Jilli and Fred, sorry about your losses.
Gud, here's to finding a job super fast!
msbelle, YAY new job.
I just got news that my friend David died on Monday. It wasn't a giant surprise -- he'd been battling cancer for years, most recently throat cancer followed by brain tumors. He'd been doing a slow retreat from life. The last time I saw him was in late spring 2010 when Grace and Noah went by his place. Pretty soon after that, he moved in with his son.
I will miss him so much and I'm wreaked that my children won't remember him better.
Kat, I'm so sorry about your friend.
Damn, today has (mostly) sucked, hasn't it?
Tomorrow damned well better be...better. Or else.
They'll remember him, through you. My middle name came from a woman who died before my memory took hold. But I know Marguerite, a fab LWV woman whose ERA blankies and onesies and crocheted sweaters and mitts are all in a cedar chest and I knew where they came from, long after I wore then. Cause of my parents.
It rather sucks, but also is a gift, those [friend]parents who don't live through our lives. Best can be is that the living parents gift the kids with the awesomeness that was, and how it happened when they were too wee to recall.
I really need to figure out what do with with my smartphone before I head to London. Not that Hec's ass ever calls.
dunno about your brand, but if you put it in airplane mode and then turn on wifi, you'll be fine (if you're not planning to make calls). That's what I've done every time I leave the country. I figure if I NEED to I can turn on the phone, but generally I just leave it in airplane (so I can use non-internet apps) and then hook up to wifi as needed.
if you put it in airplane mode and then turn on wifi, you'll be fine (if you're not planning to make calls).
I was doing some research earlier that gave me the same advice! I'm thinking about doing that, and perhaps buying an unlocked GSM phone and a local prepaid SIM card for to talk to people.
The bonus is, in airplane mode, the battery lasts forever!
But seriously, I spent two weeks in Europe, a week in Peru, and a week in Mexico in the past few months, with that strategy, and it worked out fine, no extra charges.
Kat so sorry about your friend.
Condolences, Kat. And sarmeg is absolutely right. There was a woman who was a dear friend of my parents when they were your age, who died young. But she is absolutely vivid in my memory, golden and singing and generous of heart, because of their stories. Your friend can be that to the twins; you can keep him alive in your stories.
