Memorium
Just before 9am on August 21, 2007, my husband's beloved grandmother passed on. A heart attack on Monday morning caught us all by surprise as her health was very good. We are devastated, she was very very dear to all of us. I'm sure I'll have more to say about her later, when the hurt is a little less, she was an amazing, stubborn, crafty, wonderful person and the world is certainly better for having known her. I know I am.
Thank you for all of the kind words of support. They're greatly appreciated.
Hold Tight to the Happy.
What a time to be without my knitting. I probably shouldn't be blogging right now, but I cannot sleep because my brain is far too full. Today has not been like I ever imagined that it would be. I'm going to be cryptic for now, because my heart needs a little shelter. Something to fill the hole and stopper the hurting. Things are as they are though, and will be what they are meant to be. I can hear my beloved husband snoring in the next room, in a strange bed. I should go and try again to sleep, but I know the churning won't stop and it feels better to be typing on this computer than it would to be lying in the dark. Part of me is hoping tomorrow has a cause for celebration, but the majority of me knows that and celebration will be entirely bittersweet. All I want to say is hold tight to the happy, and those people that you love.
Fond Farewell
I may not have been an English major like both of my sisters, but I have held for many years a deep love of the works of Vonnegut. As such, I was greatly saddened to hear of his death, although we can all only hope to live such a long, full life as he had. And so, in tribute, from The Books of Bokonon from Cat's Cradle; the Bokononist last rites:
God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
photo source: Wikipedia entry for Kurt Vonnegut
Shot a Man in Reno, Just to Watch Him Die.
Here's a little tip to anyone who might need to stay in Reno. There's a pretty nice Holiday Inn, not that expensive there. They have fancy cable and free internet. Plus, they were the only place we could find with a room at 10:30 last night when we realized that due to snow [and a closing of Interstate 80 at the California-Nevada border] we wouldn't be traveling any further. Not really our ideal for our traveling conditions here, we were supposed to be home by now, but alive and safe is better than crashed somewhere in the middle of nowhere. We're making a little route change, going through Sacramento instead of back through Susanville, and the traffic cams seem to show that by the time we hit Oregon it should be okay. A little messy yet, but okay. And then we should be home in no more than another 12 hours from time of posting. At which point, I can write all about our 4.5 days in Las Vegas.