Posted by Racer on September 17, 2008, at 9:52:49
In reply to Re: I love that new show FRINGE on Fox » TexasChic, posted by Partlycloudy on September 17, 2008, at 7:03:41
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> > P.S. Sorry I missed saying Happy Birthday! So belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Is your b-day 9/11?
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> Thanks, TC. Yes, it is. (Someone's got to have a birthday then, right?)
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>I had a very close friend for many, many years with that birthday. So, you're in good company -- I hope you think in both senses, the shared birthday and the shared friendship.
My grandmother died on 11 September 1983. The death certificate reads 8:10AM, but she had been dead some minutes -- maybe as long as 15? -- when the doctor came in and made it official. My aunt and I were with her, and I like to think she let go after I called my mother and delivered Mom's message to her. After she knew that she didn't have to wait for Mom to get there. Being with her when she left us made her death much easier on me, and I stopped having the nightmares that started when my grandfather died three years earlier. As un-spiritual as I am, I like to think that Grandma took those nightmares back to him, so I could learn to sleep again.
It's funny, I called my mother because I thought she might be remembering too, but she didn't even realize her mother had died on 11 Sept. I still cry at Grandma's death, 25 years later, but it's not painful in the same way, and it hasn't come to mind on its own in years. I do miss my Grandma at times, still, and suspect I'll be 70 and still occasionally shedding a few tears for her.
And I am still on the fence about Fringe. We did watch the first one, and I liked a lot about it, but the jury's still out.
HBO's True Blood, though -- I was going to cancel all of our premium channels, but now I think I'm going to keep HBO to watch it. The characters are looking pretty round -- in Forster's sense -- and the dialog is pretty great at times. And, of course, the premise is a great deal of fun!
xoxo
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