P-C, I've mentioned before that Bec's parents didn't attend our wedding, and indeed left the FAC because the minister married us. It was still a joyful occasion. Frankly, the only wrong response to your parents' tantrums is giving in to them.

Teppy, how's your brother doing?

He's doing okay, but he's not in a rehab program at this point. While he was in the hospital he talked to one on the phone, and after he was released he went to that place for an evaluation, but he says it was mostly heroin addicts and not really any alcoholics, and he didn't think it would be helpful to him because of that.

I asked him if he had any other programs he was going to check out, and he said, "I think what I need the most is therapy," which I don't disagree with. I asked him about AA, and he said that, in researching it, there are things about it that he doesn't really like. And that's fair; AA isn't for everyone.

All that said, I personally wish he would find a rehab program or at the very least a program similar to AA so that he would have support from people who have been through what he's going through. So, I'm concerned that he needs more support right now. But I can't make him do anything. Just be supportive and give him my 2 cents.

I think there is one called Rational Recovery.

Skippy skippy, like 200 posts.

oh my god.

Oh My God!

OMG!!!!!

My realtor just texted me.

Guess what... I leave town for vacation**, and it sounds like we are getting the approval today!!! Woo hoo!!

They got verbal confirmation, just waiting on the paperwork to make it official. Then we go into escrow.

OMG!

(Anxious waiting has been transformed it to anxiety purchasing. Like a boulder sitting atop a cliff that gets a little nudge from a bird landing on it just so)

• * She is doing the LifeCycle bike ride, from San Fran to Los Angeles, to raise money for AIDS research

I think there is one called Rational Recovery.

Tim went to that one for a little bit (he was overly acquainted with pot in college, and when he decided he needed to quit, he quit drinking, too, on the theory that, for him, if he kept drinking it would eventually gateway him back into pot), and recommended that one for my brother.

Omnis, cool!!! Totally exciting!!!

Yay omnis!

omnis, yay!!

Omnis- that is excellent news.

Erin: glad they're going to do something to minimize the chances of arthritis.

Congrats, omnis!!

So he showed up, shut up, and was thoroughly docile. Which was nothing short as a miracle, as he was truly a brass-dipped, nickel-plated asshole if ever there was one.

Wow. Very cool.

Wishing you lots of surgery~ma, Erin!