I took my mother to the cemetery yesterday; today is the twelve year anniversary of my dad's death and she wanted to refresh the flowers on his 'shelf'. My dad was laid to rest in a mausoleum, me and mine call it the 'shelving unit'.  I'm hoping that my mom sticks by her decision to be cremated; it's not that I have a real concern as to what ' ( Read more... )

 
 This is the first time in a few weeks that I have actually had time to compose a post. For a couple of weeks it seemed as if I was being inundated with chores and errands and it sucked donkey balls. I have a mental 'trick' I resort to when these times come up, I simply remind myself that there will be days in the future that I will be missing ( Read more... )

I have written two long entries over the last two days. I wrote them because I was faced with a dilemma concerning home schooling. By the time I had finished both I had cleared my head, and resolved the dilemma so I deleted the posts because I didn't want to put anyone that reads this journal through my 'hand wringing'.  In the past, I would try to ( Read more... )

Ok, I still have not received my merchandise!  I ordered, or rather pre-ordered the Vol.1 of Death Note it came with a figure of Ryuk (below)  except I ordered from Viz Media store. I received an email saying the package was mailed 10/31;I paid for 2 day shipping. I contacted DHL (the shipper) because on their tracking page the package information ( Read more... )

I finally saw Dustin yesterday. He had to serve papers on a stripper at (god help us) Heartbreakers, a strip club not far from here.  He has an amazing scar that goes from one ear to the other, well just about anyway. He looks fantastic. Dustin is my oldest nephew and the first of my sister's children. For the first 12 years of his life he would ( Read more... )