Part 1: The Visitation ( Read more... )

I've given this a few days to let things gel. I haven't really wanted to write about it because it's hard. Plus, given the circumstances, we had absolutely no idea what to expect ( Read more... )

My brain is so frazzled this week. Work in and of itself is doing a doozy; add in everything else, and I'm surprised I can concentrate on anything. (Translation: I really can't ( Read more... )

My grandmother and I are having mirrored experiences with our cars. A month or so ago, she was in a fender-bender which required body work. I guess you could say my car was in a mirror-spearer (heh) and had its own body work done. I got my car back and within hours its check engine light came on. Last week, grandma called dad a couple times ( Read more... )

I already had a busy weekend planned, with a family thing today and a friend thing tomorrow. And then a wrench got thrown in on Tuesday, when I found out my cousin's mother-in-law passed away. Normally this would be no big thing; you express your condolences and move on. But this is the MIL who lived with my cousin's family ever since she was ( Read more... )

Let's start with yesterday, shall we ( Read more... )

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I broke into the cookies and candy today for the first time in roughly two months. Apparently I am on a sugar high, as I've been talking quite a bit. Well, at times I am part hummingbird, so that's to be expected. Also, there happened to be white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, which have been among my favorites since college, so I had two of ( Read more... )

My subject line is horrible, but it's what I kept coming back to ( Read more... )

I never went into my uncle's wake or funeral. It wasn't necessarily an oversight, more that those two days were long and emotional and I wasn't up to it then. So why now? Today would have been his birthday, so I guess to remember his life, I'll talk about ( his death. )