~Saturday~ Today was quite the affirming day with regards to communications with my relatives, and by the end of it, I was able to articulate the final arrangements for my aunt’s funeral, which I’m posting here for posterity:
| There is going to be a mass on Wednesday, 02/10/10, starting at 10:00. Mom, Dad, and I are going to meet Karen, Joe (her partner), and Lisa at the Breezy Lake Drive house at 9:30 in time to leave from there at 9:30 driving together to the church together.
The mass starts at 10:00 and is expected to last an hour. Church details: St. John & James Parish After the mass, we will all follow each other in a funeral procession to: Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery where there will be a very short graveside service. |
In the process of back-and-forth e-mail with family, I also found out that a few of my cousins will be there, whom I haven’t seen in at 25 years, I would say, if not longer. Should be nice.
Two failblog.org entries cracked me up today—one image:
and one video:
At the gym today, I did my lower body routine followed by 300 (15 sets of 20 reps) ab crunches. The last five of those sets talked to me.
From the gym, I ran over to Kohl’s at Crossroads Plaza, where I bought a new pair of sneakers, since my old ones have begun to tear along a seam.
On the way to dancing a had a most enjoyable conversation with Uncle Rene and Aunt Rita with both of them listening in on the other end.
Dancing was fun tonight, and it started off with Rick and I toasting my Aunt Annette each with a shot of Turkey 101.
We had a good number of dancers and the crowd grew to a pretty decent size by the time we stopped dancing. I danced several line dances in the front row tonight, as Geromy wasn’t there. Not that it’s about being in the front row.