I'm sorry that your friends are leaving and hope that hole will be filled with new friendships soon.

One of my comic store friends will be available for lunch and cocktails, so I'm hoping that can be a friendship that deepens.

And I've successfully launched a new friendship with my Pilates teacher and we've been hanging out periodically out of the studio and that's been really fun.

I fucking love new friendships!

Happy Birthday amyparker!

New friendships themselves are great, it's the awkward process of getting out and finding people to have them with that I dislike.

I was making spinach dip for the family holiday dinner tonight and discovered that the fresh dill I bought for it was covered in wispy mold. There was none to be had at the grocery store nearest me, so I'm making do with dried dill weed flakes and an extra pouch of vegetable soup seasoning. It's not awful, but not up to my usual standard either.

I'm with you, Matt. (And the whole "What happened? Can they do anything?" thing with a new abled person doesn't make it easier, either.) Which would make abled people think "Well, focus on disabled people, then." Which sounds logical, but you do outnumber us, and you know how they say the hometown crowd is the hardest...double that.(also, pretty much that means I always pay. Which can get harder as we go along, because "Better off," doesn't mean "rich", right?) Mom was very generous so I just signed up for a zoom fiction workshop...I have to decide which thing to show by 1/11.