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bluegreen17) wrote2002-12-31 01:25 am
bluegreen17) wrote2002-12-31 01:25 am
new toy and old greatuncle
damn. i'm enjoying the HELL out of having an operating radio in the house again. yeehaaa! i'm listening to a lot of oldies...love the sixties stuff especially. also,a couple of stations that play new stuff but have similar taste to me in general. basic rock and roll,though not akin to the early fifties stuff. don't really like that early stuff. it gets good 'round the time the beatles showed up. anyway,this one station plays john hiatt's 'old friend' and that's the only place i've heard it. another station plays lots of really punky stuff and there's some good and some crap.not that i'm opinionated or anything.
i was in a funk earlier because i got a message that my great uncle had died. it wasn't a surprise as he was 93 and was in the hospital but sometimes i don't know what to do or say to people.i don't know my cousin all that well...he's my mom's age. i probably am not going to make it to the funeral as i am working but i really should call and offer my condolences and those sorts of things feel so awkward and i hate the phone most of the time anyway. i emailed my four sisters and my two fellow bachelor girl sisters wrote back and that made me feel a little better. sara joked that now cranky uncle with be with our greataunt who died about 15 years ago and maybe he won't be so cranky anymore. my greataunt and i were good buddies. she was in her eighties and i was in my twenties and we just would giggle together a lot. maybe i take after her a bit,come to think of it. i sometimes feel embarrassed that i'm such a kid at 44. she just had fun in life and so that's not so bad. my greatuncle would drive us somewhere and he'd be swearing at the other drivers and she would turn around and grin at me in the back seat and we would try not to laugh. after my greataunt died,i stayed in touch with my greatuncle but he kind of detached himself,so i wasn't close to him the last few years. i hope they're having a grand reunion up there!
i was in a funk earlier because i got a message that my great uncle had died. it wasn't a surprise as he was 93 and was in the hospital but sometimes i don't know what to do or say to people.i don't know my cousin all that well...he's my mom's age. i probably am not going to make it to the funeral as i am working but i really should call and offer my condolences and those sorts of things feel so awkward and i hate the phone most of the time anyway. i emailed my four sisters and my two fellow bachelor girl sisters wrote back and that made me feel a little better. sara joked that now cranky uncle with be with our greataunt who died about 15 years ago and maybe he won't be so cranky anymore. my greataunt and i were good buddies. she was in her eighties and i was in my twenties and we just would giggle together a lot. maybe i take after her a bit,come to think of it. i sometimes feel embarrassed that i'm such a kid at 44. she just had fun in life and so that's not so bad. my greatuncle would drive us somewhere and he'd be swearing at the other drivers and she would turn around and grin at me in the back seat and we would try not to laugh. after my greataunt died,i stayed in touch with my greatuncle but he kind of detached himself,so i wasn't close to him the last few years. i hope they're having a grand reunion up there!