What will the new year bring?

Chinese New Year is less than a week away (starts on Monday). I'm hoping for lots of good things in the new year--good job that I'll actually enjoy, healthy family, time for sports and crafts.

Don't mind if I ramble a bit as I'm really tired. I'm glad that I've had the free time to take care of my grandfather this last week and a half but I'm also starting to get worn a little thin. 4-7 hours in the hospital every day will do that to you I guess. A lot of things have fallen by the wayside as a result too. I feel like the house is a mess, I'm not at all prepared for CNY, grocery shopping and meals aren't getting done, job hunting is at a near standstill...*sigh* Not to imply that I regret one minute of the time I'm spending with my grandfather. This is exactly why I moved back to Boston--to have more time with family, especially my grandparents who I knew might not be around too much longer. I just want to have it all, I guess. What can I say, I'm a Type A perfectionist :)

Anyway, as for an update on Grandpa, he got moved to a rehab/nursing facility yesterday. It was very sudden as we were last told that he'd be doing rehab at the hospital he was in. Rehab was mostly to see how mobile, stable, self-sufficient, etc. he was before deciding whether he could go home or needed to be in some type of care facility. The family wants him in some kind of assisted or nursing facility because it just doesn't seem safe for him to be on his own anymore. He's done AMAZINGLY well for an 89-year-old living solo, but after my grandmother's aneurysm and the fact that we didn't get to her for hours afterwards has the whole family on edge.

But I digress...the social worker at the hospital found a bed at this rehab/nursing facility that has a high Chinese population and lots of Chinese-speaking staff. So that helps a lot since part of the reason I had to be at the hospital so much was because my grandpa just couldn't communicate with any of the hospital staff. But the problem was that we were told just hours before my grandfather was being moved and so had no time to find out anything about the facility or even really know what was going on. Luckily the place and the staff all seem nice and from here we just start with some rehab work and assess as we go along.