Eh, so I missed the second day. Sue me.
The reason I missed is b/c last night, my mother and I went to the All Souls Day Mass at her church and I did not get home until almost midnight. Apparently, All Souls Day is where you pray for the people in pergutory?????? Wtf, mate, I am Presbyterian, not Catholic, so it felt totally heretical of me to be there. The Mass is once a year and it specifically honors the people who died in the past year. It was very long, clocking in at two hours. My mom lit a candle and then got to take it home. She is supposed to light it at the holidays to remind everyone that even though my father is not with us physically, he is with us spiritually. Truthfully, I am not much looking forward to the holidays this year. My family is extremely tiny. I am an only child and my mother has only one brother, and her father is also deceased. That will make for three, count em, THREE of us at the Thanksgiving table (Mom, me, and Styles), and eight of us for Christmas. My cousins are ages 21 and 18, so there arent even any kids to get all excited about(until next year, of course!!). The big problem is that my grandmother lives six hours away from us and I get one, count em, ONE day off from work for Christmas (generous of them, no?). So, after my work on xmas eve, we get in the car and drive six hours to basically spend one day with my family. Balls. I will probably be able to get the day after off, which I did last year, and we came home early so we could see Styles family that day. It worked out pretty well. Next year will be worse b/c we will be splitting the holiday due to it being Gillys first. Styles family celebrated on xmas eve, so after that, well drive 3 – 4 hours, stay at a motel, and drive the rest on xmas morning to my Grandmothers. Now, the benefit then is that I will not be working, so we wont have to worry about getting back for my job, so we could spend an extra day afterwards. It really irritates me to live so far from the family b/c Styles and I also like to celebrate w/ his family. This year wouldve been our year to stay here, but of course we cant do that now. This whole dead father thing really hands you a lot of inconveniences in a great variety of ways.
