As many of you know already, my grandmother passed away on Saturday. So I've been in Illinois the past couple of days spending time with my grandpa. It's been a tiring, yet humorous week. Here's some highlights:

many of you might not find this funny, but i do considering it is my grandmother we're talking about and she had a very keen sense of humor. My aunt had picked out the song "I'm Already There" by Lonestar to play at the funeral. Now as many of you know, there's a line in the song that says "Whisper in the wind..." well, my aunts were singing it while they were picking out the music at the funeral home, and the office staff must have misunderstood the song title thinking that the song title was "Whisper in the Wind." So somehow, amidst the confusion, this little gem was played at the funeral:

" When we were young and wild and hot and free
We couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
Life was there for the taking and it was all in our making
But somewhere we hit a wall and it brought us to our knees.

It wasn’t that we didn’t understand
The difference between a woman and a man.
Role reversal or holding, holding some other hand
But somewhere we hit a wall and it took us somewhere bad….

Now it seems like it will never come again
It’s on some other road to avoid the pain.
And it haunts me still with a subtle and soft refrain
And with a whisper on the wind, you’re here again.

But it’s only a misguided dumb daydream.
Bittersweet but tainted like bad cream.
With a use-by date that passed us by
We grew old but didn’t know it.
And somewhere we hit a wall and we both let out a scream…."


Quite appropriate... right?
Now, I'm not quite sure who Dennis James is, but I can figure that pretty much everyone in the funeral was making fun of the situation. My aunts and mom were laughing hysterically. It was kind of awkward, but if you knew my grandmother, you would know that this was a well-suited situation to end up in.

Another situation that causes me to remember that my grandfather is quite possibly one of the funniest people i know, despite the fact he is quite serious in most of the things he is saying. One thing he has told us this week is this "Since Barb is not here to do laundry, I won't do it either. I'll just buy underwear, wear them then throw them away. Heck, I think i've been wearing these for three days." (Now, the last part was in jest, but he is quite a funny guy.) Add an austrian accent and you'd be laughing for hours.