03-05-25 heavenly birthday
I woke up fairly stuffed up again, but took my medications and got through the day a lot better than yesterday. One of the highlights of the day was Monica leaving a gift bag at my office door. I wish I did get a picture. I’ll try to remember tomorrow. She made a hilarious homemade card and on the front of big letters it said ‘snot to be gone’. In the bag were figurines of Ren and Stimpy, which made me laugh, especially because she knew I would know who they are and the amount of bodily fluids that are involved in that show would put a big smile on my face for sure.
I prepped angel food cake, sliced up strawberries, and brought whipped cream to share with everybody at the office. I printed a picture of Jackie with a little story and ask them to hug somebody special today in honour of her. Honestly, it left me a pretty dang good mood all things considered.
I had good texts with the two other people closest to her, her son Reid, and her friend Mike who is in Mexico. Mike a.k.a. Michelle, is the one who introduced us in the first place because I was doing Mike’s books and Jackie was their accountant. That is how I got to know her and how she recruited me to the accounting firm she worked for and how we became fast friends travelling off Island every day., two decades ago.
Amount of work done and then just decided it was time to stop and build my lucky bamboo. I put on CBC and listen to an interesting program while I built it. It was a good meditative thing to do before coming home.
The best message of the day was just as I was finished at work and Reid let me know how happy he was that he was able to pick up his mom in her urn from the funeral home today.
Yep, she’s still controlling and looking after us all from beyond. Happy Birthday JB. I miss you.
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