God, Cashmere, words fail. That is utterly infuriating and terrifying. I hope that your brother gets the meds he needs soon.

Yay, Perkins!

I need a fucking transporter to get to Indiana. I just talked to my mom. My brother showed up at the pub where my dad was having lunch. They're still down there. Mom told me she wants to call the hospital and talk to the social worker there.

I had to explain to her that they cannot help him or work with him unless he's committed. Then Mom said they have to let Joe stay with them because he pays them rent.

The faster he is out of there and in the presence of professionals, the sooner he will get medicated. I told her they need to take him to the shelter tonight if he refuses meds.

If they stop trying to do this on their own, the slow-moving system will start working on a place for him to stay and getting him on meds. The more my parents try to deal with this on their own, the less help they are giving to Joe.

God, I'm so fucking frustrated. I want to go cock-punch that psychiatrist for unloading this shit on my 70 year old parents.

Poor all of you guys, seriously. I wish Jeff Van Vonderen from Intervention could explain to your parents how they aren't actually helping.

ION, there's some discussion of dorkiness in Carolyn Hax's chat today that I think will resonate with people here: [link]

Cash, I've seen problems like this before via the teen shelter, and it's so frustrating. I'm sending you -ma, and hope you come here to vent/get support as much as you need to.

Kathy, woo on your new car decision! I hope you love it!

Perkins, that deserves a FUCK YEAH!

I am heading to shower to wash off the lemon oil and cat hair residue. Ah, hot water. Too bad it has to be a quickie.

If they stop trying to do this on their own, the slow-moving system will start working on a place for him to stay and getting him on meds. The more my parents try to deal with this on their own, the less help they are giving to Joe.

Gah! So hard.

In more shallow discussion, I am so looking forward to Pottermore, but we flubbed getting into the early release version. Not that it matters in the long run.

Why do so many pumpkin bread recipes call for some odd fraction of a can of pumpkin?

Oh my god, Ginger, that drives me nuts. Use the whole thing! Or half!

I just caught the reair of Free Agents on Bravo, and good god, it's pretty bad. But ASH ... he looks OLD. Gorgeous and hot but much older than I expected. I'm shaken.

Oh, my god, I can't get any projects done because people keep loading up the siege engine with fireballs and aiming them at my desk.

Oh, my god, I can't get any projects done because people keep loading up the siege engine with fireballs and aiming them at my desk.

Is your shield faulty? Try releasing the hounds with bees in their mouths.

Ginger I have a great recipe for pumpkin muffins that could easily be made as bread and it uses 1 can. Remind me to post. ACtually it is on Allrecipes.com and I think it is called Pumpkin Muffins II. It may call for using a fresh pumpkin, but a1 reg can does good.