A small yet effective update
From my previous post last week I had an open question on who you would choose to have a conversation with that was dead. There is so many I would choose to have a conversation with would be the conventional choices and others wouldn't be. The person I would choose to have a conversation with would have to be Gandhi. I am looking at apartments up here in the Mass area because I need to start somewhere fresh. I will have a longer commute to work but it won't be too bad just that it would suck in the winter time. At least I have the ability to work from home. Today we are looking at apartments and maybe we'll be able to have a place soon.
Rain Rain Go Away
This post is long overdue and I should take at least some more time out during everyday to provide some more of meaningful post. The past few months have gone by really fast and don't know where to begin. My grandmother has slowly gone downhill due to Alzheimer's disease. We used to have great conversations about history, politics or whatever else we started talking about. It turned into kind of a tradition after my parents separated to have Sunday dinner at my grandparents. I remember when she would bring me to high school we would talk about a lot of different things and it was a great way to pass the time. It also kept some of my sanity with all of the family issues that I was going through. I wasn't doing that good in school and didn't really care. I was affected by my parent's divorce pretty heavily. I would say I was very depressed and held a lot of resentment towards my mom. I did blame her for the cause of the divorce but as you do grow older a marriage needs to be worked out by both unless the other person doesn't take that extra step. The divorce topic is for another time and is a post within itself. I promise to revisit that topic. The weird thing about it is that my grandmother never really liked hugs. She wasn't much of a hug giver but when she started losing her mind that's when things changed. She loves to be hugged and it is really weird to hug her. During this past year they diagnosed my grandfather with having colon cancer. It was a good size but it was on the right side of the body which contains all your liquids. I'm not much of a doctor but that is what they told us. He did have the operation a few weeks ago and it went very smooth. He did go back into the hospital due to a spike in a fever due to him having a small pinhole in his intestines which he had to have a bag for a little while. He went into a nursing home to recuperate after his second visit to the hospital. My grandfather is the type of person who is very much active for example, he goes to Cape Cod almost every weekend to take care of the cottages. He has been taking care of my grandmother and I can see it in his eyes that it frustrates him. His mind is that of a 20-something year old but his body limits him on what he can do but that's what happens when you get older. The good news is that he is back home from the nursing home and he is glad to be. My Mom and Aunt have been alternating the days who takes care of my grandmother.
Onto the second part of this post......
I met a girl who I feel in love with and it feels like I was always meant to be with her. Her name is Ilana(withani) From the time we first met we just clicked. We haven't spent a moment apart since April and I love spending every minute with her. She actually takes the time to care about my family and even do things such as bring my mom and grandmother flowers for Mother's Day. She is my rock and someone I can see myself with. I look forward to waking up next to her and coming home to her at the end of the day. We are looking into places to live at up here in Northampton area which means that my commute to New Haven will be about an hour one way that would be the only negative. I don't mind for now and we may always end up back in CT or maybe somewhere else in the future. I do need to stay close to my family because of everything that is happening health wise between my grandparents. I am excited for my sister who will be graduating college next Sunday!! A big congrats her and can't believe she is done with college. The time flies by and makes me feel old. She finalized her wedding plans for 2012 which is going to be exciting. I am glad that she is marrying a decent guy and it is unusual for two people to stay together for that long but I am happy for her. She deserves the best!!
For my last thought which is more of an open ended question,
If you were allowed to have a conversation with one person from the past in history who would that be? You are only allowed to pick a person who died before you were born. For example I was born in 1984 and I would only be allowed to pick anyone who passed away pre-1984.
I will post my answer next time.
Slipping
For the past few months my grandmother has slowly started to slip into a world that is her own. She slowly started developing dementia. We started to notice a change in my grandmother when her close friends started passing away from different ailments and diseases. She was very active amongst various organizations and never one to stay home all day long. I can't recall from when I was growing up where she wasn't reading something new to not reading anything. We held that common bond for reading and learning as much as we could and would talk for hours on end about different topics. My grandfather watches the news and if my grandmother is watching she puts various members of the family into that news story. It's sad to see someone slipping away into this lonely world of dementia but we all take it one day at a time. My new goal for this year is to spend time with her on Saturday's for at least an hour because who knows how long she will remember who you are and to write about my visit with her.
Monday + Work = more coffee please
Today begins another week and I'll be most likely stopping at the package store tonight to pick up some Banana Bread Beer . A friend of mine recommended this beer and I'm already picky about my beers so it better be damn good. This past weekend I purchased a television after many long months of debating what television to get I finally decided. I would recommend the Samsung LN40C670M1FXZA to anybody looking for a good television. I bought it from Best Buy and checked the price today and it is up $100.00 from what I purchased it at. I did have a stuck pixel with mine but it cleared itself right up. I do need help on making a decision as to what console I should purchase. I am trying to decide between an Xbox 360 or PS3. Both are priced the same and I don't really care about the need for a Blu-Ray player functionality of PS3 since I already own one.
A brand new start #2
Ok so I posted previously titled "A brand new start" but I pooched my blog and had to reinstall with no back up. That wasn't a big deal since I only had one post and very little customizations. If I had more blog posts I might have been a little mad but hey shit happens. The rest I am going to try to update from memory so here we go. Originally I started this domain as just a place to have e-mail other than the one provided by an ISP. It has been very handy to be able to host your own e-mail without having to worry about updating all my memberships on the web. It has been roughly 6 years and have toyed with several ideas for the site as a blog but never really did much of anything with the site and have since decided to start my blog back up. My goal of the site is to post things that are interesting to me whether it is technology related or something completely irrelevant to technology.