I need advice? My boss has sent me a FB invite to her virtual Norwex party tonight. "Looking forward to seeing you!" I didn't respond to the initial invite, and I'm feeling pressured by this. It's a whole friends-circle thing. The coworker who got me hired at this company, and his wife, have been game-night friends with me for years - not close friends but friendly acquaintances. His wife is a Norwex rep and I've bought Norwex stuff from her a few times. My boss is friends with them both, and Coworker's Wife got Boss into becoming a Norwex rep. I saw danger when I got the invite to Boss's virtual party and did not respond, hoping that would send the message that I don't want to be involved. I don't have the money to spend on stuff I don't need, and I don't want to mix either casual friendship or profit-making into my relationship with my boss. And my boss is really nice and super supportive, I like her, but I don't think this is appropriate and I'm not comfortable with the idea of buying stuff from my boss. Not to mention, this job - which I like - pays me about the minimum I can live on, I don't feeling like I have to give some of that money back to my boss or risk souring our working relationship.

What do I do? How do I respond to this?

Your boss shouldn't have done this.

WTF is a virtual party? Is it a Zoom meeting? Can you have "internet trouble" a few minutes in?

Totally off topic: I made hummus today from dried chickpeas cooked in the instapot and the final product is so dang tasty I've forgone bread, carrots, and cucumber and am just eating it by the spoonful.

I think that is really inappropriate for your boss. Not cool at all.

Oh! That sounds yum, e_o! Recipe please.

ION, I am reading in bed and I have a firefly in my bedroom!

Oh I Loved having a jar of fireflies by my bedside when I was but a wee one. I miss seeing them blinking through the twilight, over the lawn and through the trees.

So... where do we talk about The Old Guard? Is is on Streaming or Movies or Boxed Set?

We have a good number of fireflies this year. This little one wasn't jarred, like when I was a kid. Just wandered inside.

It's Monday. Not sure I am ready.

I should be writing (another) assignment. I just want to rest and cook and maybe do some housework/research for my research proposal.

So... where do we talk about The Old Guard? Is is on Streaming or Movies or Boxed Set?

I would also like to know this! I think Movies?

Well, TIL that my 9 year-old has been commenting on YouTube videos under my name. (She has access to my old laptop which I am apparently still signed into in Chrome.)

On the plus side, I am impressed by how well she speaks Internet!

On the down side, I guess we have to have a talk about online safety rules.