Sat and watched a beautiful orb weaver on Mom's deck tonight, as in so many autumns past. Could be the last time I get to do that there.
# Wistful. RT @EthanSuplee: They laugh today, all jokes & play, but little do they know reality will slip and sway, just waiting to get thru.
# Packed up bunches of Mom's papers to bring home to sort. So much of it is bafflingly inexplicable. There was nothing she did not save.
# For example, I will never know why she had a huge stack of still-sealed sheets of postage stamps, all identical. She rarely mailed stuff.
# Also picked up the contents of her car. The owner of the tow yard was kind enough to get her belongings out before the car was hauled away.
# But he wasn't able to retrieve anything out of the glove compartment or front seat. They couldn't get to that part of the car. Too mangled.
# I found an unopened personal massager buried on Mom's desk. Pretty sure she actually got it for innocent massage not of the "personal" kind.
# Holy shit, in one of the bags from Mom's car: her address book, and a small book containing all her online accounts/passwords. Crucial!!!
# Oh my god ... I just came across the lunch my mom packed her last day: a sandwich, a banana, and two granola bars. That was a painful shock.
# The banana is still yellow. How can my mom be dead and this fucking banana is still yellow? I can't even grasp that. It's just so wrong.
# I don't know whether to laugh or cry. My MOTHER - my best friend - is dust, but she was in possession of the world's most immortal banana?
# Been waiting for an Amazon Seller order since Oct 10th. Seller told me pckg was returned for "invalid address." I've lived here 15 years.
# I do actually believe the seller (he tried to contact me back on the 20th, and I missed seeing the message). But no idea why it was invalid.
# Someone (a Tori fan) friended me, I friended back, and today I got an annoying "I make money on Google!" DM ad from them. The punchline?....
# ...Somewhere along the line, they had unfriended me. Very uncool. Don't do that.
# Nothing's more touching than the automated system at a giant financial institution offering you condolences on the death of your loved one.
# But it's better than most of the humans. At least the computer doesn't try to create the false illusion of compassion.
# Aw, the girl in this vid is so beautiful, I want to schnoogle her and pat her and make her some cocoa! (Thanks, Duane.)
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