And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Pix - Apr 11, 2023 6:23:27 am PDT #21642 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

My Aunt Pat passed the morning, surrounded by family. She was an amazing woman with an easy laugh and a love for the UConn women's basketball team. She was a nurse for more than 45 years, doing everything from oncology and ER to same-day surgery over the years. She was an amazing cook and baker and the matriarch of our family after my grandmother, her mom, passed in 2016. She hosted Thanksgiving for my entire childhood into my 20s for our entire extended family. She leaves behind three amazing kids and six grandchildren, all of whom are mourning her loss but also grateful she is no longer in pain.

This one wasn't a surprise like Aunt Nita last week; Pat was in hospice. But it's devastatingly sad. And losing two aunts in less than a week has me feeling pretty shaken.

Thank you for all of your kind worlds earlier.


askye - Apr 11, 2023 7:06:28 am PDT #21643 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I'm so sorry Pix.


askye - Apr 11, 2023 7:12:48 am PDT #21644 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

As much as I disliked the previous workers comp dude I had to deal with he at least got my checks out regularly. Since Dec or so they haven't gotten to me regularly. I thought it was solved and then I realized I was sending info about my current pay stub and hadn't gotten a check from my last one.

We're also going to Florida on Sat so I really need the checks this week so I can deposit them ASAp. I also need to pay bills and have money for my trip. I emailed the lawyer and then yesterday I got a check in the mail...for a pay period over a month ago. I hadn't realized they had gotten that behind again. I got confused because they sent multiple checks for the last ones and I guess I lost track.

The lawyer is going to try and get them to send at least one before Friday.

It used to be I would email the pay slip to the lawyer (and I get access to those Wed the week I'm paid) and then by middle of the next week check.

I don't know why direct deposit hasn't been an option. Perhaps it was in tbe paper work I neve received from them but at this point I'm not going to try and change anything. At the rate I'm going they would get my bank account wrong .


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 11, 2023 7:15:53 am PDT #21645 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

My condolences to you and your family, Pix.


Consuela - Apr 11, 2023 7:16:51 am PDT #21646 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Peace and strength to you and your family, Pix.


Calli - Apr 11, 2023 7:21:12 am PDT #21647 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm sorry, Pix.


lisah - Apr 11, 2023 8:12:12 am PDT #21648 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

So sorry for your loss, Pix


DavidS - Apr 11, 2023 8:55:56 am PDT #21649 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm sorry, Pix.

Aunt Pat sounds like one of those people who do the heavy lifting to make a family whole.


-t - Apr 11, 2023 9:11:06 am PDT #21650 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

{{Pix}}} That is a lot of loss in a short period of time. Love to you and your family.


Jesse - Apr 11, 2023 9:54:29 am PDT #21651 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm so sorry, Pix.