Playing board games with Hubby's family was always fraught. They would routinely pass up a chance to win a game if there was a chance to send another person back. I was scolded once by my MIL for skipping an opportunity to send my sister in law back to the beginning in exchange for actually getting a piece across the finish line.

Hubby was raised by wolves.

There's a LOT of fighting and punching, and a kind of escalating round robin argument where everyone's on a hair trigger and sniping at everyone else. Would that be of concern regarding Mac? I'd say it's preteen-safe in general, but most preteens haven't been through the kind of stress Mac just went through.

One character (in the argument scene mentioned above) mentions his unsucccessful suicide attempt .

Thor makes a joke about his brother being adopted.

Thor makes a joke about his brother

Yeah, it's in response to another character pointing out how horrible his brother is.

So, I don't know.

Oh, yeah, I forgot I cringed at that line.

I think it won, this week.

Seriously. I kept getting added to meetings and client calls while also having some giant work bird bomb my desk with emergency poops. When I found myself close to snapping, I cranked the Beastie Boys and powered through work with a virtual "Do Not Disturb".

I didn't actually shriek like a banshee at any of the people who asked me to do stuff.

I came so close to saying OH NO YOU DIDN'T and HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW, BITCHES?!

I did yell ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME at work today, but just at the email, so it was OK.

Pure joy to talk to Maria and her sister tonight and find them in a really good mental space. Think of her this weekend. Airshow in his honor.

I only kind of hinted to the person who emailed at 3:00 asking me to do about 8 hours of work before noon tomorrow even though she knew it sucked that I wasn't the one it sucked for.

Aww, will do. Glad to hear it, sarameg.