Couch 142 - Pope Hyginus' Final Resting Place (~Something in Latin~)

JD, I hope you're OK and getting some help. Check back in when you can...

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I worked this morning because it was the last day of school and I needed to finalize grades and close up my room, but I was able to leave about noon. My coworkers were very kind and handed me a gorgeous orchid plant and an envelope with about $150 in restaurant gift cards and cash they had collected for us as we travel down for the funeral. I was a bit floored as they pulled that together in a matter of a few hours. My department chair said I am well loved. She had gotten about half of that and had gone out to get the gift cards, and when she returned people kept bringing her more money so she just handed the rest to me in cash.

My sister and I have been working on service plans and obituary all day. My brother-in-law is paying to hire musicians to play. Mom was an organist and very much the reason my sisters and I became musicians. As a family we will also be singing a piece during the service. My sister and I may sing a duet if we decide we can hold it together to do so.

I'm actually okay at this point. I've shed a few tears, but I think I am mostly relieved that she didn't suffer and went quickly. That would have been much harder.

I've received dozens of messages of love and condolence through Facebook after we posted an announcement of her passing this morning. She was highly loved by many, many people.

We are leaving after our son's high school graduation Saturday morning and will be gone for about a week. Besides the service on Monday, there will be a graveside service a few days later; our family has a funeral plot in the town where my father grew up a few hours away from where they currently live.

Dad is okay. We were all just thrown by how quickly after we placed her in hospice she passed, but I've seen it play out that way for many over the years. I think she felt able to let go once she was no longer in her house and no longer being primarily cared for by my dad.

hospital is very very last resort option for me. im trying to tough thru it with my PRNs and willpower

my phones broke but i guess i can go to verizon tomorrow

i just made dinner because i forgot to eat today.... and cooking makes me happy so win/win

eating a steak now with onions on it, chive red potatoes and brown rice with lots of butter

i also just took a PRN so i hope it calms me down

i want to apologize to everyone for my insane behavior i am so sorry. im going to get better

Aaaand the Derren Brown obsession continues. I am now reading his Twitter feed, I have no idea why...His doggie is cute

We interrupt normal Couch activities for a public service announcement.

Tomorrow is National Donut Day. Here's how to cash in.

Those of you into strangely-flavored Oreos should be able to find jelly donut Oreos in Walmart stores beginning this weekend.

This has been a public service announcement of the Couch.

derren brown is cute.

I remember trying a crispy Kreme donut when a store opened over here. It was waaaaay too sweet for me. How do you guys eat so much sugar?

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I remember trying a crispy Kreme donut when a store opened over here. It was waaaaay too sweet for me. How do you guys eat so much sugar?

Hehe. When you are little do you start out with a teaspoon of sugar and gradually work up to a cup?

Hehe. When you are little do you start out with a teaspoon of sugar and gradually work up to a cup?

Wow that is surprising. Someone was telling me about the marketing of junk food in low income areas vs higher income areas in America. The person said according to tjis documentary they watched in a nutrition class, corner stores are subsidised ( I think) by the junk food company to place their products at the front of the store and fruit and vegetable at the back. I have not looked for this video so it might not be true.

I have not been in a corner store for years that sold fruits and vegetables except for the odd brown banana.

The problem is more that supermarkets have fled the inner cities, at least here in the East.