August and the year 2006

Since 1997 I have connected the month of August with death. In that year I went to 4 wakes. Actually all together that year I went to 7 wakes but that's a different story. The year before that, August 7 1996 my great grandmother died. even though she was 96 she didn't die of old age. She was reaching for something and she fell. That was a pretty shocking day. OK that's also another story. Also in August of 2002 my brother's friend got into a car accident and died. That was the first wake I'd ever been for someone under 40. He was 20. Hopefully that will be the last one of those I have to go to.

Mollye had two deaths in her family at the start of this year. It was her uncle and her grandfather. My friends grandmother died about a month ago and a woman who which I called grandmother as a child died in July. Now this month, August my friend got a call the other day that her grandfather died and now she's gone away for two weeks. If's she's reading this I'd like her to know that we all send our love.

Today I got an email from a friend of mine. He sent me the link to an ariticle about a friend of mine that drowned yesterday morning at about 2 am in a 3 foot pool. His name was Steve. Aparrently he was with some friends drinking when he decided to go into the pool. He went into the pool alone while everyone was still in the house. When one of his friends came out to join him Steve was upside down in the pool. His friends performed CPR on him until the police arrived.

I havent seen him since high school. He was always a good guy. He was the stage manager for my......song and dance troupe that I was in during high school....yeah so what......shut up.
I'll just share a good memory I have of him. Our little troupe had a very low budget. We used these risers that were from the 60's and were always falling apart. During one show one of the risers colapsed during a performance. On the video we had of the show you can see Steve dive from the front of the stage and into the risers. He spent the rest of the performance holding up the risers from underneath. That is a funny, happy memory I have of him. That and he loved to do flips. I think he thought impressed the lady's. Does it impress the lady's? Let me know. I'll start practicing.

The month of August sucks and as of right now the year 2006 kind of sucks. When I was told my grandmother was sick I actually started worrying more because of the year. A lot of things happened this year. Now it would appear that August is still a bad month for me. So once I get through this month hopefully things will get a little better. I'll only have 4 months left til 2006 ends. 2006 sucks.