Celebration Of Life - Marge Lindman Hidalgo (Cont.)

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Time At Posting: 9:33 p.m. Pacific Time
Current Music: Watching "Mysteries of Easter Island"
Weather At Posting: 54 F Cool and clear
Current Mood: Pretty blue at the moment
Random Thought: I loved my mom!
Random Trivia: Did you know timing the sounds (chirps) of a cricket can give you the current approximate temperature? The formula is as follows: Count the number of "chirps" in 15 seconds and add 40 to that number. The total will give you an approximation of the current local temperature. You have to remember that crickets don't "chirp" below 55 degrees F and over 100 degrees F. Disclaimer: There are several different types of crickets that change the formula, which is only a theory.

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Remembering My Mom (Part II)
This is part II of a memoriam to my mother. If you want to view the first part of this memoriam, please click here.

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Church Of Our Heritage - Covina, CA
Above is a photograph of the beautiful church where the funeral service of memory was held at Forest Lawn Covina, CA on Wednesday May 5, 2004 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time. The burial service was immediately after the service just across the road.

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Burial Service
The cemetery plot is directly across the Church Of Our Heritage (as seen in the image above). The plot is in a prime location and is a wonder we were able to secure the space at all since spaces in that section of the cemetery are no longer available for sale because they are all sold.

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Poll Bearers
Thanks go to the following people for accepting the poll bearer job (starting front right clockwise): Peter Hidalgo (twin), Jamie Hidalgo (cousin), Alfonso Hidalgo (uncle), Paul Hidalgo (cousin), Phil Hidalgo (brother), John Hidalgo (Jaime's Son), Bill Ziese (Peter's Father-In-Law) and Burt Lindfors (mom's cousin).

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Resting Under A Tree
Mom will rest in peace under a big tree in a beautiful area of Forest Lawn. Mom, you will be missed!

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Celebration Of Life - Marge Lindman Hidalgo

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Time At Posting: 7:53 p.m. Pacific Time
Current music: Incubus - "Drive"
Weather At Posting: 64 F Sunset w/light breeze
Current Mood: Retrospective
Random Thought: Life is so short!

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Remembering My Mom (Part I)
Marge (nee) Lindman Hidalgo was born on April 1, 1926 in Kingsburg, CA and passed away on April 29, 2004 in Claremont, CA at approximately 11:00 a.m. She lived just over a full 78 years, did some traveling in Costa Rica, Ecuador and all over the United States Of America. She devoted her life to her kids both at home and at school where she was a teacher.

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In And Out Of The Hospital
Mom lived a rough life toward the end suffering from a combination of things including diabetes, sepsis (a blood disorder), dimentia, alzheimer's and suffered a stroke about four months before her death. She was in and out of the hospital within the last five years after suffering a heart attack and undergoing quadruple by-pass surgery.

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Mom's Last Day
Above is the last sunset that mom was alive. In driving to California, I had an unusual experience during the sunset. I began to realize that mom was gone and that this sunset represented the last sunrise mom experienced while alive. As the sun went down, I began to feel the separation from my mom.

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Last Moments With Mom
As the sun past the horizon, I became very retrospective and spent the eight hour drive remembering all the best my mom offered my family. As the sunlight faded to complete darkness, it hit me my mom was gone. It was actually a great time by myself and the memories of my mom. I'm thankful for the time alone that night.

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Wednesday May 5, 2004
The day of the funeral was a rough one for me. Above is the copy of the leaflet passed out during the service of memory along with the agenda.

Below is the inside of the leaflet passed out to all who attended the service of memory in the church at Forest Lawn in Covina, CA. Psalm 23 was chosen because it was appropriate to the situation and a favorite of mom's.

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A Shocking Experience
The days leading up to the funeral were tough, but it was especially hard to walk into the church and see the casket. I remember stopping in my tracks in shock at the first site of the casket realizing it was official...mom was gone. The service was hard by it self, but unfortunately I was passing a kidney stone that day too. Sitting in those comfortable chairs (note the sarcasm) was a horrible experience, not to mention sitting in front of my mother's casket for half an hour.

