Emerging...
Feb. 26th, 2025 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfIt's been a lively two and a half weeks. I'm starting to get my arms around things. Jana's death certificate showed up yesterday so I'm tackling life insurance, just sent off her obituary to the Cremation Society (need to do the newspaper one next) and getting other odds and ends in motion. I have to update beneficiaries and I got an appointment to go by the DMV and get her name taken off the car title. Still have to wrangle one last credit card and shutting down the last of her social media, but her ashes are residing on the entertainment center and her memorial brick is being carved as we speak. Picking out photos has been hard. People asking me when the memorial will be has been harder, but discussions are in the works and I should have that ironed out on Friday. But even with planning, this has been a lot.
What else have I been up to? Day job continues slogging along for the moment, at least. I went and sold books at TC Pride's Queer Writes Romance Book Fair with Alexa and saw some friends and had a fine time. A friend took me to my first heavy metal concert (Apocalyptica/Nita Strauss at the Uptown) and it was pretty fun, once I decided to stand in the back away from the strobe lights and smoke machine. I went to go see "The Root Beer Lady" at the History Theatre with a different friend; this was a one woman show about Dorothy Molter, the last nonindigenous person to be allowed to live in the Boundary Waters. She was quite fascinating - check out the link. We got Jana's room cleaned out at memory care and I've started rehoming stuff. I did some necessary financial planning things. My cat sitter came by to learn how to give Shu his insulin shot so now I have a backup person. I went to a panel by the MN Legislature's Queer Caucus at Queermunity (the new LGBTQ+ community center) on Monday night and felt a bit more heartened (and Roseville folks, vote for David Gottfried!). Apart from that, been reaching out to my electeds, donating where I can and supporting good local things. So mostly hanging in, if wildly stressed on bad days. How about you?
What else have I been up to? Day job continues slogging along for the moment, at least. I went and sold books at TC Pride's Queer Writes Romance Book Fair with Alexa and saw some friends and had a fine time. A friend took me to my first heavy metal concert (Apocalyptica/Nita Strauss at the Uptown) and it was pretty fun, once I decided to stand in the back away from the strobe lights and smoke machine. I went to go see "The Root Beer Lady" at the History Theatre with a different friend; this was a one woman show about Dorothy Molter, the last nonindigenous person to be allowed to live in the Boundary Waters. She was quite fascinating - check out the link. We got Jana's room cleaned out at memory care and I've started rehoming stuff. I did some necessary financial planning things. My cat sitter came by to learn how to give Shu his insulin shot so now I have a backup person. I went to a panel by the MN Legislature's Queer Caucus at Queermunity (the new LGBTQ+ community center) on Monday night and felt a bit more heartened (and Roseville folks, vote for David Gottfried!). Apart from that, been reaching out to my electeds, donating where I can and supporting good local things. So mostly hanging in, if wildly stressed on bad days. How about you?