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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I am grumpy and opinionated
today:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>1. I had crown work done on a
tooth yesterday and I didn't fill my pain pill prescription yet.
Dull, continuing pain apparently makes me grumpy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>2. Today is my FILs
memorial. Not only will there be no body (cremated), there will be no
speaker, no church/funeral home, no eulogy, no music except big band and from
the 40s, there was no obituary, there will be no flowers, and other than
pictures on a table, there will not be anything I associate with a
funeral/memorial service. It will be held at a quaint, historic
restaurant's banquet room and they will serve horsey-dorvees ( I hate the French
today too and refuse to use their language!). Really, isn't that more of a
wake?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>My husband's Pop and his issue
number 19. My husband and our family are 9 of those 19. But because
"blood is thicker than water" (His exact words when meeting his first grandchild
-- our first daughter who was only 1 day old), my children and his only
great-grandson were never treated like real grandchildren. He was a really
good Pappy to his 4 birthed grandchildren, but not to mine. I am
bitter but my children are not, even though they have known for a LONG time that
they are not treated equally. They do what is right -- like sending
flowers and cards to their grandma with no prompting from me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>3. My
not-new-enough-to-get-them-replaced glasses are broken (WalMart warranty was 60
days) and I can't find my old pair, so I'm wearing sunglasses inside the
house. Did I mention I am useless without glasses? I am as
nearsighted as a mole.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>So now you know far more about my
life than you ever wanted to know. Get over it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>