Saturday, February 14: Mom’s Funeral Service

Hi there it’s Saturday, February 14 is Valentine’s Day but most of all it is my mom‘s funeral today. She lived on 96 years old. Mary and I got up around 7:30 AM. I went out to Montreal spread bakery and nobody was there. I got two coffees and went to the minimart and got two sandwiches. I got dressed. Mary took a shower and it’s now 8:55 AM and I’m waiting for Mary to come with her phone. And I don’t think she can find her phone so I’m gonna call her. We have to be at church at 9:15. 

Friday, February 13: Work, Lunch @ Marathon, Car Rental and Dave’s

Good day everybody. Today’s gonna be a busy one. I first got the Mike’s around 9 AM hung out a little bit throughout the trash and then went and got a script for him at the private pharmacy. That went over pretty well. Grandpa was slow as usual. I then went to Td bank. I then had to look around for rental cars, cause we’re gonna need a car to scoot around from Media to Philly to holy supplier cemetery up in Cheltenham and all around between today and Monday afternoon. I already told Work I was taking off Monday. It’s now 12:03 PM I’m about to meet Coleen and Mary at the marathon diner for lunch. Then right after that I am planning to go to the airport via Uber to pick up my car rental because there is no other cars available except at the airport when you rent last minute I think the Car Rental places just don’t have enough cars and they figured it’s OK to run out of cars, but I guess that’s the cost of doing business. Anyway, I decided to cut the airport line because Uber was gonna charge me anywhere from 35 to 45 bucks plus a tip to get me there so I just took the Uber to 30th St., Station and then caught the airport line around 2 PM and then took the train and then finally picked up the car around 3 o’clock. It’s 3:32 PM. I’m about to arrive at the Dorchester. All right, it’s now 4:02 PM. We’re getting ready to take the stuff down to the Rental Car Jesus.

Thursday, February 12: Cold🥶 West Dist. CAO. Yoga

Good day boys and girls today started out funky because I got a message from Mike that I was supposed to be there 
early for his doctors 
appointment and he had to blow off one of those rides. I completely forgot about the appointment. So I showed up at Mike’s around 9 AM and wanted to at least get him to the dermatologist, but he said he was gonna go ahead and blow that off as well, so I took the 40 bus towards the West District welfare office where the Mike’s medical assistancecomes from the 40 bus is really crowded when I got on, but when it went through University Of Pennsylvania Bruce Street the whole bus emptied practically. Mike’s on a special medical assistance plan so instead of going to the close office on South Broad Street I had to go away up here in West Philly. And then find out that the office is closed to 11 o’clock due to “professional development.“ Anyway, I saw that there was a ShopRite so I went there got some muffins for breakfast and sat in the beer garden. I then got Mike a couple of pre-cooked chickens and now it’s 1054 and it is so fucking cold in this line today the wind is disgusting around 20 miles an hour. Well, it got a little bit better. We got into the office and I met up with Mister Grimes. Who’s the DA of the West District now . he took my name as Michael WARD and then I was seen by the Customer Service wrap about twenty five minutes to thirty minutes later and she was very confident and said she was gonna remove the closing and Mike has two more bank accounts to verify one was an ally bank one he didn’t know about or forgot about and one was another Wells Fargo. It’s now 12:22 PM. I am now on the 40 bus trucking through Powelton village area. Anyhow, I got back from the 40 bus and went ahead and did a CVS run for Mike. That was OK. Two of the self service machines were out, but I made it through then after I came there I was going to do a TD Bank run, but I didn’t have time for that because I realized that I needed to go to Photo Lounge. For some reason, I thought I had off tomorrow and Mike thought thesame thing but I’m working half day or close to that work till about 11:45. Mary and I are going to meet a friend for lunch. I expect to be going to Dave’s via Uber only 
because we got equipment to handle. Anyhow I went to Photo Lounge picked up gifts. I mean pictures and took care of that business. I got back to Mike’s and it was practically 3:30 PM. Put his food away and then headed off to the 4 PM yoga class. My Lis taught a very good classes as usual. I really have grown to really like her as a yoga instructor. After class, we talked a little bit and then we went back to Mary’s and decided to just chill and relax. I just decided to blow off my meeting I just wasn’t up for going all the way out to Fairmount. They’re not getting back here till 10 PM right before the funeral stuff all begins.

Wednesday, February 11: Helping Dave w/ Mom Stuff

This morning, I woke up feeling a very tired, but definitely better rested than I was the night before. I got a full seven hours of sleep, whichis cool. Mary made me some delicious bacon and eggs, and I went to the café to fetch your coffee. It was quite a nice way to start the morning. I then walked most of the way to Mike’s, but I caught a 12 bus at 18th and Spruce and got off at 15th and spruce. There was only three blocks but it really saved me some time. Fortunately today’s
Wednesday it’s I can sign out late from Mike’s. I then took some pictures for Mike for a Social Security application and then Dave called and wanted me to come up there and help him out with finding mom‘s phone book so we can call people. Also to do some cleanup of her room. I’m heading out via the market Frankford 
line in the Broad Street line. It’s only 2️⃣ minutes slower than calling Uber. Uber is an option if need be. Anyhow, I got home and quickly dove into the 20 Photo Albums that my mom had to dig in some representation of her. Inadvertently of course I ran it to old pictures of myself with people such as Linda, Amsterdam and Kim Lee people I used to see back in the day. It was a trip just as I was catchingan Uber to Media. Alice called and we talked for a little bit until Dave called her. Things are gonna be moving quite fast. I also had to cancel my 2 o’clock appointment.Hopefully I won’t get charged for canceling two hours ahead of time, but I think I have a good excuse. I arrived at Dave’s, and I walked the dog with him. We just shot the shit and talked about the business at hand. He then left on an important errand and I sorted out this box of stuff she has and found some phone numbers of people that she still had communication with which was a Royal find. Also Found obituaries from ColemanSellers my grandfather on my mom side a.k.a. my grandfather. It’s now 1:20 PM I formally canceled my appointment with Hockenberry, 

and Alice called me while David was away which was cool. She was needing help writing up the obituary. I’m hoping we can finish this part of the conversation before Dave gets back. Anyway, I’m in the basement and he has his lower ceiling. I’ve bumped my head like three times. I have a nice bruise on my head or at least a little tiny one. I don’t 

even know if I’m gonna get back in time to get the Mike’s by 4:30 which is my goal at this point, but I don’t wanna cut out on Dave because well that doesn’t have to be discuss. Well, there is no way I was getting back to Mike’s. I ended up going with Dave to the funeral Director after going over Alice’s obituary for three different copies and then Dave printed out the final copy and sent it to the funeral home. I then got a ride to the Media to Media station after Dave and A funeral Director guy talked to golf for 15 minutes. After that I came back to Mary’s and there’s no way I was in the mood to do any yoga even yen and I ended up just lying down and cozying up with her and then we got up and got some Indian. Mary’s going to see the doctor tomorrow about her injuries due to her fall. That’ll be good. Tomorrow I go to the welfare office for Mike.