Geeky Chic

Five-eighths of my family left for the Great Continent today. 
This means that I’ve been left behind with grandma duties that entail:
(1) moving for the second time this month, this time into the empty
unit in her building (my keychain is now an arm weight, I have keys for
5 apartments on it — the old apartment, my aunt’s building, my
grandmother’s place, my mom’s place, and the empty unit that I’m moving
into — I feel like a janitor); and (2) administering her meds (insulin
shots before her big meals, a packet worth of pills that look like
skittles to be swallowed after she starts eating, but not after she
eats too much,
another post dinner insulin shot, and pre-bedtime pills, checking her
blood sugar levels, and weighing her to see if she’s retaining water in
her lungs); and (3) being
the emergency contact person for her first alert necklace if she falls
when her nurse isn’t there.  All of this on top of my daily
billing, and they won’t return until August.

Also, my sister will have a surprise awaiting her when she reaches
Spain; I
deposited a wad of spending money into her checking account
today.  And I also handed my mother some dough to book a massage
for my step-dad.  Spoiled, spoiled spoiled.  The lot of them.  But spoiling them is better than spoiling myself.