Quick "what the hell have I been doing lately update":

Agonizingly enough, not much. The cool "right across the street from the hospital house" deal fell through, so I am all packed up with nowhere to go. We have a new deal going on another house, but the closing will not be in time for orientation. I am currently researching temporary housing, and have decided to shell out the big bucks and pay $210 a week for a hotel room. Should only be for a couple of weeks.

In the mean time, I have been playing my new PS3 (more on this in the next post) and checking in on my grandfather. Y'all may or may not know, but my grandmother passed away from multiple myeloma about 2 weeks ago. In fact, she entered the hospital on the day I graduated from TCOM, and she never recovered enough for me to talk to her before she passed away. So....my grandfather, who is not a beacon of health himself, is now home by himself during the daytime. Diabetic, some collapsing vertebrae and a new, shocking diagnosis of multiple myeloma (not a typo) on top of some emphysema add up to a tough time being by oneself. Even more than that, he just lost his wife of 60 years....

So my sister and I have been taking turns fixing/taking him lunch. Amazingly my grandmother continued to feed him up until the very end, so it is just not something he is used to doing.

Orientation starts next Monday....and I think all this house and family hub-bub has been good to keep my mind of my impending doom.