Postcards After Hospice: She exhales, and we begin to learn how to live with the void of her absence

who’s had a solid pandemic-related meltdown recently!? wanna have a meltdown thread or share handy tips and tricks for waking up tomorrow and gritting our teeth through 1-3 more months of this?

Unfortunately, I can’t get a foster pet (we have had plenty in the past) because our dog is still on restricted activity from ccl surgery. But she’s really really really happy because we are home a lot!

The correct HOA response is “Here’s the form; fill it out and we will pick it up tomorrow and leave the permission slip then. Thank you for helping keep us safe.”

I went to the grocery store yesterday, and they literally removed the sign indicating the frozen vegetable section of the freezer aisle because other than a couple of bags of pearl onions, it contained literally no vegetables. There were maybe two packages of paper towels, and literally nothing else in the paper goods…

To the people defending the HOA, you are boot kissers of the worst kind. These are not normal circumstances. No one is trying to park an RV for shits and giggles here. And regardless of the motive, would it be that difficult for the HOA to inquire first? Is it really so impossible, in the middle of a pandemic, to…

They don’t keep neighborhoods looking nice. They keep neighborhoods looking boring and conformist.

While there are rules to follow, there is this thing called extreme circumstances. If a pandemic doesn’t qualify, then the HOA needs to re-evaluate. As some has mentioned a conversation: “Why RV? You know that is not allowed” “I am nurse trying to avoid passing this virus” “Kay, thanks, bye”.

You thing about pigs feet reminded me of this...

I think the craft thing is because people feel helpless and want to DO something, anything that can help.  And this seems like something if you already have the supplies are helpful and not difficult.  Or maybe I’m just projecting how I feel onto a whole bunch of people! (I’m a crafter and I haven’t sewn in years and…

“What’s going on here in this country?”

That’s not how bail works. He isn’t being held pending trial; he’s serving a sentence.

So An arrogant redneck with a persecution complex and who when one of his employees gets their arm ripped off, had time to throw on a paramedic jacket while they almost bleed to death, and wonder out loud if this is gonna “kill him financially”, is an asshole ? You don’t say !

Believe me, there’s a fine line between stuff like ADD/ADHD or other headspace stuff making you clueless/not attentive to things, and your partner just being that inattentive and gross. 

Tim and his Western-tinged dad jokes is the soothing balm this country needs right now...and I just might tell him.

Who is cutting up all of these onions???

I’m so glad to see this topic, especially since I’ve been melting down all over Jezebel the last few days over an emergency due to my son’s situation.

I’m kind of in love with the phrase “recklessly kind”, thank you.

This is such a small thing, but it still sits with me. About 20 years ago, I was flying home with my garbage boyfriend after I’d brought him to meet my family for the first time at Thanksgiving. I now realize it was an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship, but at the time I just suffered constantly. On the…

Not me but something my mother did:
I lived in a remote spot of California growing up. One day on the way to school, we saw the neighbor who lived in the “weird” house walking to town with a suitcase, her dog, and a puffy, red face. Without hesitation, my mom whipped the car over, sternly said “Keep walking, I’m coming…