Friday, August 25, 2006

Funeral Planning

Today's my off day. YAY!

My daughter started back to school last week, and seems to be adjusting to her new routine. Her present project is mailing a Pringles Potatoe chip to her teacher. It must arrive edible and in one piece. I'm dying to do it for her. But I won't.

My son started college Monday. He had only positive things to say about it except that his math teacher is retarded.

My pumpkin vine is growing like a, well....like a vine. It reminds me of jacks beanstalk. Except is doesn't grow upwards, it kinda just grows all over the ground. The flowers on it bloom for a few hours, and then die...they're beautiful...... there's new flowers each day. We have 1 pumpkin so far. It's the size of a softball, except it's oblong, and it's green....................and now I have 9 tomatoes! yay!

I went to a funeral today. The father of one of the boys who grew up with my oldest son died from a Heroine overdose. It's a sad, sad, everyone loses, situation.

I've been thinking a lot about my own death and funeral lately. I want to take care of all of the details so that my family doesn't have to deal with it. I'm just not sure what kind of funeral I want. I definitely don't want a funeral like the one I went to today! It's bad enough losing a loved one....and then to have to sit there and listen to some big, greasy, hung over preacher talking about a dead person he never knew, and debating outloud whether or not the dead guy had been saved .....I don't want that for my family. They deserve better...........and so I will give it more consideration, and then I will put in writing what I want, and I will pay for what ever it is that needs to be paid for for a funeral......and I will prepare my will.......yes, I will take care of all of that shit so that i can get on with my life, and breathe a little easier.....so there! Any ideas out there for a great funeral?

1 comment:

Glenn said...

I have always been of the mind that the funeral is for the living. I'll be dead so I won't care what's going on. Why should they all be miserable. So I want mine to be a party.

Something like this...

A picture of me overlooking the festivities. A DJ that has a play list of my favorite songs to mix in with whatever everyone else wants to hear. An open bar. A live auction for people to bid on stuff that wasn't specified in my will with the profit going to a charity to find a cure for whatever killed me. A limo to drive all the drunk people home.

Maybe a little tacky but that's just me.