Anniversary and Death in the Family
Another week has gone by and I haven't been writing much. For most of the week there really wasn't anything to write about. Just the same ol' stuff.
I had the day off on Friday which was nice because this is the day of my wife and my 18th anniversary. I still can't believe that such a wonderful angel saw fit to marry me, and then to stay with me can't be all that easy. We spent most of the morning getting ready to go to Johnsons' Mill for our anniversary. We were able to leave in time that once we hit Kimball Junction (near Park City), we were able to have some lunch at Ruby River. We enjoyed that, and then went to the outlet stores there in Kimball Junction. My wife had waited all this time to get a battery replaced in her watch. They only had one watch battery (of her type) left. Thank goodness they had that.
We next headed to Johnsons Mill. It started out with us being a little bit put out because they had done away with some of the niceties that we enjoyed last year. Last year, when you got to your room, there was a welcome plate with a couple of fresh baked cookies and some fruits and then a non-alcoholic drink. This year they did away with that for some reason. They told us we could get the non-alcoholic drink for an added $10 (what were they thinking? Did they think we were drunk?). Anyway, this is the first year that we didn't go out and get some snacks and such figuring they would be there at the Bed and Breakfast. We let them know (nicely) of our disappointment. That is not the place to cut back for a place like that, that is made for romantic getaways.
Well, we headed to a grocery store to pick up our own non-alcoholic drinks and a few other snacks just for us. We then went back to our room and just enjoyed each others company. It was a great evening for us. I guess you could say we had the funniest sex that we have ever had, and no, I'm not going to talk about it.
The bed and breakfast still had the great breakfast they have had every morning that we have been there. After that, we packed up our stuff and headed back to Kimball Junction. On the way there we had to pull over so I could talk to my Sister-in-law on the cell phone. She thought that my wifes mother had told us about Steve Browns' death. He died Thursday evening, and they had decided not to tell us so we could enjoy our anniversary. What Pam needed was an internet site to get her plane tickets from that was cheaper. I sent her to lastminute.com. This is a site where you can save quite a bit of money with all the travel needs. With it, she was able to get two roundtrip tickets as well as the hotel room for the same price they would be spending for one one-way ticket. They did have to get a oneway ticket for Melanie though.
Here's some of what happened with relation to this death. Steve has been an alcoholic and a cocaine addict for quite a few years. We were all pretty certain his death was imminent. It just had to happen at a time like this. Melanie (his wife) has manic depressive disorder. She is bipolar. Anyway, after his death, she went a bit nuts and because of this they had to hospitalize her. She is taking some medication for this illness now that she is in the hospital (although that medication is going to be $700 a month to continue on). Anyway, we are sending Pam and Anne to Alabama to pick her up and bring her back. They may also need to see if they can sell her two cars while they are down there. Melanie also has to get to the mortuary and sign some papers so they can cremate Steve (nobody has the money to bring him back to Utah without doing this). She also doesn't want to sell her cars, but wants to drive them back to Utah. This is too hard of a task and the cars she has aren't worth all that much (certainly not the expense of getting them back to Utah). When they bought them they were only $2000 and $800 cars to begin with. I just hope Pam and Anne can get her out of the hospital. There's just too much to be done.
Steve died of congestive heart failure. He has known about the problems with the drinking and the cocaine, but never was able to do anything to get out of those habits. Now, he has a grieving family. The two kids were taken away from Steve and Melanie and the third child lived with his mother since he was 18 at the time. There are some rifts there and it will be interesting to see what happens in that area as far as this whole thing is concerned. We don't know when the funeral will take place, but they are going to open up his mothers grave and put his ashes on her casket and then close it up again (this is because of expense again). That will only cost about $1000 and the cremation itself will be about $1000. There will be no obituary for him because neither of the parents feel they can afford the $500 because of various things that have to take place and the lives that must continue on.
People will be coming into town over the next few days and there has been talk as to what we will be doing for Thanksgiving. My wife told her mom that we still need to have Thanksgiving, if for nothing else, at least there will be comfort foods around for the grieving family. We will have it out at our house it looks like (that was always the plan) but now it looks like we will need to foot the whole fare for all (and we will have a few extra mouths to feed). We will be dipping into our Christmas account in order to cover the extra expense (that's OK, because we had already decided that we were cutting back on gifts for the kids anyway). We are a bit concerned about Melanie coming over to our house because of the fits that she can throw. Hopefully, all will go well with her, and we won't have any problems with the neighbors. I mean, there is a reason that my kids still have never met Steve or Melanie. Well, I got ahead of myself a bit here. Let me get back to the journal stuff.
After talking with Pam, we still went to Kimball Junction, but this whole death thing put a damper on what we were doing. Shopping wasn't as fun, and our anniversary wasn't as fun. I mean we had a good time and everything, but things were not as good as they could've been. We bought a few things and then went back to our next room at Johnsons Mill. This was the Honeymoon Suite that we had. It was a beautiful room. We watched a few movies and just spent the time being together. Things didn't go right for us for most of Saturday, and a lot of different things happened (none of which I am going to go into).
Sunday morning we had breakfast and then watched a movie on TV. We then decided to head out. When we got to my in-laws house, we found that our son was at home and our daughter had gone to church with her grandma. Our son mowed the lawn for his grandpa. We stayed there for a little while but needed to get out of there. Things are a bit crazy, but most people are doing OK with this whole thing.
After arriving home, I unpacked some of my stuff and took care of a few odds and ends. In the evening, I went over to the Johnsons house to let them know that it was me and the fire department that had gone into their house while they were gone (we had to go in through a window) because their smoke alarms were going off. They were relieved that it was that way as they were wondering what had happened. Well, that is pretty much what has been happening.
