Thank you!

A client yelled at me at work and I sucked it up and didn’t let it send me into a spiral of anxiety and self-doubt. It was a really childish outburst, which helped, but I’m counting it as a win.

My mother-in-law is an IV therapist nurse, one of my best friends is a ICU nurse and one of my clients is a NICU nurse. They have all told me: stay out of ERs and hospitals unless you have an excellent reason.

I wondered that too. Also why they aren’t accompanied with a lamp for dancing with.

I don’t believe in work shorts and I work on a horse farm.

My thoughts exactly. Haven’t we learned our lesson about hideous platform shoes at least twice over in recent times?

Well, it’s pretty cringeworthy, so I don’t blame you.

I think it’s pretty important. At least it was in the book - the movie might reveal it in the first 10 minutes, who knows?

Do you really want to know? Because the answer to that is a huge spoiler.

I joined a book club once but they made me read Jonathan Franzen so I guess I’m once bitten.

It is! And not in the least because _everyone_ has those kinds of commitments. So, you’re not only trying to negotiate around your schedule/exhaustion level, you’re trying to do it around other people’s too.

“I didn’t care much for the gazpacho soup. I mean where’s the fun of sending it back because it isn’t hot?”

Oh totally.

I do not know. I’m pregnant again and as lonely as I am, making friends just seems exhausting.

It always makes me feel a bit ill.

Agreed. I don’t like the term at all. “Mama” is just as bad.

My best “mom friends” are people I was friends with before I had my daughter ie something else brought us together and then we happened to have kids around the same time. I moved away from the town I had her in which was smallish and very community oriented and in this new town (a suburb of Boston), have struggled to…

Me too.

Reedus seems so desperate to convince us to watch the new season that I think it actually might end up being awful.