The Hairspray Situation

 Today I went shopping before school :D. I went to Wal-mart and walked almost EVERY aisle of the store looking for SOMETHING to buy! ha ha! I was in the hair supply aisle when an elderly man came up to me and said "do you know anything about hairspray?" --OH DO I EVER! i have tried sooooo many different types of hairspray. I love hairspray. I may be a little obsessed! (not nearly as obsessed as my sister jenn though, when she still lived at home if she got a hold of my hairspray it would be gone in days---but she has such pretty hair so I guess its worth it :D ) I told the man "yes i do know about hairspray!" He went on to tell me how he wanted one that did not make his hair really hard. So I found him a cheap, flexible hold, non-girly smelling hairspray. He then said "Thanks so much! It's nice having you around!" Somehow his last statement made my day. I absolutely LOVE elderly people! (I will be taking a Personal Support Worker program at Durham College this year and hopefully can find myself a job working with the elderly) I used to help take care of my Grandpa when he used to live at our house. Sometimes helping him with EVERYTHING from cutting his nails to writing estonian for him became very tedious. Now, I would go back and do it all again for him if it would mean still having him around. When it got to the point where we couldn't leave him at home by himself anymore, we moved him into an Estonian nursing home. He seemed to love it at the nursing home. Whenever my sisters and I would go visit him he would tell everyone...and i mean EVERYONE..."these are my granddaughters!" I remember when Alyssa and I went in the dining hall where my Grandpa was eating, (my grandpa LOVED food... he had the BIGGEST sweet tooth in the WORLD ---i THINK its genetic ha ha--) My grandpa was so excited to see us (he didn't know we were coming to visit that day) that he didn't even stay for the rest of his meal or his dessert, hard as we tried to convince him to finish eating before "visiting with us."  That's DEFINITELY saying something for my grandpa,  in all the years he lived at our house he NEVER missed a meal. It used to break my heart when we would finish our visit at the nursing home and walk out to the elevator and look back at the glass door to see my grandpa waving and waving and waving (sometimes crying) until the elevator doors closed and we couldn't see each other anymore. Don't get me wrong, my Grandpa DID love the nursing home, he just didn't like when our visits would end.
One day when my dad and I went to the nursing home we found my Grandpa's slipper had a big brown hole that looked burnt into it. My dad asked my grandpa what happened, he replied with "I thought it was a cookie!" ha ha ha! (in his defence, the hole was brown and round so I guess to someone with bad eyesight it could be mistaken for a cookie...though WHY a cookie would be on his slipper for DAYS I do not know!) And now for my absolute FUNNIEST memory at the nursing home.... my grandpa had recently come home for Christmas where one of my uncles was talking to my other uncle about a booster cable. My grandpa was using a walker at this time and we had left it upstairs since he could sit on the couch downstairs and didn't need it. He heard my uncles talking about booster cables and for some reason assumed that they were actually talking about his walker! ...a week or so after Christmas we went to visit my grandpa and he was asking about his walker...which he now called a "booster cable." ha ha ha. My dad was trying to explain to him that it was called a WALKER...not a BOOSTER CABLE! My grandpa was ABSOLUTELY convinced that it was a booster cable. My dad said "WALKER!" My grandpa said "BOOSTER CABLE"
And so it went back and forth "WALKER, BOOSTER CABLE, WALKER, BOOSTER CABLE!" Finally my dad convinced my grandpa that it was a walker :)
I miss my grandpa who is now in heaven. I miss my nana who is living far away in Australia! I miss having my grandparents around. God always provides though, as I have "inherited" some more grandparents since I started dating Jonny. His grandparents are some of the sweetest people I have ever met :)