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Actually, my cats are pretty respectful. Diamond will come up to me but will not start with the meowing and the coaxing until she sees my eyes are open. Ella doesn't care about getting fed until I walk into the kitchen. If I were to sleep in too long, Diamond would walk over me in an effort to get me to wake up. But she'll only do it once, though.

Every day, one neighbor or another is mowing/having their landscapers mow their lawn. I especially love when they do it early Sunday AM. I rarely wake up naturally anymore. Its always to the sound of some mower/machinery.

I love Jon Stewart. That is all.

This show has jumped the shark. While the other handmaids are forced to follow the strict rules of Gilead, June gets to act like she runs the show. She gets to have private conversations with Wives and Commanders (she even gets to have a cig break with one), she can order an Aunt to stop the brutality, she can hang back and eavesdrop on Commander conversations, and now her husband has been found with her baby, and its all okie-dokie. But other Handmaids have died just for looking at an Aunt the wrong way. I am so over this shit. I'll be watching for Emily, but I've really had enough of June, the most specialist snowflake of all of Gilead.

Just found out tonight that my former outdoor kitty, Princess aka Mama Cat was found deceased by her current caretaker a few months back. He thinks she was a victim of an animal attack. She was at least 11 years old, if not older. I found her in 2008 running around my school's parking lot. Security and a few other students were trying to catch her to keep her from getting hit. I just so happened to have a carrier in my car that day and was able to grab her. I didn't yet work at an animal shelter, but I was volunteering at our local Humane Society. I got her spayed and was planning on re-homing her. When I put her in the carrier to take her to the Humane Society to be put up for adoption, my cat at the time, Milo (whom was the only cat she ever got along with), jumped on top of the carrier she was in, looked up at me and meowed pleadingly and incessantly, as if to ask "Can she stay, Mom?". I couldn't let her go after that. I was able to keep her indoors for about a year before the call of the outside became too overwhelming for her and she kept trying to sneak out. I finally relented after a few sleepless nights of chasing her down to just let her become an indoor/outdoor cat. All was fine until I rescued Diamond in 2011. They got along so poorly (because they were so similar in personality, I think), that she ran outside one day and refused to come back in from that point on. My upstairs neighbors at the complex where I was living at the time were huge cat lovers and she lived between their two apartments. They gave her a bed, seafood and steak table scraps, as well as top of the line dry food. Eventually she became the indoor/outdoor cat of one of the neighbors, whom she slept with on his bed every few nights or so. I moved in 2014 but visited regularly until my friend (one of her feeders) moved to Iowa two years ago. On those visits, she would follow me everywhere, head bonk me, but would run if I tried to touch her. Even though she wasn't technically my cat anymore, she was never far from my thoughts. I keep remembering how she would always follow me around when I went up and down the block, talking away on my cellphone back in the day. She was a scrappy little thing, an excellent huntress and and put any other animal in their place. I guess she finally met a fight that she couldn't win and I'm sorry for that. She deserved a better ending than that. Rest easy and godspeed Princess/Mama Cat. This photo shows what a daredevil she was. She never liked walking on the floor, always preferred the banister and never fell off. She always made us so nervous with these antics.

The only teacher that stands out for me is Mrs. Thompson, it was either 7th or 8th grade math. She treated us like the budding adults we thought we were. She tried to teach us about how to manage a checkbook, how to to keep a budget, buying vs leasing a car, credit, etc. We were too young to really get it, but I loved having after-class conversations with her about life.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8512129/whitney-houston-estate-hologram-tour-musical-album-primary-wave Yes. When I saw this episode, it immediately reminded me of exactly what is going with the Whitney Houston estate.

Those ARE some good-looking pickled beets, though.

Junes smugness is really starting to get on my nerves. At this point, she will be the 1st female leader of Gilead with all that she gets away with. I loved Lawrence pointing out her basicness, but its highlighted the incredulity of her survival thus far. I wanted to punch her when she smugly announced that she chose the next Marthas, when her basic ass couldn't even handle the thought of the task at first. I think I will rewatch the scene of Aunt Lydia poking her with a cattle prod and screaming about how she should be on the wall just for the satisfaction of it. I want a new heroine, this one sucks.

Dark Killer, The Consort of Men. Okie dokie.

Finally! Blue should be old enough to get his driver's license at this point.

This is great, but I am really looking forward to the 3rd individual's day of reckoning as well. Everyone who called for the death of those 5 innocent boys needs to be hold accountable.

Yeah, that started bothering me a lot after the series. Especially when he admitted to killing and raping a woman with her 2 small kids present in the next room. It is all just so bothersome. The lives stripped away from these boys, the victims that suffered and died at the hands of the real rapist, even the victim of this case. If they had went after the real rapist and convicted him, she would have gotten her justice and this case would have been behind her 30 years ago. Now she has to be reminded of this incident every time their story is in the news AND her rapist was never charged with a crime due to the statue of limitations. She never even named these guys as suspects and yet her name is forever linked with theirs because of the criminal injustice system of NY. I can't imagine how she and they must feel all these years to know that the prosecutor responsible for this went on to become a successful author, and the man that took a public ad calling for innocent boys deaths is now the president. It is all so sickening.