Happy Anniversary (huh?)!
I had the day off on Friday which was nice because this is the day of my wife and my 18th anniversary. I still can't believe that such a wonderful angel saw fit to marry me, and then to stay with me can't be all that easy. We spent most of the morning getting ready to go to Johnsons' Mill for our anniversary. We were able to leave in time that once we hit Kimball Junction (near Park City), we were able to have some lunch at Ruby River. We enjoyed that, and then went to the outlet stores there in Kimball Junction. My wife had waited all this time to get a battery replaced in her watch. They only had one watch battery (of her type) left. Thank goodness they had that.
We next headed to Johnsons Mill. It started out with us being a little bit put out because they had done away with some of the niceties that we enjoyed last year. Last year, when you got to your room, there was a welcome plate with a couple of fresh baked cookies and some fruits and then a non-alcoholic drink. This year they did away with that for some reason. They told us we could get the non-alcoholic drink for an added $10 (what were they thinking? Did they think we were drunk?). Anyway, this is the first year that we didn't go out and get some snacks and such figuring they would be there at the Bed and Breakfast. We let them know (nicely) of our disappointment. That is not the place to cut back for a place like that, that is made for romantic getaways.
Well, we headed to a grocery store to pick up our own non-alcoholic drinks and a few other snacks just for us. We then went back to our room and just enjoyed each others company. It was a great evening for us. I guess you could say we had the funniest sex that we have ever had, and no, I'm not going to talk about it.
The bed and breakfast still had the great breakfast they have had every morning that we have been there. After that, we packed up our stuff and headed back to Kimball Junction. On the way there we had to pull over so I could talk to my Sister-in-law on the cell phone. She thought that my wifes mother had told us about Steve Browns' death. He died Thursday evening, and they had decided not to tell us so we could enjoy our anniversary. What Pam needed was an internet site to get her plane tickets from that was cheaper. I sent her to lastminute.com. This is a site where you can save quite a bit of money with all the travel needs. With it, she was able to get two roundtrip tickets as well as the hotel room for the same price they would be spending for one one-way ticket. They did have to get a oneway ticket for Melanie though.
Here's some of what happened with relation to this death. Steve has been an alcoholic and a cocaine addict for quite a few years. We were all pretty certain his death was imminent. It just had to happen at a time like this. Melanie (his wife) has manic depressive disorder. She is bipolar. Anyway, after his death, she went a bit nuts and because of this they had to hospitalize her. She is taking some medication for this illness now that she is in the hospital (although that medication is going to be $700 a month to continue on). Anyway, we are sending Pam and Anne to Alabama to pick her up and bring her back. They may also need to see if they can sell her two cars while they are down there. Melanie also has to get to the mortuary and sign some papers so they can cremate Steve (nobody has the money to bring him back to Utah without doing this). She also doesn't want to sell her cars, but wants to drive them back to Utah. This is too hard of a task and the cars she has aren't worth all that much (certainly not the expense of getting them back to Utah). When they bought them they were only $2000 and $800 cars to begin with. I just hope Pam and Anne can get her out of the hospital. There's just too much to be done.
Steve died of congestive heart failure. He has known about the problems with the drinking and the cocaine, but never was able to do anything to get out of those habits. Now, he has a grieving family. The two kids were taken away from Steve and Melanie and the third child lived with his mother since he was 18 at the time. There are some rifts there and it will be interesting to see what happens in that area as far as this whole thing is concerned. We don't know when the funeral will take place, but they are going to open up his mothers grave and put his ashes on her casket and then close it up again (this is because of expense again). That will only cost about $1000 and the cremation itself will be about $1000. There will be no obituary for him because neither of the parents feel they can afford the $500 because of various things that have to take place and the lives that must continue on.
People will be coming into town over the next few days and there has been talk as to what we will be doing for Thanksgiving. My wife told her mom that we still need to have Thanksgiving, if for nothing else, at least there will be comfort foods around for the grieving family. We will have it out at our house it looks like (that was always the plan) but now it looks like we will need to foot the whole fare for all (and we will have a few extra mouths to feed). We will be dipping into our Christmas account in order to cover the extra expense (that's OK, because we had already decided that we were cutting back on gifts for the kids anyway). We are a bit concerned about Melanie coming over to our house because of the fits that she can throw. Hopefully, all will go well with her, and we won't have any problems with the neighbors. I mean, there is a reason that my kids still have never met Steve or Melanie. Well, I got ahead of myself a bit here. Let me get back to the journal stuff.
After talking with Pam, we still went to Kimball Junction, but this whole death thing put a damper on what we were doing. Shopping wasn't as fun, and our anniversary wasn't as fun. I mean we had a good time and everything, but things were not as good as they could've been. We bought a few things and then went back to our next room at Johnsons Mill. This was the Honeymoon Suite that we had. It was a beautiful room. We watched a few movies and just spent the time being together. Things didn't go right for us for most of Saturday, and a lot of different things happened (none of which I am going to go into).
Sunday morning we had breakfast and then watched a movie on TV. We then decided to head out. When we got to my in-laws house, we found that our son was at home and our daughter had gone to church with her grandma. Our son mowed the lawn for his grandpa. We stayed there for a little while but needed to get out of there. Things are a bit crazy, but most people are doing OK with this whole thing.
After arriving home, I unpacked some of my stuff and took care of a few odds and ends. In the evening, I went over to the Johnsons house to let them know that it was me and the fire department that had gone into their house while they were gone (we had to go in through a window) because their smoke alarms were going off. They were relieved that it was that way as they were wondering what had happened. Well, that is pretty much what has been happening.
Happy Anniversary (huh?)!
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