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Jan. 27th, 2007 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fjCrap. Thanks to my fever I forgot to call my family during dinner today, as they were together for a memorial dinner for my mother. I called home and got my eldest sister, turns out it was 1AM, but both she and my father were still awake from having driven back from the restaurant. We talked for an hour or so, a lot of it me trying to explain LA.
6 years since she died. We all have different ways of dealing. I know a lot of them are date-oriented, the day means something special to them. Me, I have to ask ny father each year what date it was, because her death is always a background hum, although it does spike around this week. I like that he respects all the different ways our brains work, that some of us do not organize everything in our brains around dates -- in fact, I barely remember birthdays and anniversaries. Now people know that, you know what, FJ!! 's gonna be a bit late with this. Or early. This was not always the case in my family.
Still bothers me that I forgot, I know they care about it.
6 years since she died. We all have different ways of dealing. I know a lot of them are date-oriented, the day means something special to them. Me, I have to ask ny father each year what date it was, because her death is always a background hum, although it does spike around this week. I like that he respects all the different ways our brains work, that some of us do not organize everything in our brains around dates -- in fact, I barely remember birthdays and anniversaries. Now people know that, you know what, FJ!! 's gonna be a bit late with this. Or early. This was not always the case in my family.
Still bothers me that I forgot, I know they care about it.
