It Aint Easy Bein' Me

Why do I do the things I do?
Was I born this way? Am I a self-made fool?
I shoot the lights and curse the dark;
I need your love but I break your heart;
I had to work to be the jerk I've come to be;
It ain't easy bein' me.

Ought to be a side show act for freaks like me;
Yeah I could be the star of the show
With my name on the marquee.
In a room with a big red button that says "Danger, Do Not Touch,"
And twice a day I'd mash it down
And you could watch me self-destruct.

Lynz

Ka-Cow

How is everyone doing? I'm doing pretty good. We're back in Rochester now. Its really gloomy here. And has everyone heard about Sandy the hurricane? Its estimated to cause 20 Billion dollars in damage. It took down a tall ship and two people are still missing from that. Stores and Gas Stations are completely empty. 375,000 people are under mandatory evacuation. That's a lot of people. They are saying this hurricane is gonna make history. According to meteorologists estimations Sandy should make land fall later tonight. This is gonna be a big deal.

So the other night everyone was over at our house to day good bye, seeing as Mom and I were packed and ready to leave the next morning. (I'm kidding. I didn't pack until 10 minutes before we left.) My cousin Jaydee was also there. He drove down from Alaska the night before. He takes a little.. or a lot of getting used to but I love him.

You would be surprised by how weird my cousin is. Right in the middle of a round of Nutsy, he starts talking about his new "vegan" diet. Yes, the Alaskan Assassin is a vegan now. *rolls eyes. He starts telling us about all the different things he eats and places he goes and all of a sudden he says "Ka-cow." We all look at him wondering what he is talking about.

 I instantly start making fun of him, "Ka-what??"

"Ka-Cow. Like Hot Ka-cow."

I look around at everyone and back and him and say "Cocoa??".

Yes.. People from Alaska pronounce "Cocoa" as "Ka-Cow".

People from Alaska are weird.

The night before he arrived I was at Dave and Carols and they were teaching me to play Yatzee. No, I have never played Yatzee and to be honest I'm not sure I want to play again. You have to make decision, you have to use math and I find no skill in rolling dice. Not my kind of game.

ANYWAY, while we're playing Jaydee texts me and I explain to Dave and Carol that he drove down from Alaska and wouldn't be arriving until late late late at night. Carol looks at me and says,

"You mean he flew to Canada and drove down."

I look at her, shake my head and say "No, he drove through Canada.. He went across the boarder.."

Carol just looks at me weird and says "How did he get to Canada?" (snapshot)

Carol didn't know where Alaska was. She thought it was an island.

Do I need to explain why that is funny??

I miss you all.

Lynz

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

What Day Is It Anyway??

Happy Thursday peeps!! I went to T.J.Maxx today and finally got a new pair sunglasses!! Not that I would ever need them here, because the sun barely ever shines! But they were on sale and they are cute and to be honest I really needed a pair since dropping mine down a deep dark abyss of rock leading to the unknown.. ;)

I believe that it takes at LEAST 20 minutes after the moment of opening your eyes in the morning, before you can make sound decisions. For instance, Grandma and I take turns going to Moms transfusion appointments, simply because they take less than 15 minutes in the actual appointment and there really is no point in us all getting up early.

So this morning I was sleeping and my phone started ringing. It was about eight o'clock. I open one eye, look at my phone and see that my Grandpa was trying to get a hold of me. Since my brain was still asleep, I completely forget he was supposed to be arriving today, tell myself I'll call him back later and set my phone back down.

Suddenly I hear something outside in the drive way. It sounds like a truck. It took me a few minutes but I finally put it together. I stumble out of bed and run to the window just in time to see my Grandpa pulling out of our subdivision onto the road. I grab my phone and call him back.

"Hello Lynz!"

"Hi Grandpa.."


"What are you doing?"

"Sleeping.."

"I was just at the apartment.."

"I know.. I watched you drive away.."

"Well do you want to let me in.."

(Now let me remind you, its only been about 10 minutes since I had opened my eyes)

"Well.. (long pause) I guess.. I mean.."

"What? You guess?? Is this a bad time?"

"I'm just tellin you now, I'll let you in but I'm goin back to bed.."

