The Ups and Downs of this Past Week: Richard and Family

So...
So...
So...
So... you've been gone awhile...
Yeah well, you know I had this thing and then that thing came up and..
There's someone else, isn't there?
What? No! There's not someone else, why wold you think that? I've just had an interesting week.
Well... you never post from your phone anymore...
Yeah, I know, I'll try to do that more often. Now shall we move on to what's been going on?
Yes, let's.

Well now that that's done and over with, let's go over this past week shall we?

Saturday 10/10
I went spelunking with Mitch, Josh McInnes, Jared, Isaac, and Ben.
How did that go? Pretty well if I don't say so myself. (<= WTF, where did that phrase even come from, on paper it makes no sense!) I've got some interesting video that I'll try and post later on when I've compiled it. So yeah... Spelunking, caves, awesomeness, that was Saturday. Sunday 10/11
Woke up feeling like a monkey crapped me out and threw me against a wall, then subsequently threw a plethora of toothpaste, bananas, mangoes, tomatoes, coconuts, and other various items at me. Simply put, I did not feel good and slept till like noon. But! Once I woke up I felt immensely better after having eaten and drunk some water. Also, it was Talitha's birthday, so I called her up to wish her a happy birthday. Then at like 7pm I got a call from Elvia, my aunt down in Yuma, about my Uncle Richard. Now then about a week before this call I received another call specifying that Richard was sick and that he only had another 2 months to live. So I planned on taking a trip or two down there when I could, most probably this coming weekend and sometime in November. However, the cal I received at 7pm on Sunday, October 11th was to inform me that at 4:15pm that afternoon Richard had passed away. So throughout the week I exchanged several calls with Elvia to establish when the funeral was to be. It ended up being this past Friday/Saturday. Viewing on Friday, Service on Saturday.

And so, the rest of the week passed by. I took my exams in Personal Morality and Physics. I skipped classes and read about the lectures later. I went to the meetings I was supposed to mostly. But things were... different.

Friday 10/16
Got my stitches removed finally! My back is now almost completely healed up! Yay! After my appointment Heidi and I started our journey to Yuma (a 3 hour and 45 minute trip according to Google Maps). The viewing went from 6pm to 9pm, we arrived at 8:30pm. And so I got to take one more look at my Uncle as well as meet several of my relatives that I didn't know I had.

Saturday 10/17
Spent the night at my Grandmother's house and woke up to get to the funeral home at around 8am. I was to be pallbearer. The service was interesting. The church was homely. All in all, it was a good way to send my uncle off. Afterwords, I went to breakfast with some friends of the family as well as my uncle-in-law and my cousin, it went well IMO. There was a lunch a bit afterwords where I had a chance to meet with some more of my lost relatives. I spent the afternoon with Heidi and my Grandparents (Korean side). Then, after dinner, Heidi and I left to go home.

Sunday 10/18
Woke up sick again. Not a very fun thing, although ever since I arrived at my grandmother's I felt like I had something but was trying to fight it off, guess it got the better of me after all. Didn't do much, was sick most of the day and so I spent way too much time on WoW, although I couldn't really get up to do much else and I wasn't tired at all since I slept in quite a bit. The day came and went.

Monday 10/19
Today I skipped three of my classes in favor of studying for my final class of virology in which I had an exam that I hadn't studied for at all really. I think I did pretty well IMO. Afterwords, I went to the SEL (Science and Engineering Library) and later received a call from Lady Shermer with a quest (<= Yay WoW!). After, I borrowed her computer and started updating my blog and that just about concludes my story. Now then, that was my week. Quite the adventure... well sort of at least. I believe that some sort of explanation is in order concerning my relatives. So... at some point in time I completely lost contact with my mom's side of the family, I'm thinking around when I went into 5th or 6th grade. But I digress, I shall talk about my past, my mother, and my father another time. Point is, I completely lost contact with these people. So when my aunt Virginia past away this past summer and I went to the funeral it was one hell of an experience with names and whatnot. However, while I was there I got a chance to see Richard, for the last time sadly, and that was quite great. You see, Richard was someone that for some reason had a large impact on my childhood. I never put my finger on why, but he meant a lot to me and I have several distinct memories of him that I kept with me all of these years fresh as if they happened yesterday. However, I never had the chance to communicate this to him (considering that the last time I saw him was not a particularly good time) and thus when I found out that he had passed away I was quite devastated. One must understand that this was my first experience with death and that I was under the impression that I had more time. Time, as I've learned, never really seems to give a damn about you. Anyways, I was much comforted by the fact that I was chosen to be pallbearer. This, for me, gave me the understanding that Richard must have known to some degree that I appreciated him, and even more so I had understood how much I meant to him. So that was the first major thing about this past week, the second is more of a conspiracy. Second, I found out that my mother, whom everyone in my immediate family, myself included, was not, in fact, adopted as we were all led to believe. At least, in part. It turns out that she was my aunt Virginia's first daughter, however when she had her she was really young and so she gave my mom to her mother to be adopted and my mom was raised as being Richard and Virginia's sister. This is not actually the case and my aunt Virginia and uncle Richard are actually my great-aunt Virginia and my great-uncle Richard. And my cousins Elvia and Barbara are actually my aunts. So yeah, it was quite an interesting find. So... yeah, that pretty much wraps up my week. And, now that I've updated I can continue my routine of updating from my phone whenever I friggin' feel like it! And so.. Goodnight. -Ken PS: I started this at 5:02pm, it is now 6:14pm. Note to self, don't wait so long to update. Also, I've got videos and pics to post later, I'll keep y'all posted. [EDIT]: Changed the tag and title to be more appropriate.