06-30-26 so long June, enough is enough
I was woken up at 7:30 this morning by a phone call from Bloomix to arrange delivery of flowers on Friday. The funny thing is is I’m so used to just up and go that I got up got showered and headed to the office where I had my first coffee and a social with the others in the coworkers space before getting down to work. I ran a payroll and then headed for my appointment at the funeral home.
The woman there was amazing with a help of phone, a friend or rather text a cousin, I was able to answer all the questions that were necessary and make all the plans and having transferred the money out of Mom‘s account to cover expenses pay the $3941 bill. I figured that is pretty reasonable. I also now have a file there with the information about me so that my kids won’t have to figure that all out. I know they wouldn’t have known where my mother and father were born and what their full legal names were, etc.. I plan to make sure that they are not left in the place that I am. The conversation took an interesting twist when I mentioned that my antidepressant was Lego. It turns out the woman’s 14-year-old daughter is struggling right now and she was looking forward to introducing that to her and she started to tear up and I gave her a big hug and she said I’m supposed to be consoling you. The thing is that it meant a lot to me to be able to help her in that moment. They really do take care of a lot of things, including CPP and OAS and contacting Kimberley Cemetery about placing the ashes there. I am going to get a digital fingerprint that anyone in the family can use if they want to get a tattoo and they will also take DNA samples and provide me the reports so that I can give them to my brother. There will also be opportunity to place an obituary on their website, which I will come up within the next day or two. I felt really good and looked after when I left there. I shall be expecting a text with the time of the scheduled cremation so that I can have a toast to Mom in that moment.
From there, I went straight to Joseph Creek village to do a walk-through of Mom’s apartment and handover the keys. I made it very clear that I felt they should not charge me for a couple days rent for July as she had not been there for two full months, eating the meals and having her apartment cleaned. I did agree to have the carpet cleaning taken off the damaged deposit but nothing else.
I met Donna and Rosie at Heid-out and had a martini lunch.
Back at the office, I printed the FedEx mailing label to send back her cable modem as I had called them in the morning and found out that nothing more was owed as she was on a month-to-month at this point and that was good news
Once I was done all my payroll headed to last meeting of the committee of Rotarians putting on Canada Day in the park. I am the MC for the event and got as much information as I could before coming home
This evening Tracey came over to visit me and let me download about the last couple of weeks before telling me that she retired today after 28 years with interior health. We drank some crown and had a nice visit.I let her pick a pair of Mom‘s silver cat earrings for looking after Missy while I was going through all of this.
I then had an amazing chat back-and-forth with Kim my brother‘s wife. She was able to express some of the things and let me say the things that I needed to that I have not been able to with him. I showed her the urn that I had picked out and ordered from Amazon and she agrees that it is perfectly beautiful.
I then got a very nice call from my granddaughter’s mother, Danika. She apologize for taking so long to call, but really they have been going through hell up in Elkford as the water system went down and her husband is away on manoeuvres with the army reserve. Her water was still working, but she was offering laundry services to anyone who needed it, etc.. We had a really nice talk.
So it’s been quite a day and now I should probably get some sleep in order to be ready for the big day tomorrow as I am on duty from 1130 till six Ish
triumphgal 