2006

Crushed

July 6, 2006

What else to say? Tonight has been hard. I talk to my Dad every other day or so, and we recount the events of the day, the things we’re both attending to in the wake of Mom’s passing, random thoughts. If you were listening closely enough, though, you would hear the tears creeping in around [...]

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Finished

June 29, 2006

I think I will have to take my Dad’s approach and just say this simply: Mom passed away at 7pm last night. Ever the captain of her ship, I think she tried to time it (if such things are even possible) so that she wouldn’t go on my birthday on Tuesday, or my parents’ anniversary, [...]

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Going Home

June 25, 2006

Well, it’s late Sunday night, and the news for today is that I’m going home. Mom is still here, though I think we really have reached the beginning of the end (or the beginning of a beginning, depending on how you look at it). She’s been very weak all day, is having more trouble scooting [...]

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Reason #2 I’ll Miss Her

June 24, 2006

She had a way, like most Moms do, of making everything better. Even her own death has been made more bearable for us by her attitude, her acceptance of this circumstance. But she is leaving us little by little, and soon, and with another looming family health crisis on the horizon, I desperately want someone [...]

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Passing the Baton

June 23, 2006

Lots of time to reflect lately, unsurprisingly. Mom continues to slowly decline, though with surprising bursts of energy the last few days. She sent me downstairs in search of an elusive box with her mother’s initials on the top, and in the course of looking for it, I found an amazing treasure: 6 boxes of [...]

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Things I Used to Know

June 18, 2006

Well, as all 3 of you may have noticed, we’re in a time of redesign and cleanup at WanderingMind. With friends getting spiffy new weblogs of their own, I decided it was finally time to start paying some attention to housekeeping around here. With that in mind, I’ve been going back through my old entries [...]

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Another Version of Myself

June 17, 2006

As previously noted, I’m a sucker for online avatar creators, and after doing South Park, I took the opportunity this morning to recreate myself as a Simpsons character. As with all of these little toys, the results are slightly off (my hair’s not that short anymore), but otherwise it’s a fairly accurate likeness, right down [...]

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Four Things

June 15, 2006

Boy, do these things take a long time. I started answering this back in January, but here it is, finally done. Sheesh. Four jobs I’ve had Short order cook at Montgomery Wards Maker of fine customized t-shirts at Shirtique (twice!) Cataloger of a stuffed hunting trophy collection for an estate sale Guardian of the dressing [...]

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Looking for the Switch

June 14, 2006

How it is today: pretty much more of the same. Mom seems a bit weaker every day physically, but still lucid and very much herself, which is to say loving, funny, and very sassy. She’s stopped taking visitors now except for family, but is still enjoying occasional phone calls and laughing with friends. And I’m [...]

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