Thank yous

[baloney17]

I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind comments here and on AIM and facebook. The wake for Gram was last night and the funeral was this morning. Everything was beautiful and several times we got laughing and thats really what we all needed (especially my mom).Mom's an only child with not too many cousins around so she had to take care of all the details. Thank God she and my Grampa had everything set and paid for over 20 years ago. That was the biggest blessing. I sang at the funeral this morning. Made it through my first song (Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pie Jesu with my friend/organist Ryan) and then lost it. Regained myself, sang with the choir to the octavo Father Lift Me Up and was the only soprano to sing the descant. And then Dad and I sang Panis Angelicus which is what I sang to her when I said my goodbyes. So it was emotional and trying but I channeled my Gram's voice. What was amazing was that we had choir members from St Joseph's (my church), St. Stephen's (ryan's church), and St. Mary's as well. Gram was known for singing in our church choir from a teenager up until a few years ago (about 70 years of her life or more). It was just amazing to see the turn out. A good 30 or so people up there singing when theres normally 12. Just awesome. I could say more about her but I've got things to do tonight.

The "Hot Ohio Boys" are in town for Classic weekend and we're starting our daily hang out ritual. I'm not going to party hard this weekend since I have to sing Sunday at the races and I'm finally in good voice.

School starts next week (I missed 2 professional development days because of the wake and funeral - note my fake tears)

Thanks again for all your support. It's times like these where you find out who your true friends are.

~ A loved Gemini ~