Protracted absence once again!

[mafdet]

I'm going to try not to be as spotty in posting and reading as I was. The Mercury Retrograde sucked this year and went on too long. :/ Also, this new business class I'm taking at JFKU is kicking my butt. They expect me to work HARD. I hope there's a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow

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[mafdet]

If you post it, I'll read it. It's interesting how similar our situations are in some ways.

I know that "you can't take it with you" is the hoariest of cliches, but seeing Mom die brought it home to me in a real way. I believe in a soul and a life after death, but I do know that Mom, wherever she is, did not bring her stuff with her. It stayed here with ME. :/

I'm reminded of the graves of all those Egyptian pharaohs and Chinese emperors and so on, who thought they could take it with them to the point of having little terra-cotta soldiers in the Chinese emperor's graves, I suppose to miraculously turn into an army in the afterlife. To say nothing of human sacrifice in Aztec cultures! I wonder how many of those sacrifice victims said on the "other side," - Those people want me to intercede with their gods? After they ripped my still-beating heart from my chest? No, thank you! They and their gods can go suck an egg!

[katinka31]

You may have motivated me to have a talk with my dad. He comes from a long line of packrats, thanks to whom we have a big ol' farm full of 100 years of rusted junk up in Idaho. A lot of it I plan to happily ignore or let other family deal with (this is the stuff that's tucked way far back on the land), but there is a TON of junk for which my stepmother and I will be responsible. For heaven's sake, the rusted frame of my childhood swingset still lies in a mangled heap behind the house there. 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Dad!

[kit_the_brave]

Oh, Monterey can fix stress! And yes, I think the free trolley starts in May. Pretty soon now... :)