Oh David, there is only so much you can do, and you have gone above and beyond. I hope you are able to get some rest before the next wave of fraught emotional shit.
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
'The Message'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Oct 14, 2023 4:49:29 pm PDT #26141 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2023 4:57:31 pm PDT #26142 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oof. Rough talk. They're upset, but we're going forward.
erikaj - Oct 14, 2023 5:16:14 pm PDT #26143 of 30000
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Aw, that sucks. You(and they, it sounds like) need to talk about simple stuff for a while.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2023 6:59:34 pm PDT #26144 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happier resolution!
I dropped Malia off at Huckleberry.
Then I took Niki over to Diamond Youth Center. (mere blocks away and all within a mile of my house, and their HS)
Parked the car, came upstairs and immediately got a call from Niki. Diamond Youth accepts siblings and they had an extra bed.
So shot back out, collected Malia and reunited her with her sister Niki. They are together tonight.
And now I'm having a cocktail.
-t - Oct 14, 2023 7:23:49 pm PDT #26145 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that’s fantastic!
Shir - Oct 14, 2023 9:59:11 pm PDT #26146 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
David, you've been doing and going through so much. I'm happy for the happy resolution.
Sending cocktails via intertubes.
NoiseDesign - Oct 14, 2023 10:27:18 pm PDT #26147 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
David, I'm happy there was a happier resolution there.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2023 10:37:22 pm PDT #26148 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sending cocktails via intertubes.
::glugglugglug
Nilly - Oct 15, 2023 12:04:06 am PDT #26149 of 30000
Swouncing
David, did the call from Niki come from the phone you provided her?
If so, then you were the one who made it possible for her to execute the solution she had found to the being-apart problem. You keep being a part of making-things-better for those girls.
(And as difficult as it is, it's good that Matilda could get some outlet to her feelings. You obviously don't need me to tell you that, but Monday is so loaded with emotions, some of them conflicting. It's harsh on grown-ups, and on less-close people)
(Oh, and timelies!)
DavidS - Oct 15, 2023 5:03:02 am PDT #26150 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, did the call from Niki come from the phone you provided her?
Yes, it did. It really gives them so much more agency.
The other good thing was they got to see that I wasn't dropping them off and washing my hands of them once they went into the shelter. That I would still advocate for them and support them.
I'm awake at 4:47am because somebody from the church emailed me pictures of the flower arrangement, and it's none of the flowers I asked for and not the colors I requested either.
It's a lot of pink. Which, if this were msbelle's funeral, I would happily flood the place with pink. But it's not really Jacqueline's palette. I asked for dahlias and ranunculus and irises and tulips. It's Gerbera daisies.
Dahlias are in bloom right now! I can walk into Bi-Rite and walk out with armfuls of them!
Grief being a weird driver, this became the thing that upset me because it felt so wrong.
She responded back very thoughtfully and said she would try to take out the pink and put in some purple (JZ's favorite color). (She isn't the person who did the arrangement, but an administrator.)
It's weird the things that your heart will latch on to as a flashpoint in grief.
Also, Jacqueline's birthdate is wrong on the program and I've asked them a few times to change it but I haven't seen it fixed.
Can you imagine getting a copy editor's birthdate wrong at her funeral? The insult!
They're really being very responsive and trying hard to make the service as I want it, but all these last minute things are stressing me the fuck out.
Anyway, now I can't sleep and my in-laws are arriving in 6 hours.