Got to sleep til 8:15 this morning, so I feel better than yesterday. Got up, had breakfast and coffee, and showered, dressed, and met RK to go to the funeral/memorial service.

It was at mashfanficchick's uncle's shul, in Tarrytown, but it wasn't as bad getting there as I feared. We got there an hour early so we went to a coffee shop first ( Read more... )

Got up at 7:00 after about 4 1/2 hours sleep. Josh picked me up, then RK. He brought breakfast for us.

We went to the cemetery in Staten Island and waited there for the burial. It was the Hebrew Free Burial Association so it wasn't fancy, but it was meaningful. I cried.

We drove back to Great Neck to mashfanficchick's father's apartment and got ready for ( Read more... )

So I missed writing in here on New Years Eve. That's because we didn't get to bed until after 6 am.

Got up at mashfanficchick's father's and had breakfast and coffee. We didn't do much of anything until RK got there in the afternoon and then we spent some time discussing what things were needed for sitting Shiva Thursday after the burial. So we went out to BJ ( Read more... )

I'm spending the night at mashfanficchick's tonight. Zer mother died today, after having a cardiac arrest. Ze called me this morning to tell me that they thought it was the end, and that ze and zer uncle were on their way there ( Read more... )

I got up when the alarm went off at 10, and had breakfast and coffee. I puttered online, and got a call from mashfanficchick, but basically doing very little til 1:30, when I went to the Starsky and Hutch creative work session ( Read more... )

Got up at 9 actually, no hitting the snooze button, and had breakfast and coffee. Showered, dressed, and took the bus to my Al-anon meeting. Got there nicely on time. It was small, probably due to the weather. But good ( Read more... )

On my phone today and I am regretting it ( Read more... )

Which isn't a holiday celebrated in the US, but should be ( Read more... )

After being up so late last night (til past 2:30, not sure when I actually got to sleep) I slept late this morning. Middle Brother wakes up early, so he was awake and dressed long before I got up. Not sure what he did to amuse himself, but he has numerous books that he asked for for Christmas that he could have looked at ( Read more... )

Got up at 8:45 and ate breakfast and had coffee. Showered and dressed in my Christmas sweater. Set off to get Middle Brother at the Hicksville train station ( Read more... )