The dregs of the migraine have gone away. We spent the day at home cleaning, cooking, and cuddling. lol the 3 C’s.
Today I’ve just been spending time at BlogExplosion. Saddened to hear that they are going to sell everything, but I guess it was inevitable. I’ll stay there as a moderator in the forums until the sale happens. You never know, the new owners may not want me there.
The afternoon before the migraine I had a chance to talk to my grandma. She’s 95. I started writing letters to her on a regular basis recently and she tried to reply, but it’s harder now. Her hands are very arthritic. So, we got to talk for about 2 hours. I got all the info on my cousins that I haven’t spoken to in awhile. Also found out granny is now a great-great-granny. She laughed and said it feels weird because in her head, she still feels 30. My brothers and I have been bad in the past about keeping in touch with her. Part of it had to do with my dad who moved us away from our relatives and didn’t encourage us to talk to any of them. As a consequence, when we did visit, we felt like hicksville outsiders. The “poor white trash” of the family. Little by little, each of us are repairing this. As adults, my brothers, the cousins, we’re more forgiving of such faults. That speaks well for all of us, I think.
Who would you most like to hear from that you’ve lost touch with over the years?
Funny you should talk about people we’ve lost connection to. I spent a lot of years deliberately out of contact with my family, only to discover them again recently.
I moved to be in the same town as 3 of my sisters and found the one thing that makes the emptyness I was carrying around with me go away.
There are people from my past that are gone now, either lost to me thru distance or death – I have been writing their stories down in order that they do not go unremembered
Be sure to write down the stories your granny has to tell so that the great great’s will know who she was before they knew her.
Barbara
There are people that I would like to hear from but I have found that I have changed and so…the same things that appealed to me then… dont appeal to me now
I had no idea that Blogexplosion is selling off…lucky I didn’t get the job as a graphic designer with them when they were looking for one. Never know how that would’ve panned out in the end.
As for a long lost contact…hmm…I’m not sure. Distant family have never been one of my big favorites…and they’re “lost” for a reason too ;)
And most of my friends I’m still in touch with.
Hope that migrane will go soon…must be horrible :(
My friend Becky from highschool and Val from junior high
I haven’t lost touch with any family… I would love to reconnet with my late grandfather tho… so much.