It really is disheartening that "The Bottom Line" has become sacrosanct, and that almost any attempt to inject the human realities of life into business conversations can be met with your all-caps exclamation. :/

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Style points for going out with the double-bird! :)

Well, great lentil soup can make anyone a little crazy...and that basil bread sounds lovely. Bet it smells wonderful when it's baking!

Jam, jam, jam...

Wow, all the little details you've shared of your early life, put together, make an eerie and fascinating narrative!

Magnificent gif.

Stunning.

That sounds so tasty!

I'm the same way about not being able to reconcile certain people with mortality.

Sending you and your friend best wishes. So wrong that this is happening. so, so wrong.

How awful. And sorry for your loss.

Best wishes to you on your upcoming surgery. It's enough to have to get your body/mind/spirit through recovery without having Ravenous Capitalism drooling outside your door, waiting to devour you! Ugh, this whole thread and subject are infuriating and heartbreaking. :(

I love spiders, but I don't love their habit of dropping onto my pillow when they decide they've had enough ceiling time. O_O

I'd love to see the gift registries for those weddings, though.

I'm so sorry for your loss and that your brother suffered so.

I feel your pain; this disease is horrible. Best wishes.

I have Crohn's and have had people say *to my face* that I'm "lucky" to be skinny when I'm flaring/quite ill. That is how pervasive skinny-at-any-cost is. I do not like being envied. For one thing, it's not real, anyway. They envy the thinness, but if they had to endure the symptoms/quality of life, they might…

Thanks for sharing your dad's clever method!

That does sound tasty!