It's been a while since I've been on Gemini (now it's impossible to search for, thanks googs!). Reading my last post it looks like it was about two years ago, and then a year before that. Here I am again, trying again.
My dad died a few months ago. That leaves us at zero parents, barely into our thirties. It's a weird feeling to be the only people in our friend and peer group that are without parents.
It was sudden and it was fast. What was first feared to be a fit of dehydration ended up being Congestive Heart Failure that had been missed by his doctors for a while. Looking back at his past heath records though, there weren't really any signs.
My work has told me to take two weeks off and my therapist says I can bring "tokens" of my dad to talk about during our next meeting. I joked that I could bring him, he's right there in his urn.
Who knows what to do with urns? Eventually it'll hopefully be empty. I opted to get the family all small tealight-holding urns, since all the other urns I've ever encountered ultimately were... useless. At least a tealight can hold a candle.
He was Navy and we now have more American flags than we know what to do with (two). They're sentimental but not something I really want to display. It's a hard time to be American.
At least we're finally getting the contractor work done on our new place. Finally, we'll have usable lights.