Whooo! It is 1:30 on Monday morning and I am not asleep. This is not good. Tomorrow is going to be a tough day if I don’t get to sleep soon. I blame the 5 pm nap and 20 oz of Diet Pepsi (listen, I had a HEADACHE – unlike on Xmas 2008, at least I did not barf, okay?).
So, while I’m waiting to get tired… today was Gene’s mother’s family reunion. We left here about 9 am and got home about 5. Blanche was born in a town about 2 hours east of here, so it is a long haul to get there. My contribution to the pitch in was/were two different kinds of cookies and two different kinds of brownies and a lot of them are coming to work with me later today (ugh, have to leave for work in 7 hours…why am I not asleep??). Anyway, I saw Gene’s two living aunts and one living uncle and a whole mess of other relatives. I did not win any door prizes and I am GLAD because I would have died of shyness when I got up and retrieved my prize. (Plus, the prizes looked like crap).
And yes, we visited Blanche’s final resting place and yes I was/am sad and yes I miss her. (While fumbling through my blog posts marked private, I found one where I called Blanche “maddening.” It was true, but still… if I’d known, I wouldn’t have thought that).