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You forgot Khloe and her latest NBA boyfriend Tristan, plus good ol' Lamar. Will Khloe break up with Tristan? Marry Tristan? Get pregnant by Tristan? Will Lamar freak out if Khloe marries Tristan? I think KUWTK will try to milk the feud between Kris and Caitlyn. They'd love to have a nice, loud, ratings-grabbing screaming match for the show. Maybe with some wig-snatching, too. I'd watch that!

People has now published a story with Rob saying he doesn't know Meghan. Guess People got caught with their pants down, rushing to repeat the gossip from InTouch (not a reliable source at all). http://people.com/tv/rob-kardashian-denies-dating-mehgan-james-twitter/

Don't worry, you ARE doing your best. I think we all have some internal standards that are unrealistic. Losing a parent is one of the most painful things we experience in our lives, and probably most of us second-guess ourselves as to what we could have done differently. I know I did. Just remember that you love your mom and she loves you. What you do out of love is enough.

I agree that there's no way to really prepare yourself for the death of a parent. My dad was taken to a hospice near the end, but I was still stunned and numb when he died. My mom had been wasting away in a nursing home, and she'd even said she thought it was her time to go, but her death hit me hard too. Rationally, I knew they were dying, but emotionally I just couldn't accept that they were leaving. They've been gone for years, but I think of both of them every day. I am glad to have some mementoes from their homes. I will be forever grateful for the skills they taught me. My dad taught me home handyman skills, and my mother taught me to sew. Both of them taught me gardening. On a lighter note, neither of them could teach me to cook. I'm a flop at cooking.

There are several sources. The brand of the bra is Glamorise, style no. 1803, also listed as no. 15650. "Glamorise Complete Comfort Front Close Bra" https://www.herroom.com/glamorise-1803-complete-comfort-front-close-bra.shtml This one is 80% nylon, 20% spandex. It's the one I have. I like nylon because it dries fast when you've gotten sweaty. $31.00 https://www.herroom.com/glamorise-1908-complete-comfort-cotton-t-back-bra.shtml Similar design except it has a T-back, style no. 1908, in 60% cotton, 30% spandex, 10% nylon. "Glamorise Complete Comfort Cotton T-Back Bra" Sale $28.00 Google Shopping search shows this bra is also available from Shoes.com, J.C. Penney, Walmart, Evine, EssentialApparel.com, Kohl's, Brayola, and Lady Grace. Prices range from $28.00 to about $35.00.

I have one just like that. It really is comfortable.

Hehe, I do make the bed every day. I load the dishwasher every night, and keep the bathroom clean. But the rest of the house is pretty messy, especially my home office. (I am definitely a "messy desk" person.) When people ask if I have a pet, I tell them I have a cat, but I should also say that I have a zillion dust bunnies.

Don't worry about stories being long! We don't mind. Speaking of the 70s, I can't tell you how glad I am that we didn't have the Internet and social media back then. When we did dumb shit, only our circle of friends knew about it. It didn't get posted on a global platform for the whole world to gawk at. We had privacy.

Me too. I always get dressed in the morning. From years of working in a home office, I have the habit of dressing like I'm "at work" (no pajamas at work!) although I do keep it casual, such as stretchy pants and comfy shoes. For me, getting dressed includes wearing a bra. I always wore a bra anyway. I have the smallest bewbs east of the Mississippi, but they still move around, and I hate that feeling, have hated the jiggling feeling ever since I first hit puberty. I never wear underwire bras (they hurt), so my bras are pretty comfortable. My one exception is that sometimes I lurk down the driveway in my pajamas, with a jacket covering my top, to get the morning newspaper. I have shrubbery alongside the driveway, so I am pretty well concealed. To be honest, I am more concerned about the neighbors seeing me with my hair rolled up (a fearsome sight) than them seeing some miniature bewbs flapping. Unfortunately, it's not true that your bewbs don't sag if you're flat-chested. They droop down by your elbows, just as if they were big 'uns.

Aww! No meatloaf ever? Find a restaurant that serves it, and try some. Or check your local grocery store. Some stores have ready-to-cook meatloaf in the meat section. If you have a Publix grocery store in your area, their meatloaf is pretty good. You just put it in the oven for one hour at 350.

It's Caturday ....

My gosh, that is scary! I hope no real emergency rises in your workplace, like some enraged customer with a weapon. Reminds me of our local police. They always tell us (such as our neighborhood association) to call 911 if we see anything that looks wrong or suspicious. Yet sometimes when we make the calls, they don't do much because they don't treat it as a priority. For example, if we spot some stranger repeatedly driving slowly around the neighborhood (like they would be looking for a vulnerable house or parked car to burglarize), we can call 911, but if the person isn't doing anything obviously wrong, the police don't see it as something serious.

Very clever optical illusion; the dress has pictures of a semi-nude body in skimpy clothing. Interesting idea, but I don't think it works as wearable fashion.

Haven't the Kardashians ever heard of AAA road service? But I guess a rescue by the AAA truck wouldn't have been as "interesting" as a bunch of asses pushing a stalled car.

Hmmm. Thinking of the rule about not contacting former coworkers, in Lisa R's situation. (Of course we have no idea what terms she, or any other former host, had to agree to when she left QVC.) She obviously keeps in touch with some current QVC vendors, such as Dr. Denese, since she reveals these relationships to the public on her FB page. But I can't recall seeing her post anything about visiting with/having lunch with/other contact with any current QVC hosts. She's posted various old photos of herself with other Q hosts back from the time when she worked there, but nothing new with them since she left. Am I mistaken about that? Would a QVC vendor or manufacturer's rep (what we call an OAP, on-air personality) be an exception to the "no contact" rule, since they weren't QVC employees?

