July 27, 2014

I started editing the pages I scanned yesterday from the book my grandma filled out answering questions about her life. I am increasing the saturation so the colors look closer to they do in the actual book and I am increasing the contrast so the page is actually white. It is a spiral-bound book and I am also erasing the spiral binding so it just looks like a page. I got about halfway done with that today.

We all met over at my dad's this afternoon to listen to the voicemail my grandma left him and discuss the conversation they had. It got a little tense in the beginning between my dad and sister, with my dad snapping back at my sister a bit, which was super awkward, but then my step-mom cut in and actually defended my sister and went after my dad. Not in a shouting, aggressive sort of way but it was still strange because my step-mom is usually not a fan of my sister. At the end of the discussion nothing really changed. We are still good to take books but for everything else my dad wants us to make a list that way there is a record of it. My aunt and grandma will be up here on Tuesday and my dad plans to sit down with both of them and explicitly plan out what needs to happen and get everyone on the same page. A major issue at present is a lack of communication and different information being told to different people. My dad wants to get everyone on the same page to clear up the confusion and make my grandma feel better and less out of control. My dad said when he talked to her, one of her major concerns was all the stuff her and my grandpa made. He said that stuff really meant a lot to her and she was worried that it wouldn't mean anything to anyone else. I think he explained to her that the crafty stuff was really the only thing we were concerned about. So, my sister, brother, and I are going to make our lists, and my dad, aunt, and grandma, are going to come up with a game plan that everyone is comfortable with. Hopefully a positive step forward.

Tonight I was fully caught up on YouTube videos so while I worked on editing scanned pages I marathoned the season eight of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. It has been a little while since I've seen that show and it is funny every time.

I need to start another cross stitch. And continue to read more books. I have lost track of the number I have read so far this summer but I have fallen far short of my goal to read a book a week. There are no real excuses for that other than being distracted by the internet and other things. If I weren't starting graduate school next month, and going back to a job that requires computers and the internet, it would be really tempting to give all that stuff up for awhile. So tempting. Maybe not give up my phone at the same time so I am still slightly on the radar, but still free up so much of my wasted time by not sitting in front of a computer all the time.

I think the following quote might be a future quote. It comes from one of the sponsors in one of my grandma's old yearbooks:

“I started my business April 19, 1885. Have been pleased and displeased, cussed and discussed, talked about, lied to, robbed, etc. Am staying in business to see what in the ---- is going to happen next.”

I can't even imagine seeing that in a yearbook now but I think it is pretty great.

Tomorrow I am supposed to have breakfast/lunch with a friend so I have to wake up sometime before noon. I can't remember the last time I slept until noon so that shouldn't be a problem. I slept like crap last night so hopefully I can make up for that tonight. Tomorrow afternoon my sister are going to go over to my grandma's so we can make our lists. Other than that, who knows what the day will hold. I'm going to try and go to bed now and see how that goes.