Nora and Consuela, you can have my IPA if you want it. Suela, I'm sorry your mom was a wreck, but I think sending someone over there was absolutely the right thing to do. I hope you keep doing it, for everyone else's sake if not for hers. Oy. I so feel for you. You make me realize how lucky I was that my mother never resisted us when she was ill, although in her case I suspect now that her strokes had damaged her executive functioning.

sara, take the grocery store cuff's readings with a large grain of salt. Is there a clinic you can drop in to and ask if they can get a quick BP for you?

Actual conversation with K:

"Did you know that Jennifer Garner had a second kid?"
"Yep."
"And she's pregnant with a third."
"That's a lot of children to begin to handle."
"Not if you have money and help."
"Yep and the money is secondary to the help."

sara, I have a BP cuff. I'd send it to you, but my BP is crazy out of control and I should use it more here. They are pretty cheap to get though.

My problem is I have bad white coat syndrome. If there is an authority involved, I get fractious. This goes back to my teens when my BP registered "oh, she's having a heart attack" at first and then "she's got no blood" later. Maybe I'll throw my mom a bone and have her send me dad's pressure cuff (his taking his BP all the time makes her nuts. He's like me, all over the place. When he was in his best form, his BP and pulse said he was a corpse. Not the heart attack corpse, the can't find pressure corpse. We're weird.)

"Yep and the money is secondary to the help."

Well the money can be used to secure the help.

I did not know about their second kid, but I love that Jennifer Garner is wearing everyday clothes, she's majorly pregnant, and she looks just lovely.

Well the money can be used to secure the help.

And if you have the help, generally speaking, it either frees up lots of money or implies that you have a ton of it.

It helps that JG was super lovely to begin with! But agreed about regular clothes. She's at the WF on Wilshire too which is funny.

Then I took the rock from Tartarus and killed that damned liver-eating bird, razed the lotuses, ate all the pigs, and ripped out the voiceboxes of the singing chicks."

Best corporate self-eval ever. Since it is (I assume) not the exact words you used, is it OK if I post on facebook? I won't unless you say it is OK. Also assuming that if you give permission you won't want attribution by name, but happy to give you named credit if you prefer.

This is quite possibly the best tool use by an animal ever: [link]

Feel free, TB, feel free.

I did almost an hour and a half of packing after I got home. I filled one huge duffel bag with clothes, and part of a big trash bag.

I still don't believe I will get it done, but progress, it was made.