April 3, 2008
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As reticent as I am about doing this, I’m about to expose a few relatively unknown facts about myself. Or are they?
- Am an absolute militant ex-smoker. Quit 15 years ago - cold turkey!
- Despise the smell of cigarettes.
- On a rare occasion, love a fabulous cigar dipped in brandy in tandem with a bottle of Moet & Chandon, though. (Does that make me a hypocrite?)
- Am still legally married, but have been separated since 1999. To boot, we’re best friends.
No shit!
- Did the “Hatfield divorce” - flushed my wedding band down the toilet.
- Have been celibate - by choice - for 5 years. Again, NO SHIT! (Don’t feel sorry for me, I more than made up for it in my younger years!)
- Will NOT attend any wedding OR funeral.
- Weddings and funerals are the end of life as you currently know it.
- Not disrespectful. Believe they’re a frivolous waste of money that should be put towards the couple’s future, or trust funds for the beneficiaries.
- Anal-retentive-OCD-germophobic-Type A personality - controlling, cold and bitchy on the outside.
- I won’t shake your hand, but I’ll pound it. And then go disinfect afterwards. Don’t take it personally.
- An absolute mushy and insecure person on the inside.
- Don’t deal well with drama.
- Biologically closer to 50ish than I am 40ish.
- But feel 30ish (most days).
- Much prefer to be the observer than the observed any day of the week.
- I’ll throw you a wingding of a party; don’t expect me to show up for my own, though.
- Hate! Hate! Hate! to have my picture taken.
I do not photograph well. 95% of the time, look really stupid.
- But I take amazingly gorgeous pictures of other people. People are my favorite subjects.
- Want me to take your picture, too?
- But I take amazingly gorgeous pictures of other people. People are my favorite subjects.
- Favorite pastime on a weekend is laying in bed, watching old movies. ALL day long. Or just laying in bed, sleeping.
- Hate! hate! hate! housecleaning. My house looks like a bomb hit it and too lazy to clean it up.
- Had a house-cleaner but fired her because she kept breaking things. Now I don’t trust them.
- Hate! hate! hate! housecleaning. My house looks like a bomb hit it and too lazy to clean it up.
And there you have it. Too much information? And you’re still here despite all of this?
Wow, y’all are great! 
~dKaye
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My choice: Cremation. Two reasons: 1) I’m donating my useable organs and don’t wish to be reconstructed for a viewing or to be placed in the ground; and 2) I do not attend funerals out of respect for the departed. I want the memories carried with me to be of a smiling face and happy times. It is by frequenting those places where the smiles were formed that the departed’s soul and spirit will be felt and cherished.
Funerals are a poor excuse for a family reunion, where people gather, eat food, cry, and usually say kind things about you after-the-fact. Instead, appreciate me while I’m still living, and express these kind things so I, too, may appreciate them. Don’t display my lifeless body in an extravagant box - don’t make that a lasting image to carry forth.
Don’t put me in the ground. Cemeteries are cold and barren, even on the warmest and sunniest of days. Don’t make my family and friends come to a rented piece of land (which will eventually be built over) to cry over my grave. Rejoice instead in the contributions - big or small - made in my lifetime. Let my ashes fertilize a forest glen, or run with a river wild.
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