TGIF (* Thank the Goddess it is Friday*)
So it is Friday, and for that I am happy.
Tonight, there were plans, they were changed which is OK, the plans were moved to next week. This gives me a chance to get a hair cut tonight and maybe do other stuff, but haircut is first. Which will be at lake forest because by the time I fight traffic west bound on 70, it will be really late I'm sure.
On Sunday, I will be going up to AC for the service for my Great Aunt Joan. I'll see if price line can find me something cool and cheap.
Joan was a great lady, she was my Grandmother's sister and my Mom's Aunt. Joan and Earl had a nice home in Ventnor, a small suburb of Atlantic City, Joan was a hostess/waitress for a number of years at the Sailfish in Ventnor and of course the casinos too. Their house was a big Victorian style place, with a big wrap around porch. I looked small on the inside but was big on the outside. This was also where I have first memories of the beach, seeing Lucy the elephant and it is where I died once (only for a short bit, I was about 5 years old and followed an older kid off the deep end dive board at a motel there). This is the beach we spread my Grandfathers ashes at, the fishing pier near the house. And every year we went to the beach we made sure to have time with Joan. In later years my Grandmother and her would go play at the casinos and have some bounding time. For a while now my Mom, Dad and Grandmother would go to Irish Weekend in Wildwood (aka Childwood) and drink and party in the St. Patty's Day parade, Joan would be right there with them and so would her daughters. Someone mentioned that going back to AC is going to bring up bad memories of last year, I really doubt that, last years stuff was a blip on the radar for my memories of AC. One thing I do know is where to get my "Blacks" on the boards now. :) I have been going to the Nj Beaches since I came back to the States in the 1970s, I don't think last summer is going to change my good feelings about the beach.
Joan was having headaches, a lot, a few months ago, and went in to get checked out. They found that the headaches were from a tumor, she had Brain Cancer. (* so if I have ever given you shit about making sure that you aren't in pain by going to docs and getting shit checked, this is why, this happens a lot with my family, pain ignored for long turns into serious shit*)
They did the chemo, the other treatments, but they didn't work, the damage was done. So this week in hospice care she was put on the Morphine Drip. She passed on Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
I am going to get a room up there for Sunday night, the viewing and funeral are the same day, on Monday I think I'll be back late on Monday night and will possibly take Tuesday as a recovery sleep day, or something. I would go up sooner, but I need to do stuff at the house on Saturday, or I will freak the **** out. I know that there are a myriad of things happening this weekend, one is near me (if you like the blues, there is a blues fest in the great west blues-fest.org). I might end up walking down town to catch some of it.
So there seems to be stuff to do after I work around the house as a bonus after hours.
So that is the weekend we'll see how it turns out.
Tonight, there were plans, they were changed which is OK, the plans were moved to next week. This gives me a chance to get a hair cut tonight and maybe do other stuff, but haircut is first. Which will be at lake forest because by the time I fight traffic west bound on 70, it will be really late I'm sure.
On Sunday, I will be going up to AC for the service for my Great Aunt Joan. I'll see if price line can find me something cool and cheap.
Joan was a great lady, she was my Grandmother's sister and my Mom's Aunt. Joan and Earl had a nice home in Ventnor, a small suburb of Atlantic City, Joan was a hostess/waitress for a number of years at the Sailfish in Ventnor and of course the casinos too. Their house was a big Victorian style place, with a big wrap around porch. I looked small on the inside but was big on the outside. This was also where I have first memories of the beach, seeing Lucy the elephant and it is where I died once (only for a short bit, I was about 5 years old and followed an older kid off the deep end dive board at a motel there). This is the beach we spread my Grandfathers ashes at, the fishing pier near the house. And every year we went to the beach we made sure to have time with Joan. In later years my Grandmother and her would go play at the casinos and have some bounding time. For a while now my Mom, Dad and Grandmother would go to Irish Weekend in Wildwood (aka Childwood) and drink and party in the St. Patty's Day parade, Joan would be right there with them and so would her daughters. Someone mentioned that going back to AC is going to bring up bad memories of last year, I really doubt that, last years stuff was a blip on the radar for my memories of AC. One thing I do know is where to get my "Blacks" on the boards now. :) I have been going to the Nj Beaches since I came back to the States in the 1970s, I don't think last summer is going to change my good feelings about the beach.
Joan was having headaches, a lot, a few months ago, and went in to get checked out. They found that the headaches were from a tumor, she had Brain Cancer. (* so if I have ever given you shit about making sure that you aren't in pain by going to docs and getting shit checked, this is why, this happens a lot with my family, pain ignored for long turns into serious shit*)
They did the chemo, the other treatments, but they didn't work, the damage was done. So this week in hospice care she was put on the Morphine Drip. She passed on Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
I am going to get a room up there for Sunday night, the viewing and funeral are the same day, on Monday I think I'll be back late on Monday night and will possibly take Tuesday as a recovery sleep day, or something. I would go up sooner, but I need to do stuff at the house on Saturday, or I will freak the **** out. I know that there are a myriad of things happening this weekend, one is near me (if you like the blues, there is a blues fest in the great west blues-fest.org). I might end up walking down town to catch some of it.
So there seems to be stuff to do after I work around the house as a bonus after hours.
So that is the weekend we'll see how it turns out.