I have always considered the 26th of December to be one of the strangest days of the year. The day after christmas. After nearly 3 months of everyone preparing for this holiday (which I think is insane) it's all over before you know it.
This was a very weird Christmas for me. A little over a month ago my grandma Kellman was at Garden City Hospital. She had to stay for a few days until she got better. For the past few years she had been living with my Aunt Lisa and her family. While she was in the hospital she told my dad that she had never known anyone more negative than my aunt, uncle, and cousin and expressed great desire of not wanting to continue living there. So my dad volunteered our house. A couple weeks later the computer and desk was hauled down to the basement and grandma moved into the computer room.
On Monday, the 22nd, Grandma was complaining of intense pain in her chest and dad decided to call for an ambulance. Dad and I though maybe she broke her ribs from falling into the bathtub while flushing the toilet the night before. That turned out to just be bruising. However, within hours of being at St. Joes, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. So at this point, it has been determined that Garden City Hospital sucks. Because grandma has been going there for years and they never saw this? Grandma's also been battling heart disease and diabetes for a while. It's been determined that she had this cancer for quite a long time since it's spread all over. So at this point they're just going to give her pain killers and let the diseases do their work. Grandma's in good spirits and is very glad to finally know what's going on.
Christmas Eve consisted of the Kellman side of the family going up and visiting Grandma for a while and then meeting at our place for pizza. That was a pretty great time. One of my favourite things is being in a room with my aunts and uncles as they tell stories from their childhood.
In Grandma's room was a dry erase board with a little information along with "Plan for the day" and "Activities." This hadn't been updated since the 22nd so we all came up with some ideas... rather ridiculous ideas of items to add to the board and see if anyone notices. Many laughs were had. (The original Plan for the Day was "Feel Better.")
Christmas Morning was the first in 12 years where I could sleep in, and it was wonderful. My parents and I went to 10am mass and then came home and exchanged gifts. It was a rather low budget exchange this year. I got my parents a few dvds and mom got her box of chocolates. I got a Simpsons tree ornament, a box of Double Bubble, and some money.
That night, the Place side of the family came over. That's always a good time. Luke brought over a whole bag of toys that he got and played with them in the piano room most of the time. Towards the end of the night he wanted me to play with him, which I did for a good hour. It was fun. He got pretty upset though when it came time to leave. It was a little cute to me, I must admit.
So to sum things up, avoid Garden City Hospital. They suck.
Lately I've been toying with the idea of possibly getting a new internal hard drive for my laptop. There's nothing wrong with the one that's in my laptop now... other than the fact that it's only 95GB. That's pretty small, for me. I have over 60 gigs of music and an ever growing library of photos. Because of their massive size, I keep my music and photo libraries on a separate 500 gig external hard drive. It would be nice to actually have everything physically on my laptop, that way I wouldn't have to cary this little hard drive around. So I've been thinking of possibly getting an internal laptop drive that's at least 500 gigs. But I don't really want to go through the process of having to reinstall everything and such... I don't know. We'll see what happens.
Triple points for the one who tells me the reference the title is from. Show and episode. And who said it.
