Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Happy Dead Mom Day #25: Going Dark

Happy Dead Mom Day #25! Our mom has been dead for so long, she could rent a car! WHERE IS MY CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP? I'm looking at you, Avis, Alamo, Hertz, whomever! My mom died, I should get a free car!

Today I was going to write you a long post about things I've been thinking about since we cleaned out my mom's storage unit. BUT, I'm not going to do that this year. This year, my sister and I are going dark.

What is going dark? I don't know. I just know that my sister saw it on Gilmore Girls. I guess Luke takes a day every year and disappears and that day is also the anniversary of his father's death. We agreed that this is a fantastic plan, and so today, WE ARE GOING DARK.

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Obviously the best way to honor your feelings is to copy something you saw on TV. Solid thinking. Super. Duper. Solid.

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(No, not Poldark, GOING dark.)

It's actually very hard to take a Dark Day. We are both super busy boss ladies with a lot of commitments and responsibilities. Other people, and even ourselves, will try to convince us to arrange our dark day to a more convenient time. But that is the whole point.

Death cannot be rescheduled. Grief has its own timetable. Leave us alone, our mom is dead.

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There is another point. We were children when we lost our mom. We followed what the adults thought was best, and we coped as best as we could. Now, as grown-ass women, we can mourn and cope however we want to. Maybe we will wear caftans. Maybe we will wear pink lipstick. Maybe we will organize bookshelves. If the weather reports are true, one of us may be hunkering down through a tropical hurricane. Maybe we will get drunk. Maybe we will listen to Tina Turner. Maybe we will light candles. Maybe we will just be dark.

Maybe it will be dramatic. Maybe it won't. Whatever it is, our mom is dead, and we're doing this our way.


Royal Report: Happy Dead Mom Day, Prince Harry and Prince William!  Prince Harry is also sad. We should go to therapy together. And by therapy, I mean a castle in Scotland where we lie by the fire lick champagne off of each other's bodies. That sounds like a great plan for Dark Day.

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This is totally how I would grieve with Prince Harry.

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