I should think so!!
I actually just cleared w mom’s rabbi that they were ok w cremation, and will likely be doing that and putting her in the same plot as my father (space saving and efficient!).
Of course, there’s no indication this will happen any time soon. Her mind is a little farther gone each day, but otherwise, she’s very healthy for an 83 year old. I’m expecting her to stick around another 20 years out of sheer stubbornness.
I am sorry you and your family are going through this.
So sorry you have to deal with your aunt’s narcissism, but with her being there for medical appts, it probably is best to let it go. It’s always hard to deal with ailing parents, but having a plan helps. My Mom’s wishes were thankfully very clear with both me and my sister with all legal forms done well ahead of her beginning to fail in health.
Good luck with everything, and hope you had a safe flight home.
You are the bigger adult, obviously. No matter what people say, you cannot plan early enough for end of life events. Hang in there!
I tracked the origins of tonight’s dinner (Fajitas):
Flour tortillas–California
Flank Steak–Idaho
Bell Peppers—Canada—thank you neighbors to the north for your quality produce!
Onions—Washington state
Tomatoes—Canada, again thanks!
Avocados—from Costco via Mexico
Chili powder and teriyaki sauce from the grocery store
Sour cream— Oregon
Some surprises, some not.
Teriyaki sauce in fajitas??
I heard about this EWR situation last night on the news. I can’t even imagine doing the ATC job on a GOOD day, but losing contact for 90 seconds would just send me around the bend.
Surprisingly, yes! The recipe was Yoshida’s (can’t find that brand here anymore) mixed with Shelby’s chili powder and lotsa lime juice.
We got the very same brand’s toaster last year, and were more than OK with it.
I propose a brand name change to GREAT 
YEA!! PIZZA!!
Looking forward to your first creation…
Yes!!!
I think they used that on on the Top Chef: “You Want a Pizza Me” episode!
Yes .
Absent minded children… grr.
My son has a quantum physics class for which he had an A and aced the final. The last thing due was a a project worth 10% of his grade. It was due Wednesday, and he’d finished it by Monday night, but decided to hold off on turning it into a PDF and submitting it in case some tweaks came to mind.
Well, he woke up today around noon (he just got home around 2 a.m., what with final apartment clean-out and what not) and checked his grades. The portal is showing a zero for the project and him knocked from an A to a B overall. He finally realized that in the rush of his other finals, he’d forgotten to submit the damned thing.
The good news is that he drafted messages to the prof and TA for me and my wife to review, offering proof of last modification date via Google docs (turning it into a PDF for submission will obviously show today as mod date on the PDF), and offering profuse apologies for any extra work he may have caused, and asking could they please grade the project and apply any late penalty they saw as appropriate? We told him to send the message just as it was.
I call this good news because last year when something like this happened, he moped for 2 days before telling us about it, and when he did tell us, he just dumped the problem in our lap instead of proactively working out a solution and bringing that to us to critique.
I reminded him of sticky notes on the bath mirror, or today’s equivalent, an alarm on his danged phone. “I thought I’d remember!”. My response was, but you didn’t, and this happened last year - you normally remember stuff but you can’t expect to rely on your memory when you’re cramming finals and doing 3 other final projects.
Hopefully they’ll give him partial credit. Even 50% (his estimate) should get him back to an A. But he understands they are under no obligation to do so - his engineering dept standard is that late = zero.
In the spirit of Mother’s Day and not everything is your mother’s fault… 
Gift Link For The Win! Thank you. Interesting article.
Edit - the discussion of the Chen sibs hit home. My older sister is 3 years older than me, and when I was young I thought the sun rose and set by her. She learned to read well in 1st grade (she did not go to kindergarten, and we’re not sure why) and so I had to learn to read then, too. I’m sure there were several other examples, but I do remember that I got algebra down pretty well in 5th grade because she took it in 8th grade and taught me.
