It’s Christmas day and I am home alone. I’ve had a bit to smoke and I’m feeling rather flat.

I have just moved into my grandmother’s house (she is in a nursing home, no longer able to recognise family, remember things or look after herself). The house is huge, compared to anything I’ve lived in after leaving home some 18 years ago.  I just went out into the garden where she used to spend almost all of her days so that it was amazing, and it is now looking somewhat the worse for wear. I feel out of place.

Christmas day. Every year prior to about 2006 the family on Dad’s side would get together for Christmas lunch and my grandma would be there. That was, until my brother became ill with a drug induced mania/psychosis and we spent the period over and including Christmas 2006 looking out for him and finally managing to get him into hospital and treated.

Basic run down of the year 2009 for me, personally:
Broke up with girlfriend
Lost my job
Quit another job
Grandma on Dad’s side went into nursing home
Grandma on Mum’s side passed away

Have I missed anything??

Tags: christmas, moving house