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The funeral and burial went well, as these things go. No one threw themselves over or at the coffin. No one fainted. No one called anyone out, or revealed a secret relationship (with my great-aunt?!!) or...whatever drama llama could happen at a funeral. I sat w/my gram for the entire service. There were plenty of times I wish I was sitting with Mom, but there you go. The burial was easier on me, but for my gram and her sibs, and my cousins whose mom this is, it was tough all over again. Number 1 reason for doing an early viewing/funeral? So you can bury the person on the same day and only have to go through that particular grief once.

As hard as its been these last few years to see my auntie sick and so very unlike herself mentally, it's still really painful that she's gone. But life goes on. I have work to do before people come to the house on Mon to do an initial assessment; Mom is speaking tomorrow (and I'm going to miss it for the first time b/c of this! but it's my own fault); there is Drama Llama at work that has nothing to do with me, but will make for some harry times in the office for the next little while; Outreach Weekend starts tomorrow; next weekend we have my wee cousins and another cousin's graduation party... You get the point. Perhaps too much point :-]

I'm taking a break from working on the house to work on the novel. And to give my bod a rest.

And my family, my beloved, wonderful, take-over-any-space-they-inhabit family have left for home. Blessed be the name of the Lord Most High.