Update
RL is still overwhelming me too much to be able to deal like a normal adult, let alone keep up with my f-list and be sociable.
My mother came on Thursday, sick, and has spend all the days since coughing constantly and taking various medicines. Obviously she got me sick too, so I have had a lovely cough since Saturday and a light fever with aches all over and fatigue since Sunday. What a lovely gift she brought me!
The weekend was hectic with my uncle and aunt also down and family outings every day after work. Amongst all the eating and stressing over my aunt's deteriorating health, we did manage to go to the cinema though. We saw Wild. I was the only one to actually really like it. Has anyone seen it? It has Reese Witherspoon trekking through the american wild.
I have visited loads of charity shops with furniture. Seen lots of lovely stuff, but nothing good for me. I did pick up a free cork-board off freecycle and a really cheap floor lamp stand with no shade to it (I'm going to enjoy making one of my own.) I've booked to pick up a second hand Ikea desk on Thursday. I'm not sure what I'll be doing about curtains yet, but I have a pinterest board full of cheap items I'm considering for the room.
On Monday we scattered my gran's ashes. First we went to the cemetery and buried half under the tree we planted on top of my grandfather's family grave. (I can't help thinking we maybe should let the archives of the cemetery know that one extra person is now in the grave...)
Next we went to Groveland's park, my gran's favourite park where she had said she wanted to be scattered.
We chose a nice tree by the lake and scattered the ashes all around. If you can see the white stuff on the ground it is her ashes. It was a lovely day, very cold, but with a beautiful bright sun.
A woman walking her dog stopped and asked us if we were scattering ashes. She told us a friends of her's wanted to do the same with her father, only she asked the park's permission and they denied her. So she told us to hide the urn, in case they got wind of us and we got in trouble.
Now that we have finished with her final requests, all that needs to be done is to sell the house and to empty it out. Then it will be time to deal with my aunt's probable impending funeral. It has been a bad time of the year for my cousins. First our common gran, then their other grandparents are in a very bad way and won't last long and worst of all their mother.
My mother came on Thursday, sick, and has spend all the days since coughing constantly and taking various medicines. Obviously she got me sick too, so I have had a lovely cough since Saturday and a light fever with aches all over and fatigue since Sunday. What a lovely gift she brought me!
The weekend was hectic with my uncle and aunt also down and family outings every day after work. Amongst all the eating and stressing over my aunt's deteriorating health, we did manage to go to the cinema though. We saw Wild. I was the only one to actually really like it. Has anyone seen it? It has Reese Witherspoon trekking through the american wild.
I have visited loads of charity shops with furniture. Seen lots of lovely stuff, but nothing good for me. I did pick up a free cork-board off freecycle and a really cheap floor lamp stand with no shade to it (I'm going to enjoy making one of my own.) I've booked to pick up a second hand Ikea desk on Thursday. I'm not sure what I'll be doing about curtains yet, but I have a pinterest board full of cheap items I'm considering for the room.
On Monday we scattered my gran's ashes. First we went to the cemetery and buried half under the tree we planted on top of my grandfather's family grave. (I can't help thinking we maybe should let the archives of the cemetery know that one extra person is now in the grave...)
Next we went to Groveland's park, my gran's favourite park where she had said she wanted to be scattered.
We chose a nice tree by the lake and scattered the ashes all around. If you can see the white stuff on the ground it is her ashes. It was a lovely day, very cold, but with a beautiful bright sun.
A woman walking her dog stopped and asked us if we were scattering ashes. She told us a friends of her's wanted to do the same with her father, only she asked the park's permission and they denied her. So she told us to hide the urn, in case they got wind of us and we got in trouble.
Now that we have finished with her final requests, all that needs to be done is to sell the house and to empty it out. Then it will be time to deal with my aunt's probable impending funeral. It has been a bad time of the year for my cousins. First our common gran, then their other grandparents are in a very bad way and won't last long and worst of all their mother.