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.

Husband is listening to a webinar, and the guy sounds like Wallace Shawn from The Princess Bride. I may have mentioned him before. I have no idea how anyone manages to take him seriously.

Oh god, they came back to the house in between excursions. "For lunch," they said. And she's been talking nonstop since she walked through the door.

Kill me now.

I have two relatives who never shut up. It's a trial to be with them, even though I love them.

I'm sitting in the lounge at the mechanic's. The driver's side window of my Hyundai broke, exactly the same way the passenger side window broke a couple years ago. The winding mechanism slipped and crushed the glass. It also has a sensor light that has been on for four years, with nothing actually wrong with the car, and I had to replace the gear shift because it developed a sharp edge somehow. I'm starting to really regret not buying another Chevy. The only reason I'm not trading this one in before something worse goes wrong is that it's paid off.