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- "Kavya Shivashankar wins National Spelling Bee after successfully completing the "Fill In your name" portion of the application."
- Fark headline-
- I know someone who was referred to CPS for an injury their child received and which they subsequently sought treatment for but, this is not the point at which hilarity ensued.
- That started when the social worker came to the house and mom still had Child Abuser playfully written on her arm by a family member who had been teasing her mercilessly about the ordeal.
- The great grandmother whose funeral was held recently was posed with her head turned slightly toward the viewer and a faint smile on her face.
- Different.
- Love having a couple of old friends who were funeral directors- lots of interesting stories and inside scoop.
- An old schoolfriend was the funeral director for my mom. Who would have ever guessed when essentially our entire 3rd grade class once got in trouble for having a rock fight on the playground we'd meet again under such circumstances? I think the teacher must have ducked into the lounge for a smoke and the rocks went flying. It's a wonder someone wasn't killed.
- You're dating yourself I guess- if you remember teachers lounges that smelled worse than any bar.
- There's a movie being released in June- Dead Snow. Basically some Norwegian snowboarders somehow awaken an army of Nazi Zombies.
- A movie could be great if it had zombies or Nazis.
- But, Nazi Zombies?
- Epic.
- My family is in one of those places- haven't had a lot of deaths until fairly recently, the old folks are well, getting older and of the younger ones we haven't had a lot of untimely deaths. Until recently, it was years since the last funeral I attended.
- That has changed and for a while I believe I better keep a fresh suit ready.
- It's interesting to see people at another persons funeral you had no idea we knew in common.
- Two folks mentioned my sister in law who was recently killed in a car wreck.
- Seven years after her heart transplant.
- She was still in her 30s.
- Independently, they had looked at the contacts on their phones at some point and saw her name- yes, there were tears.
- If you lose someone have a video made set to music with pictures from their life and make a bunch of copies to hand out. They are really easy to make and make all the difference in the world. Most computers will be preloaded with software to make them, you won't even have to buy anything. Also, every funeral home these days is set up to play them- if not use a laptop.
Baby and his headlamp- exploring his world after dark.
- Still thinking about the funerals I've gone to recently and how they affected me and the others who attended. I said something one day like,"Regardless of what's said at a funeral, I think it's important that if the dead person came to life and lie there listening- he should know who they're speaking about (or at least have a good guess)." One of the funerals I've been to that affected me in this way was a guy who was a great guy- he was generous, friendly, hard working and a family man like no other but, he was not the saint the preacher made him out to be and I don't think the preacher did his memory or the feelings of us there any good by making him out to be something he wasn't. I swear people held their breath and tensed up visibly when he would go on about things that everybody there knew better about.
- Coolest album title ever: Blood Sugar Sex Magik by RHCP. Close second: Primus - Sailing the seas of cheese.
- Visited an elderly aunt in the nursing home this weekend- it made her so happy she cried.
- Sometimes, when people get older and facing their end they tend to drag the skeletons out of the closet don't they?
- It seems like yesterday my nephew was a little toddler, today he's a basketball player in his junior high.
- I can still spank that butt in a game of horse though.
- God, my back hurts.
- My knees aren't doing so hot either.
- We also threw a football around.
- My aching elbow.
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