Dynasty (rough draft)

 https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=zh-CN&text=grandmother&op=translate

It's very confusing wondering 
(twisty-turny train of thought)

Why the relatively well-off live in an apartment.

But they would not buy a house, that would be wasteful. 
Wait, once there was a pushy 7-year-old who didn't take to me and claimed that he and his family owned everything.
It was because I was working on a screen door and he was dangerously close.

So tonight, New-year's eve-eve, it's very quiet, too quiet.

Silent.
Our resident dog hasn't made a peep, The pushy kids are silent.

Is everyone off visiting their relatives? (In their larger estates?)
Switching tracks....

How do you say "Grandma" in Chinese?

There are several biggie dialects, and maternal and paternal grandmother terms,

and kids' terms, and respectful parent's terms, and...

okok forget I asked!!

It was a foggy train anyway.

A rant (sort of)
If a respectable person is on the phone or standing next to their neighbors, they shout.
Or on a bus, or in a motel...

A person unfamiliar with their language might think they were in an argument,
not "NICE WEATHER!!" but I really would not know, and would misconstrue.
Just like I would choose the exact wrong term for "Grandma".
"Old moneybags" 

"Lo don yong" (the third one) sounds good, IDK

Someone just pointed out (at 3AM, so it may have been in my head)
that "Grandmother," The one you are speaking to ("Grandmother! Thanks for the tea")

and MY grandmother (My grandmother is 'First Talon')  are very different, but that wasn't in the script for this pointless meander, although it's a good point to make.