[1 May 2005] We should all live so long
I've spent most of this weekend in Christchurch at my grandmother's 90th birthday celebrations. Was a pretty good time, even though it was being organised by the male members of my family (which means it wasn't really being organised, they were just randomly doing stuff and hoping things worked out). That's a little bit unfair, but not completely.

Anyway, I'd seen her about three months ago, so I know how she's doing and stuff, and she's still fairly sprightly - she's quite deaf but sharp mentally, she knows what's going on and her memory is great. She's getting a bit frail though and tends to need help walking.

Spent time with relatives I haven't seen in a long time - some of them not since my grandfather's funeral, probably - and that was in the mid 1980s. Surprised to find out that I actually enjoyed interacting with some of them.

So the trip was bit chaotic, but everything worked out pretty much OK. The major sour note for me was my uncle deciding to involve us in the church service without bothering to really mention it to us, or ask if we wanted to be involved. So now I'm not going to disrespect the occasion by acting up in church, but I felt it was a bit out of order. He wanted us to read out some prayers. And both my brother and sister and myself are completely atheistic and have no interest in such things. So I'd rather not have been involved in all that, but it wasn't toooo painful so no big deal. 
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