Happy Birthday, Mom.

I found out moments ago via several friends' posts that Greg Garcia, known better in LJ circles as beastbriskett has died after a long fight with cancer. I'm still stunned. Greg was an early LJ friend and his posts were always an enrichment to my day. Were I ever to make it out to the left coast, he was the first person I wanted to give a huge hug to and just ( Read more... )

Today would have been Mom's 84th birthday. I'm trying my best not to be overcome with sadness that she's gone. Being buoyed by good memories, and keeping warm wearing her favorite sweater (it's only a little tight, actually, it was generously hand-knit) helps.

Happy Birthday, Mom.

The rainy weekend gave me a chance to work more towards reclaiming my basement workshop from neglect in preparation for doing some rather serious woodwork that's part of the renovations here at Casa De Mayhem. I had been making slow progress for a while now, but I was often hampered by cleaning up sawdust and subsequently sneezing my arse off and ( Read more... )

My freshly-tattooed friend baeritone asked:

Other than your birth, what is the most important thing that's ever happened?If I were to take the usual definitions of "important" in this case, such as significant, life-changing, lasting,, etc, it would have to be when I lost my Mom to cancer. Though this happened in June of '06, it still feels as though it's ( Read more... )

My best friend John called me a little while ago to tell me that his Mom had died late Monday. She was is failing health and staying at a nursing home. Though she had other conditions that put her in the facility, it was discovered during medical tests for organ donor viability that she had an abdomen full of cancer that no one knew about. This is ( Read more... )

Jeff is up at the bonfire, socializing and enjoying himself. I'm back at the campsite with only Kodi as company. I thought I could make it, but my thoughts and memories got the best of me again ( Read more... )

I am so beyond pissed at Verizon Wireless today. I had two saved voicemails from Mom in my mailbox that I would diligently re-save. Today, while checking a new message I found the saved ones were erased. Gone. Now, previously, if I went beyond the 40 day save time, I was alerted that the messages were 'marked for deletion' and I had the chance to ( Read more... )