Best condolences I've had so far:

-"Don't cry, Auntie! Noki's in heaven!" --the wee nephew, with a voice full of conviction. The little dude has inside information on these things.

-ataslightangle, when I said Noki had better be pouncing Connie in the afterlife: "#probs bitching to each other about how much fapping they've witnessed". The most accurate thing I ( Read more... )

-Apparently I'm again an auntie. The only sad thing is that it's a niece this time, and I'm already feeling sorry for all the shit she'll have to take because of the plumbing she was born with :/ But she's a neat little bundle and I hope she'll turn out as well as one can, under the circumstances. (I was looking at who she shared a birthday with ( Read more... )

-Went to see Grandpa and his wife today and it went much better than expected. His memory was not so great so I talked more to his wife, and they were asking about my life and what I was doing and stuff like that. So I said I was on a disability pension now and that I did writing for my own fun and stuff like that. And obvy, I mentioned medieval ( Read more... )

Saw the family today and the maternal unit nodded knowingly after I told her of my trials and tribulations. "I've assisted in those probes so many times that I'd only ever consent to having it done to me if there was no option. It's one of the worst ones you can perform on a patient because of the amount of pain and because they aren't usually put ( Read more... )

I was very saddened to hear my friend's dog, the nicest dog I'd ever met had died. Dude was a huge Great Pyrenees and only three years old and absolutely the loveliest of dogs ever, like a giant polar bear. I adored that guy and I'm a lifelong cat person. So I was choking back tears this morning (I tend to cry profusely when people's pets die, yes ( Read more... )

As of today, I am officially an Auntie for real :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D My little sister had a healthy baby boy early this morning. Eeeee:D

Sadly, the hospital won't let siblings visit, only grandparents are allowed o_O What the fuck. I'd already got the wee behbeh a Ganesha doll to wish him good luck. But eee:D

...my family nearly died earlier this week in a car crash ( Read more... )

Found an old photo of the Tynninen family. I scanned the whole photo, and just had to show you this bit...

Here's Grandma, with Dad. Taken in the early Fifties.


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