Firstly, I would like to thank and hug every last one of you that sent me condolences. It was very much appreciated and every last one of them made me feel better.

Secondly, funeral update.
So, I get to the airport right after faire. We fly to NY with my mom being unbelievably bitchy at me the entire way. And this time I know it was not just me, I had multiple other passengers of the flight give me a look when she'd be a bitch. Yay other passengers. We get to NY, get picked up by Adam, who is the son of my grandma's sister. We spent the night over in the middle of nowhere Long Island. In the morning, my mom gets up around 6am and just starts quietly* pacing. I ask her to please stop so I am awake for the funeral. Sleep a little more, then give up because everyone else is up. I am given a bagel for breakfast and listen to Uncle Dave** tell stories for a while until it's time to go. Penny, Adam's sister, shows up to drive us and we all head down.
highlights for the next part:

• busy graveyard
• Penny wanted to kill my mom, too
  
• disorderly staff and late gravedigger guys
• they almost drop the casket and my Uncle Perry was about to kill them
• some ass hats walking by the funeral talking loudly. Perry told them to shut the fuck up and have some fucking respect.
• big fat sleezy lawyer was at the funeral, all he was missing were money symbol shaped pupils
• afterwards, bagels and lox for lunch and for dinner, and was sent home with them
• got a Nathan's hotdog in the airport and still don't like them, but it was not a bagel
• I miss NY
• I now own a lot of rather large and gaudy clip on earrings
  

I love old Jewish New Yorkers, and it's one of the things we don't really have in Atlanta that I do feel the absence. It was nice to be back with my family, but hopefully next time the circumstances will be improved.


*extremely loudly, because when slowly shifting your weight on old wooden floors, it makes even more noise than if you just walked across quickly.
**We call him uncle, but I suppose he's my grandfather-in-law or something.