Now that sad part about that is.. I was being dead serious. I actually contemplated not letting him in. All I wanted to do was sleep and my brain threw everything else aside and found the quickest route to getting back in bed.. which wouldn't include going down stairs and letting my Grandpa in.

Later that day, after we did all our running around we get back to the apartment and Grandma goes "We have survivor on tonight!!!"

For those of you who don't know.. Survivor is on Wednesday nights.

I get all excited and tell my Grandpa "We got Survivor on tonight!!!"

Grandpa looks at me like I'm speaking a different language and says "Survivor? Survivor was on Wednesday night!"

I say "Oh!! What day is it? Its isn't Wednesday at all! Grandma, why did you tell me we have Survivor on tonight??"

She says "Oh! Its Thursday!! What day is Survivor on.. isn't Survivor on tonight?"

I look at her like she is crazy and then say "Well first off.. GRANDMA.. Today is Friday!!"

Now this is where my mom who has been sitting on the couch quietly, says "Excuse me.. What day is it?"

So I walked into the apartment not knowing what day it is, thought it was Wednesday, realized it was Thursday and then told Grandma is was Friday.

 I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Lynz

Creative Skyping

Guys. Its so boring here.. its fun! All we seriously do is sit around, eat, and talk about what we want to eat next. And that's pretty much it. But all this "doing nothing" is getting to us. I am starting to see the side effects..

So everyone knows that Skype used to be our main mode of communication. Now that we are down here, Logan and Mom skype almost every night. If anyone has ever video Skyped with Logan.. he doesn't really have much to say. He sits on the other side of the cyberspace watching himself in the camera. He talks and makes funny faces and laughs at himself making funny faces.

Well the other night we were all sitting around in the living room (whats new). Mom and Logan were talking on Skype. They were talking about our upcoming scheduled for the next couple of weeks. Suddenly I realize I don't hear Logan or Mom talking. I look over and my mom has her iPhone camera pointing up her nose. (snapshot)

 Yes, you read that right.. My MOM actually did that on Skype. Can you believe it? And when I asked her what she was doing, her response was "He did it to me first!".  Yes people, we are slowly loosing our sanity down here.

The day before, my mom discovered the door bell outside the front door. (*rolls eyes). She proceeded to step outside, close the door behind her, and ring the door bell. She then opened the door, laughed and said "Lets practice service!" If that isn't proof we are going crazy, I don't know what is!

We are coming home two days from now. We can't get home sooner. It might take a few days for all this crazy to get flushed out of our system, but let me be the first to say.. I'm looking forward to it! ;)

Lynz

Sweet Dreams or Night Mares

Its raining today. The skies are grey. Its a very gloomy and dreary day. But that doesn't stop us from being absolutely crazy!

So last time I blogged I told you about how living with my Grandma can get a little crazy. Well sleeping in the same bed as her can too.. Let me explain.

So me and Grandma share the full bed in one of the bedrooms and the first night was fine, since we were both so tired we both fell asleep without any problems! The next night.. not the same case.

I couldn't sleep on the second night! You know those wretched nights when you go to bed knowing you have to get up early, and yet you can't find any sleep? It was one of those nights for me. I tossed and turned until around two in the morning, not even considering my Grandma might be awake too.

Well I was wrong.

The next morning, we're all sitting around eating breakfast and Grandma gets up and says "Sleeping with Lynz is scary!!" If you know me, then you'd know I instantly jumped to my defense.. but when Grandma explained.. I was speechless!

Grandma starts to explain that as she was layin there in the middle of the night, she thought I was sleepin so she went to roll over when all of a sudden I jump up and start beating and fluffing my pillow yelling "Damit! Damit!" (snapshot) and then I grabbed my pillow and rolled over and didn't say a word.

After my rant and pillow beating, Grandma was thinking that I had just cussed her out for trying to move. So she just laid there focusing on not moving! Now, in my defense, I was having a very.. odd dream that night. And you really have no control over your motor skills when your dreaming! ;)

So second night was really weird. Third night was weird too.

 I, again, was having an intense dream. So randomly in the middle of the night I jump on Grandma! I just suddenly threw myself her way, practically giving her a heart attack! I woke up and was like "Oh.. I'm sorry! I'm so sorry..", moved back over to my spot and went back to sleep.

