Consuela, I hope that while it feels like you've gotten nowhere, you've actually laid a brick in the path you are constructing. It's just not done yet, and that's exhausting.

Consuela, we went through much the same thing with my mom a few years ago. She wouldn't change anything and wouldn't let us do anything. It was maddening and exhausting. I wish I had something more encouraging to say than I sympathize.

Finally got to speak to my best friend whose father died last week. Man, she's going through some especially complicated stuff right now. But it's extra apparent at times like this why we've been friends for so long. She's going to be okay. Not soon, but she will be.

Completely unrelatedly, I'm just wrapping up watching One Eight Seven, and I really had no idea how this movie went. Whoa.

Dag, I can't believe Brady punted on 3rd down when the Pats were up big.

That's the biggest football insult I've seen in the NFL. That's like invoking the slaughter rule in a Little League game.

Whew. OK, I have sorted out my closet. Piles of things to hem, things to dry clean, huuuuge pile to donate, took all my formal wear down to the guest closet, and stuck some stuff up in the closet for "If I'm ever this size again". ...my closet is freakishly spare now. And some of it is summer stuff. So little of it is work-appropriate. Eek.

And my friend bailed on me, so I'm going to sit home the rest of the evening and watch Miss America, I think...

So far I think Miss Illinois is pretty, and Miss Florida. And I'm impressed by Miss South Carolina who lost 150 pounds, dang! Miss Tennessee is overly tanned. Or wearing the wrong shade of bronzer.

Miss Colorado says "It's in God's hands--it's all for him, that's why we're here" Um--you're at Miss America for GOD?

I'm taking advantage of my sister's Netflix Streaming and watching a couple episodes of Flashpoint. Yum, Enrico Colantoni as the sensible and dry police sargeant.

Ooh, Miss North Carolina is only 5'2!

Miss California is kinda of scary looking--pretty, but looks like she's about to peel it off and be a lizard person.

They are not putting these girls in flattering light for the little interview box thing--they all have terrible undereye circles.

Wow, they had to superquick change into those bikinis.

I like Flashpoint! I wish CBS or whoever hadn't stopped showing it. Whatever order ION is going in is righteously confusing. Trying to keep the relationship progresses straight is making me dizzy.

...I'm just going to randomly liveblog Miss America here, because I'm bored.

Wait, how old are these girls? Apparently the one who's stepping down was only 17 when she won?!?

Ooh, 27 former Miss Amercas there tonight...but they don't show them? Boo.

I'm kind of scared of how flat Miss Oklahoma's stomach is. And impressed that Miss South Carolina lost 150 pounds and is ABLE to wear a bikini without having skin hanging around! Lucky girl. Miss Florida continues to be hot. I like that Miss Virginia is not quite as scary skinny as most of them (...she has like, a pound more than the others--she's still quite thin). Miss Arizona has quite the runway stomp. Reminds me of Miss Jay on Top Model and the horses. And Miss Tennesse is all about swinging her hips.

...they are all so skinny. They must be starving. I think I'll go to Trader Joe's and get snacks.