#ooc

how do you even say that name?

angry gin?

on-gree?

Not sure. I mashed the names of Loki's consort with Loki's wife

i vote for bellicose alcohol

Ang-gre-gin 🙂

yes

angry gin

(gin, giraffe, GIF, ye bastards!)

gree, gray...

don't mind me

🙂 You're just going to insist Dagmar or zara use that 🙂

Hey, back.

If that name is Welsh, it's probably pronounced "Mary."

Heya!

HA

She's not wrong.

I went out to get dinner. I'm in a cranky mood...everything the servers did was wrong. Harrrumph.

Oh, been there.

Rage!

However, our dinner out was very tasty.

smirk For you, Shady, it's everything the Deacon does.

*Giggle* I don't think I've told them.

Go for it!

Oh Lawd. Dad's memorial service.

BrekkeP, you have to add in as we go.

Ok.

My father, due to MANY influences throughout his life, was not a man for organized religion. We have no record of, not anecdotal evidence, that he was ever baptized at all, anywhere.

So family and friends are gathered. Mom seems mostly aware and coherent. Myself, mom, bro & SIL & DH are all in the front row. I find out the two of us need to be in the front row and stuck BrekkeP with Thing Duty which she did an amazing job with (THANK YOU!!!!).

Brave soul!

The boys were EXTREMELY well-behaved, one on each side of me, minding their manners.

Thing 2 asked a couple of good questions...notably, "Why does the program say Robert when his name was Bob?"

is your mom the catholic then?

Yes, she is. As am I and my brother and spouses and kids. More or less. Deacon Chuck is introduced, and begins what we believe is going to be a fairly non-denominational memorial service.

Start with the sign of the cross? Ok, why not, he's a Catholic deacon, we're Catholics..... comforting, familiar.

"In baptism, Robert died in Christ, and through Christ's resurrection he will live again...."

................

Um. Point of order. No, I know my SiL. She was CRYSTAL CLEAR when planning this. Deacon Chuck has sailed right off the reservation in the first two minutes.

oh jeez

In his introductory remarks, Deacon then proceeded to forge an emotional and mental connection between BrekkeP, myself, and my two longest friends (High School), by saying ".... before Christianity, there was no understanding or belief in an afterlife....."

At this point, believe me, I was deep in prayer.

holds up one finger Strike One.

Strike Two, the first being when he said dad was baptized.....

I'm staring at the guy thinking, "Wait...."

Oh, good point.

I wasn't staring at him, I couldn't. But believe me, the other two bridesmaids were thinking exactly the same thing you were.

Happily, the readings and psalms and such were chosen and read by family so that went ok.

WOw.