Is there any way to put a positive spin on funerals? I've been to 3 in the first 2 weeks of January and we have another one coming up either this week or next.
I consider myself to be a pretty positive person, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to be upbeat with so much death surrounding our family and friends this year.
I planned to have a party this weekend and I invited my girlfriend, who has been at the same funerals as me, to join me in trying to drown our sorrows together. She had the added stress of a botched kitchen reno and a father who has been diagnosed with brain cancer. We really needed a drink, or two, or three. We were all set to tie one on and move on from all the negative vibes, when her grandmother and Matriarch of her family, arrived home by emergency transport from Florida yesterday and she is now breathing her last breaths at the Jewish. WTF!!!
One of my friends joked that she's not going to hang with me this year because of all the death surrounding me. I appreciate the joke, any joke, because I need to laugh to replace all the crying I've been doing. I'm starting to look as old as I actually am...that's not good! The bags under my eyes are packing bags and moving out of the flood zone. The grocery store has run out of cucumbers and tea bags!
Depression doesn't suit me so I need you to cheer me up while I struggle to make sense of 2012 - The year of the Funeral.
(Even my first post of 2012 is depressing! Somebody save me!)
