, and can't see detail. If she was to close her good eye she wouldn't be able to see. However, at the moment, her good eye seems to be compensating alright.
The bad side (as if it could get worse at this point!) is that there is a 50-50 chance that it'll happen in her other eye. And if that happens, she wont be able to look after my grandad. So we're looking at within the next couple of years of both my grandparents going into full tme care. And that scares me. We (my mum and I) aren't excatly sure what the cause of the bleed in my nana's eye was. It could be hereditary. So you've got my mum freaking out about that, going through a divorce, and having to keep her business running smoothy!
Though, to be fair, she has now got another dentist working. Who, according to her, is actully pretty cute, amd just about my age range (25ish (THAT'S my age range?! I HAVE an age range?!))... if I didn't know better I would swear she was trying to set me up with him...
So as i previously mentioned, i had a TKD (that's Tae Kwon Do) grading on Thursday. And it was cool, cos Mr. Archer, the examiner, was in his do-bok too, and it was more a training session than a grading. Put us more at ease. And it was so great, cos our pattern (which although is the longest is proabaly one of the most easy cos all the movements flow) wasn't done on our own. He was going through it with us. So that was nice.
My leg looks like it has jaundice... this is what happens when you go to a tournament, and clash shins. And then spar in the club on Tuesday and clash shins again... in the exact same place. And then you do a grading, and almost clash shins. So yeah... my right shin is completely yellow. It's actually kinda cool.
I've managed to shoot myself in the foot financially though. I thought I had enough money in my account to pay for the grading. So, go into the bank to get out the £25, and boy was that fun! "Can I take £25 out of my account please?"
"Do you have ID?" Hand over ID.
"Do you have a PIN with this card?"
"Yeah"
"You do know you can use it at an ATM?" REALLY?! No way.. so you mean THAT'S what I've been doing for the last 15 month with the card... I HAD wondered! So then went on to explain that I wanted to take out £25, and standard ATMs don't actually give out £5... they tend to work in £10 and £20... and she was the Cashier! You'd think she'd know that?! So that was fun. Course now I need £4 back in my account by the 1st, cos otherwise I'm going to bounce my landlord. But I should be working when I'm home, so that shouldn't be a problem.
So, I'm home in 5 days! Woohoo! Get in to Newcastle at about 1, meeting my brother and dad in town for lunch, thenn dad's taking my case home while I take Mark christmas shopping and to the match, before getting picked up by my mum.
Dammit... I've gotta pack... And finish off presents... I swear, next year, I'll just buy them alcohol!! This calendar is driving me insane!!
Right. I'm off. Gotta get some food before uni.
Laters!
So I'm not gonna do a quote/song/album etc list today, because A) I haven't thought of one, and B) it might stop Mark from complaining... this post at least...
I have come to the conclusion that this time of year sucks. Not because it's stressful or anything like that, but bad things tend to happen around this time. Like realitves dying. Ok, so no-one has died this year, which is nice, but instead other relative issues have come about. My parents have started the proceedings to get divorced. "Happy Christmas, have a divorce"
Only it's not going to be that, cos mum ain't coming over to my dad's for Chrsitmas anymore. She's going down to see Penny instead. Apparently we're doing Christmas at mum's on the Saturday night after the match, or the Sunday morning before she leaves. Course she has yet to tell the kids or my dad this, but they don't know where this blog is, so it's not like I have to hide it or anything.
Course if that wasn't bad enough, I got some scary news about my maternal grandparents yesterday from my mum. She went down to visit them last weekend with Judi (VOLUNTARILY!!! This is a big thing cos these are the grandparents that she normally wont go to unless she has about 6 bodyguards and a 6 foot barge pole to keep her distance. They seem to have this love-hate relationship... they love to hate eah other. And so for her to go down at all is a miricle, but to go down voluntarily means we'd better check the temperatur in hell, cos I believe it may have frozen over...)
ANYWAY... My grandad has arthritis. Quite severe now. And according to my mum, it has gotten so bad that the tendon in his left elbow has snapped. Or something like that. Anyway, the result is he can't elevate his arm, can't use his hand, nothing. So he's being looked after pretty much 24/7 by my nana. Who is going blind. She had a routine eye exam a couple of weeks ago, and the optromitist took one look and sent her on to the optrometary hospital or something. Turns out she's had a bleed in her left (i think) eye, but at the one point on the eye where the vision is centred before going off to the brain. Anyway, the result is that she has lost all colour vision in that eye, and can't see detail. If she was to close her good eye she wouldn't be able to see. However, at the moment, her good eye seems to be compensating alright.
The bad side (as if it could get worse at this point!) is that there is a 50-50 chance that it'll happen in her other eye. And if that happens, she wont be able to look after my grandad. So we're looking at within the next couple of years of both my grandparents going into full tme care. And that scares me. We (my mum and I) aren't excatly sure what the cause of the bleed in my nana's eye was. It could be hereditary. So you've got my mum freaking out about that, going through a divorce, and having to keep her business running smoothy!
Though, to be fair, she has now got another dentist working. Who, according to her, is actully pretty cute, amd just about my age range (25ish (THAT'S my age range?! I HAVE an age range?!))... if I didn't know better I would swear she was trying to set me up with him...
So as i previously mentioned, i had a TKD (that's Tae Kwon Do) grading on Thursday. And it was cool, cos Mr. Archer, the examiner, was in his do-bok too, and it was more a training session than a grading. Put us more at ease. And it was so great, cos our pattern (which although is the longest is proabaly one of the most easy cos all the movements flow) wasn't done on our own. He was going through it with us. So that was nice.
My leg looks like it has jaundice... this is what happens when you go to a tournament, and clash shins. And then spar in the club on Tuesday and clash shins again... in the exact same place. And then you do a grading, and almost clash shins. So yeah... my right shin is completely yellow. It's actually kinda cool.
I've managed to shoot myself in the foot financially though. I thought I had enough money in my account to pay for the grading. So, go into the bank to get out the £25, and boy was that fun! "Can I take £25 out of my account please?"
"Do you have ID?" Hand over ID.
"Do you have a PIN with this card?"
"Yeah"
"You do know you can use it at an ATM?" REALLY?! No way.. so you mean THAT'S what I've been doing for the last 15 month with the card... I HAD wondered! So then went on to explain that I wanted to take out £25, and standard ATMs don't actually give out £5... they tend to work in £10 and £20... and she was the Cashier! You'd think she'd know that?! So that was fun. Course now I need £4 back in my account by the 1st, cos otherwise I'm going to bounce my landlord. But I should be working when I'm home, so that shouldn't be a problem.
So, I'm home in 5 days! Woohoo! Get in to Newcastle at about 1, meeting my brother and dad in town for lunch, thenn dad's taking my case home while I take Mark christmas shopping and to the match, before getting picked up by my mum.
Dammit... I've gotta pack... And finish off presents... I swear, next year, I'll just buy them alcohol!! This calendar is driving me insane!!
Right. I'm off. Gotta get some food before uni.
Laters!
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