I do have one friend doing keto for seizures, and it is under doctor supervision. Her intake is super restricted, but it works very well to prevent seizures.

But the friend who's worried about large apples is most definitely not doing for any reason other than she saw Friend #1 losing weight and decided she wanted to do it, too. Which is fine, she can do whatever she wants. But then I still roll my eyes over the concern trolling about the size of an apple, because it's not going to hurt her to eat a damn apple.

But, you know, if she's avoiding apples, it means more for me.

My mother is here today, and she took ltc, who is still in quite a mood, to school today. So, I'm catching up on emails and feedly on my shiny new Macbook Air!

I got another email from my aunt. She's been sending the invitations to her file to an email address that follows the same first initial + beginning of last name pattern that my father and sister use for their emails. Unfortunately, that's not my email address. Still haven't heard from my mom about it. (I told her to ask my dad for help, because I know that he knows how to do it.)

Having my parents DNA files uploaded will actually make a lot of things a lot easier, since then I'll be able to separate the people that I match with based on whether I match with them on my mom's side or my dad's side. (Also, based on the pattern of how my X chromosomes match with my sister's and a cousin's, I'm starting to suspect that I inherited one entire X chromosome from my mom, rather than her two Xes recombining into a new one like usual, and that's rare but not unheard of -- I saw 14% somewhere -- so I'm curious if I'm right, and I'd need her DNA to check that. If I am right, then it's the one from my grandfather that I inherited.)

Well, it took several days, but I now have the correct access to my aunt's DNA results! Still don't have it for my mom, though. (Heh. GEDMatch has a utility for constructing DNA results for people when you don't have access to them. Two children of the person plus one sibling is enough to get at least a basic version, though it will have some blank spaces. I'm tempted to try constructing one for my mom, and then seeing how well it matches if and when she finally figures how to do this. I could reverse-engineer things even better if my dad would let me upload his -- my DNA minus everything that matches my dad must be things that match my mom, and then the same for my sister, and then combine those.)

We got new registers at work. Tocuh screens and there is new software rolling out later this year. I as excited. Over all a good day until the Sour Dour Brigade came in.

Usually they come in separately but today they converged. Tomorrow is a special sale for customers with a certain store credit card. We are pre selling for it. One woman didn't like that and complained about how she didn't want yo come back blah blah it's unfair.

She also commented on how trashy the clothes are now and how inappropriate the kids clothes with the chains and fringe hanging off.

She encountered the woman who thinks the toddler shorts we sell are booty shorts for kids. (These shortshttps://www.belk.com/p/crown-ivy-gingham-shorts-toddler-girls/4101212GT542A.html) and all our girls dresses are trashy and inappropriate and too grown up for a 7 year old (lil e this one [link]

Our store is too crowded am 3rd chimed in (I'll give them that). We should expand (I explained tbere is literally no way to expand or move. And then it was "kids these days" And how dare they close K mart. "I liked Kmart and they just closed it ! What are we supposed to do now!"

They fed this cycle and were there for almost an hour. I was short with them but I was hungry and also it seems that they were looking for things to complain about.

Mostly they hate all the current trends and don't think the store should sell them.

Sounds like a super-fun day, askye. I have to say that I agree with having a problem with the sexualization of little girls' clothes, but those 2 examples are just cute. And clearly K-mart going under is a problem that you could address? Cray-cray.

What Epic said.

I don't think they wanted me to address Kmart closing it just got flooded into the rants about how the world sucks today.

Yes there is a problem with sexualization of girls clothes but even the dresses that might seem questionable for a 9 year old look more appropriate on a 13 year old. And we have girls in that age range shopping for the same sizes.

Plus I am ready for my next day off. I worked almost open to close yesterday, did that last week. Plus had scheduled long days and I could use a break.

Someone said we are closed for Easter, which would be nice. My brother and nephwe will be at the beach and Mom will be in FL visiting a friend. I'll go with M to his brother's. And the week after next is vacation. Yay

Um hi. Between eating chocolate and drinking champagne to counteract the tension and drama of several dvr'd Maddow shows in a row, I'm awake at 4 am. Possibly I should try getting some sleep.

I had the same conversation with customers in the late 1990s when I worked at JCPenney. I was probably pretty rude and explained supply and demand to them.