Peace~ma to you and your family, Steph.
Congrats on the apartment, P.-C.! I was going to say go for it!, but then it was too late and you already had.
Buffistas lead interesting lives.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2006 4:15:17 pm PDT #5774 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 27, 2006 4:19:26 pm PDT #5775 of 10001
What is even happening?
Yeah, he was Catholic. The funeral Mass is actually at 11:00, which is a reasonable hour; it's just that the visitation/eulogy is immediately beforehand (9:00) -- and there's a private visitation for the family that's even before *that,* hence the 8:00 a.m. Grumble.It seems like most of the funeral masses I've attended are at 9:00, and usually we go to the funeral parlor beforehand, at 8:00 (even though there's been a wake there the day or so prior). It's way too early.
Not yet. Caretaker!Aunt called me and we had the world's shortest funeral-planning conversation, as follows:Heh. Well, that's good. No time for fighting. The priest may pick the passage you're reading.
brenda m - Jul 27, 2006 4:28:26 pm PDT #5776 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Once again, glad I'm not Catholic.
I think I've told this story before, but my mom's funeral home (okay, that sounds weird, but I'm not sure how to say it) has an arrangement with a nature conservancy, and they plant a tree for each person during the year, then each year they have a memorial ceremony there. My sister and I drove seven or eight hours to go.
It was in September, misty and drizzling, and they had a piper on a pier on the other side of this small lake from where the ceremony was. It about broke us.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2006 4:43:20 pm PDT #5777 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Family sure is tiring.
Yeah. And death is exhausting.
My dad will have Taps played at his funeral. That'll be tough on me. I learned how to play it on the harmonica when my Mom died and wore her dogtags.. (She was a WAF).
Steph L. - Jul 27, 2006 5:29:13 pm PDT #5778 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My dad will have Taps played at his funeral. That'll be tough on me.
My granddad was in the Army in WWII -- but I don't think Taps is going to be part of the service. He used to sing the Ballad of the Green Berets all the freaking time (no, he wasn't a Green Beret; he just liked the damn song), and if there was any dignified way to work it in, I'd be campaigning hard for it.
I think I need to buy a funeral-appropriate blouse tomorrow. Meh.
Jessica - Jul 27, 2006 5:35:10 pm PDT #5779 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My uncle had Taps and a 21-gun salute at his funeral. We were all quietly mourning and then INCREDIBLY FREAKED OUT because most of us had never attended a military funeral before, and didn't know that the 21 guns (loaded with blanks, but still) are pointed not at the sky, but at the mourners. It was unnerving to say the least.
Steph L. - Jul 27, 2006 5:40:16 pm PDT #5780 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
the 21 guns (loaded with blanks, but still) are pointed not at the sky, but at the mourners.
Ack! That would freak me WAY the hell out.
Laura - Jul 27, 2006 6:00:27 pm PDT #5781 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
They did the 21 guns and Taps for my father and FIL. Taps is really tough. The guns were pointed in another direction though.
{{Steph}} You'll be in my thoughts.
libkitty - Jul 27, 2006 6:50:43 pm PDT #5782 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
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Nifty bio P-C.
DCJensen - Jul 27, 2006 7:37:55 pm PDT #5783 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'm pretty sure Funeral Salutes are NOT supposed to be pointed at people. That's weird.
And, IIRC, they aren't technically 21-gun salutes, although 21 shots are fired (3 shots, seven riflemen).