Now by the fourth night, Grandma is freaked out!

I'm not normally a covers hog.. but that night I accidentally took all the blankets. After trying to decide whether it would be a good idea to wake me up or not, Grandma decided to tap me. I wake up and ask "Whats up?" really confused by why Grandma is waking me up in the middle of the night. She starts pulling at the corner of the blanket and says "I only need a little bit.. just a tiny bit, not much at all.." and she pulls a TINY bit of blanket her way and then says "See.. I only need a little bit.." and then she just lays there motionless.

Non of this was that funny until the fifth night when I come upstairs and Grandma was putting sheets on the air mattress without saying a word.. I wonder why she didn't want to sleep with me anymore.. Hmmm.. ;)

Now, I may be really hard to sleep with.. but don't tell me anyone else is easier! Remember Black Friday?? I was convinced Becky was gonna roll on me! And that night with Becky and Sarah snoring in Florida.. I wasn't sure if it was them or a freight train coming!! And the night Liz flew out for Oregon, she actually threw one of her legs on top of me!! Mom likes to wake up and chat in the middle of the night and Logan sleep walks!!

I'm not really sure how to end this post.. but for future reference.. Bring an air mattress, because I'm hard to sleep with! :P

Lynz

One Week Down

Happy Friday!! Only seven more days until I am happily at home to spend seven days with you lovelies!! Not only am I missing my peeps, but I am also missing my poor bed.. I bet he misses me too. And my seven pillows.. each having an individual purpose in my comfort when I sleep! I'm really roughing it.. with only two pillows and all!! ;)

So everyone understands how dialysis works right? Well if you don't, let me break it down for you.. Solution goes into her stomach.. No, sorry, that's not the correct term.. Solution goes into her "Peritoneal Cavity" (google it, I dare you!) , sloshes around amongst her organs, gathers up all waists and nasty things and then is drained back out into a bag, where Mom later drains either it in a sink, bathtub, or (much against my pleaing) the neighbors yard..

I have always argued that this solution stuff, that comes out of her is nasty! And it is.. its practically like urine! Urine is all the waist from out bodies.. the solution is all the wasit from her body..

So we're all sitting in the living room watchin tv when Grandma comes down from her bath. She comes into the living room and says "I almost did the splits after I stepped out of the tub and slipped in your solution that has spilled all over!"

Me and Logan actually pull our head phones off look up from our laptops and stared in disbelief that grandma had actually stepped in the solution! Then she proceeded to tell us about how it was in between all her toes (snapshot) and she had to mop it all up and by that time Me and Logan was fumbling around trying to get our ear buds back in our ears as quickly as possible, trying hard to erase that mental image from our minds. Don't tell me your not a little grossed out.. Ya.. You are..

I love my grandma more than anything.. but spending two weeks with her in this apartment, where we share both a bedroom AND bathroom.. it gets to ya!

Lynz

Blogging Again

Whats up?? I'm back and I'm blogging!! Its funny because you can tell where I am emotionally by how I blog. The past four months have been rather good! When you compare the last 4 months to a year ago.. I was so good and emotionally stable. I barely cried and felt depressed.. Things aren't like that anymore and I am gonna start blogging again to try and regain any sanity that might be left.

We're down in Rochester now for Mom's clinical trial. The benefit was this last Saturday and we had an unbelievable turn out! Its crazy how a sleepy little town can come together and do so much! It ment so much! You really find out who your friends are! :)

Our home away from home down here is pretty nice and even though I hate it right now I can already tell I am gonna miss it 6 months from now when we pack and walk out the doors for the last time! :) The ground floor has a nice kitchen and a big pantry with a dining area and living room. Up stairs there is a bedroom, master bedroom, big giant bathroom with a big giant mirror (my favorite part), and a laundry room! All in all the apartment is really nice and if I had to live in an apartment in the city I would want to live here!!

The subdivision our apartment is in is named Boulder Creek. Its across the street from Walmart and Gander and down the road from Target and Mc.D's. I'm not complaining! We're only about 10 minutes from Mayo and its rather easy to navigate to. I'm excited to spend more time down here and explore.. even though I miss my peeps back home!!

Only six more months..

Lynz