Overwhelmed

Have not posted lately... this week has been overwhelming.

First off, our anniversary last weekend was wonderful! JGS came through with a B&B in Ventnor, NJ; the owners were a bit nuts, it was overpriced, and the food was terrible, but it was perfect. Saturday night (dressed in my new sexy black shirt) we took a ten minute walk down the beach to the AC boardwalk and spent the night on the town casino hopping. We had dinner at this great Irish Pub in the Tropicana that was well worth the wait and JS gave me a gambling tutorial- just what my addictive personality needs. Sunday we spent the day on the beach and returned to Philly just in time to grab dinner at the best Chinese restaurant in the city- Charles Plaza. The entire weekend was fabulous.

Wednesday brought bad news.

Death is never a particularly easy thing to deal with but this news hit me like a ton on bricks. This cannot be happening. My head echoed with doubt... this cannot be happening...I was going down to have dinner with them next week... they just found out... they just went through this... this has to be a mistake.

But news like that is never a mistake, and this time was no different. So Jenny and I will make the trip down for the viewing tonight and JS will join us for the funeral tomorrow. This will no doubt prove to be a heart breaking weekend.

All I can think about is one night in Ireland two years ago, Demiz and I, and a few friends were taking a night off from the pub crawl. Demiz, ever the romantic, was reading aloud quotes from a W.B. Yeats book he had purchased. One of his favorites:

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

How true, Matt, how true.