Last working Day of 2016

Praise the LORD, SWEET JESUS alleluia !!!

All I did today at work was write letters....Sorry you can't surrender your policy right now....Sorry you can't have a loan, you have reportable gain....etc....

I wished it would've been a super slow day....but they were still plenty of cases to take care of before year end.

and I found myself thinking about what I told my doctor yesterday

When Dad died, I inherited a crown of some sort and every now and then , I will need to go out with my crown and mingle.

I know human nature and I am positive people will say these things...

oh that's his daughter? I thought she would be slimmer! She's fat,she's chunky....

Who's her mother again? She looks like her father, how come she didn't go in the trade...

Her Dad had money, how come she's dressed that way?

To this I answer:

I am who I am. I am middled aged, proudly tacky and I don't care if you think I am not up to your
artsy standards.

I am artsy,vintage, tacky, fun, crafty, thirfty, genuine,loving and one hell of a good cook and I don't have anything to prove to you!

So talk to the hand!

I'm all that and a bag of chips, in fact I'm the whole party mix!!!

Here I am visiting the new company building...

I sure hope I will move there in 2017!!!

 

Life goes on

The ballet evening was a great success! We had a lot of fun.

 However the representation honoring my father was not on the 27 but the 28....

A bureaucratic mixup! Oh well...

Yesterday was the 11th month anniversary of my Dad's passing ....Of course I was sad and nostalgic but it is expected.

Dad's cat; Meaghan is slowly but surely getting used to life with us and the other cats....

She's quite the princess and talks a lot!

I am positive that in 2017 she will cuddle more and maybe even sleep

in the bed with us.....

Fingers crossed!

Even if 2016 has been traumatic and strange I can't say that I'm waiting eagerly for it 

to be over.

Time is just passing, it is the circle of life....

Happy, sad, birth, death...

And in between laughter, tears,joy, thrifts, pets, food and friends!

Sleep tight! 

Miss You

Thursday January 28th 2016,

in the early hours of the day my Dad passed away in his sleep. He was 80 years old.

He worked until the end at his costume workshop.

 here he is in the 1970's

 This picture was used a lot in the coverage of his passing.

He was very well known, respected and loved in his field.

Not only I have to deal with my immense grief, but the one from

his friends, his coworkers and students.

Me ? I miss my Dad. With his hoarding tendencies, his big heart

and his booming laugh.

I miss going downstairs for a chat and bringing him some turkey pot pies

or cabbage rolls.

This is really my favorite picture because it shows his funny kid like side.

Even at 80 he was filled with wonderment and curiosity!

Dad I miss you so much and still had so much to share with you!

Be well