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Is it over, yet? I'm still waiting for more shit to happen. Usually when the shitfest starts, stuff comes in threes. Five things have happened, so where is the sixth? Unless my crashed computer counts, which I don't think it does because it is more inconvenient than awful. I know I'm tempting fate, but I'm pretty sure something is going to happen, anyway, so I don't think it matters.
Actually, I was thinking about how I cope with things and how it relates to my family. My dad's family represses everything and my mom's family sort of blindly forages onward like nothing bothers them ever, even though it does. I seem to have inherited both of these coping mechanisms. I repress and continue forward until it's over. Afterwards I can deal with how I feel and over-analyze it.
I'm not sure how healthy this is, but it works.
I'm awfully tired, though. Emotionally, I mean. This has been a very stressful month.
February first is Norb's father's funeral. We've decided on which spray of flowers we're going to have delivered to the funeral home, but everyone is looking at me for what the card should say. Of course they are. =/ I keep dithering over it. I mean, of course it should say something like: with deepest sympathy, our hearts are with you, we sincerely regret your loss, etc... It's the FROM part that gets me. "From your Canadian family" sounds so inappropriate, even though that's what we are, but the only other option I can think of is to list all of our last names. "From the Petersmann, Lyons, Kemper, Holmes, and Charpentier families." Hahaha, no way. One, there are too many names, and two it seems kind of formal to the point of being impersonal. Although, I suppose I could shorten it to "Petersmann, Lyons, Kemper" since Lyons refers to the main family (my mother's, aunt's and cousin's maiden name) but then I feel like I am leaving people out.
I've never done this before, and I don't want to seem disrespectful. Do any of you have any advice? It would be really helpful. =)
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Actually, I was thinking about how I cope with things and how it relates to my family. My dad's family represses everything and my mom's family sort of blindly forages onward like nothing bothers them ever, even though it does. I seem to have inherited both of these coping mechanisms. I repress and continue forward until it's over. Afterwards I can deal with how I feel and over-analyze it.
I'm not sure how healthy this is, but it works.
I'm awfully tired, though. Emotionally, I mean. This has been a very stressful month.
February first is Norb's father's funeral. We've decided on which spray of flowers we're going to have delivered to the funeral home, but everyone is looking at me for what the card should say. Of course they are. =/ I keep dithering over it. I mean, of course it should say something like: with deepest sympathy, our hearts are with you, we sincerely regret your loss, etc... It's the FROM part that gets me. "From your Canadian family" sounds so inappropriate, even though that's what we are, but the only other option I can think of is to list all of our last names. "From the Petersmann, Lyons, Kemper, Holmes, and Charpentier families." Hahaha, no way. One, there are too many names, and two it seems kind of formal to the point of being impersonal. Although, I suppose I could shorten it to "Petersmann, Lyons, Kemper" since Lyons refers to the main family (my mother's, aunt's and cousin's maiden name) but then I feel like I am leaving people out.
I've never done this before, and I don't want to seem disrespectful. Do any of you have any advice? It would be really helpful. =)
♥