Life Catch Up...

Ok so the last week has been quite hectic so here is the catch up. So lets start on sat... my parents decided to come up by train to see grandpa after I went to the nursing home on friday night so they were scheduled to get in around 3 in the afternoon. Bren went to work in the morning and I got a phone call around 11:30 from aunt Linda asking for dad's cell phone number because Grandpa passed away that morning. So unfortunately mom and dad missed out on seeing grandpa but I think he was really just ready to go. Apparently while uncle Dave and Aunt Linda were visiting him in the home he actually asked Uncle Dave to Kill him... "Dave come here... I always liked you... do me a favor... KILL ME" "I can't do that dad they would put me in prison" "Well, I don't care... I won't be here" So yeah I think he had enough ... so I picked up mom and dad at the train station and we went to the apt for a little bit, went out to eat and took them to Aunt Linda's. Mom was being mom and I think that's all there really is to say about that. Spent some time talking with Aunt Linda and Uncle Dave and headed up to get Jessie from Grandma's so she could be home for easter... we brought her home... she went to sleep and then woke up and we went back to grandma's for easter dinner. Bren and I took Jon and Jessie for a couple of days which I have to admit was a little hectic givin the timing. We ended up leaving Jon with Jessie alot and although they were fine... kids will be kids to say the least. Well... Grandpa's wake was pretty much all day on Monday I headed down there on my own cause Brenda had to work and both the kids were here... so I headed down there and actually got there without getting lost which I must say was amazing... It was really hard... I mean my cousins are always funny and they definitly lightened the mood a bit but it was still really, really hard... grandpa didn't look good at all. I am pretty sure that alot of it was because we were so used to seeing him up and about and active which had not been the case with Grandma but honestly just looking at him was enough to make me cry... coming home that night I was honestly wishing that I had a picture of him somewhere that I could have looked at to get rid of that image in my head... I dont think I would have even recognized him had I not known who it was. So spent so well overdue time with my cousins and their kids and learned quite a few interesting family secrets to say the least... Then I came home and Bren and Jon had fixed up Jessie's room and had rearranged some stuff in the living room... which I have to admit I loved... then it was off to bed becuase it was a long night had by all and only more of the same to follow.
Tues: Ok so Tuesday is funeral day... Wake up run to old navy to get Jon some clothes because after monday I knew I couldnt' do the funeral by myself... and off to make the funeral by 11. We get there... Dad, myself, Uncle Jim, Michelle, Jenny and Tim were pall bearers for grandpa and I have to admit that was really hard... not to mention that grandpa's coffin contained his playboy calendar... again only my family could smuggle porn into a church and actually get the priest to bless it. So we did the funeral thing and then it was off to the reception... pretty much the same as grandma's at the fire hall and everything. They brought an album of grandpa's and I sat down with aunt betty (grandpa's sister) for a while to try to have her tell me who it was in the photos and all that... it was almost entirely a pre-grandma album but there were a surprising amount of pictures of his ex-wife and children in Hawaii.. which for some reason I found extroadinarily intriuging. Scratched off some lottery tickets in grandpa's honor and we were on our way to aunt linda's house. Where Brenda, Jenny, Tim, Mike, Michelle and I decided we were going to break out the old Ouija board and so we did. It was fun... who knows if Tim was pushing it or not but the things that got said were some scary and some funny as hell. Apparently even the Ouija board believes that my mother is a rag lol. Anyway so yeah... lots of time with the Ouija but apparently Jon decided to curse and uncle Dave yelled at him about it... he wouldnt' come back in the house... but really he doesn't know uncle dave... its' just his personality... he jokes around and he comes off really really harsh. So yeah then it was back home... fun times.
Wed: Went to my Spanish class... took a test that I was totally unprepared to take but she said she wouldn't count my absenses against me and whatever grade I pull off is mine so that was good... I waited around on campus for a while and went to what I thought was my 3:00pm meeting with my undergraduate advisor... wrong.. after waiting around til about 4:00 I went to check my email and found out that the meeting was really at 2:00 which means I missed it so I emailed the professor back and asked if we could meet during her office hours the following day... then I made an appt to meet with Masani the following day as well. Went home dropped the kids off at brenda's job and then it was off to TJ's wake... ahhh hard.... that's all I can really say about that right now... the computer just erased everything I wrote about it previously so ... Come home take the kids back up to grandma's and back home to sleep.
Thurs: Off to TJ's funeral... once again HARD... then it was home and back to north to make those meetings... well I get there to find that Masani cancelled our meeting and piya wasn't in her office hours... another pointless trip... yay... so did some stuff with Iris to work out the summer session stuff for next semester and I was off to go home and help brenda cook and clean for dinner.... but not without stopping at the grocery store first and spending enough money to make it so we don't have all of our rent money anymore... ooops... we will have to figure something out there.. so home... clean, wait for people to come... a much needed break.. the dinner went off without a hitch and I think everyone had a good time I know i did... so so much food that I am still eating the leftovers... Shaun gave Brenda and I tarrot card readings and Bren had a great one but mine on the other hand...
Tarrot Reading: Well let's see... First off... my mother and sister are a combination of worried about me and mad at me... they are constantly talking about me and why I am doing what I am doing... (very true... this I knew) My dad is the buffer between me and my mother and sister... he is the one sheilding me and protecting me from them (also true)... Ok now... Dad apparently although he is showing me one face and protecting me from them he has another face that he is not showing yet... he apparently has something that he needs to talk to me about that won't be too hard necesarily but it won't be great we just have to work through it... let's see then there is going to be "just one more death"... Ahhhh no more deaths... enough is enough... it's apparently going to be accidental which means it could pretty much be anybody because they don't have to be sick which is oh so comforting... but that is all he could tell me about that. Then let's see... I am going to walk away from this shitty semester with a new appreciation and closeness to my friends and the people around me due to the numerous deaths.... The two meetings that I have scheduled to talk with my professors are going to go unnecessarily harsh apparently... he even asked me if I was in danger of being dropped from my major... not that I know of... scary thought though.. considering I am going into my last semester... ok so everything is supposed to somehow work out in the end... I dont know ... no more deaths and why do people have to be mean... I don't get it... ahhh
Up til Now: Everything has pretty much calmed down now. things have settled... we go up and get Jessie today and then it is back to school for her. And lots of catch up for me... I have been hanging out with my friends a bit more since the dinner which is good... I miss everyone but life has just been too busy and too hectic for me...