lookeyloo

The thing is - we don't know any of the conversations that any of them had between each other or with bill and Jane. So either it is a great idea or a terrible idea or something in between. Maybe they are all being selfish (not hard to believe) or it is something that they discussed and bill and Jane will appreciate (hard to believe).

I think all things considered, she looks great. Not what I would wear, but, then again, I am almost 80!

Glad to hear. Things must really have improved for you

My guess is fuss with her hair and makeup and scroll on her phone

Our family on my father's side has a 3-day weekend reunion gathering. I have never attended nor do I plan to. Nothing wrong with them, but, seems long to me. It's not near me, but near most of them so I couldn't just drop in. Or I could, but I don't want to. I guess length of reunion differs by family. When we were kids, my grandma had a beach house and sometimes we cousins would be together for many weeks with her, so maybe that was a reunion too.

Same idea.

Kind of like a teenage rebellion - years of covering up and now free to do whatever she wants, so goes in opposite direction. Maybe will swing back to middle of the road one day

I once not too long ago had a Duggar dream too. I was in their midst (me, the Jewish grandma with a gay son, go figure) and asking some of the girls if they wanted to get out. But it was in the middle of Duggar chaos in the big house.

Who knows. Maybe it is a regional/familial thing. I probably call my relatives something unusual to people outside our "zone"

We are here for you. Your situation is certainly "vent worthy".

This is about the accents. I am from NJ. Lived there until I was 21, then moved to Brooklyn for about 3 years, and then the military sent us to Georgia. Spent 2 years there loving the accent, me with my NJ voice. Then moved to California for 3 years, accents of all kinds in the east bay area. Then moved to Baton Rouge, where I lived from 1975 to 2015. Now live in metro Atlanta. My speech has surely changed - but when I go back to NJ people say "you sound so southern" and people here used to say "you're not from around here, are you?" With everyone moving around so much especially here, there are all kinds of accents, and a lot of them from foreign countries. Our neighbors are from Nigeria and the grandma doesn't even speak English, but, we have some interesting conversations anyway. A few years ago I met a woman at the gym and as soon as she said "hello" I said "You're from NJ aren't you?" Yes, and now we are dear friends and laugh that we are "jersey girls". Actually old ladies.

Is this a small talk topic? I'm taking it to there.

I am guessing that there is big debt hidden from public view and that is nothing to be jealous of. We could all go down that path. But we are smarter

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/duggar-family-compound-visited-police-103814056.html

That dress, even in black, would never look that good on Christine! Unless she got the body of a perfect 20 year old!

This is also true. How many people are at their peak of emotional maturity when they get married - maybe one is or the other is or neither. Sometimes they grow in the same direction and sometimes they don't. Looking in from the outside doesn't always give a true picture. We only see what they want us to. And we go from there

Agree. I have come to terms with my "new" body and weight. I probably could lose it if I ate 400 calories a day for a few months, but, not healthy, no fun, and can't sustain.

We should all let her know and then send cards that say dear ma and pa you have raised a first class grifter who starves and doesn't educate her children. You should be so proud. ( or ashamed) knowing jilly would read them and ma and pa would never see them

The problem With Marie's new program is the first claim - stops hunger for 5 hours. How many of us eat when we are t hungry (raises hand). How many of us try to manage that with better choices? (Raises hand again). Some people have issues around food one way or the other. I would just guess that if we all just ate when we were hungry, made good choices and observed reasonable portion control and got out of the chair then very few would look to plexus or Marie for help. I am not perfect either but don't expect a gimmick to work.

Mr lookeyloo's uncle wrote and self published two books like that. They were "pirate romances" and this man has never married. He tried to use every word he knew, some words whose meaning he didn't know and the worst run on sentences. Became humor books to us.

A dilemma for sure. I am "petite" of stature, treated hypothyroidism, no estrogen because of breast cancer and almost 80. It is for sure a struggle. I would recommend adding weights to your program. There are plenty on YouTube. I like fitbymyk even though she is young and I am not. That was the thing that changed my body. It is an every day battle. I feel your pain. Plus I have trouble sleeping and the recent prescription worked great. Side effect weight gain. So I am off it.

I am the oldest girl of two boys. I am not the smartest. Not dumb, but brothers definitely better intelligence. I have the most common sense though. I know this is just me and my family, but, some of these theories are just that and many outliers. We went to public school back in the way back days.

My mistake. I thought I was in the Kelly and mark thread!

The dad looks like Cliff Claven on cheers

SJP has been on the show in the not to recent past or am I misremembering? Scarlett Johansen is a less than somebody too? I don't watch much, only the parts where a guest interests me. So I watched part of Matthew Broderick and some of ScarJo