Dear Forum Members;
I know you haven't heard much from me but here is one reason why:
Eighteen years ago today was the best day of my life. Today is a very sad day for us because it's Michael's birthday, September 1. He should have been 19 instead of dead. He should have been in college now for the past 3 weeks and working part time at Auto Zone. He should have been .........not today's topic.
The day of Michael's funeral Daniel received a phone call from Kim at Chaos Ranch. After she introduced herself to him and paid her respects, she told him that she wanted to make a special memorial website for Michael as her gift to us. She told Dan that this website would be a place for his friends to go to visit him.
Dan and I discussed how Michael's story should be told. So he told me what we should talk about and then I put it into words. We've had this website underwraps now for about 2 months. Writing about Michael in the past tense was the hardest thing I've had to do since the funeral and it took it's toll on both me and Kim. I surrounded myself with pictures of Michael here at my desk and his little birdy Scooter too and I found myself talking to the pictures for inspiration and then the words just began to come easily to me. Michael was a great subject to write about.
Kim did all the the graphics and designing work and it and brought us both to tears many, many times. I don't think that Kim, nor I, nor Dan had any idea that this website was going to be so heart wrenching to put together.
We thank Kim so much. She is so very caring and so busy in her life with her 5 kids and critters and her own life challenges, but she still found the time to do this for us. We are very grateful to her.
There is a movie clip but it does not work on dial-up at least not for me. My computer man David shrunk it down 50% and converted it and also purchased a special program to get it to work on dsl but the kinks are still not ironed out so if it doesn't work for you, we know it and David is trying to work on it.
Our local radio stations will be playing music for Michael on and off most of the day and the schools will be having a moment of silence also today. The principal summoned me to school and presented me with Michael's yearbook on Monday and there is a full page tribute to Michael in it. The love in his school continues to amaze me.
There is also a banner on the home page that Kimmy made if anyone would care to put it on your website. I'm thinking that if there's a teen out there that may be frustrated or getting down and out with school that the story of Michael's trials and tribulations might be an inspiration.
Now here is something that happened last night and call me crazy if you want to but it's true. As it neared towards midnight, Michael's birthday, KIm and I were online rushing back and forth to critique last minute things on the website and emailing eachother like crazy because this had to be done for today. Well about 10 minutes to midnite, my computer began to go crazy. The screen was blinking which my screen never does that and everything began to freeze up. Then my hotmail refused to load and I couldn't get back in touch with Kimmy who was waiting for my response on the other end. I was hitting re-fresh and re-booting up my computer, everything and it was all going nuts which my computer never does these things. This went on until 8 minutes after midnight last night. Then this morning I got an email from Kim that said about the same times my computer was going nuts, her's was doing the very same stuff on her end and everything was freezing up and out of whack. That's why we didn't get finished last night and had to wait until this morning. I'll betcha anything Michael was messing with us............
Thank you again Kimmy for everything. You are an amazing person.
Please visit Michael today for his birthday at:
www.mymichaelgarrison.com
Michael, My Archangel
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL IN HEAVEN
MOMMY LOVES YOU FOREVER
I know you haven't heard much from me but here is one reason why:
Eighteen years ago today was the best day of my life. Today is a very sad day for us because it's Michael's birthday, September 1. He should have been 19 instead of dead. He should have been in college now for the past 3 weeks and working part time at Auto Zone. He should have been .........not today's topic.
The day of Michael's funeral Daniel received a phone call from Kim at Chaos Ranch. After she introduced herself to him and paid her respects, she told him that she wanted to make a special memorial website for Michael as her gift to us. She told Dan that this website would be a place for his friends to go to visit him.
Dan and I discussed how Michael's story should be told. So he told me what we should talk about and then I put it into words. We've had this website underwraps now for about 2 months. Writing about Michael in the past tense was the hardest thing I've had to do since the funeral and it took it's toll on both me and Kim. I surrounded myself with pictures of Michael here at my desk and his little birdy Scooter too and I found myself talking to the pictures for inspiration and then the words just began to come easily to me. Michael was a great subject to write about.
Kim did all the the graphics and designing work and it and brought us both to tears many, many times. I don't think that Kim, nor I, nor Dan had any idea that this website was going to be so heart wrenching to put together.
We thank Kim so much. She is so very caring and so busy in her life with her 5 kids and critters and her own life challenges, but she still found the time to do this for us. We are very grateful to her.
There is a movie clip but it does not work on dial-up at least not for me. My computer man David shrunk it down 50% and converted it and also purchased a special program to get it to work on dsl but the kinks are still not ironed out so if it doesn't work for you, we know it and David is trying to work on it.
Our local radio stations will be playing music for Michael on and off most of the day and the schools will be having a moment of silence also today. The principal summoned me to school and presented me with Michael's yearbook on Monday and there is a full page tribute to Michael in it. The love in his school continues to amaze me.
There is also a banner on the home page that Kimmy made if anyone would care to put it on your website. I'm thinking that if there's a teen out there that may be frustrated or getting down and out with school that the story of Michael's trials and tribulations might be an inspiration.
Now here is something that happened last night and call me crazy if you want to but it's true. As it neared towards midnight, Michael's birthday, KIm and I were online rushing back and forth to critique last minute things on the website and emailing eachother like crazy because this had to be done for today. Well about 10 minutes to midnite, my computer began to go crazy. The screen was blinking which my screen never does that and everything began to freeze up. Then my hotmail refused to load and I couldn't get back in touch with Kimmy who was waiting for my response on the other end. I was hitting re-fresh and re-booting up my computer, everything and it was all going nuts which my computer never does these things. This went on until 8 minutes after midnight last night. Then this morning I got an email from Kim that said about the same times my computer was going nuts, her's was doing the very same stuff on her end and everything was freezing up and out of whack. That's why we didn't get finished last night and had to wait until this morning. I'll betcha anything Michael was messing with us............
Thank you again Kimmy for everything. You are an amazing person.
Please visit Michael today for his birthday at:
www.mymichaelgarrison.com
Michael, My Archangel
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL IN HEAVEN
MOMMY LOVES YOU FOREVER
