continuing on...
Apr. 25th, 2008 05:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashYesterday, we ran around doing something like 90% of the funeral prep. Luckily Grandma had taken out a couple of insurance policies for the express purpose of paying for the funeral; we went to the funeral home and pretty much just ran down the list of stuff she'd chosen, nodded, and signed the contract. The whole thing's already paid for and the home didn't try to upsell us on anything. This is one of the few things Mina ever did to make our lives easier.
Then we went to get me some shoes for the ceremonies - I just don't own anything appropriate for this kind of thing; I have some ugly sneakers and a pair of sandals that's going to fall apart soon. We ended up at Payless where I found some serviceable black pumps, and a pair of sneakers that was right on the border between 'hideous' and 'amazing'. Although we also discovered that I have some expensive taste; we'd checked out a new shoe store in the area first, whose prices ranged from $150 to $400. Guess which end of their price range I actually liked... but, you know, if I pay that much for something that's going to go on my feet, I expect it to be that costly because I sat down with the shoemaker and threw some sketches back and forth, and had it made for my feet!
Tomorrow is the funeral; I'm really not looking forward to that. A whole morning of standing around nodding and smiling at other people's expressions of sympathy, then watching the corpse-box get closed and put in another sealed box - what the fuck is up with our cultural denial of decomposition, anyway?
Monday is a visit with Jason and Jennie, and then Tuesday is transit. And then I can get back to work.
edit: ...and back to a normal sleep schedule because waking up before the sun sucks.
Then we went to get me some shoes for the ceremonies - I just don't own anything appropriate for this kind of thing; I have some ugly sneakers and a pair of sandals that's going to fall apart soon. We ended up at Payless where I found some serviceable black pumps, and a pair of sneakers that was right on the border between 'hideous' and 'amazing'. Although we also discovered that I have some expensive taste; we'd checked out a new shoe store in the area first, whose prices ranged from $150 to $400. Guess which end of their price range I actually liked... but, you know, if I pay that much for something that's going to go on my feet, I expect it to be that costly because I sat down with the shoemaker and threw some sketches back and forth, and had it made for my feet!
Tomorrow is the funeral; I'm really not looking forward to that. A whole morning of standing around nodding and smiling at other people's expressions of sympathy, then watching the corpse-box get closed and put in another sealed box - what the fuck is up with our cultural denial of decomposition, anyway?
Monday is a visit with Jason and Jennie, and then Tuesday is transit. And then I can get back to work.
edit: ...and back to a normal sleep schedule because waking up before the sun sucks.