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So I haven't updated in a while.

Been busy with the usual stuff. Working, cooking, cleaning, etc. Boring day to day stuff. 

My grandmother is doing better, she's gotten back most of her memories. There are some things that are just gone for good, but we're dealing with that. Her reasoning skills aren't near as sharp as they were before, so I'm having to take over stuff that requires logic to complete. It's seeming more and more like a progressive version of dementia that is worsened by strokes, and looking at what we can do to prevent further strokes, we're pretty much doing it all already, so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it'll work. 

We have to start fixing up the house soon to put it on the market, probably this spring. That involves a lot of calking, painting, some minor remodeling of the downstairs bathroom which is truly more like a cave. Who takes their itty bitty bathroom and paints it DARK green on the lower half of the wall, puts a chair rail (in their bathroom) and puts striped wallpaper on the top? The previous owners of the house, that's who! So we have to remove the wall paper, possibly replace the old, rather icky looking sink. Aside from that, it's all pretty monor stuff to make the house pretty. 

I know, endless excitement for me. But it gets me closer to my goal of moving back to Portland, so it's all worth it in the end. 

Been looking at house prices. Hoo boy, things are getting spendy in Portland! We're looking at the outlying areas, but they're bloody expensive too. Thats okay. We'll figure it out. 

My son was sick over the weekend, and though I love my son, I coulda strangled him at times. He's not good at being sick, especially if said being sick involves stomach aches or sore throats, and this particular brand of sick involved both. Bleah. Poor kid. He's feeling better, thank goodness, and I just hope I don't catch whatever plague he had. I've been feeling a little off color, but nothing to the degree that he seemed to be at. 

My brother Curtis is coming to visit in about a week, and will be staying over the Christmas holiday until the 30th. Apparently he's got to get back for some new years eve party happening in Portland. Can't say that I blame him for not wanting to hang out here over new years, I don't want to either, but damn it I'm stuck!

Most of my Christmas shopping is done. Hooray. One of the presents I totally want to play with. Now. Like .. right now. But I'm behaving and not ripping into it, though it's not an easy thing to do!

Okay.. I think it's time to hide under a blanket or something, possibly nap.

I hate that probably 85% of my posts are talking about the depressing aspects of my life. There really are more cheerful parts to my life, but I never feel like any of those things are important or interesting enough to worth mentioning. Or rarely anyway. So I'm sorry if it's a downer, I'll try to think of happier things to talk about from time to time. 

On a slightly happy note, my Grandmother has remembered some things. Some things have come back and she's a little bit more like she was. Not entirely though. There are some things that are just forgotten, some subtle changes in her personality that are more then likely due to this episode. I don't know if she'll ever get that part of herself, her memory back, I have this fear that this is only the start of a decline.

We might be moving back to Portland sooner than we thought. That's kind of good news, though the reason for it isn't so great. It's because we're thinking she'll probably be able to get better health care in Portland. At least when it comes to specialists. We're looking at within the next year, possibly. Maybe even sooner. It all just depends on how things go here and how things progress. Whether or not the house here can be sold and for how much. Absolutely nothing is settled on it yet, but it's a starting point. 

I foresee a lot of work in my future.