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.

I still have frozen pumpkin from last year in my freezer. I should really try to use that up.

Called Mom. Dad said Joe could stay with them. Beautiful. Mom said she wouldn't call me anymore because she can't stand to hear me upset. No, Mom, I can't stand thinking that you guys are going to get hurt trying to fulfill your parental duty. Nothing is going to change with this situation until someone gets injured. Gah.

I'm going to derby practice later and hit something.

I see those, msbelle. Thanks. I think I'll use about those proportions, although maybe not that much sugar. I was going to use the whole can and wing it, but there was a lot of math involved.