From the linked article:

Yeah, that's the plan. It would just take a while to get there, and it's hard for him to wrap his mind around starting over when he already felt he was building something. 

This looks lovely. I’ve always felt like I had a good repertoire of recipes, but we’ve been cooking at home so much that I just feel like I’m tired of everything.

Hey, all. Exhausting couple of weeks dealing with my MIL, who is rapidly running the family’s property management business into the ground since my FIL’s death from COVID in April. DH had been basically running the business on his parents’ behalf for years, but they (mainly, his mother) had refused to put anything in…

a truthful if stunningly opportunistic disclosure.

Yep. The experience she’s describing has happened to me every time I have pre-ordered/paid for food at McDonald’s (meaning roughly a couple times a month). They don’t start making your order until you actually show up at the restaurant. That means that if it’s busy or you have a large order, you’re asked to park and…

I hope it all works out for the best re: your job security. My husband has a pre-existing condition too and his father died of COVID in April. Luckily, I was (by pure coincidence) scheduled to teach online already this fall--but our administrators told us any faculty who have health conditions and don’t want to teach…

Consider yourself lucky if you can teach online this fall. I know ppl teaching at state colleges in GA, which just announced they will re-open with no mask requirements—despite a recent rise in COVID cases—because Brian Kemp believes requirements would be an undue restriction. My own university (also in a southern…

I’ve seen this movie 3 or 4 times now and still cry at the Bing Bong scene. 

My husband has a tens for his back, which he rarely uses (one of about three different kinds of devices he’s purchased for back pain, which clutter up various corners of the rooms unused while he still complains about his back pain... *sigh*) I recently appropriated it for some back & knee pain and am very satisfied.

Audible is my jam. 😄 I decided I have nothing better to do than start a 35 hour audiobook of Anna Karenina, but it's actually quite good and I'm proud of myself for tackling a classic, even it it's not officially "reading" it.

LOL. Not a nun, but she was Catholic and “saving herself."

I feel like claiming a friendship with Meatloaf speaks of a certain level of self-loathing. 

Wow. I have so many to pick from. Probably the one I hated the most was a roommate from grad school. Because we were damn poor, my other roommate and I had to find someone off Craigslist to take the third bedroom in our house. This girl (not a girl, really, mid-30s but intellectually stunted) seemed all right at…

Yes, in my 20s and early 30s I dated some guys like this, who were in their 20s and early 30s and proclaimed that they weren’t going to start a family until they were at least 35. Guess what? These guys are in their 40s now and finding out that hooking up with 25 year old women isn’t as easy as Match.com made them…

I hadn’t actually thought to look up Rosemary from Mrs. America before. I’m laughing at how much they nailed this.

We live in a country run by wealthy, older, mostly white men. It’s beyond their comprehension that people are quitting their jobs because childcare literally costs more than many people take home in a year. It’s beyond their comprehension that, by the time many couples have the income and stability to afford children,…

Yeah, the text from his mom was the first time she’d communicated with him since the burial. She hasn’t called him once to check on him, but evidently had time to sell the business. He has a sister overseas, but they aren’t super close. It’s just a bad family dynamic for lots of reasons.

This week has been a bit of a struggle to help my husband deal with his grief over losing his father to COVID a month ago. He’s been doing teletherapy every week but it doesn’t seem to help in a real way. We’re not going out and I really can’t do much to distract him because I’m still meant to be working full-time.

It’s been very frustrating. Here they opened the parks two weeks ago and wagged fingers about “everyone had better be social distancing!” Today it’s full of people, only about half wearing masks, many not social distancing. People also tore down the tape that was blocking access to the fitness equipment and are using…