“Like a bird who swallowed a plate.”

Great, now some hedgehog enthusiasts are going to be the victims of a series of grisly murders, motivated by potential inheritance loss, gambling debts, or keeping a secret. I’ve seen Midsomer Murders. I know what happens.

Thanks!

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 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.

Yeah, I’m interested because I liked the first three seasons so much, but I’ve not laughed very much so far...