In addition to the possibility of non-disclosure agreements, maybe the former hosts don't discuss their departures because they're hoping to get host jobs on other channels. By now, we longtime shopping channel viewers have seen various hosts leave one channel and turn up on another. If they said anything negative about the channel they left, it might hurt their chances to get a new host job. Although I would love to hear hosts dish some juicy dirt about their old channels, I can understand why they wouldn't want to do it. I've noticed that when news reporters change channels, they seldom, if ever, say anything negative about their former employers. They always say something bland, like how they wanted a new opportunity. Meteorologists too. In my city, a man who had been the no. 2 meteorologist on one channel for many years left his channel and turned up a couple of months later as the chief meteorologist on a competing channel. I'm sure he left because he wanted the no. 1 position on the new channel (their top weather guy had just retired), and he'd realized that the chief guy on the old channel was so well entrenched that there would be little chance to ever be no. 1. But he's never said a word in public about why he changed channels.

I didn't watch the episode, but looking at that strange dress, I'm wondering: Did Dorothy lose a bet?

Betcha she wasn't too embarrassed to cash the check.

I hear you! I go crazy in garden centers too. I practically throw money at them! I get the car stuffed full of plants, and then I have to find the time and energy to plant them all when I get home. I bought a bunch of stuff earlier this week and still have a flat of annuals left to plant, despite going out to work in the yard every single afternoon. My problem is that I get distracted instead of staying task-oriented. It seems that once I get outside, I find a lot of maintenance type things I need to do, like pruning and pulling weeds. I can work until slap dark and still not get caught up ... but I still enjoy it.

Remember Stone Mountain handbags? They went to China and turned to crap. The quality of Tiganello bags is going down too. Even Fossil! I've bought Fossil for my last three bags, but this year their leather looked thin and cheap, and on the shoulder bag style I was looking at, they didn't even include the traditional key hardware. But of course their prices have gone UP instead of down.

I plant mixed color zinnia seeds, but most of the blooms turn out to be either orange or a deep rose pink. I learned that if I want white zinnias, I have to find a packet of all-white seeds, hard to find unless you order from a garden catalogue. Speaking of hard to find -- why is it that all the garden centers concentrate on Knockout roses now? I know Knockout is a good rose variety because they're disease resistant, but I like other kinds of roses too. Back to the garden catalogues for a big selection of rosebushes. I got a great pink rosebush called Simplicity from Wayside Gardens or Park Seed, can't remember which right now since I've had the rose for several years.

I've noticed the "price creep" at my local garden centers for the past three or four years. I remember the inexpensive 6-packs; that's what I liked to buy. Now they are putting all the plants in bigger containers at higher prices. Of course, you do get a slightly bigger plant, but I didn't mind waiting on the little ones to grow and saving some money. They also changed to more expensive varieties of common plants. For example, impatiens. I like the plain little impatiens, but all that the closest garden center had when I went the other day was the expensive New Guinea impatiens. I had to go out of my way to a different garden store to find the plain impatiens. I grow some flowers from seeds every year, zinnias and marigolds. Both are very easy to grow. I get lots of cut flowers from my zinnia plants, because every time you cut a flower, the stem splits in two and produces two new flowers. These are small flowers with short stems. I have a collection of small size flower vases especially for the little zinnias.

Zoemom, I can't think of much to add to the good advice others have given you, except to just soldier through the next couple of weeks. In a way this might be easier than driving yourself crazy trying to improve your performance, when you're already doing the best you can. If you think they're going to lay you off anyway, that kind of takes the pressure off, doesn't it? Just go in every day and concentrate on the things you like about the job, your coworkers and the animals you're helping. That might help you relax. If you lose the job, it will just be a temporary setback. I had to walk away from a stressful job back around 1994, when computers were first being widely used in offices. I was working my way through an urban college doing office jobs around town, and I needed the money for my tuition and apartment. I didn't know how to use a Windows computer, didn't even know how to do word processing, but managed to get a job at one-person company as an assistant because I had experience with general clerical work and offline data entry. (Keypunch cards, and then big cards with magnetic strips -- anybody else old enough to remember either of those?) My boss said he didn't mind if I learned the computer on the job. His attitude was "You're smart, you can figure it out." He told me to go down the hall and ask other women office workers if I had any computer questions. (It was one of those offices where many small businesses rented space.) I had to ask for help so often that I was embarrassed all the time. I struggled so hard to learn that computer that I went home and cried every night. My boss was very patient, but finally I told him I felt I was holding him back (I wasn't producing much work) and advised him to hire someone with computer knowledge. We parted friends, and I found another job. And I did eventually learn to use a computer... thus, here I am, online. It was a real struggle for an old baby boomer who grew up with typewriters and adding machines.

That's so beautiful and serene! I always wished I could have a formal, neat-looking garden, but mine always turns out to be the cottage garden type, with different plants flouncing all over everywhere, and shrubs pruned at different heights.

I got the shingles shot too. Medicare doesn't cover it, but my "Medigap" policy paid for about 85% of it. It was $298 total, and I only have to pay $46.00. (I'm over 60.) My primary care doc recommended it, and he had the vaccine in his office. Did anybody who got the shot get a really sore arm? My arm hurt for several days.