I'm wondering if Antron's dad died in real life like he did in the the show? I couldn't find anything online.

It is a damn shame that Gwen Verdon's name was mostly lost to history (outside of theater circles) before this show. I'm so thankful for all the clips posted here. She deserves to be remembered as much as Bob is. Michelle Williams killed it in this role, even if her dancing was pretty clunky compared to the actual Gwen. The last episode was fantastic. I hope Michelle sweeps the Emmys this year.

Most "moving" and "gripping" shows, don't "move" or "grip" me, but this one did. I was helplessly infuriated throughout all 4 parts. Why these men settled for the paltry 41 million (with the bulk of it going to Korey) is beyond me. My heart broke for these young men and their families. Linda Fairstein deserves to rot in hell. The lives she ruined, the true justice she denied the victim due to her racist agenda.....there are no words for that kind of evil. Korey's story broke my heart the most because his life was ruined just because he was trying to be a good friend. Yusef's mom was garbage for not acknowledging that.

Here is the kitten in my avatar, Adam, all grown up at 6 years old in his furever home with his housemate, Aiden. Adam was the only kitten I fostered in 2013 that didn't contract panleukopenia. Aiden was adopted the same year by their wonderful adopter. Adam was the greediest kitten when it came to food, putting his little paw up to shove others away from eating, so its no surprise he turned out to be a chunker as an adult!

I was surprised at this too. I'd thought we'd get at least an even 6. Yeah, I was ok until the mother dog and puppies too. That was just verging on torture porn and it sort of pissed me off. The show is better than that. We got the point with adult dogs, adding puppies in the mix was a deliberate tug at viewer's heartstrings. It's almost a relief to be getting back to politics of it all next week.

Hey Amazon delivery drivers: Maybe if you got off your cellphones and paid attention to where you were going, you wouldn't deliver packages to the wrong house. I love how they added a photo of my packages sitting on a porch that wasn't mine. Now I have to contact the seller and go through the rigamarole of hopefully getting my items replaced. So annoying.

I'm old, so I'm just now discovering the "taking modern songs and placing them over 80s sounding beats" trend. This is probably the best one I heard: It kind of sounds like a Depeche Mode cover band singing over a rejected Journey beat, but it still works for me. There are others if y'all want to check them out.

Spending the day on the couch cuddling up with the boyfriend and watching dumb movies or TV, preferably with the weather cool enough that I can leave all the windows open and catch a nice breeze. If I'm feeling like I need me time, the perfect Sunday would lying be around in bed reading a good book and hanging out with the cats. In both scenarios, I would prefer my neighbors to be gone for the day so that I could have perfect peace and quiet.

I can also relate. Went to Austin, TX for a work trip and had horrible stomach issues the whole time. So frustrating to be around all that delicious food and not have an appetite for any of it.

I'm back with another healthcare related peeve. I had a CBC panel that came back abnormal. Doc told me to schedule an appointment with a hematologist to find out what is going. This was on Monday afternoon. I call the hematologist's office and they tell me that they have to get the blood work results from the doctor and then they will call me back to schedule an appointment. Fair enough. I get a call at 9am on Tuesday stating they are unable to schedule an appointment until they receive my blood work (again). I was like yeah, I know (and thinking give them a chance to send it over, for crying out loud!). My doctor calls back Tuesday afternoon to say they sent the results over to the hematologist. I have not heard back from the hematologist since despite leaving a message on Weds. and today. Sigh. Now tomorrow I will have to try to find another hematologist in my area (and apparently, there is a shortage).

Snapchat fun with Diamond and work parking lot cat Twinkletoes:

This is my grandmother's current situation except my grandmother is 92 and my mother is 58. My mother has been a constant user and manipulator her whole life and my grandmother is the only one in my family who has contact with her. My mother showed up at my grandmother's senior living facility a week ago where she is there on a 2-week stay because she has nowhere to go (never held down a job for long, never stays in one place very long). I have no doubt my mother is depleting what little funds my grandmother has, but I had to wash my hands of the situation because there is nothing I can do. My grandmother won't turn her back on her, and doesn't care that she is just going to take all her money and go. @Suzy Rhapsody Use my grandmother as a cautionary tale. If your daughter ends up being like my mother and creates a purposely shitty life for herself, you don't want to the be that old lady in the senior living facility with your troublesome daughter showing up to take your money and ruin your peace. My grandmother has a pretty happy life for herself when my mother isn't around. She hates that my mother uses her for money and will create a scene if she doesn't get what she wants, but she takes all the embarrassment, financial turmoil, and stress because it is her daughter. My grandmother doesn't deserve that and neither do you. I'm sincerely hoping your daughter changes her ways as she gets older, but if she doesn't, I do hope you'll know when its time to walk away for your own sanity and are able to do that. I walk away from my mother in 2002 (almost as soon as I turned 18), only had to contact her once in 2006, and haven't seen or spoken to her since. At that time, I needed her signature for financial aid documents for school, and I was told she'd only do it if I paid her. My stepdad ended up giving her the money, but that goes to show you the mentality she had and still has. I don't need or want a person like that in my life, blood relation or not.