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40 Years on Planet Earth
Jan. 10th, 2024 11:32 pm10:38pm: OK, I was going to title this entry "I'm OOOOLLLLD", but I should keep that in my back pocket for my 47th birthday like any self-respecting Backie would.
So yes, as of an hour or so ago I am official 40 years old O.o Shiiiit, I never imagined getting to 40, which I'm pretty sure I wrote when I turned 30 LOL. But yeah it's super weird, because I totally remember my mother being 40, she had a party at the Bowling Club near where we lived at the time. But here I am at 40 with a super messy apartment and I still order from the kids menu when I go out to eat XD Which I did twice today - once with my fellow work colleagues for lunch and then this evening for dinner with Grandpa, Mum, Dad and my little bro. Although I guess there's no need to judge myself, after all, not only do you save money, the meal sizes aren't ridiculously huge.
So, a lot has happened since I last updated, I've been meaning to do so earlier, but yeah... The first big news is unfortunately sad, my grandmother M died back in October. :O( She wasn't very well, she'd had Parkinsons for some years and she'd started getting seizures. However, I felt pretty shitty because I hadn't seen for at least a month, usually I'd visit M every second week, but in early September she moved to an actual nursing home facility because Grandpa was either having to lift her himself or would have to employ two carers because laws don't allow one carer to use a hoist. I'm not one for driving and while the nursing home wasn't THAT far away I wasn't that close either, so I never actually went to see M until the day before she died. At that point she had had a terrible seizure and was unconcious. She may have been able to hear us, but she couldn't talk, what was particularly sad for me was that I had promised to visit her and was in fact planning to that very weekend and we would have played Chinese Checkers (Grandpa even brought the game box down for me) and maybe Canasta and it never happened. :O(
The only not so sad thing was that originally I thought that M and I had an unfinished Canasta game, but as it turned out we didn't, so at least that's not kind of hanging over me.
So yeah, the funeral was on Friday 13th October, but the actual internment of her ashes only happened last Friday - mostly because that meant my older bro, who lives in Japan was able to attend with his family, which he did.
That's another big thing, the bro and his family made their yearly Christmas visit :O) My niece is 7, almost 8 so we had lots of fun together, along with my oldest nephew who's 6. My younger nephew is 2.5, so I didn't interact as much with him, but he was a lot more talkative this time around, which makes sense. They were here for 3 weeks, which incidentally was how long I took off work (yeah, whoo!), so I got to spend a lot of time with them. My niece, Mum and I were supposed to go up to the Blue Mountains to stay at a fancy hotel up there that has an ice rink attached, but alas the bro and family were delayed in coming because my older nephew had a fever so they couldn't fly out on the day they originally planned. But he recovered and they got down here and a good time was had by all! :O)
I feel like I should give more detail, but it's after 11pm, so I should wrap this up, also I didn't mention one of the most important things about today - my supervisor made me a cake for my birthday and not just any cake a Pusheen cake! Along with Pusheen cupcakes!
Here's a picture.
And yes, they were as delicious as they looked!
On that note I must be off, I've been going to bed after midnight the past few nights and I should really avoid that.
Ta ta for now!
So yes, as of an hour or so ago I am official 40 years old O.o Shiiiit, I never imagined getting to 40, which I'm pretty sure I wrote when I turned 30 LOL. But yeah it's super weird, because I totally remember my mother being 40, she had a party at the Bowling Club near where we lived at the time. But here I am at 40 with a super messy apartment and I still order from the kids menu when I go out to eat XD Which I did twice today - once with my fellow work colleagues for lunch and then this evening for dinner with Grandpa, Mum, Dad and my little bro. Although I guess there's no need to judge myself, after all, not only do you save money, the meal sizes aren't ridiculously huge.
So, a lot has happened since I last updated, I've been meaning to do so earlier, but yeah... The first big news is unfortunately sad, my grandmother M died back in October. :O( She wasn't very well, she'd had Parkinsons for some years and she'd started getting seizures. However, I felt pretty shitty because I hadn't seen for at least a month, usually I'd visit M every second week, but in early September she moved to an actual nursing home facility because Grandpa was either having to lift her himself or would have to employ two carers because laws don't allow one carer to use a hoist. I'm not one for driving and while the nursing home wasn't THAT far away I wasn't that close either, so I never actually went to see M until the day before she died. At that point she had had a terrible seizure and was unconcious. She may have been able to hear us, but she couldn't talk, what was particularly sad for me was that I had promised to visit her and was in fact planning to that very weekend and we would have played Chinese Checkers (Grandpa even brought the game box down for me) and maybe Canasta and it never happened. :O(
The only not so sad thing was that originally I thought that M and I had an unfinished Canasta game, but as it turned out we didn't, so at least that's not kind of hanging over me.
So yeah, the funeral was on Friday 13th October, but the actual internment of her ashes only happened last Friday - mostly because that meant my older bro, who lives in Japan was able to attend with his family, which he did.
That's another big thing, the bro and his family made their yearly Christmas visit :O) My niece is 7, almost 8 so we had lots of fun together, along with my oldest nephew who's 6. My younger nephew is 2.5, so I didn't interact as much with him, but he was a lot more talkative this time around, which makes sense. They were here for 3 weeks, which incidentally was how long I took off work (yeah, whoo!), so I got to spend a lot of time with them. My niece, Mum and I were supposed to go up to the Blue Mountains to stay at a fancy hotel up there that has an ice rink attached, but alas the bro and family were delayed in coming because my older nephew had a fever so they couldn't fly out on the day they originally planned. But he recovered and they got down here and a good time was had by all! :O)
I feel like I should give more detail, but it's after 11pm, so I should wrap this up, also I didn't mention one of the most important things about today - my supervisor made me a cake for my birthday and not just any cake a Pusheen cake! Along with Pusheen cupcakes!
Here's a picture.
And yes, they were as delicious as they looked!
On that note I must be off, I've been going to bed after midnight the past few nights and I should really avoid that.
Ta ta for now!
