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Jan. 3rd, 2025 06:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom guided me yesterday morning to request a leave of bereavement over the phone for today, Monday, and Tuesday. (I am still gonna work tomorrow, when I am scheduled for a short day from 2 to 7.)
We also have some benefits to look into enrolling in before February 10, but the page listing them got stuck loading on both my phone and my laptop.
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At least the first of those two things panned out; yesterday overall was wasted for me, although I did manage to read a chapter of Tokyo Mew Mew at one point.
The previous night, before going upstairs to shower off (Mom's been planning to hire a plumber for the heating system down here, but before Dad's actual demise was especially prohibitive for turning the heat off first), I found my wool hat missing, and had to settle for a backup for then just to avoid getting sick with wet hair out in the cold.
When we got around to looking for my regular hat, which Mom recently gave me specifically to cover my ears more easily with a pair of flaps, I was not able to find it in the foyer, anywhere in the apartment, in either Mom or Brian's car, or even in a bag of laundry Brian suggested I get from the back of his car. Mom promised to buy me another one before my next working day, and I somehow interpreted that to mean at some point the same day; that became one thing I wound up anticipating for nothing.
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The other thing was originally our walk at Smith Point. She called that off because of the wind for that day, but we still agreed to get some coffees at Starbucks.
Would've had lunch first before bringing it up again, given the sugar content in those drinks, and especially with a bag of bagels someone had brought over. Mom, however, was already making some lamb kourma, she says from a recipe Aunt Marie had shared with her, for what would be an early dinner, and since I wasn't actively starving, I decided just to save room for that.
So we have dinner at 2, Brian and Emily still decline anything on the app, and then Mom, one of the people who wanted a drink in the first place, goes to this salon appointment that I knew nothing about beforehand and assume would be something like half an hour instead of several whole (Aunt Marie mentioned having been told, though). Aunt Marie had to leave for the airport at 6, and asks me just to write her off. I decide by that point just to write the whole thing off for the night, although I am still open to seeing it through today, now that it's not gonna be as windy on the beach as it was yesterday.
Mom did find my hat in the car, though, tucked under the passenger seat, she says when she dropped her wallet. So, good thing we hadn't gone shopping in the end for a replacement. (I must've unknowingly pushed it back there with my feet on the ride home from work, after having tossed it on the floor in front upon climbing in.)
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That all said, things did end on a high note in the evening. An hour before Aunt Marie left, I managed to put on the first two episodes of K-On!, which we all watched as a family. (Talk about the first time we could feasibly watch an anime all together, now that Dad's gone.)
Mom and Brian were the ones to drive Aunt Marie to the airport. Marie and I decided to follow Emily outside to play with Maris for a few minutes.
Upon coming back inside, Emily left for her parents' house. Marie looked around Netflix, and also managed at my suggestion to install Hidive to that TV, so that I don't have to hook my laptop up there anymore (will still need to log in, though).
While browsing around Netflix, she went on to put on the very first episode of The Bernie Mac Show, something we all enjoyed together late in 2003. Mom and Brian came home mid-episode, and Mom commented how much she misses that show. (I'm sure Dad would have loved to see that pilot that we never saw, where the kids' actual reason for living with their uncle, which Mom originally assumed was because their parents are dead, had long been established.)
It occurred to me only after the episode ended, that I could have shared a bag of my popcorn around with everyone during K-On!, or even earlier on when we were watching several other shows. I took my s'mores-flavored bag out of the kitchen pantry to put somewhere out in the open for today. (The remaining flavor, cheddar, is back in its original cabinet up in the apartment.)
We also have some benefits to look into enrolling in before February 10, but the page listing them got stuck loading on both my phone and my laptop.
-
At least the first of those two things panned out; yesterday overall was wasted for me, although I did manage to read a chapter of Tokyo Mew Mew at one point.
The previous night, before going upstairs to shower off (Mom's been planning to hire a plumber for the heating system down here, but before Dad's actual demise was especially prohibitive for turning the heat off first), I found my wool hat missing, and had to settle for a backup for then just to avoid getting sick with wet hair out in the cold.
When we got around to looking for my regular hat, which Mom recently gave me specifically to cover my ears more easily with a pair of flaps, I was not able to find it in the foyer, anywhere in the apartment, in either Mom or Brian's car, or even in a bag of laundry Brian suggested I get from the back of his car. Mom promised to buy me another one before my next working day, and I somehow interpreted that to mean at some point the same day; that became one thing I wound up anticipating for nothing.
-
The other thing was originally our walk at Smith Point. She called that off because of the wind for that day, but we still agreed to get some coffees at Starbucks.
Would've had lunch first before bringing it up again, given the sugar content in those drinks, and especially with a bag of bagels someone had brought over. Mom, however, was already making some lamb kourma, she says from a recipe Aunt Marie had shared with her, for what would be an early dinner, and since I wasn't actively starving, I decided just to save room for that.
So we have dinner at 2, Brian and Emily still decline anything on the app, and then Mom, one of the people who wanted a drink in the first place, goes to this salon appointment that I knew nothing about beforehand and assume would be something like half an hour instead of several whole (Aunt Marie mentioned having been told, though). Aunt Marie had to leave for the airport at 6, and asks me just to write her off. I decide by that point just to write the whole thing off for the night, although I am still open to seeing it through today, now that it's not gonna be as windy on the beach as it was yesterday.
Mom did find my hat in the car, though, tucked under the passenger seat, she says when she dropped her wallet. So, good thing we hadn't gone shopping in the end for a replacement. (I must've unknowingly pushed it back there with my feet on the ride home from work, after having tossed it on the floor in front upon climbing in.)
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That all said, things did end on a high note in the evening. An hour before Aunt Marie left, I managed to put on the first two episodes of K-On!, which we all watched as a family. (Talk about the first time we could feasibly watch an anime all together, now that Dad's gone.)
Mom and Brian were the ones to drive Aunt Marie to the airport. Marie and I decided to follow Emily outside to play with Maris for a few minutes.
Upon coming back inside, Emily left for her parents' house. Marie looked around Netflix, and also managed at my suggestion to install Hidive to that TV, so that I don't have to hook my laptop up there anymore (will still need to log in, though).
While browsing around Netflix, she went on to put on the very first episode of The Bernie Mac Show, something we all enjoyed together late in 2003. Mom and Brian came home mid-episode, and Mom commented how much she misses that show. (I'm sure Dad would have loved to see that pilot that we never saw, where the kids' actual reason for living with their uncle, which Mom originally assumed was because their parents are dead, had long been established.)
It occurred to me only after the episode ended, that I could have shared a bag of my popcorn around with everyone during K-On!, or even earlier on when we were watching several other shows. I took my s'mores-flavored bag out of the kitchen pantry to put somewhere out in the open for today. (The remaining flavor, cheddar, is back in its original cabinet up in the apartment.)