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merimask ([personal profile] merimask) wrote2006-09-24 04:49 am
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...lightning.

Hmm.  I had a pleasant Saturday evening date with my husband.  I was informed that we'd do anything that I wanted.    That meant seafood at The Dock At The Bay, movie rental (because I didn't feel like fighting the crowds on a rainy night ), and a slice of cake from The Dessert Deli (they made our wedding cake.   They totally own Amherst...half the town was in that place on a Saturday night paying 5 bucks for a slice of cake and LOVING it).

So we watched Silent Hill (meh  *shrug*  It ain't art, I'll say that much.  Probably would have liked it better if I'd ever played the game), ate cake, got cozy, napped...  All very pleasant.  

Then I wake up because the wind is howling and the rain is falling in buckets, and I decide to check up with my eBay auctions online...and I find e-mail from some friends, informing me that someone we all know died this morning.

She was my age and she was a strange bird prone to bouts of crazy...but she introduced me to anime and she made really great cocoa and even though we clashed sometimes, I always admired her.  She had lovely long red hair and she was a very good fencer.  She bought her first house at 24...quite a feat for a single girl...and lived in it quite nicely, all alone.  She was very smart and very independent...she had great art on the walls.

I knew she was sick...she's had breast cancer for three years, but I didn't know how ill she'd become.  I was going to give her a call and see how she was doing.  

...  I have nothing much more to say.  I'm not exactly devastated or anything...I'm just saddened and feeling my mortality.  She was my age and she's gone, and isn't the world a capricious place?  Lightning strikes or it doesn't.  The lump is just a cyst or maybe a malignant tumor.  There's no telling which way it'll go.   Usually I'm fine with that.  Tonight, I'm hearing the storm at my window and it sounds...close.

[identity profile] merimask.livejournal.com 2006-09-25 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey Kimmie... :-)

I tried calling yesterday! But you were gone. Howie said you were at a "scribal" meeting and I heard "Scrabble" and I actually whined and said "Aww I LOVE Scrabble!" and I don't think he knew what to say. *I'm a freak*

[identity profile] geirny.livejournal.com 2006-09-25 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehe He told me you called today. I was like thanks for telling me, I just wrote her a comment asking her to. At least I got the message you called even if it was a day later. Sometimes he forgets entirely. :-) Sorry I missed your call.

I like Scrabble too but I don't think I'd play with you... you and Greg are way too intelligent and my sad little scoring average would be an embarassment! *big grin*

Luv ya,
Kimmie