domesticated

I have spent so much time recently cooking and cleaning it's almost silly. Although really I don't mind. My grandfather is doing a lot better now - probably because he is living with us. Hence the cooking and laundry. But we have been making him eat and spending lots of time with him and at least for the last few days he has been a lot stronger. And it's a lot better than him being in the hospital.

The funny thing about him getting stronger is that it means that they can do chemo - which will make him sicker again. But who knows, maybe it won't be too bad, or maybe he will decide to opt out of it. I don't know. He may be with us for a long while, which will probably be very stressful, but we are all coping very well.

It makes going out with Tim all the more fun! And so relaxing. I am REALLY starting to itch for my own place. I am going to start looking full time, and I am making Tim help me so he can't claim that this or that place isn't safe enough or close enough or nice enough. Yeah. I think it will be great. I can still go home and help take care of my grandpap every other night or so, but it would really be nice to be getting out on my own, even if it means paying more moola.

Although with gas prices like they are.... maybe it won't really be much more. I am at over 50 bucks a tank! And often enough I have to fill up a second time in one week. Not fun. SO not fun I try not to think about it.

But then again... maybe it's not so bad. Tim got stuck in the May Day protests today and had to fight his way through thousands of VERY caucausian looking pittsburghers shouting things in Spanish. WHAT-EVER. god i am glad i don't have to put up with that.

in every free minute i am writing and reading a book i've had for a while, which is REALLLLLY good. I've read about 150 pages in the last 24 hours. :D And I started working on a website design for the National Council for Science and the Environment! Plants and trees and happy scientific things all day! It's a lot better than the youth violence related stuff I've been working on. *sigh* life is good.