I have been waiting all year to post this.
ALL. YEAR.
Honestly. THIS HAS BEEN IN MY QUEUE FOR LIKE 10 MONTHS.
LOL also yimmy’s birthday today. ‘perfect day’
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To my dearest Vancouverites.
Another wonderful season of watching the Canucks is now over. And yes, we have been defeated .. but in true Canadian Vancouverite fashion we should continue to support our team and love them like we always have. Don’t be discouraged, and don’t lose hope. After all we all do have hearts of a Canuck. Let’s all enjoy hockey for the fun and exciting sport that it is and make next year the year that we finally bring the cup home. I love you boys! Thank you for making this year a fun season to watch. <3 Until next year .. I’ll be waiting. ;D
I love this city.
Missed the game today because of work. I knew my boys could do it! Now, LETS DETHRONE SOME KINGS!
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can`t wait to see extremely dark sky during camp this summer!
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So relevant.
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Living with someone with Alzheimer’s
My grandma, the tiniest cutest lady you’ll ever meet. She smiles and laughs and always tries to feed everyone. You tell her your name once and she’ll remember it for about five minutes and then forget it. I love her so much but the last month that I’ve been spending more time at home, the more I see how hard Alzheimer’s has hit my grandma. Last year was the first year it really started to become apparent that she had this disease. The family doctor that my grandparents have been seeing for years made nothing of her symptoms. He said she was just getting old. Everyone else in my family knew it was coming down to this. At first it was diagnosed that she had dementia, which was believable at first, but there wasn’t anything that had happened to my grandma that would cause brain damage. We know that she LOVES sugar which also slows down the brain, but not enough for her to not be able to process certain things. Sometimes she would mix me up with a younger cousin, or worst was confusing her own daughter with her daughter-in-law. This last October my grandma was admitted into the hospital. She was constantly weak, pale-faced, and always complained about a pain in her foot. One night the doctor decided that it would be best that she be admitted into the hospital and given a blood transfusion. The thoughts that went through my head scared me more than anything. It turns out my grandma would forget to eat, thinking that she had already eaten. She would start to feel nauseous and sick all the time because of this. The couple days that my grandma was in the hospital were the worst. I remember going into visit her and she would sit there asking me when she would be able to go home, where we were, and why she was here. I didn’t know what to tell her each time she would ask, and she would ask these questions over and over again. There were nights where my aunt who had come from Ontario to keep an eye on my grandma wouldn’t be able to handle her because she had tried numerous times to pull out the IV or go on a rampage to go home. Even the nurses at the hospital couldn’t handle her. Luckily the blood transfusion helped and she was allowed to come home after a couple of tests. A few months have gone by since then and she’s gotten better, with the help of my grandpa and my mom who are constantly making sure she eats, and taking care of her. I can tell my grandpa’s slowly wearing down because he tries so hard to take care of her. It’s tough because no matter where she is she’s always looking for my grandpa. The other day I had to cancel my grandma’s credit card account because she can’t go out to use it anymore. She used to go everywhere with my grandpa .. now she just stays at home all day. I’ve been home a lot more than I used to be, and my parents aren’t at home so my grandma feels like it’s her obligation to feed me and make sure that I’m home. She comes upstairs multiple times at night to make sure I’ve eaten, she asks me when I came home even if I’ve been at home all day. Some days are better and she can remember some more bits and pieces and some days she won’t be able to remember anything. It’s been really hard seeing her slowly get worse. I just wish there was something to help her. I can’t help but worry about her constantly. I think the most important way to handle the situation is to accept it. I find that a lot of my family members think it’s a good idea to try and “remind/teach” her things that she’s forgotten again. And to be blatantly honest there’s really no point. It’s either she remembers it or she doesn’t. I think it’s just overwhelming for her for her to process new information again. Of course at her older age, it’s harder to process things faster and especially when a bunch of family members are treating her like a child and feeding her a billion pieces of information at once. I’ve recently been volunteering at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Shelter with my sister on Sundays. We met a really nice lady who used to work at UBC in the surgical division and she talked to us about how the types of food you eat are really important for helping not only the body but the mind. She told us that the food you eat basically controls how your brain functions. Grandma being someone who loves eating anything sweet and not enough vegetables definitely might be a cause of her dementia and Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately for us grandma pretty much refuses to leave the house even if it’s to see a doctor. And in her old age, she basically doesn’t believe in doctor’s anymore. There’s nothing more I can say about this, other than the fact that it’s hit me pretty hard in the last year. So I guess the point of this ginormous post is to let people be more aware of the severity of this disease of the mind. Sometimes it’s a slow process and sometimes fast. It really depends on how the person themselves handles it. I love my grandma to bits and I hope that the rest of the family will try and respect that this is something that we just have to live with.
Whoops! It’s been a while. This one’s going to have to be a quick one though because I’m supposed to be working on a paper due in 2 days! I picked this one up at one of the few beauty supply stores that we have in Vancouver. I will never buy an OPI polish again at any other store besides the beauty supply now. UMPH. Love it. This one came out in the Pirates of the Caribbean line I don’t remember when .. I just know that I eyeballed this one for a very long time and forgot about it until I saw it last week at the store. Oh man .. there are so many polishes that I want to pick up but I’m really running out of ideas on where to put them .. Plus mom might freak if she finds out I’ve been hoarding more. I need a shelf .. but I’m not really looking to spend 30 bucks on a plastic shelf .. :S Ikea .. I’m coming for you soon. OPI’s Steady as She Rose <3 Anyways, this one’s a nice almost concrete lavender. I was originally going to get an actual lavender but I was worried the light purple might make my pasty yellow undertoned hands look oddly sick. So I went with a more muted one. I also got a little bored with this color because I haven’t had much time to take it off and apply a new color so I matted it with one China Glaze’s Matte Magic and it looks really good too! I’ll add that picture later. Enough for this post. More in a couple days when I’m a little less frazzled. School blows .. what more can I say .. it’s the life of a starving, poor student. That .. shouldn’t be spending more money on polishes than I can use. LOOOL but I’m addicted what can I say.
… Oh TOP .. and sorry Taeyang .. you ain’t so hot no more.
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