Okay, whew. I just checked and HFMD is not transmissible to animals so she will be able to cuddle the piggies all she wants as soon as she gets home, which will truly be the best restorative and curative since going back to camp is out of the question. I don't think any comfort would have been enough if she couldn't cuddle them.

Ooh, that sounds really hard, JZ. I also have a friend who just (for the second or third time now) had to call the cops on her son for hurting her (because she was telling him he had to give her the iPhone he mysteriously had, which he claimed a friend had given him but which turns out to have been....stolen? left behind? by some random local dude who last remembered having it in a restaurant). He's in juvie again, and she's at her wits end on what the hell to do (he's 14, and going into high school).

We did do quite a bit of sleuthing earlier to figure out sneaky ways to log into his accounts and so on, though we were foiled in trying to get his backup gmail account to send the gmail account we had the login for, a new password. Gmail said "security" and they'd get back to him at the email we know, in 3-5 days. Ugh.

Maria, all the power to your SO.

JZ, lots of ~ma. I am humbled by the way you are moving through this world.

ION, a depressing news day locally and I am a bit overwhelmed. So much that needs to be fixed. However, as the saying goes, despair is a luxury.

JZ, if ever a stiff drink and Crazy Ex was deserved! I hope Matilda isn't too disappointed in the whole mess.

Yikes, meara. Parenting is not for the faint hearted.

Shir, if the depressing news is the stuff we saw here, yeah, things keep getting worse when you would rationally think people would reject the powers that be.

I am still in Florida, but really have to leave today!! My nephew gets married Saturday in NY. Poor DH hasn't had more than 3-4 hours of sleep a day for weeks trying to finish the renovations on this boat for my sister. Every step that should take 15 minutes takes several hours, or requires a part being ordered. He got up again at 4AM and is working outside on it. I told him only the stuff that HAS to be done, like the trailer being sound, and the motor people finishing their stuff. Any interior or aesthetic stuff still on the list has to be done when we get there. Stressed Out! Grinding my teeth and listening to BP lowering sounds. I have been diligent about getting my sleep, but it has been the restless variety.

Wow, JZ, that is all a lot! My goodness, your friend is doing a good and hard thing.

Yikes, meara.

Laura, I hope things get more relaxed when you get to NY finally!

Chatty SiL and BiL are on an all-day excursion to See Things and Buy Souvenirs. The house is SO quiet!!!

I am really going to get in trouble on FB one of these days -- I add anyone I know who asks, but don't think much about it when I post myself. Current example, my aunt's mother-in-law.

Yeah, I think I should probably, like, group people or something but I haven't bothered. The thing that may get me to do it is I think I have friended some of my neighbors and I don't really want them to know when I'm out of town, necessarily (not because they will break in or anything, I don't know why, just, privacy?) ETA ok, kinda worried that friends of friends might actually be criminals. I don't know who their friends are

I have a 'non-political' group I exclude when I post certain stuff.

Still in Florida. Sigh.

I dragged myself to the gym and someone is on the one machine I know how to use. I'm going to sit here listening to a book and stare daggers at him.