Congratulations and I'm sorry to hear about your friend :( Death is so messed up and don't be sad no one called you..dealing with that type of thing is so hard that you can't always think of calling everyone you should, you know?
I love flowers. Something I would miss more then flowers though is the ocean, I think, or sunshine on a spring day. I say spring day because summer sun is too hott but when it's cool out and you can sit in a ray of sun and just get all warm it's awesome.