I got to go buy some pumpkins - almost missed the bus this year
I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef Animals were hiding behind the Coral Except for little Turtle I could swear he's trying to talk to me Gurgle Gurgle
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
How do I transition to a good American if I'm not already?
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Um, the woman who manages my local coffee shop 😍☕️
Great minds....
I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef Animals were hiding behind the Coral Except for little Turtle I could swear he's trying to talk to me Gurgle Gurgle
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Um, the woman who manages my local coffee shop 😍☕️
Great minds....
LOLOL
Relatively new coffee shop, beans imported from Taiwan, best coffee I've ever had. Friendly with all of the staff.
Manager is super cool, has a little bit of a bad girl attitude. Unprompted, she told me I had great skin lol.
Been flirting for a bit, never worked up the courage to get her number.
Just went there for lunch. The owner, Jason, said Brianna is no longer there, due to a "misconduct separation" that required a call to the local police on Easter.
😭💔☕
Is it weird that I'm more attracted to her now lol?
I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef Animals were hiding behind the Coral Except for little Turtle I could swear he's trying to talk to me Gurgle Gurgle
I'm going to Toronto for the first time on Sunday - goijg for 5 days. It's not for fun. My mother has very bad essential tremors that sre fully ruining her life, and Sunnybrook is the one place in all of Canada that has this new focused ultrasound brain procedure that might help her. I'm really stressed out about it, mainly because there is a large chance that it won't work (let alone the actual risks, which are extremely real). My poor mother has to have her head completely shaved for it too, which she is mortified about, of course. We do have reservations for dinner at Canoe on our last full day there though, so that will hopefully be nice. I also hope to have time to visit the Ontario Royal Museum.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then
I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef Animals were hiding behind the Coral Except for little Turtle I could swear he's trying to talk to me Gurgle Gurgle
my youngest is headed onto a bus for a school band trip from The Peg to Banff/Calgary/Drumheller. My poor brain always goes to the darkest places in these situations.
"every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 691
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My maternal grandmother (1979), grandfather (2009), and my mom (2016) are all buried in the same plot, 3 caskets.
My grandmother died when I was 2, don't remember her, but we lived with my grandfather for a bit when my mom left my dad. Was very close to him. Gave his eulogy.
***
My aunt, my mom's sister, my Godmother, died in September of last year, cremated.
Without telling any of my uncles, or me, my cousin buried his mother's remains in the plot yesterday.
Legally, he had the right to do so, as my aunt is obviously a direct descendent of my grandfather.
When I asked if our uncles knew: "Instagram told them."
He checked in at the cemetery and posted an IG story, with a picture of the remains and the plot.
***
He's had issues with our uncles for years, and his anger is justifiable, but IMO, they deserved a phone call.
And our own issues notwithstanding, I feel like I deserved a phone call. He was always like an older brother to me. We stopped talking after the election, when I (as he put it) "disowned the entire family". 95% of my family is Republican. We only started talking again because I had a heart attack in January.
And now he wants my Godmother to be at peace, when he left her to rot in a nursing home for the last 2 years of her life, while he sat in his multi-million dollar house at the top of the hill in New Jersey.
When I told him that he could have gone about this in an infinite number of ways that would have been more respectful to not only the deceased, but to those who miss them:
"I'm not seeking perfection or permission at this point of life."
And there isn't enough room for my aunt's inscription on the headstone. To remove it, he needs my 3 surviving uncles to give permission.
I have the deed to the plot, but it's essentially useless.
I don't trust him to do the right thing in terms of my mom's inscription on the new headstone.
This all makes me sad and angry. Selfishly, I wanted the 3 of them to remain alone, but I can't really deny my aunt a proper final resting place, at peace with her sister and her parents. And while I loved my aunt, and while I miss her terribly, I feel like her son could have handled this better.
I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then
Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!! I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain.
It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.
Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.
Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.
But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
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Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
astoria 06
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hartford 06
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this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Time for the pens to come out
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
People who have all the answers to all the fucking questions. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
I didn't ask for your "expert opinion"!!!
Carry on
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
astoria 06
albany 06
hartford 06
reading 06
barcelona 06
paris 06
wembley 07
dusseldorf 07
nijmegen 07
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
This is outrageous.
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle
Relatively new coffee shop, beans imported from Taiwan, best coffee I've ever had. Friendly with all of the staff.
Manager is super cool, has a little bit of a bad girl attitude. Unprompted, she told me I had great skin lol.
Been flirting for a bit, never worked up the courage to get her number.
Just went there for lunch. The owner, Jason, said Brianna is no longer there, due to a "misconduct separation" that required a call to the local police on Easter.
😭💔☕
Is it weird that I'm more attracted to her now lol?
I don't know what happened, Jason didn't say.
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
My grandmother died when I was 2, don't remember her, but we lived with my grandfather for a bit when my mom left my dad. Was very close to him. Gave his eulogy.
***
My aunt, my mom's sister, my Godmother, died in September of last year, cremated.
Without telling any of my uncles, or me, my cousin buried his mother's remains in the plot yesterday.
Legally, he had the right to do so, as my aunt is obviously a direct descendent of my grandfather.
When I asked if our uncles knew: "Instagram told them."
He checked in at the cemetery and posted an IG story, with a picture of the remains and the plot.
***
He's had issues with our uncles for years, and his anger is justifiable, but IMO, they deserved a phone call.
And our own issues notwithstanding, I feel like I deserved a phone call. He was always like an older brother to me. We stopped talking after the election, when I (as he put it) "disowned the entire family". 95% of my family is Republican. We only started talking again because I had a heart attack in January.
And now he wants my Godmother to be at peace, when he left her to rot in a nursing home for the last 2 years of her life, while he sat in his multi-million dollar house at the top of the hill in New Jersey.
When I told him that he could have gone about this in an infinite number of ways that would have been more respectful to not only the deceased, but to those who miss them:
"I'm not seeking perfection or permission at this point of life."
And there isn't enough room for my aunt's inscription on the headstone. To remove it, he needs my 3 surviving uncles to give permission.
I have the deed to the plot, but it's essentially useless.
I don't trust him to do the right thing in terms of my mom's inscription on the new headstone.
This all makes me sad and angry. Selfishly, I wanted the 3 of them to remain alone, but I can't really deny my aunt a proper final resting place, at peace with her sister and her parents. And while I loved my aunt, and while I miss her terribly, I feel like her son could have handled this better.