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was watching it at the gym

would have been fitting too that the National Guard car would have won on Memorial Day weekend as well

I hear that. I'm sitting here with itchy, blurry eyes cursing our Oak tree in the front yard right now... :mad:

i'm cursing the neighbors who chose this morning to cut their lawns, which is the worst possible thing for me lol

I HATE pollen

that is all....

I joked with my friend that I was going to get an Industrial piercing and she is not happy. She said I wouldn't do it, so now I might :devil:

haha,

I saw a really bad accident in front of me today...was driving down one of the highways here and all of a sudden a pickup truck swerved to the right and smashed head on into a telephone pole. Me and about six other people stopped, one woman was a EMT and another guy was a Naval officer thankfully, they knew how to take care of him while I called the police, cause the kid was having a seizure when we pulled him out. Would have left him in there I'm sure but the truck was smoking and leaking all kinds of stuff.

 

Really scary...I wound up leaving a few minutes after the ambulance got there, hope he's okay. Wasnt bleeding or anything but was on oxygen and he seemed like he had no idea where he was when the EMT's were talking to him. :(

hope he's ok too Linds, sure it was horrible to see

No I haven't. Any good? I'll have to Youtube it. Been obsessed with astronomy for as far back as I can remember.

most things on the History Channel are, so it probably was

Not during my summer break, that's for sure. Staying up late and sleeping in til August :D

or maybe sleeping until August??

So excited about that. We will be spending nearly two months together this summer, 2 weeks in Italy and 6 weeks in America and Canada.

AWESOME man!!

No problem asking, I'm glad to answer. :) My dad had escaped death multiple times (2 heart attacks and a stroke) over the six years before his death and we had talked about death and a potential funeral before. Even I have a list of things already, just in case, and we followed some of what my dad wanted and some of our own ideas.

 

He was cremated and in The Netherlands, not sure if that's the same in America, you can take the ashes home with you. We are keeping about a third of it at our house in a black vase (ashes are in a bag, don't worry ;) ) we bought in his home region of Venice in Italy (my dad was 2nd generation Italian-Dutch). About half of the ashes was used to spread in a river in the German Black Forest, a place he loved very much, and on the farmground of friends of ours there, where we planted a tree with some of his ashes near the roots. So, that's our place to remember him, besides our house.

 

This summer in Italy, we are going to spread a little bit of the ashes - not too much, as it's symbolic for us and strictly forbidden in Italy - on a mountain that overlooks the birthplace of his grandparents and his father and which is also the location of the picture we used on the remembrance card that we gave to our friends and family and the funeral service.

 

It's been 18 months now since he died and it feels good to finally do these things. It's just a bit more closure and it creates more options for us to go to and remember him and such. It feels right and we knew he wanted this too, so that was easier. For me, I remember him by doing things we used to do together and in music, as that was a passion we shared. I miss him often, when I go to soccer games of the team we cheered for, but it helps me too.

that sounds like a great way to remember him Jules

My grandfather was cremated when he died 17 years ago and when my grandmother passes we will be sprinkling their ashes, forget exactly where.

On another note, glad your gf can join you for the trip!!

Might I suggest Michael, then? :rofl:

what an AWESOME choice :D

Actually, I'm the "short joke" when I'm trying to keep up with your 6'6" Bigfoot self. :rofl:

I try and walk slow, I really do it's just not easy

Riiiiiiight, uh huh...LOL :D

haha, I don't

I wouldnt take offense from a single short joke from you...you can empathize :D

I don't make short jokes, lol

Woo! Just graduated :D Can't wait for transferring next fall

GOOD JOB BRO!!!

Yeah, after my time in America, this is now his big chance to boost his career. I am happy for him that he got this chance and I hope his experience abroad will be as great as mine was. I will surely miss him though, he's one of my best buddies.

i'm sure it will help him and it's only 4 months Jules- the time will fly!

I repped you for this, but my stupid long nails made me screw up the comment and I can't edit it. :rofl:

 

I was gonna say "I don't think they come in your size." :D

went looking for slip-resistant shoes today, asked the girl where they were and she showed me. Asked her what size they carry up to, she said 13. So I go nothing bigger? her response was, what you mean like 14.

At that point in made more sense for me to just turn around and leave.

Bite me! lol :p

oh boy!