My father died around midnight last night. He knew he was close and asked for all of his family to gather around his bed. I didn't have my phone close so I didn't get the call in time to make it to his bedside. I don't feel bad about that. I saw him yesterday. He looked so much more peaceful lying in bed that he had looked in months. I had to help ( Read more... )

My father took to his bed on Friday and has chosen not to get out of it since. He is frail but cheerful. Yesterday when I was visiting he was quoting last words from movies her remembered from his youth. He isn't eating and taking his pain medication with a side of Drambuie. His heart is strong but he is working on his exit strategy. I don't know ( Read more... )

My wonderful catgrl57 inspired me to talk about fathers.

Like many of his generation, ours was a very distant man. Growing up we were never encouraged to share emotions. And like most girls I had a really hard time with my father during my adolescence. But if I go earlier than that I have two good memories of time I shared with my father. I remember sitting ( Read more... )

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When I was growing up I had a cat that did this same thing. Chianti would bring home flip-flops, underwear, bras, the occasional shoe, but mostly socks and gloves. We had a couple bags worth of stuff that our cat would steal from neighbors' garages. My father would get up in the morning to get the paper and be greeted by a random sock. We always ( Read more... )

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I just benched 95lbs. Squee. 66% of my body weight. When I started lifting I could barely do reps with the  45lb bar. I'm thisclose to triple digits.

Re-posted from Kat. Except once I started to go through it I doubted it's origin because I've read more than 6 of these books in school and some of them are kinda lowbrow. But it's a fun meme so do it anyway. This list is actually from the Guardian UK called Books You Can't Live Without.

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