Toddson - I would absolutely keep a list of every item you are missing and call the moving office and make a claim for them.

I am sorry there is so much going on and so much to do.

ION - the work day is not over yet and I am drinking wine.

Toddson, oh, that's too much! I'm so sorry.

Shir, I will sit with you on the "Politics, what the geebling bleep" bench.

Atropa, it's strange to be wishing that it's "only" existential dread distressing you, but that seems to be the reality we're in. May the doctor have some reassuring news for you.

Hey, ND! Yeah, DNA Painter and Genetic Affairs for clustering. Whenever I see an Ancestry suggestion for how a new match might be related, I kind of want to pat it and say "No, shhhh, that's sweet, I'm dealing with multiple 'family wreaths' here, go have a nap, I got this".

I'm sorry, Toddson. That is a lot to have to deal with.

Hmm interesting info on the dna percentages. Based on 23 and me I wonder if we just happen to share a lot of dna with one great aunt (my grandfathers youngest sibling) or if she's secretly his daughter and not his sister....but who knows. (I'm meaning adoption by my great grandmother, not anything creepier!)

I was poking around, trying to take my mind off my troubles and came across this. It's a discussion of doing the costumes for Will Ferrell's Icelandic Eurovision movie. With pictures.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, Toddson.

Am tired and stressed, but that seems to be the norm for me.

My mother's best friend from childhood found out a year ago that her biological father was her mother's ob/gyn. Everyone involved but her is dead, so she'll never know if her parents knew.

Oh, wow. That uncertainty hold a whole lot.

I recently ran across an article by a woman who learned that yes, her mother's ob/gyn was her bio-father, unbeknownst to both of her proper parents. It seems that they had gone to a fertility doctor, whose actual 'miracle' method when the male was infertile was to switch sperm samples after some sciencey legerdemain where he "cleansed" the donors sperm and turned it potent.

Turns out she has a set of half-siblings produced by the same con. Some of those half-siblings have full siblings because their infertile parents went back to Dr. Miracle more than once...

Toddson, that is A LOT. Do you need any help we can give (money/calling the company pretending to be you)?

I am sad that my ambivilance about my found family lead to the death of one of my favorite hobbies- I did geneology research on a lot of other families-- just once I found fascinating from obituaries and such, or gravestones. But now going on Ancestry.com causes me a sick guilty feeling about my other family and not telling my mother. And yet I am still sort of convinces telling my mom is a bad idea.