I got about 3 hours of sleep before I woke up and couldnt sleep and went up to see what my parents were going to do. I think that posting this thread last night helped me fall asleep. Sometimes it seems like if I vent or kvetch about it, then some of the stress of trying to fall asleep will go away after a bit and I'll fall asleep eventually.

My dad woke up with really bad back pain. He doesnt think he can drive himself to the funeral. The burial is here in town, so he's thinking he'll just go to the burial if his back will let him later.

I still dont feel so great from whatever I ate yesterday, and I'm about to go back to bed for a few hours (getting up at 930, that'll give me about another 2hrs, give or take a few minutes)

I'm not going to the burial, I dont do funerals (funeral phobia) and I dont do burials. I tend to just wait till the grass has grown over the graves before I visit the cemetery.

After I get a little more sleep, I'm going to go to the flower store and pick something out for my dad to take to the burial. I'm guessing I'll just pick out several roses of different colors, and tell my dad to either toss them in when they lower the casket, or whatever he wants to do with them.