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Celebration Of Life - Marge Lindman Hidalgo (Cont.).
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Saving The World

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Current music: Ataris - "Boys Of Summer"
Weather At Posting: 64 F sunny and warm
Current Mood: Mellow and philosophical
Random Thought: Time was an invention of man to structure life
Random Trivia: Did you know that Arizona has more forest land than does the state of Minnesota?

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"The Core"
I just finished watching a movie titled "The Core." Secretly I love these types of movies despite some of their chessy acting and impossible scenerios. I wait for their feeble attempts to appease the audience with random off-the-wall statements designed to squelch any questions that might arise from impossible situations, events and things.

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Only In Hollywood
For example, the characters walk out of their terra-craft (space craft for inner Earth travel) wearing suits similar to those in "Mission To Mars" made of a "newly introduced material" that will protect them from up to 4000 degrees F, and the material is slightly thicker than tin foil! :) Gotta love it! I'm not sure how these thicker-than-tin-foil suits protect the terra-naughts (astronaughts for inner Earth travel) from the crushing pressures that far into the core of the Earth, but it's an amazing new technology, that's for sure!

Saving Grace - Audience Appeased
Fortunately though, any questions about how the terra-naughts can be protected from the scorching heat from the inner core is broght to a halt by a simple statement made by one of the characters: "Thank God these new suits will protect us from the heat." The material is never discussed, the technology is never revealed and they leave it at that. It worked, heh? Props to Hollyweird.

Don't Get Me Wrong
I actually enjoyed the movie. It was gripping at points, the acting was better than most in the same category and it was interesting. I learned a little more about the Earth and how it works, for instance, I didn't know the Earth's core was most likely solid metal and that hot molten magma circled the metal core. It is this motion around the metal core that creates magnetism. I was actually facinated with that sort of information.

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Above: Is a picture from inside looking out the ancient Indian cave in Clarkdale, Arizona. The scene out the man-made cave is the Verde Valley looking toward Sedona, Arizona. We had gone camping for the weekend to ride a quad around, swim, fish and have fun. The ground below is roughly 400 - 600 feet away. It was a VERY steep climb on a hot day.

Below: A picture of the ancient Indian cave in Clarkdale Arizona from about 3/4 of the way up to the cave. There is still 3/4 of the climb behind me in this picture, it was that far up to the cave. The temperature in the area that day was in the upper 80's lower 90's. It was considerably cooler in that cave. We stayed up there for about 1 1/2 hours. We entertained ourselves by aiming for the birds that kept taunting us, of which there were a lot. Sunday April 24, 2004.

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Current Music: Everlast - "What It's Like"
Current Mood: Getting antsy - need to move around

Bing! An Idea Is Born
I should write a script/story for a movie about a cataclysmic physical event that changes the Earth as we know it, but is saved by the bumbling attempts of the local neighborhood dork who is quick to notice a pattern change. Of course, the dork gets the girls (plural) at the end, saves countless lives world-wide and is set for life after that because of the global recognition he receives as a result.

There will most certainly have to be plenty of explosions, a couple great car chases, several talented and great looking characters dying for the cause, a few conflicts and a brief gratuitous sex scene to quench the inner beast driven by instinct in all of us. Whadda ya think? Oscar material or what?

Day Off
Because it's my day off, I need to get the following done:

* Laundry
* Dishes
* Unpack car from California run last week
* Order new muffler for car
* Finish dishes from over a week ago
* Take a bike ride for sanity purposes

Suggestion Of The Day: Light the fuse, then run!

OK, I Admit, I Did It
I finally broke down and bought myself two new shirts last night after class--on sale no less. I despise shopping cause everytime I go to the mall or the like, I want everything. As a result I get all bummed out knowing I can't have the world and all that inhabits the blue planet. Dammit!

Is anyone out there a doctor? I have this rash...well, nevermind. :) Jus' messin'

Time to cruise Flagstaff Arizona, again.



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