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So much going on. Sad news dominates at the moment - I got a call from my cousin Thursday morning to let me know that my Mom passed away in Korea. :( My cousin promises if she ever has to do that again she'll make sure that the person she's talking to isn't driving before she tells them the news. But I kind of knew the moment C. spoke, because that's the cousin who never calls. Apparently when the American Embassy was called into the case they started searching through their data and found her name on an old passport application.
But C. was amazing - she had been called at 1:30 in the morning, but offered to come pick me up and take me up to her house, because her father left his phone there (he's on a trip to Australia), which is set up to call Korea for free.** I refused at the moment, because I had driven Eor to work and wasn't sure how we would get the car back if I left it at work. I'm sure something could have been worked out, but I couldn't think at the moment. I got as far as the parking lot, then called in and said I couldn't come in to work. The manager and my boss took care of me - my boss drove me to Freeport to pick up Eor and the manager followed in his truck and took my boss back to work. Eor drove me to C.'s house, almost an hour north, and we set up a skype with her father (Don Jimcito), got the guy in the Embassy in Korea on one phone on speaker and also my brother, Hawk, on another phone on speaker, and had a conference.
Maybe I should really backdate this to Thursday, and possibly I'll add more and do that, later (I do very much appreciate the editability/maleability in DreamWidth and LiveJournal which you don't get on Facebook), but for the moment I'm going to leave this first part of this whole thing right here and go do some other stuff, because ... yeah. There's a lot to process and I can't dump it all in one post, anyway. And life needs to go on - we're going to consider what wood stove we might want to buy.
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* Undoubtedly my name was also on an application, but I've moved four times since Mom first went to Korea, whereas C. built a lovely house on a lake 21 years ago and has stayed put. The advantages of starting from money - you get to keep your money and not spend it on moving.
**The advantages of having money - you get to not have to spend money to make distant phone calls.
But C. was amazing - she had been called at 1:30 in the morning, but offered to come pick me up and take me up to her house, because her father left his phone there (he's on a trip to Australia), which is set up to call Korea for free.** I refused at the moment, because I had driven Eor to work and wasn't sure how we would get the car back if I left it at work. I'm sure something could have been worked out, but I couldn't think at the moment. I got as far as the parking lot, then called in and said I couldn't come in to work. The manager and my boss took care of me - my boss drove me to Freeport to pick up Eor and the manager followed in his truck and took my boss back to work. Eor drove me to C.'s house, almost an hour north, and we set up a skype with her father (Don Jimcito), got the guy in the Embassy in Korea on one phone on speaker and also my brother, Hawk, on another phone on speaker, and had a conference.
Maybe I should really backdate this to Thursday, and possibly I'll add more and do that, later (I do very much appreciate the editability/maleability in DreamWidth and LiveJournal which you don't get on Facebook), but for the moment I'm going to leave this first part of this whole thing right here and go do some other stuff, because ... yeah. There's a lot to process and I can't dump it all in one post, anyway. And life needs to go on - we're going to consider what wood stove we might want to buy.
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* Undoubtedly my name was also on an application, but I've moved four times since Mom first went to Korea, whereas C. built a lovely house on a lake 21 years ago and has stayed put. The advantages of starting from money - you get to keep your money and not spend it on moving.
**The advantages of having money - you get to not have to spend money to make distant phone calls.
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