The past week and a half or so has been really busy. I've been babysitting a lot more and then was sick for all of last week, first with some weird "mystery" illness (hot/cold spells, fever, exhaustion... but strangely, not the flu? anyone have any ideas what it might be?) and then with a cold. Also, my grandma arrived on Saturday so we were all in a tizzy trying to get the house clean and ready for that. Grandma is sleeping in my room so she doesn't have to go up and down the stairs to the basement all the time - so I'm sleeping in the scary basement bedroom, right next to the furnace that roars on several times a night! It's fun.

We were also busy getting the house "mom-proofed," as I like to call it. My mom had hip replacement surgery yesterday morning (hence the grandma being here to help take care of her). It was a little bit scary even though there wasn't a huge risk factor involved, not like open heart surgery or anything, and my mom is relatively young for a hip replacement patient. But even so, if you know nothing about the procedure, the incision they make at the hip, well... it's like they practically cut your whole leg off. I tried really hard not to think about that happening to my mom when I was sitting in a waiting room in the hospital all day yesterday. Bleck. Anyway, my mom is doing great - she's on morphine, ain't nothing wrong when you're on morphine - and she's going to be in the hospital for a few more days. Then she's coming home!

Also,the job I interviewed for, oh so long ago.. it was a bilingual administrative assistant position with a law firm downtown. And I did not get the job, but I was only a little disappointed. The prospect of having a job was more exciting to me than the job itself, so it was probably for the best. Anywho, my grandma and I are off to visit my mom now!