My Family

[Drunk Monk]

So the next part of the cruz relocation has been staying at the 'rents. This week is the hardest as it is T's last week in gymno, so we've had to stay there all week with the pom. S went back to the cruz. Part of the plan was to be able to surreptitiously help my folks out, as my mom has been caretaker for my dad for 9+ years now and many aspects of the house have gone to pot. It's packed with stuff and really dusty. My mom just got her eyes redone - lens replacements - amazing what optomology can do nowadays. Two walk-in sessions and she's got new eyes. She's seeing clearer than ever, doesn't really need her glasses anymore which she's worn since high school. And now she sees how dirty the place is. On monday, I went to Kung Fu practice as I'm trying to keep up, but my practice has gone to hell as once-a-week just ain't enough for me to maintain my health. I got to my folk's place and was looking forward to taking a shower in what was my old bathroom. It has been redone since I moved out some 3 decades ago. Unfortunately, the hot water didn't work in it (probably no one ever used it since it's been redone) and there was this monstrous cockroach, like Jurassic-sized trying to escape. Oh lovely. So I took a shower in the guest bathroom. Then I made myself a cheese sandwich only to find the mayo was bad, expired last August. I'm like 'Mom, you know this is bad?' and my mom is like 'Really? I can't smell things anymore.' Oh great. She gives me some clean linens, but by clean, she meant that they had been washed and put away years ago and had been sitting in a musty closet for who knows how long? So yesterday I got those washed and dusted out the guest room. Vacuumed the walls, ceiling, shutters, bureau, picture frames, floor, lamps - there was so much dust that things were changing color from grey to faded beige. My mom recently bought this cheap $40 vacuum cleaner which was really more of a toy and just threw dust around. Really needed an industrial shop vac. But it's cleaner now after a few hours of vacuuming. Next I need to start digging out my old room, which has become a storage space. It's full of my old crap, my folk's crap and my cousin's crap. Seriously, I was moving some of my cousin's crap and found a box of garbage - real crap. Like wtf, cousin?! That'll be a dusty, dirty affair, which I'll start excavating tonight.