Tag: funerals

• The Girl in the Blue Bathroom

  I’ve been thinking a lot about my funeral lately. Not in an “oh shit, Jo’s off her meds” kind of way, but more in a chances are I’ll die of a cardiac event kind of way (I am feeling my body’s mortality so much more since I fucked up my knee last year) and so […]

  Joanna

  April 17, 2017

  Journal

  2017, bad tom, bourgeoisie, easter, eulogy, funerals, home owner, karen, party planning, Review, television

• The Decemberer part two

  Because we didn’t want Mum to have to stress out about Xmas preperations the day after her mother died, on Friday 23 December, Karen and I decided we’d shop for all the food. If you were in Wellington, you might also remember that as the day that the skies decided to bust open and leak […]

  Joanna

  December 30, 2005

  Journal, Really long stories

  anji, cous, family, funerals, karen, Lisa Fur, ngaio, oma, shopping, what’s your favourite fact about monkeys?, xmas

• Oma

  The next week was spent in visits to the hospital, in which I’d cry almost every single time, so I spent more time fetching coffee from the miles-away main building and hauling it through the long tunnel to the Grace Neil building than I did actually sitting with Oma. She’d had another stroke, and possibly […]

  Joanna

  December 29, 2005

  Journal

  “A”, cwa, funerals, hospitals, i need to fix a link, oma, whedon

• Twenty Things

  I don’t normally do this kind of thing on Hubris, but hell, at least it’s all about me… 1. Everyone (who’s anyone) uses the phrase “jumped the shark” about TV shows, or sometimes bands, or just celebrities in general (for example “Milan totally jumped the shark when he let that groupie wear his hat right […]

  Joanna

  October 25, 2005

  Journal

  anji, bed linen, beer, benIV, blogs vs. journals, funerals, i wish I was a housewife, joanna vs johubris, jumping the shark, lists, love, people I’ve had sex with, pus, sebastian