Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us Saturday? You could feel indispensable.

'Dirty Girls'


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.


askye - Jan 21, 2023 9:08:07 am PST #20108 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Cindy that is a lot to go through. You aren't a bad daughter for talking about it and needing to vent. She's your mom and it's complicated but that doesn't mean you can't acknowledge what she's said and how it makes you feel.

I also think it's totally reasonable that you don't want to see her and have to deal with all of that. I think anyone would feel the same.

So far Mom has been...frustrating when she had her stroke, but not mean. Neither of my parents are going to be easy to deal with (I have Mom who drove herself to the hospital the morning after her stroke and wanted to drive home from the hospital and Dad who called work to let them know he thought he was having a heart attack and wouldn't be in and when they were like "call 911!" he called his dr who was like "call 911!!" which he finally did.)

Mom's been dealing with the emotional stuff of "I don't have any help, I'm all alone" type of thing from her sister. I think Mom has started calling her on that because she can't keep her tongue. It's hard on Mom and it's pretty much ruined what ever relationship they had to the point Mom's said she's not sure she'd go to my aunt's funeral when that happens.


Sheryl - Jan 21, 2023 1:58:04 pm PST #20109 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I'm sorry you went through all that, Cindy.


Laura - Jan 22, 2023 5:31:31 am PST #20110 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Good Sunday, all! Today we can be grateful to celebrate the birth of Windsparrow. Many wishes for a day filled with love and joy.


JenP - Jan 22, 2023 7:18:29 am PST #20111 of 30000

Happy Birthday, Windsparrow!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2023 7:48:06 am PST #20112 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Happy Birthday Windsparrow!


Sophia Brooks - Jan 22, 2023 7:48:45 am PST #20113 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Happy Birthday Windsparrow!


Calli - Jan 22, 2023 8:30:45 am PST #20114 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Happy birthday, Windsparrow!


DavidS - Jan 22, 2023 10:26:26 am PST #20115 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday, Windsparrow! I hope your day is fun and bedazzled with kitty love and cuddling.


DavidS - Jan 22, 2023 10:28:17 am PST #20116 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

In a separate post, JZ has responded to her first round of chemo with lots of throwing up. Whee. Can't even keep the anti-nausea meds down.

Also, our router is working but my computer won't connect so I'm using a limp little open connection which is probably running my private numbers directly to a Russian hacker.


Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2023 10:38:26 am PST #20117 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Here’s hoping that the cancer hates it even more than JZ does.