tl;dr
Well, here's what's been going on with me:
Thursday night I managed to make it home to my parents' place in Brantford in one piece. My cookie freak out was resolved by my mom helping me make some more dough.
Yesterday, pretty much everywhere on earth (or so it seemed) got hit with a shitload of snow in what the press is - stupidly - calling "Snowmageddon". Well, yesterday was the scheduled visitation for my nana at the funeral home from 2pm-4pm and 7pm-9pm. Needless to say, no one came out for the 2pm-4pm visitation. It took us an hour and a half to get to the funeral home, in a drive that would normally take about 25-30 minutes. The snow was terrible. But we managed to make it, along with my papa, my uncle, aunt and two of my cousins. We basically just chilled during the 2pm-4pm time frame, but afterwards we walked to a restaurant just as the snow was tapering off and it was very pretty outside. We drank, ate and laughed a while before we came back to the funeral home for the 7pm-9pm visitation. Quite a few people showed up for that one, which was nice. The funeral home made a gorgeous video of photos of my nana throughout the years, and we had some really pretty flowers and her urn with her picture beside it.
After the visitations were all said and done, I came home and finished baking my cookies that I needed for tonight. I got them all baked and managed to collapse in bed last night this morning around 1:30am.
Today was another hella busy day. Nana's funeral was at 2pm. A lot of people showed up, and my cousin Jenn and I spoke on behalf of the grandchildren. It was pretty hard, I cried a lot, but we got through it and people said we did a good job. The service was really beautiful. I kind of cried a lot a lot though. Especially when my dad broke down into sobs when making his address and at the end of the service when they had a man play "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes. My nana would have loved it. She loved the bagpipes.. and anything Scottish.
So it was kind of a hard afternoon - really, actually very emotionally and mentally tiring. After everyone trickled out of the church, we left to go to the cookie exchange party that I had baked all those cookies for. I just got home from that party a few minutes ago. It was a good time. It was nice to have the chill, fun Christmas party to take my mind off the hard day we'd had. We played a funny game where you're in teams and you have to dress someone in a Santa costume using only red tissue paper, black construction paper, cotton balls and masking tape. I, unfortunately, was the Santa. But it was pretty funny.
I now have 144 cookies. Which is a lot. Good thing I can freeze some of them. Although, to be honest, all of my favourite ones will be gone by the new year. Haha.
Well, I applaud you if you took the time to read my blathering about my somewhat mundane and boring life. But now I'm home for the holidays, anxiously awaiting Christmas morning with my family because I'm a huge nerd like that.
I think now, though, that I will head off to bed because I am majorly tired. And also sick. I have a full blown cold now.
P.S. I don't know if it's appropriate to mention in this entry, but I watched the pilot of Merlin, and though it's kinda lame and lol-worthy, I'm totally excited to watch the rest of the season. Merlin/Arthur OTP! And I've only seen one episode! Oh, BBC.
Thursday night I managed to make it home to my parents' place in Brantford in one piece. My cookie freak out was resolved by my mom helping me make some more dough.
Yesterday, pretty much everywhere on earth (or so it seemed) got hit with a shitload of snow in what the press is - stupidly - calling "Snowmageddon". Well, yesterday was the scheduled visitation for my nana at the funeral home from 2pm-4pm and 7pm-9pm. Needless to say, no one came out for the 2pm-4pm visitation. It took us an hour and a half to get to the funeral home, in a drive that would normally take about 25-30 minutes. The snow was terrible. But we managed to make it, along with my papa, my uncle, aunt and two of my cousins. We basically just chilled during the 2pm-4pm time frame, but afterwards we walked to a restaurant just as the snow was tapering off and it was very pretty outside. We drank, ate and laughed a while before we came back to the funeral home for the 7pm-9pm visitation. Quite a few people showed up for that one, which was nice. The funeral home made a gorgeous video of photos of my nana throughout the years, and we had some really pretty flowers and her urn with her picture beside it.
After the visitations were all said and done, I came home and finished baking my cookies that I needed for tonight. I got them all baked and managed to collapse in bed last night this morning around 1:30am.
Today was another hella busy day. Nana's funeral was at 2pm. A lot of people showed up, and my cousin Jenn and I spoke on behalf of the grandchildren. It was pretty hard, I cried a lot, but we got through it and people said we did a good job. The service was really beautiful. I kind of cried a lot a lot though. Especially when my dad broke down into sobs when making his address and at the end of the service when they had a man play "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes. My nana would have loved it. She loved the bagpipes.. and anything Scottish.
So it was kind of a hard afternoon - really, actually very emotionally and mentally tiring. After everyone trickled out of the church, we left to go to the cookie exchange party that I had baked all those cookies for. I just got home from that party a few minutes ago. It was a good time. It was nice to have the chill, fun Christmas party to take my mind off the hard day we'd had. We played a funny game where you're in teams and you have to dress someone in a Santa costume using only red tissue paper, black construction paper, cotton balls and masking tape. I, unfortunately, was the Santa. But it was pretty funny.
I now have 144 cookies. Which is a lot. Good thing I can freeze some of them. Although, to be honest, all of my favourite ones will be gone by the new year. Haha.
Well, I applaud you if you took the time to read my blathering about my somewhat mundane and boring life. But now I'm home for the holidays, anxiously awaiting Christmas morning with my family because I'm a huge nerd like that.
I think now, though, that I will head off to bed because I am majorly tired. And also sick. I have a full blown cold now.
P.S. I don't know if it's appropriate to mention in this entry, but I watched the pilot of Merlin, and though it's kinda lame and lol-worthy, I'm totally excited to watch the rest of the season. Merlin/Arthur OTP! And I've only seen one episode! Oh, BBC.