This will always be the best Road Show episode:

I feel you. I will never ever again speak to the person who was once my best freind and roommate in college and through our 20s.

I have a similar goal ! Unfortunately not any where near you esp because I am going into more debt by doing some much needed work on my condo but at a good rate thanks to the insane amount of equity I lucked into. (I grew up solidly middle class but because I had frugal parents, I still have money anxiety because they…

I have a similar goal ! Unfortunately not any where near you esp because I am going into more debt by doing some much needed work on my condo but at a good rate thanks to the insane amount of equity I lucked into. (I grew up solidly middle class but because I had frugal parents, I still have money anxiety because they…

I wish I had a better update than ‘it just petered out’ to the texting with a guy acquaintance. but that’s what happened. other stuff happened too but basically things will remain as they are and I’m ok with that.

Thanks! That’s good advice should it happen to me again! It just always catches me by surprise. Sometimes, it works out bc other reasons - I’d like to k now why they can’t be direct but sometimes I assume it’s just to gauge general interest. I’m generally interested but like I said - mmm he’s got some undetermined…

Ha! To tell me he hurt his back and he wanted to chill tomorrow - um, his last text was “I’ll let you know if my other plans fall through” and then he never followed up so I figured ok, I’ll make other plans... but appreantly he thought we were doing something? I dunno. I waited one whole hour (!) to respond and I…

So Jezzies -

I’m a lot like you - and I’ve found someone who is more of a life coach than a therapist. She’s helped my by asking me what it is that I want and hwat it is holding me back and what steps can I identify in my life to remove those obstacles and what are the steps I need to take to get there. It’s been a long process…

Aw man - this makes me sad - and she’s younger than I thought ( a full three years younger than my mother!).

Thanks - sound advice, all of it. And I’m not angry but just concerned that I’m not being effective / contributing as well as I could because I’m being discounted. I’ve also been in this similar situation before and when work I was hired to do didn’t materialize, I was the first to go because it was perceived that I…

Professional design services firm in the real estate/construction industry. I’m on a team with six men and I’m not the project manager (see my reply above) but I am a senior person with more than ten to 15 years experience than some of the team (one guy is my age, and another is retiring).

I often don’t have a problem with younger men, but for sure at this firm it’s a different culture. It doesn’t help that the ‘project manager’ is more than 10 years younger than I am, and this is his first time as a project manager. I’ve been project managing longer than he’s had a career. He does have a problem…

PS There is a great little program called The Cure through Apartment Therapy. I know the direction of the website has changed quite a bit but the book that was published was quite helpful and I think they still do the January Cure which is generally about systematically going through your space to clean and declutter,…

My Dream Job at New Firm has turned out to be politically challenging...

I purged many years ago and I transferred all of my music CD’s to my iTunes account - which - although I think I can convert to regular .wav files - was maybe not the best idea. Anyway, I do have several digital back ups of all of my music, I never bought that many movies, so I’ve kept those.

Um, I think someone’s already invented it - it’s called a Sybian - it’s just not put on wheels:

I recently visited as well and while my little backwater PNW city (that you have definitely heard of) has been growing by amazing leaps and bounds and I can’t believe there’s so many more people... the shear amount of people every where at all times - the parks are packed! and the fact that you are never alone...would…

How about some more nuns dancing to hardcore EDM? (I think they are listening to some kind of polka IRL but this version is more fun):

Ummm….. my street clothes never touch my bed after they’ve been worn outside. Just no. Freshly laundered is ok.