Oh, about those ashes...mewsrissicatJune 20 2010, 17:13:22 UTC
You'd best take care of them sooner than later, or the next thing you'll know you'll be getting a call from another family member...
(ring) Mom: "Hey, do you have your Dad?" Me: ... "Ummm, no." Mom: "Because Lois says that you definitely have your Dad." Me: ... "No. So she's lost his body." Mom: ... ... ... Me: "Because she took the box with his ashes, and said she was going to scatter them and give me the box as a keepsake. Only I never saw the box after we picked it out." Mom: "Are you sure...?" Me: *exasperated* "I have my cat's ashes, but not my Dad's." Nan: (in the background) Kitty, meet Dad. Dad, meet Kitty....
Re: Oh, about those ashes...eramundoJune 20 2010, 18:11:30 UTC
when cleaning out his estate we found several of his past-cat's ashes kept on the mantle. My sister, I believe, scattered them already
but I remember that my initial proposals to (1) lump them all together in one big happy ashy-commune and get a proper sized vase (2) create a series of urns: one big one with big nerd glasses (for dad) and then various smaller urns with cat ears and color-coded collars (for his favorite cats) were vetoed pretty soon after the funeral on grounds that people shouldn't make chibi art out of their deceased loved ones.
But everyone else was modestly creeped out by the idea of hanging on to him until scattering date, so he's remained 'on the shelf' so to speak ever since. I could have just made up the urn set years ago and nobody'd ever known.
I figure he's better off with me than with mom, knowing her penchant for going on cleaning sprees. XD
My grandfather spent, like five years on my uncle's closet shelf until my grandmother passed away and we could put them both in Arlington. I second your idea and think you should use them to ward off creepy visitors or dates or landlords. "You have to include Dad in the conversation; he doesn't like being left out."
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(ring)
Mom: "Hey, do you have your Dad?"
Me: ... "Ummm, no."
Mom: "Because Lois says that you definitely have your Dad."
Me: ... "No. So she's lost his body."
Mom: ... ... ...
Me: "Because she took the box with his ashes, and said she was going to scatter them and give me the box as a keepsake. Only I never saw the box after we picked it out."
Mom: "Are you sure...?"
Me: *exasperated* "I have my cat's ashes, but not my Dad's."
Nan: (in the background) Kitty, meet Dad. Dad, meet Kitty....
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but I remember that my initial proposals to (1) lump them all together in one big happy ashy-commune and get a proper sized vase (2) create a series of urns: one big one with big nerd glasses (for dad) and then various smaller urns with cat ears and color-coded collars (for his favorite cats) were vetoed pretty soon after the funeral on grounds that people shouldn't make chibi art out of their deceased loved ones.
But everyone else was modestly creeped out by the idea of hanging on to him until scattering date, so he's remained 'on the shelf' so to speak ever since. I could have just made up the urn set years ago and nobody'd ever known.
I figure he's better off with me than with mom, knowing her penchant for going on cleaning sprees. XD
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You should get a really big Santa cookie jar for your dad to rest in during the Holidays.
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