My FiL is grossly overweight and has diabetes. My MiL does not want to have to cook "special" meals for him, so he eats what she eats. She exercises and only take small portions, so she's healthy. He eats huge helpings and barely moves, so it just keeps getting worse. He says he "can't" eat less because he's too hungry. She says she shouldn't be responsible for what he does and keeps piling the food on his plate.

Never let two narcissists marry, kids. It's not a pretty sight.

I could've had so much fun, but I just changed her password and then disabled the account.

This is usually what I do, especially when Australian dude signs up for anything where I get private data like tax information, because apparently I care about his information security more than he does. But I figured it might be a dick move to delete a baby registry that she may have shared with people already.

shrift, I can't imagine anybody being unimpressed with you--you should be the favorite female adult role model among young, impressionable rellies.

Family has a way of being unimpressed with you.

Scrappy, without knowing them, I'd have to side with your mother in law. Except that she shouldn't be piling anyone's plate full other than her own. I've been around too many people who don't take their own health seriously, and cast blame on others. Nope. Grown adult? Make bed and lie in it, without dragging anyone else into it.

Scrappy, can you convince him to maybe make some extra veg on the side so that he can still have a full plate but less of whatever your mother-in-law is making? Frozen veg in the microwave is fairly easy.

Dear Mortgage Dude,

I would like to close as scheduled on Thursday morning early. Therefore, I need you to *tell me the total amount of money I need to send you*. Before my bank closes at 12pm tomorrow, which I informed you 5 hours ago.

Signed, it's COB and you are not answering my eeeeeemail.

I love when people start sniping each other on my eBay auctions.

Ugh. I hear that pain and annoyance, flea. So much.

Call him, flea. He is not in a business where he can ignore deadlines.

Personal peeve: people who don't answer emails because they're "so busy right now" and "I'll get to it!" The person who's waiting for your response doesn't know if you're working on it, or if you've not bothered to check your email today, or if you're suddenly in the hospital. At the very least, write back and say, "I'm working on it, I'm aware of the deadline, I'll have it to you in time." Communicate, you fuckers.

I've been checking my credit report because of a security breach at my insurance provider. I managed to get credit reports from Experian and TransUnion easily, and nothing looks amiss. Equifax, on the other hand, is trying to verify my identity with challenge questions that I can't answer because they don't apply to me, and I'm unable to get a free credit report from them without mailing them forms and a wackton of documentation.

How concerned should I be?

Call him, flea. He is not in a business where he can ignore deadlines.

Seriously. I ran into this at the start of my hunt and had one real estate agent get miffed that I had gone with someone else because I hadn't heard back from her within 48 hours from when she was given my information (referred by a friend). Sorry - too hot a market to not have an agent not be on the ball.

OTOH, the loan officer that was referred by Nanita's cousin - rocks. I know we are only part way through the process, but she has been very responsive, informative, and just plain helpful.

Not sure if I mentioned it here, but the deciding factor for the seller choosing our house? A letter. I wrote a letter based on the suggestion of both the loan officer and my realtor. Just about me and what I liked about the house and how I saw my family fitting into it.