Update

[doyle]

Thanks so much to everybody who's offered condolences. I love you guys.


The funeral's tomorrow. I'm at my parents' house ("We're glad to have you home, we miss you terribly when you're away at university," said my mother, in an odd, sweet moment - note that I go to my local uni, a forty minute train ride away from home, and have never been away for more than 12 days...) My cousins are arriving en masse tomorrow, most of them from England and bringing the various spouses and kids. I'm the baby among the grandchildren, youngest by something like 6 years of the... (counting) eight of us (I know, it's very small for an Irish family. We make up for it by assimilating second cousins and many-times-removed cousins and people who marry in. They're all just counted as 'cousins'.)

I'm okay. We were close and I'll miss Nana (my three other grandparents died before I was born, or when I was too young to remember) but I'm glad she died peacefully and not in a hospital. And my family's attitude towards death is that someone dying peacefully after a long life is something to feel sad about, yes, but not to mourn (a comment I'm hearing a lot is what a lovely thing for my grandmother to go so quickly and easily)

Funeral's tomorrow. Then back to Belfast.


So, catching up on stuff I was meant to post this weekend - these are all backdated updates to save people's friends lists.

femslash04: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Anya/Tara for netgirl_y2k

Cheesemanficathon: A Girl Made From Sky (The Cheeseman/Dawn for moireach)

Cordeliaficathon: A Better Where to Find (Cordelia/Connor, non-shippy, for anna_maria

Comments

[tiashome.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your grandma's passing, sweetie. ::hugs::

[moireach.livejournal.com]

I was so very sorry to hear about your grandmother. Sending lots of good thoughts your way.

And again, thanks so much for the fic; your posting it means even more in light of everything else.

[lonelybrit]

Just been catching up on past entries. **hugs**
I like your family's attitude, seems the right way to look at things. Feel sad and also be happy that you knew and loved her, and that she knew it.

[enfaith.livejournal.com]

great job all around on the fics! i love that you chose one of my favorite movies for the anya/tara fic title.

*huggles you and sends warm thoughts*

(but not so warm it makes you pee the bed at night)

[deadmarshes.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. My thoughts are with you and your family.

[maybedarkpink.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your grandma but happy that she went peacefully. Hope all goes well with the funeral. *hugs*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_emomuffin/]

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. *hugs you*