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[mare]

I'm sorry to hear that about your mom, Steph. Sadly, I do think it's hereditary. Hopefully the CT scan will come up negative. I'm sending positive vibes your way. Enjoy your well-deserved break! I hope the week goes really slowly for you! I'm glad you're getting to spend time with your loved ones.

Christmas is going to be weird here this year. I was done shopping pretty early which means my mom's presents are all under the tree already. Something I had bought her arrived a few days ago so that was weird too, but the weirdest thing was when she arrived in the mail. She wasn't coming up here for Christmas, but I guess she is now. We haven't opened the box containing her remains because it just feels too odd. We don't have anything to put her in, but because of all the lovely donations people sent we might be able to afford an urn now.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone! And a very healthy and happy new year! I'm dreading 2025 and the next four years. How bad can it be? 

[RokofAges75]

Merry Christmas to both of you and anyone else(?) who may pop in and see this!  Sorry I haven't been around much lately.  Between the usual holiday busy-ness and trying to reach my word count goal for this year, I've popped in a few times to check on the board but haven't taken the time to post.

Steph, I'm sorry to hear that your mom is showing signs of dementia.  Like Mare said, I do think it can be hereditary, but that doesn't mean it's a given.  My great-grandmother died of Alzheimer's, but none of her three children developed it.  I hope you get some answers soon.  Enjoy your time off work!

Mare, I hope you're doing okay under the circumstances.  The first holidays after losing a loved one are so strange and so hard.  I'm sure that was weird to receive her remains in the mail like just another package.  Hopefully you will be able to afford a nice urn to put her in at some point.  When each of my maternal grandparents passed, my mom sent in some of their ashes to be put into glass for each of their children and grandchildren.  I have a beautiful, blue glass orb/ornament for my grandpa and a pretty purple bud vase for my grandma.  It's a nice memento of each of them.

It looks like you've had a lot more Kieran content lately with all of his award nominations and wins, so hopefully that will give you some joy heading into the new year.  I am also dreading the next four years.  I'm currently still avoiding the news for the most part, other than that I see on social media, and that may be how I get through it - by comfort-watching shows, writing, reading, and staying in my little bubble as much as I can.  Probably not the healthiest coping strategy, but it sounds better than the alternative right now.

[Carter-Orange]

Mare that must've been weird to receive her ashes in the mail like that.  And I hope you are doing OK.  When Tim's mum died her ashes were scattered in a rose bush garden and Tim's dad was scattered on he beach and in the sea as they were the places they loved.  I hope you get a nice urn for her.

I also feel bad that you both have Orange Hitler to look forward to very soon I hope he isn't too unbearable for the next 4 years.  I think escaping the real world as much as possible is a good idea.  I try as much as possible to avoid the news as it's never anything but doom and gloom here too.

I'm hoping for positive news regarding my mum, but preparing myself for the worst.  She's not really bad, but she does repeat herself a bit and sometimes forgets what she's just been told, so that's not normal.

Anyway, have a very Merry Christmas doing whatever you love with the people you love

[mare]

I'm not sure if anyone else comes in and lurks but doesn't post. That's why I said everyone lol

That sounds like a lovely keepsake you have of your grandparents, Julie. We were thinking of making necklaces with a little bit of mom's ashes for some of the people she was close to. I think I'd prefer some of those other alternatives to an urn. We had also thought of scattering her ashes like Tim did, Steph but mom wasn't particularly fond of any one place. I told my sister what we should do is turn her into a pack of cigarettes since she was a chain smoker.

I have been trying to stay away from the news for the most part as well. It is hard though. I usually put on world news tonight with Lester, just to see what's been going on in the world but the second they start talking about Trump I turn it off.  I'm still hoping for some kind of Hail Mary before inauguration. Bad eating habits catching up to him. A bear accidentally roams into Mar a Lago. Anything.

I'm glad you're keeping up with your writing. I haven't really been great with it. I'm writing about a paragraph a day and then stop. It's a combo of things, but I know you guys can relate that it's really hard to write your character all emo when there's so many good things happening in their real lives. Even though Roman is fictional, Kieran isn't so it's been harder than usually for me to separate them. He's really been the only thing keeping me sane. I don't know what I'm going to do after awards season and his Broadway run is over. He's going to disappear into his hidey hole and lord knows when he'll come back out. The last time it took him about 10 years between Scott Pilgrim and Succession. For now, I'm just going to bask in the fact that he's been everywhere and hopefully he'll get an Oscar nom which will mean he'll be out even more.  I've never followed a movie awards run before. I had NO idea there were so many steps leading up to the Oscars. I mean I knew about the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice awards but there are SO many others and supposedly that's how you get yourself nominated for the Oscars. I've been trying to watch some of the most talked about movies, but not being a movie person, it's been hard. A Real Pain will be streaming starting on New Years Eve so yay to that! I never did get to see it in the theater, but at least I'll get to watch it over and over again at home. You guys should check it out. It's really quite good.

Have a Merry Christmas. My sister and I are being more low key than usual. We're going to order from an Italian place tonight and then i'm making some appetizer type things for tomorrow.