May 25, 2009
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The Daily News
1 Welp, I guess it's going around. I met two different people who said that they had lost not one, but two relatives in the same week. Two entirely different people, when has that ever happened? But I met TWO people who informed me of that.
2 It's going to be nice getting back to a normal routine. Last week was a bit crazuh. We never got to the Giants game on Friday. I thought it was the San Francisco Giants, but it turned out that we planned to hit the San Jose Giants, but it was a firecracker night. Sold out.
3 Instead, we took the party from my Mom's celebration, tables, ice chests, chairs, etc. and stuck it all in the front yard, organizing a birthday party in under 28 minutes!
4 I never moved so swiftly in my life, and nowadays, that's saying a lot, because I don't move too quickly to do anything but avoid moving quickly.
5 Moving backwards: There are a couple of things that I forgot to report about the service, so if I may: When my Dad wanted us to order flowers from him, we asked him what he wanted the flower ribbon to say. He paused, then said, "I still do."
6 And when I got in the car procession from the chapel to the church, we drove through San Bruno on a beautiful day. I played the Beatles' All You Need is Love with the windows down, not really loudly, but as a backdrop. It made sense beneath the blue suburban skies.
7 Miracles occurred almost regularly for the past three days, but that was to be expected. I won't go through all of it. It's just been really sweet. For example, on Friday I worried about assignments for my online class, and it turned out that we didn't have any major papers due at all.
8 Sweet.
9 So all that is drifting behind, as I swiftly travel down the highway.
10 The most painful thing one can imagine, the passing of a parent, has gracefully blown past me like a summer day. I smiled a heckuva lot more than I cried. Thank you all again for abiding my indulgences, and for all the nice thoughts, poems, and support.
11 It's time now to get back into the world of the living, beginning with gardening, something I enjoy spending time doing.
12 Moving on: One thing that has been happening to me a lot lately is that I am constantly at war with inanimate objects, almost to the nth degree. I can't pick up a hose without it catching on something and knocking it over.
13 I moved the ladder to try to get to flourescent lights in my garage, and it picked up a pair of boxer shorts, a pretty funny image, until the ladder landed crookedly because of it. Can you imagine? Death by boxer shorts.
14 I spent around two hours trying to replace one of those flourescent lamps because, well, they NEVER work. One started humming and buzzing and sputtering. Another went on in one socket but not in another. I tested the socked with another light bulb, and it worked. I put the thing back in, and it didn't work. I put the original testing bulb back in, and IT didn't work.
15 You get the idea. I feel like Charlie Chaplin so many times. I think it was Modern Times where he couldn't get through a door because he had issues with a broom. He finally put the broomstick horizontally across the door and stepped over it, and then pulled it into the room.
16 Anyway, even after I wrote this portion of the DN, I went out, bought some lumber to do a project in my yard, and knocked out a window with the board.
17 Suddenly hoses have life, lumber can become vicious and shatter car windows, small walnuts can trip me, and rocks can come out of nowhere and knock me to the ground.
18 It's all a bit funny, and yet terribly strange...
19 Ah, it's probably my imagination, running away with me.
20 But lately inanimate objects seem to have thought. I'm not going out of my mind or anything, it's just something that I've come to notice.
21 I'll become yet more nutsy as the week progresses, so we should really end it here, before some other inanimate object decides to mess with me.
22 Enjoy your Tuesday, and your shortened week!
23 It' nice to be back in the land of the living.
24 Peace.
~H~
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