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I AM LOVED!!!!!  gothicsquish made me my very own icon.

Thank you Squish!  I hope I credited correctly, if not please feel free to correct me.  =)

My CD, Liquid Precipitation, for featherynscale's CD exchange is done!  For those who are receive a copy, I apologize now for my bad cutting skills.  My kindergarten teacher didn't want to pass me the first time, however there is a full track listing attached to each.  I plan to get these to the post office tomorrow.

Yanked from all over the place...
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..and 24 hours in a car.  I'm home again.  There are a bunch of things I want to post about but no time right now.  Love to all.

Last week I bought a family tree making software (Family Tree Maker 2008, I believe is the name).  My mom and I have talked for years about redoing the family tree.  I had done a project in 7th grade that was pretty complete but it got lost in one of our remaining moves.  All the fact checking and looking at old Census records makes my heart go pitter patter.  I've spent all of my free time in the last 3 days doing this.  The only trouble is that my tree probably resembles more of a shrub than a tree.  I keep getting sidetracked by adding siblings and their spouses and look they have kids too!  *face palm*

I'm trying to find some information about my circus performing relative now.  The family knows very little about him, besides his name.  I'm hoping to pick my grandmother's brain and see what she knows about her husband's family. 

My mom and I have decided to go to my uncle's funeral.  We'll be leaving on Thursday to drive to Florida.  It's going to be about a 12 hour drive one way.  We'll be coming back on Sunday.  We're going to try and entice my aunt to visit some of the old haunts on Saturday.  If not, we plan to go ourselves. 

Sometimes the wisdom in a fortune cookie is really appropriate.  This was the message in both my mom and I's fortune cookies this evening. 

My uncle passed away this morning.  My dad was with my aunt all day helping her to make the necessary arrangements for his funeral and making phone calls.  I did talk to my aunt today and she is holding up as well as can be expected.  My dad is staying until her sister gets back in town on Saturday.  More than likely I'll be spending Thanksgiving in Florida, which is where my uncle wanted to be buried. 



*Friends locked only because I've mentioned leaving town for more than a day.

*EDIT:  Post made Public.

My mom spoke with my aunt in Dallas last night.  It sounds like my uncle is not doing well at all.  He has been in the hospital for the past 3 weeks, during that time my aunt has only been home once.  His liver has been failing for the last 3 months, it sounds like he has a feeding tube and is on kidney dialysis as well.  My aunt is calling her husband's estranged brother and telling him that if he wants to see him that it should be soon.  My dad is supposed to drive down tomorrow to see him, I hope he goes.

We've known for awhile that my uncle was not doing well.  I've been expecting his passing ever since he blacked out behind the wheel of a car two and a half years ago.  I hadn't cried about it until last night.  I was wondering why I didn't feel anything about it.  It became real last night.  I still feel kind of numb.  

It's NaNo time.  I'm feeling really excited about this.  I hope after the appeal of drinking too much coffee and hunching over my computer wears off that I'll still keep writing.  If nothing else, I'll have something to this year when I'm at my grandmother's for Thanksgiving, besides snarking with my Aunt V and adding Tuaca to our coffee.  ;-)