Best outcome ~ma to Niki.

I'm sorry you're having to deal with the crazy person. I'd think at this point you're just going to have to keep repeating "this is a legal matter now" and sending the person to the attorney.

I bet none of you has a terrier in your kitchen cabinets.

So much ~ma and love and purr vibes for Niki and for you, bonny.

I bet the Venn diagram of people who have terriers in their cupboards and people who have a purring cat half on their lap and half on the arm of their chair contains zero overlap.

If there is an overlap somewhere, the cat is rolling his eyes and thinking, "Do you really think that staking out the kitchen cabinets and barking wildly is the way to hunt? Really?"

If there is an overlap somewhere, the cat is rolling his eyes and thinking, "Do you really think that staking out the kitchen cabinets and barking wildly is the way to hunt? Really?"

Depends on whether or not the cat and the dog have hunted cooperatively with one another before, and if there is one or more bolt holes for the rodents to escape out of that the cat can guard while the dog's barking.

I have Issues with eye contact. I mean to say that people tell me, I don't make enough. I think years of being stared at have kind of made me not want to look people in the eye(Although I probably did it well enough till seventh grade taught me to be self-conscious. And now that Mom is pointing it out, even though I know she has a point, it's not exactly helping the self-consciousness part of it.) It's probably standing in my way, though in some ways, this problem has persisted because it's so hard to find a clear consequence, like knowing I would get the job/ somebody's number if I had good eye contact. There is a lot about my nonverbal presentation that I can't change that much, so I guess I'm sloppy about that part of my package...

How much is enough(although I think stepmonster tried to have this chat with me before, too, and some eager over-effort led to some caustic teen comments about my "staring problem"...how much is too much?

I have Issues with eye contact. I mean to say that people tell me, I don't make enough. I think years of being stared at have kind of made me not want to look people in the eye

I understand this completely and have the same issues.

Also, you know I'm a Weird Magnet, right? The people most eager to catch my eye always have insight about the Lord, or some CIA brainwave infiltration thing. I'd really like to get past it more, even though I also kind of think my mother is in some denial about how much the person-to=person reaction to me would change if I could break this habit/pattern.(Stepmonster just used to consider it girly bonding to buy me drinks and tell me what was wrong with me.) But I should be able to look a friendly face in the face when she asks me things.

Also, you know I'm a Weird Magnet, right?

Once again, we are one in this. Have I mentioned the super creepy guy who I see around town who seems to think I should be his BFF? I can only assuume it is because he has a limp and he thinks that makes us the same or something. He really makes me uncomfortable.