My Uncle Jim's funeral is this Monday (a four to five hour drive away), and my Mom wants to go up early. No one really wants my Mom to make the drive alone because she has a track record of getting lost or taking forever, so I'm driving.

I might be back Monday night. Will probably post some while I'm up there. But family comes first as most of my generation can't come since they're in school.

Take care.

Midge/Starjax

Oh, that's hard. I hope that you're feeling OK. Take care.

It's okay, I'm fine. It's just that the family has enough issues already. I should explain: he's my great uncle, not my uncle. My grandfather's brother, and so since I never knew my grandfather that well (he died when I was six, my family is not long-lived) they were always sending the kids to talk to Uncle Jim. It's a little weird, last time I skipped ritual and didn't go say hi to him, less than a month ago, and he died two weeks later. It feels so silly to me now that I slept in rather than going and saying hello, even if we usually ended up talking to Mag rather than him and conversations with him were stilted as best as we never knew what to say.

I'm just lost as to what to say or do. So I'm doing what my family expects of me.

=\ Suckage. Hope everything goes well with the funeral and your mom. And I know how that is... I didn't really talk to my great grandmother as much as I should have before she died, and after she left it was kinda... I felt pretty bad. Worse because I didn't cry at her funeral and mom got mad, but my great grandma told me not to, so I didn't.

sorry to hear of this. Hope this goes well for you.