At a loss
I want to thank you four (you know who you are) for the birthday wishes - especially the awful pic : P. My birthday went extremely well this year. I couldn't have asked for a better one.
That's the only upbeat part to this post unfortunately.
I got a phone call tonight from Janet, a lady whose acquaintance I just made a month ago today. I met her through a friend of my mother-in-law's named Melinda (just like my mother-in-law.) I love Melinda. She's just really good people and a kind soul, and I just really really love her. She's not had an easy life but you'd never know it to talk to her, she's very uplifting and just awesome. Anyway, Janet called me tonight to let me know that Melinda's 18 year old son was killed in a car accident last night. And my heart is broken. I met this young man when he was 14 years old. We always referred to him as Stinky because of a certain gaseous episode that happened in the back of a moving truck. I recently did a jewelry show for his mother and got the chance to really talk to him. He was an awesome young man. And he made his sweet little mother so happy. And now he's gone and it hurts. Man does it hurt. I feel for Melinda so much it's hard to breathe. I know right now that she's inundated with visitors and phone calls and I don't want to..., I don't know, I just feel that I should wait to see her or call as I'm one of the peripheral people, you know, not family member or close family friend. I don't know if this is the right thing to do or not. I just know that I wish this hadn't happened to her.
Shit, I forgot to call Brian. It's his birthday. I suck.
That's the only upbeat part to this post unfortunately.
I got a phone call tonight from Janet, a lady whose acquaintance I just made a month ago today. I met her through a friend of my mother-in-law's named Melinda (just like my mother-in-law.) I love Melinda. She's just really good people and a kind soul, and I just really really love her. She's not had an easy life but you'd never know it to talk to her, she's very uplifting and just awesome. Anyway, Janet called me tonight to let me know that Melinda's 18 year old son was killed in a car accident last night. And my heart is broken. I met this young man when he was 14 years old. We always referred to him as Stinky because of a certain gaseous episode that happened in the back of a moving truck. I recently did a jewelry show for his mother and got the chance to really talk to him. He was an awesome young man. And he made his sweet little mother so happy. And now he's gone and it hurts. Man does it hurt. I feel for Melinda so much it's hard to breathe. I know right now that she's inundated with visitors and phone calls and I don't want to..., I don't know, I just feel that I should wait to see her or call as I'm one of the peripheral people, you know, not family member or close family friend. I don't know if this is the right thing to do or not. I just know that I wish this hadn't happened to her.
Shit, I forgot to call Brian. It's his birthday. I suck.