1. Getting your feet touched during a pedicure - yup, yuck to the nth degree.

Depends on what granny thinks, and what her relationship with the child is like. If she’s happy to have the time with her grandchild and it’s a healthy relationship, i say ok.

“Paint me like one of your french models.”

A masochist?

Good news mscoffee, ilikethunderstorms and lachavalina - I’ve been in your shoes and you’re right, it fucking blows and sucks and bites and everything bad.

I have ugly man hands and ham hocks for forearms and wrists. So does that mean i should be doing my own car maintenance too?

I wrote the epitaph for my mom’s headstone. We only had space for 25 letters, so it’s “garden tended, she rests”. Cause, you know, she loved gardening.

Congrats on all 3, but especially the job! That’s a big deal!

Ok but only if the bags break on impact.

I can’t. I’m too busy sobbing for the boy’s future.

“Forget the election. Why don’t we just have the nominees square off in a giant mud pit while the electorate pelts them with clods of dirt and old lunch meat?”

A hug to you for what your dad and you are living through. No one should have to suffer like that.

Yes, i was afraid it wouldn’t work with her diagnosis. I’m so sorry for you both, wish i had some wiser words.

Well, this is like a bandaid on a sucking chest wound, but as far as sleeping goes, my son started having terrible sleep problems last summer that went on for months. Eventually his school psychologist recommended melatonin and his psychiatrist agreed. It’s worked wonders, which shocked the hell out of me because…

Yeah, my dad died of complications from alzheimer’s, not alzheimer’s itself, so he could still hold a coherent conversation days before he died.

I’ll pass on the best piece of advice i got for the California bar. As I’m sure you know, they have three main parts - the multistate (which i didn’t have to take since I’d already passed it when i first started working), the California specific law (short essays) and a 3 hour “performance” exam (i think that’s what…

Thanks so much - i’m sorry you and your mom are also going through this. It’s such an awful way to die.

I have absolutely no advice for you - just a big hug. I think you could use a few right now.

Lol sentencing tables in your purse, that just cracked me up for some reason!

I have only vague memories from law school (graduated 25 years ago). I took the California bar in 2005 when i moved there and for a couple of years afterwards felt like i had a pretty good handle on california community property rules. Big whoop, i never did divorce or family law or trusts and estates.