I'm back, part 2

[cjsmith]

I've caught up on LJ as much as I'm going to. It's not much, but hey, it's some. :-)

In another two or three days I will know whether I caught what was going around. There were a couple of unhappy cases there. Rosemary, I hope you're starting to feel a bit better by now.

Beware of 31-minute flight connections. That's from landing to takeoff, not from the door of one gate to the waiting area of another. If I'd called for a wheelchair, or if I'd walked in a less painful manner, or perhaps even if I'd been seated in the rear half of the incoming aircraft, I would have slept in Denver last night.

Okay, one more sober note. The priest made a good point during the funeral Mass. What should dominate our thoughts "is not last Wednesday," he said, indicating the day of the death. "It's the eighteen years that went before last Wednesday." So true. Our deaths might be timely or un, quick or drawn-out, painful or peaceful -- but what matters more than that is what we choose to do with our lives.

Comments

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm glad you could make it to the funeral.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm glad I could too. The fact that all the Smiths came in from various other states, some quite a ways away, was definitely noted and may be remembered. (I'm guessing my brother and I came the farthest.)

This one is psychologically rough for reasons not directly related to loss. I wasn't close to him; my main impetus for being there was to support the family. But it has bumped my brain in a way that others haven't.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, when my father died, it wasn't seeing him at the end that made me cry, it was the memories of kindness and joy.

I think the priest is a very wise man; it's something that we forget in our comfortable existance that what we do now is what we will be remembered for

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is a sad thing to know that those happy memories are now memories. I'm glad you have good ones, though. *hug*

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Glad you're back--hope you're doing okay (and hope you didn't catch the whatsit).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Fingers still crossed on the whatsit. I'm not feeling normal, but not exactly feeling sick either, so there's hope.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

(Glad you made the flight, but sorry it cost you.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Didn't last long, fortunately. Mostly back to my-normal by the next day. That's not so sucky. :)

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Cool.

BTW (OT) I dreamed the other day that I met you at a con. I asked you if you were cj, and you kind of rolled your eyes and said how many 5'2" women [meeting these specifications] do you know?

(I don't know your real height, and don't remember the specifications you provided, but I know you've given some stats in prior posts.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* That's close! (I'm five-three. And I don't even look very unusual, if the specifications you're thinking of are the ones I'm thinking of!)