We have returned safely home from our trip to Wisconsin for the funeral of Phil's grandmother, Romayne. There was (just our) family cabin time and snow and more travel and funeral and funeral ham with cheesy potatoes and then the kids besieging their teenaged cousins and (extended) family stories and drinking and family gossip and very poor sleep ( ( Read more... )

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Got home yesterday evening from a trip to the in-laws in Wisconsin. I've been skimming through LJ entries, but tell me what happened while I was gone. We left last Thursday. Saturday was one grandmother's 80th birthday party; Sunday was the other grandmother's funeral ( Read more... )

We're going to be out of town for a while. We had been planning a quick weekend trip to Wisconsin for Phil's grandmother's 80th birthday party, but now we will also be attending his other grandmother's funeral. So we won't be getting back until late next week. Alas, this means we will miss many of the festivities. It's not because we don't like you ( Read more... )

• 15:14 Most people see ghosts after a loved one dies (SciAm): ping.fm/54b54
• 15:25 ++ Petting cats for a couple of minutes while waiting for teakettle to heat up.
• 17:35 Bought myself a little something-something for Christmas: www.somethingstore.com/
• 11:20 Dear self, The answer to, "What should I do next?" is *not*, "Crawl back into bed."

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• 11:35 Tense every time I open my email--waiting to hear of grandmother's death.
• 11:40 Relatives are gathered around her bedside, holding her hand and telling her it's okay to die.

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• 11:13 Mmm. Breakfast is a mug of Earl Gray tea and a yogurt-basil biscuit. Life is good.
• 14:07 ++ Fleece slippers, a mug of chai tea, a candle burning on my desk, and I'm working on writing stuff.
• 17:21 Hey, who stole my impetus? I just had it! It was right here!
• 18:43 On photo safari, saw cat and squirrel dumpster-diving together, but was too slow ( Read more... )