I'm having a fucking burger for lunch. And I'm going to make sure there's enough fat in there it doesn't even remotely spike my blood sugar. My job for the past three days has been intensely boring.

It's all so hard! My other grandmother has money but refuses to move out of her too-big house, even though (especially since) she's starting down the dementia road. She's been sick, and fell recently, so stayed with my uncle for a bit, but is now ready to go home again. Yikes. And of course, this is my father's mother, so my mother's trying to support my uncle (dad's brother), but it's not even her family!

She wants us to chip in and start paying sme of their bills, but DH left home at 16, put himself through college and had not taken a penny from them ever. he doesn't want to contribute, but he doesn't want his sisters and brother to shoulder the whole burden either.

Oh, man.

We're in the middle of trying to figure out what to do with my In-Laws.

Out loud, I just said what Nora said. That's rough.

There's a good deal at Target this week -- if you've got enough coupons

I don't remember if you'd posted this already, but where do you get your coupons, Hil?

In other news, in spite of spending all weekend eating french fries and drinking beer with Buffistas, I'm at the lowest weight I've been in years when I weighed myself this morning. I'm within 10 pounds of my Driver's License weight, and that's been a lie for a long time. I wish I knew what I was doing right this time.

Oh Laura, how blessed you are to know how blessed you are. It is lovely. Much peace~ma to you and your mother.

Scrappy, that is hard. If it were me (and I know it's not, so feel free to discard this) I would probably offer to help out my siblings directly, but not give money directly to the parents. I grew up in a family where the parents helped out if asked, but we kids rarely asked, whereas DH comes from a family where people often ask for money but also pay back when they can and offer other forms of help and services when they can't. It took me a while to get comfortable with it, but now I just think of it as one way they reach out to one another.

Can anyone confirm that AP Style is "1980s", not "1980's"?

1980s is correct.

It is, Dana. You only use an apostrophe for '80s.

Thanks. It's obviously the right and proper choice anyway, but I'm not 100% up on AP, and sometimes they do things weird.

She wants us to chip in and start paying sme of their bills, but DH left home at 16, put himself through college and had not taken a penny from them ever. he doesn't want to contribute, but he doesn't want his sisters and brother to shoulder the whole burden either.

Oof, that's super hard. Have the siblings sat down with the parents for a come to Jesus on the spending? Because that would be the hardest for me to not blow my top over, if I gave money and they were not using it wisely (though obviously to a certain extent you have to let go, if you give, but...).

shrift, congrats--if you find out the secret, let me know. Also, where are you going that you need typhoid and malaria and shots, oh my?