I am sorry for your loss. My maternal grandfather currently has terminal cancer as well and his physical condition has rapidly deteriorated the past two weeks. In the past, I just visited on weekends, but I took this week off of work to go be with him, his partner, and my mother. We’ve been spending our days at the…

I wouldn’t say he’s objectively unattractive but there’s something about his nose-mouth area that is mildly disproportional.

I actually really enjoyed my rural community but it would be considered an insult. The implication being that the city-person doesn’t understand what is and isn’t appropriate footwear for the country. I’ve made similiar remarks seeing women wearing high heels to hike at a trail head.

I’ll always remember that episode of Law and Order: SVU where the sexist judge tells ADA Novak he would “appreciate if she were dressed appropriately” in his courtroom when he sees her next.

The concept of professionalism, appropriateness, and footwear is interesting. I grew up in a rural community where you would get laughed out of town for wearing high heels on the main street or at the very least identified as “not from here.”

Thankfully, we’re/they’re hiring nurses and personal support so he’ll have full-time professional care (he’s paralyzed on the left-side of his body and his primary caregiver is also in her eighties). I live approximately two hours away and visit on my days off from work. I’m really worried about my mom. She spent…

He lives with his partner of about ten years, and she’s really great. Thank-you for the recommendation about home hospice care- it’s not happening now, but it will likely become part of the discussion in a few months or a year.

They do have a social worker on his floor at the hospital and we have been speaking with her regularly (both with and without my grandfather). She’s really great and has helped a lot.

He was in the palliative wing in the hospital, where he lost a lot of roommates. He’s declining but he’s not really declining fast enough for home hospice to an appropriate fit yet.

I’m comfortable with my life not-sucking at the moment, but I know I often experience negativity-bias about life events and past personal choices. If I’m having a The Rembrandts’ I’ll Be There For You - day/week/month/year I try and remember I don’t have the same amount of information about my peers’ lives as I do…

My maternal grandfather has lived in the hospital the past four months and is moving home in approximately a week. He’s moving home because he hasn’t been able to make any further progress despite undergoing radiation treatments and physiotherapy (he has b-cell lymphoma and a brain lesion which has impacted his…

I didn’t vote for the local PC candidate or Douglas Ford yesterday and am disappointed. They didn’t have even have a costed platform for an allegedly fiscally conservative party. I’m choosing to celebrate that Guelph elected the first Green Party MPP in Ontario and that the NDP is forming the official opposition.

I didn’t kill and/or torture all of my sims but I know I killed off a few sims that were interrupting a plot I had imagined for my other sims. This included partners/spouses of pre-made characters mostly.

I also enjoyed the all-night conversation, I think because it reminds me of a friendship I had in high school.

I read The Carrie Diaries, Summer in the City, Trading Up, and One Fifth Avenue. I’ve re-read One Fifth Avenue a few times as summer reading. I tried reading Sex and the City (after watching the television adaption) and I really disliked it. The tone of the essay collection is a lot darker than the TV show adaption -…

I am the other person who read The Carrie Diaries (and Summer and the City for that matter)! I read the books when I was in high school but I couldn’t be bothered with watching more than a couple of episodes of the television show when it debuted. My roommate(s) and I did watch Sex and the City together regularly.

I hope your father’s kidney biopsy tomorrow has favourable results.

These “straight-leg blue jeans” are without a doubt mom jeans, just with some knee rips and a thick belt. They’re acid-wash and create a flat butt. No amount of sexy straps is changing that.

Did you have a cut and colour? I’m naturally a dark blonde and I’ve been dithering about bringing it up a few shades (while still keeping it an ashy blonde/cool toned) for the summer.

I agree with the sentiment, but I would go with “Nowhere, Ontario” over “Buttcrack, Ontario.” There’s “nothing” to do here but it is very beautiful which I don’t think can be said of a buttcrack.