Very nice furniture choices, Hec!
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Mar 11, 2022 2:28:36 pm PST #13738 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cass - Mar 11, 2022 2:33:43 pm PST #13739 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
jesus fucking christ can we not have anything nice?Apparently, Rule #7 does not apply.
Disappointing.
amyparker - Mar 11, 2022 3:09:34 pm PST #13740 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
What Dana said.
JenP - Mar 11, 2022 3:14:16 pm PST #13741 of 30000
Well, fucking ugh to that. And also what Dana said.
Hi, Debet -- great to see you.
DavidS - Mar 11, 2022 3:14:24 pm PST #13742 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We're off to meet the dry-rot fixing window specialists.
Wish us smonsters!
(or at least people of comparable window expertise)
Sophia Brooks - Mar 11, 2022 3:17:18 pm PST #13743 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Good Gosh- Sam Sander's last episode of "It's Been a Minute" is a tearjerker!
Steph L. - Mar 11, 2022 3:32:06 pm PST #13744 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Multiple women harassed by Christian Kane on the set of Leverage.
jesus fucking christ can we not have anything nice?
Right? Damn it.
Pix - Mar 11, 2022 3:51:52 pm PST #13745 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Glad it's benign, I hope the pain gets figured out very soon and can easily be treated!This! So much this!
Cass, I'm sad about your reaction to bananas. But this?
What the heck, Rory? Why the food bork? Here we have perfectly normal bork reasons. For instance, I made a keyboard noise, doggo borked fool head off as if home invaded.Made me laugh.
Yay for Hec-sister saying good, helpful things! And all the stars! And cool furniture choices!
UGH to news about CK. Dammit.
Dad update: After he made his friend R miserable all week being all upset that I was going to be here to take him to the doctor "like a child," he had zero issues today when I actually took him. At the second appointment, I even said, "Hey, if you want me to wait in the waiting room, that's fine," and he was all, "No, come on in!" Insert OMG dementia is crazymaking face here. So today was a lot less awful than it could have been. I'll take the win.
But his poor friend. R is 81 and in good health, but he's a super sensitive soul who keeps ending up getting in the thick of things with Dad while just trying to help. If Dad wasn't making R so miserable, I wouldn't be so worried about being out here so often. Well, that and worrying about Dad not taking his meds correctly. Anyway, I'm paying Dad's caregiver extra to work with R on therapeutic communication to help minimize the friction. I've also tentatively reduced my leave from three weeks to one, hoping that's all I will need for now. We shall see. Also, ain't no bureaucracy like state FMLA bureaucracy. So glad I have a good HR person to help me navigate it.
-t - Mar 11, 2022 3:59:05 pm PST #13746 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Less awful is good! That's so good of you to look out for R. I'm so glad your HR is helpful!
Apparently, Rule #7 does not apply.
Well, that's...there must be a word for that. Even more ugh. I have read the whole article now and I would like to start some fires.
Pix - Mar 11, 2022 4:13:25 pm PST #13747 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Less awful is good! That's so good of you to look out for R.
Yes, but I will admit it's also selfish; if there's less friction with R, there's less need for me to fly back and forth quite as often when I get frantic texts.
Oh, and Dad's neurologist is putting him on a memory drug that should stabilize him a bit. The doc was quick to say it won't make things better, but it may stop them from getting worse for a time. So that's also good, so long as Dad takes it correctly.