Not Mel time at all

As seems to be the case lately, my intentions of updating this blog more regularly, including a few posts about our honeymoon in New Zealand, have fallen by the wayside. I still intend to write about our honeymoon but that will now involve referring to our itinerary and guide books so rather than research right now, I thought I should at least post something in the short term.

I have taken a fair bit of time off from work this year with the best intentions, making myself a list of what I planned to achieve and having grand illusions of lots of time for me. This is now my second week back at work and unfortunately my grand plans fizzled for a couple of reasons.
The first was that my dad decided to be a complete jerk. Without going into detail, because of him, my first week of leave was good, second week shit, third week good, and then weeks 4-6 were crap again. His behaviour resulted in my mum staying over our house for a few days, something I think will likely happen again in the near future until she decides to formally leave him and find somewhere that she can settle more permanently. I didn’t mind having her stay with us though, she’s a nice house guest to have.

The other thing that happened in my last 3 weeks was that my grandma, who has lived on her own for 17 years and was diagnosed with dementia a couple of years ago, had a fall and was taken to the hospital. When she was found she was conscious but couldn’t get up, and the bathroom had stuff thrown everywhere so she must have been in a very confused state before her fall. It was decided that it was no longer safe for her to live on her own so the hospital kept her while the social worker helped us find a nursing home for her. My aunt from QLD and my uncle from VIC came across to help mum with organising things and cleaning out my gran’s unit. Gran has now been in the nursing home for about a week and a half. She’s slowly settling in but has said a few times she wants to go home, so it’s been sad. But the nursing home is great and it will be the best for her in the long run.

So now I’m back at work and Uni has also started again which means starting work at 7am 4 out of 5 days, so I am perpetually tired and think I may have been too ambitious trying to do 3 subjects this semester instead of 2 but we’ll see how we go. All 3 are really interesting though so at least that helps.

Perhaps I can have some Mel time in the near future…