Update Central....

For some reason, "Muppet News Flash" keeps popping into my head right now.... Maybe that's just how I feel about life right now? That it's a giant comedy sketch with puppets? At least I like the Muppets.

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All day today, I kept thinking it was Tuesday. I hate when I'm all messed up like that.

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My grandma was in a psych ward in the hospital last week and is now in a nursing home. She's been off her rocker for years, but it's really spiked severely the past 6 months, I think in part accellerated by her son's death. She was admitted on the advice of her doctor and the home health nurse that visits once a week. Townspeople have been finding her wandering around town at odd times, and fortunately, it's a small town - the kind where everyone knows everyone, so she's awfully safe in that respect. It's the kind of town where she goes to the post office and she thinks it's the bank and she asks when the checks she ordered will arrive and the person from the post office says he'll check on it - And he calls the bank and gets it lined up so she can pick up the box of checks at the post office that she thinks is the bank.... lol. And another *fortunately* is that the town she lives in is the same town she has lived in since she was 5 years old when she her family immigrated to the US from Norway.

She's been living on her own the past 10 years after grandpa died. Even before the cancer spread to grandpa's brain, he told their daughter that grandma "wasn't in her right mind" and "would need people to watch over her". So my aunt and my dad kept an eye on her as much as they could. The past year or so, grandma has taken to NOT bathing, not changing her clothes, not eating well - even to the point of having spoiled food around and not being able to recognize it's spoiled, and worst of all lately, she's not taking her medications. (My aunt checked with the pharmacy, and the pharmacist verified the prescriptions hadn't been refilled in quite some time.) Grandma has high blood pressure and has been on the same medication since she was 16 years old. Since she hadn't been taking it and was refusing to go to a nursing home, my aunt FINALLY (after much arguing) convinced her to allow a home health nurse to come into her home once a week just to monitor her blood pressure and check in on her. The home health nurse was working on helping grandma to remember taking her pills. Well, it worked part way - grandma took the whole week's worth in one day.... She's fine - had a bout with very low blood pressure, but that incident got her checked into the hospital. Now there's a court appointed lawyer involved because grandma thinks she can still live on her own, but the family and the medical staff say otherwise. And I guess this lawyer isn't being too reasonable.... Ugh.

By the way, this is all happening in another state. So it's not like I can just drive over to my aunt's or my grandma's and help out. I'm told to stay here and *wait and see*. So I will.

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A friend of ours turned 30 this weekend. She's all bummed out about being 30. She keeps talking about how old she is. I think I'm gonna smack her since I'm (mumble, mumble ) years older than her.... If she's this bent outta shape about 30, I think we'll have to have her under mandatory psychiatric care for her 40th.

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Happy first day of spring!!!! I actually saw some robins hopping around the soccer field by the elementary school today. I hope the warm weather isn't too far behind....

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My city is having a referendum on the spring ballot about building a new high school. I went to an informational meeting about it tonight. This would be the first phase towards building a second high school for the town a few years later. It's a strange place to be - a town that has grown so big we need to go from one high school to two. I'm definitely leaning towards casting a vote of approval because I think two smaller high schools (1200ish students each) would be better than one large high school of 2400 students. I've experienced both large and small schools at various levels of education in my life, and personally, I prefer a smaller school. I think the attention you get is more personalized, and therefore, more condusive to success. Passing this hugely expensive referendum will only increase my property taxes about $20 a month. I can handle that type of investment. My city is HUGELY divided on this issue. And that sucks.

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My kitty is back to normal now. She's playing normally and she's now learned how to keep food in her mouth while she eats. I think I'll take her off the "mature" formula cat food though, because she hasn't regained the weight she lost and she still doesn't eat as much as she used to. (I'm sure if someone pulled out half my teeth, I'd have trouble eating too. Hey.... Maybe I could market that as a new diet strategy!!! LOL!) I'm just happy she's herself again.

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Did you know the volume of a cylinder is pi x r^2 x height? I had to look that up for a brainbender puzzle I'm doing. This is just step one. OMG. And I sooooo did not like math. LOL.

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As usual, I've stayed up too late once again. This is a bad habit for me. Actually, it's not the staying up late part that's bad. It's the getting up early part that's hard on me. ;)

And with that, I should bid goodnight. Before I keep rambling more.