Jinni, good to see you posting as normal after the fire thread the other day. I guess that because you bare yourself you feel close to me. I hope you & family are well.

Absolutely. The Persians are renowned for their art, poetry, film etc.

I am shook..

I forgot to mention - one of the other guests is none other than...

STOP IT! She wasn’t done! <tears> LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! <sobs>

From the time I was 16 until I was 26, I worked in a popular local steakhouse. I was FoH and BoH, and I experienced a staggering amount of sexual harassment. The stuff between employees (a manager grabbing my ass, a line cook trying to slide a large carrot between my legs, a dish washer taking it upon himself to feel…

Um, same, also co-sign that this was one of the best seasons. Great quotes from that season also include:

Why would they “back the makeup artist over Lively”? Because MEN DON’T BELIEVE WOMEN TRULY EXPERIENCE THIS. They listened, and they wrote it off as her being a diva, or sensitive, or overly PC or just someone who overreacts to stuff. Because a lot of them do stuff like that themselves, so they think “it’s no big…

OMG Kenley! And then she got arrested for throwing her cat at her boyfriend!

Yep that’s exactly why.

Let us not forget that this magical moment happened:

This. My dad left me his beautiful china with real gold detailing and I told my sister to take it. I’m nomadic and don’t entertain much while my sister is an unsentimental homebody who I knew would use the china daily. There isn’t much left of it after 10 years, but at least it didn’t just sit and collect dust.

That’s still what you’re doing and you clearly are, just for some reason you think you should be exempt from looking like a gross weirdo. Afraid not.

Oooh. That was a good one.

Aaargh, yes. My mother-in-law seems to think we’re her own personal Goodwill dropoff. We went camping with them recently, for which they brought along a tent that had been in their basement for years, and while it was still perfectly serviceable, they didn’t plan to use it again. She wanted to leave it with us,…

Lol. That’s better than mine who insists that I’ll regret not having one when I start having dinner parties. Ma I’m over 40. If I was going to throw dinner parties that needed chafing dishes I would have started by now.

We’re all in agreement that this is going to end up being a Catholic Church level bloodbath by the time it’s all over, right?

Mom did this basically for 15 years before her death, right down to selling her home and moving into an independent living senior apartment complex. After her funeral my sister and I (and our husbands) were able to clean out her apartment in a day and a half, and tidy up her financial affairs in about 6 weeks. It was…

Don’t. DON’T. Assume that because you have elected to hold onto something, that your children will assign the same value. Marie Kondo talks about it in her book. My mom, god bless her, tries to declutter her house, but inso doing ends up cluttering my house (which we manage to do quite successfully on our own).