To be born is to be dead
The funeral was nice today. A good catholic service, the first I have attended in a long time. Being not of the catholic faith the whole thing was a bit foreign to me. Though I can clearly see the where the Lutheran derivative comes from. It was nice. I was one of the only people singing the hyms, there weren't many "good " catholics there so not many people were singing. I figured 8 years of choir shouldn't go to waste so I sight sang everything thing, and this at least compelled a few people around me to join. Besides On Eagles Wings a beautiful song. On a side not the priest almost gaged on the incense, it was funny as I was told Andrea didn't like incense :-p.
We then went to the cemetery, my grandpa(there is not blood relation between them and Andrea) was the third car in line, with the first two being Jackie, followed by my uncle. The rest of the J's were behind us.Serves them right. There was a small prayer service there, and we all passed the casket one last time. Then the balloons were cut free. This is the point where I ended up in front of a boy names matt(when i looked over my shoulder at him i caught him looking at me). He is 23 and graduated, a major cutie. Under other conditions i would have been inclined to hit on him. However as it stands I did my best to be friendly and try to include him as he was an outsider to this whole thing.
Then we went to lunch. Food was decent. I must be growing up as i was bored stiff by the mindless conversation at my cousins table. It just didn't suit, being with my cousins and their friends, I always feel so much older and more together I had to leave the table it was bad. I then had a chance to speak with Matt(in my mothers company), we talked of school and what not, he was amazed at my love of math, a business major he just didn't understand it. Later after it died down a bit his grandmother (jackies mom ) was schooling him golf, so I decided to be social and go and speak to him. We talked about how we both sucked at golf, which led to a full blown conversation with his grandmother and mother( I suprised myself a former me would not have been so bold as to strike up conversation with a strange boy and his relatives). So all in all I think I charmed that side of the family(side not these people aren't jags thank god).
Then we went to Jackies house briefly. It is a huge beautiful house. After that we came home.
It was a long day, very draining.
We then went to the cemetery, my grandpa(there is not blood relation between them and Andrea) was the third car in line, with the first two being Jackie, followed by my uncle. The rest of the J's were behind us.Serves them right. There was a small prayer service there, and we all passed the casket one last time. Then the balloons were cut free. This is the point where I ended up in front of a boy names matt(when i looked over my shoulder at him i caught him looking at me). He is 23 and graduated, a major cutie. Under other conditions i would have been inclined to hit on him. However as it stands I did my best to be friendly and try to include him as he was an outsider to this whole thing.
Then we went to lunch. Food was decent. I must be growing up as i was bored stiff by the mindless conversation at my cousins table. It just didn't suit, being with my cousins and their friends, I always feel so much older and more together I had to leave the table it was bad. I then had a chance to speak with Matt(in my mothers company), we talked of school and what not, he was amazed at my love of math, a business major he just didn't understand it. Later after it died down a bit his grandmother (jackies mom ) was schooling him golf, so I decided to be social and go and speak to him. We talked about how we both sucked at golf, which led to a full blown conversation with his grandmother and mother( I suprised myself a former me would not have been so bold as to strike up conversation with a strange boy and his relatives). So all in all I think I charmed that side of the family(side not these people aren't jags thank god).
Then we went to Jackies house briefly. It is a huge beautiful house. After that we came home.
It was a long day, very draining.