First off, thanks to everyone who commented on that last entry, it helped.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday night I talked to my Aunt Elaine about my father’s passing. I also let other members of the family know, so I spent a lot of time talking online as well. My sister Heather is taking it hard of course, she’s been with him through everything.<\/p>\n
Wednesday morning I went to work. I guess since I have never had to deal with the loss of someone close to me I didn’t know what I needed. I woke up that morning and said “Call out of work, why? So I can just mope around all morning? There is nothing I can do at home.” After a few hours at work I realized that each time I stopped being busy I felt like I was going to fall apart. Oh. That’s why people take a few days off work when they lose someone.<\/p>\n
I needed some moping time. Moping is sometimes good. I ended up leaving work around 1pm, my supervisor gave me her home phone number just in case I didn’t want to go in on Thursday. I’m thankful to have a temp job that’s so understanding and supportive, she even told me I could take the rest of the week off.<\/p>\n I got home and some flowers were delivered to me, from a couple of my friends. How sweet! I might have been feeling all disconnected, but flowers do help somehow. They’re pretty and made me feel good to know that people care enough to send flowers.<\/p>\n Michael made a fire in the evening, and I spent some time reading. I talked to a friend on the phone, then spoke to my mother (turns out she didn’t know until 1pm on Wednesday, Oops. Most of her family knew before she did…). I spoke to grandparents (mother’s parents), and later talked to my Uncle Dan (my godfather). They were all pretty upset, but it was really nice to hear from them.<\/p>\n Thursday I ended up staying home. I puttered around most of the morning, made some cookies in the afternoon, my first time using my spiffy new mixmaster. It was an ok day, mostly I just needed the alone time to think. I recieved flowers from work in the afternoon, that was nice. Also got a few more books for the Philly Chix library.<\/p>\n Friday I went back into work. It was a decent day, I kept busy. That night we had some friends over, had a few beers and pizza. I had fun, needed to have some friend time.<\/p>\n Saturday I spent reading almost all day. I’m reading Orson Scott Card’s Alvin Maker series for the first time, it’s pretty good.<\/p>\n Today… I dunno. Perhaps I’ll try and fix Gentoo. It’s being bad and crankie with modules. This might be my fault. Bleh.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off, thanks to everyone who commented on that last entry, it helped. On Tuesday night I talked to my Aunt Elaine about my father’s passing. I also let other members of the family know, so I spent a lot of time talking online as well. My sister Heather is taking it hard of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}