Say Cheese!

Dru's been just awesome - nagging me to keep packing, poking me to take care of different things, such as the romance novels in the middle of the living room. Today he came dow to the U for lunch, and helped me get a water-bottle cage and a rack with wire baskets to put on the back of my bike. He'll be installing them tonight when I get home. And he called me an awesome sister today. (Probably for buying him lunch and letting him stay with me for at least another 4-5 months. Hee,)

I found this lovely, lovely Cheese Page today. It amuses me that it's put together by a professor of Biology and Chemistry, but it's got absolutely invaluable directions on how to make yogurt and buttermilk, and all sorts of cheeses. I was just looking for information on how to make mozzarella (I've been having cravings for the good stuff lately) and instead I got this bonanza! I'm very interested in trying all of it out after I finally move.

Money woes

So Dad's boss paid him the money that's owed, so that's gone into the family trust. And Dad will fax me the gift letter first thing tomorrow.

However. I have to call my grandfather, first thing in the morning, and convince the stubborn, deaf old goat that I need a check yesterday, and a wire-transfer may have to do, and yes, if you'll just listen to me and *follow*directions* like you never did when I tried to help you with your computer, I can maybe get all the little things squared away on my end. Maybe.

I've gotten so leery of communicating with my grandmothers, because they've gotten so senile they have trouble recognizing their children, much less their grandchildren, and my grandfather, because he's deaf and going senile. I'm scared of reaching the same point of shere blankness when I'm their age. My one ray of light is my mother's father, who's been working with only one arm since he was two, and still walks five miles every morning and is taking care of my bedridden grandmother.

Yeah, so anyway - that's my depressing family angst. Up early tomorrow to make a billion calls.