How Was Your Week?

Last week was good, as I had it off :) A Monday of irritable students after 2 weeks off: considerably less pleasant.
 
I tell you. When you reach a certain age, seems like your only social activity is going to the doctor, visiting loved ones in the hospital or attending funerals. Worse yet, the funeral of someone who spent their entire lives smoking, drinking, overeating and otherwise abusing their bodies. Then having to listen to a preacher tell everyone how it was God's will that they passed at the tender age of 56.

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Namaste Jesus said:
I tell you. When you reach a certain age, seems like your only social activity is going to the doctor, visiting loved ones in the hospital or attending funerals. Worse yet, the funeral of someone who spent their entire lives smoking, drinking, overeating and otherwise abusing their bodies. Then having to listen to a preacher tell everyone how it was God's will that they passed at the tender age of 56.

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A message for that preacher from me: This bird's for you, and here's the perch!

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
What I really don't get about funerals is when the deceased is not religious...not church going...pretty much a non believer and never saw the value...yet the survivors take it on themselves that they need a preacher to 'say words' over them. So I've been to who knows how many funerals where the preacher goes into his..."I never knew the deceased, but people tell me....yada yada...and I know...."

but yeah... it is G!d's will... If I live to 80 I am gonna take up smoking and drinking.... the over eating I've got down!
 
Namaste Jesus said:
I tell you. When you reach a certain age, seems like your only social activity is going to the doctor, visiting loved ones in the hospital or attending funerals. Worse yet, the funeral of someone who spent their entire lives smoking, drinking, overeating and otherwise abusing their bodies. Then having to listen to a preacher tell everyone how it was God's will that they passed at the tender age of 56.

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Dang! Just realized I posted this in the wrong thread. It was meant for Your Daily Rant.:oops: Oh well, such has been by week....
 
Namaste Jesus said:
When you reach a certain age, seems like your only social activity is going to the doctor, visiting loved ones in the hospital or attending funerals.
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Tis why I try to always have some younger friends... the current group is all getting into their 30's...building families...establishing careers...buying homes... I told them I am going to be replacing them with a new herd of 20 somethings soon...

My main goal is to establish couches and places an eccentric grampa could crash a few weeks at a time around the continent.
 
Spent my week photographing bare bums! Picture being shot in Melbourne. Studio needed a body double for a brief from behind nude scene. Hired me to take pics at the casting call. Good to be the photog on-call.;)
 
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wil said:
...yet the survivors take it on themselves that they need a preacher to 'say words' over them.
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My pagan father-in-law's ceremony was really nice.

His grave is on a 'secular site', a humanist cemetery. His casket was fast-degrading whicker which his children carried round the family garden three times, then into the back of a friend's van, and off to the cemetery. A gathering there in the hall, with one of his sons had volunteered to MC. Kids, grandkids and friends got up to say something about him, then off to the grave.

Bit of pagan stuff with bells, flowers in the grave, then back to the 'hall' for cake and ale.
 
Thomas said:
My pagan father-in-law's ceremony was really nice.

His grave is on a 'secular site', a humanist cemetery. His casket was fast-degrading whicker which his children carried round the family garden three times, then into the back of a friend's van, and off to the cemetery. A gathering there in the hall, with one of his sons had volunteered to MC. Kids, grandkids and friends got up to say something about him, then off to the grave.

Bit of pagan stuff with bells, flowers in the grave, then back to the 'hall' for cake and ale.
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I wouldn't know what traditional would be in that regard. Sounds like it might have been in line with his wishes and that is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
NikkiNeversleep said:
It's been better.
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Hugz.

Another week of putting off the important stuff and making mountains out of mole hills for me.
Aussie Thoughts said:
Spent my week photographing bare bums! Picture being shot in Melbourne. Studio needed a body double for a brief from behind nude scene. Hired me to take pics at the casting call. Good to be the photog on-call.;)
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I feel completely used...they didn't offer me a nickel when they asked me.
 
Thomas said:
Gee, it's a tough life! :D
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Yeah it's a struggle, but some bloke's gotta do it! Actually, didn't even know what the shoot entailed until I got there. All I heard was major studio, triple scale, airfare plus expenses and I was out the door!
 
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