Shir, you grieve when and as you feel like it. Some of my heartiest belly laughs came on the day of my mother's funeral and I was grateful for them because I might just have curled up and died myself without them. You will find yourself being plenty sad more than you want to; take the good times when you can and make the most of them.
Continued job~ma for your DH, Sox.
I have to go to a job search seminar at the unemployment office, today. Ugh. Two hours of being told how to do what I've been doing. I'll need lots of coffee to make it through.
Shir, Cash and omnis and others have said wise things. This is what I have to add. Sometimes the best way to honor our loved ones, alive or dead, is to learn from their mistakes rather than repeating them. So if you find yourself feeling any guilt over the possibility that you are being disrespectful of your grandfather, remember that you don't have to have the same attitudes to life that he had in order to love him and give him the honor he is due.
{{{Sail}}} may the job search be short and brilliant.
Job~ma for Sox's hubby.
Medical ~ma for Trudy's friend's little boy.
ETA: I have been adding contacts in Facebook as I recognize Buffistae this morning, just as a heads-up.
Do we know an Andrea Miller, speaking of Facebook?
That would be Windsparrow.
I'm slowly getting less paranoid about using my full name online.
Random note to Andi, my maiden name was Miller. That makes the possibility of us being related about zero, but I'll pretend.
I *so* wish I had meant that as a joke. Like, I was clever enough to have put that together and still played stupid.
So sorry - I always think of you as Andi. And in my defense, you need a picture!
Random note to Andi, my maiden name was Miller. That makes the possibility of us being related about zero, but I'll pretend.
How long have you lived in Florida? Cuz that's where my dad's family is from. Different part of the state, though - Pensacola, Quincy, Tallahassee. The sooner we have this conversation, the smaller the chance that we could be related. Which means if don't have it now, 15 years from now we will find out that we're second cousins twelve times removed, and end up saying, "Now, why didn't we figure this out sooner?"
I moved here as an adult. My father was born in Tupper Lake, NY. His family was mostly from upstate NY and Canada. But ya know, some ancestor may have gone a travelin'.
