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I'm not on X, but if I were, I'd advise Derick NOT to do a podcast. He is likely to do damage to his young career. Most people are more interested in his wife's upbringing than in anything he has to say. And he's kind of loose lipped.

Jill didn't mention an "overflowing or hurting heart", so I'm not buying it!

I wonder if Gabriel is the family scapegoat? Families with an unhealthy dynamic usually have at least one. Nurie is clearly the Golden Child.

@zoomama - I'm glad that was your experience and I hope mine is the same. They did say that I will find out at my appointment, so thankfully no more waiting/worrying after that if all goes well!

I had my annual mammogram yesterday. Today the Breast Center called to say that I have a mass in my right breast and I'm scheduled for further examination in mid June. There's been no breast cancer in my family thus far, though there has been a variety of other cancers. It's hard not to imagine the most horrible diagnosis, though I have looked online and it seems that 60-80% of masses are benign. I did have thyroid cancer at 21, which was likely from radiation I received as an infant for an enlarged thymus gland. I don't know. It's scary. It's really been a rough year so far. After Mom passed, my two remaining sisters have kind of distanced themselves. It's complicated. I'm closer to 2 of my brothers, but I don't want to talk about this to them at this point! Thankfully I have a wonderful husband and several good girlfriends, plus my kids. I will know for certain after the tests in mid June. Hopefully it will be good news.

We don't know. Maybe Jill bought up some old bottles of Tabu at Goodwill and the fun loving Rods sprayed each other with it. Hilarity ensued. 😉

Maybe Alyssa is taking her cue from the way her daughters dress for date nights with Daddy.

@beckie, I hope you have support from family and friends to help you through this terribly sad time. Thinking of you ❤️

@beckie- I'm so sorry for your loss.

That dress could have been cute for summer wear, but it's too balloony for my taste!

I got through my first MD without Mom. I saw all my kids over the past week, for my b'day, so it was phone calls and texts yesterday. I stayed mostly off of FB, as the tributes are understandably pretty sappy and I didn't want to spend the day in tears. Mom passed 5 months ago at 93. She went out her way as her mind was clear, but her body was failing her. All she wanted was to stay in her house until the end and she got that. I miss her every day, but I'm happy for her that she had a good life, filled with love. Anyway, my husband got me a beautiful hummingbird feeder and I set it up out front, so we should have them flying around, front and back. It's also kind of a tribute to my neighbor, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. We share a front porch and she always had a feeder out front. I assume her home will go on the market soon, so fingers crossed for more good neighbors! The weather was gorgeous yesterday, but rain is expected today. My cat has been hanging out full time on the screen porch!

That is hilarious and I can so identify. My weight is top secret. I remember whispering it (and actually I was lying!) at the DMV when we moved and had to get new licenses.

My husband hates bananas. I would be shocked if he did something silly like this. But he has always worked hard to help support our family. He's the polar opposite of Lazy Davy!

I have always thought that when people philosophize about someone else's loss, they are actually trying to console themselves that such a tragedy could never happen to them or their loved ones. Sadly, they are wrong. Losses come to all of us.

I'm guessing that regular check-ups with blood work, are not part of the Rod health care routine. I do think Dave has slimmed down a little. I wonder if he's ingesting Plexus?

At least Dax still has his modeling income. Maybe he can support everyone?

Happy Birthday, @CalicoKitty! I hope your day is filled with friends, family and decorous snark! 🎂🥳🤩🎂🎉

I agree. My fingers are crossed too, for both Tim's and Heidi's sakes.

That's so interesting, @Yeah No! Did you ever wonder if those snooty posters themselves had perfect model bodies? There are other sites, but I like the way this one works best. It always brings me to the last post I read and it has a great variety of shows, plus small talk threads where you can chat about whatever. I hope this site never shuts down. The first forum where I posted regularly was S.H.E. forum, kind of a frustrated housewife type of forum, based on the Slob Sisters aka "Sidetracked Home Executives" for people who had read their books back in the 70-80s. People were pretty nice there and I'm FB friends with one friend I met there and email friends with some others. We were a group who got mad at a cliquey type leader and started communicating privately. That was my first experience with board drama!

I never got a warning on TWoP, but my sock puppet got banned, for one post. I snotted at a poster (on the Oprah thread) who corrected everyone all the time. She also boasted endlessly about living in NYC, like the rest of us were backwoods bumpkins! I got props for it on the TWoP Sucks forum, which was an anti-TWoP site I joined. I can't even remember that poster's name. I think I cared a lot more back then. Now, if I got banned, I think I'd probably just go elsewhere. There were fewer options back then. I'm better at scrolling past annoying posters now. With age comes wisdom, I guess!

I remember posting on the Dr. Phil thread (I'm not a fan!), Rome, Deadwood, Mad Men & Sons of Anarchy, among others. I think I posted on the View thread too, though I never watched it. It was on the Deadwood thread that I learned about "whore baths" and I still joke about taking one when I can't get a shower! Gosh, those were the days!

I had forgotten about the wayback machine. I found a post of mine on Sons of Anarchy, lol. I forgot that I was a "fanatic". I loved the recaps and eagerly awaited them for my favorite shows. Thanks for the reminder, @Yeah No!

I was crying when Donny's Dad admitted as much as he could about his own abuse. I have to wonder if he somehow conveyed his own self loathing to Donny as he was growing up. It's as if, without meaning to, he perpetuated Donny's low self esteem, making Donny vulnerable when Martha and Darrien showed up in his life. I found this story very compelling and disturbing.

Over the years I have admired so many posters. Some are just so clever in their writing, that you just hope they're still writing something somewhere. There was a poster in the Dr. Phil board back on TWoP, whose name was Kettleporn. Her posts were like poetry, they were so clever. More recently, when posters have disappeared since Covid, I'm always afraid they might have passed on. That said, I do like anonymous forums better than FB, for example. FB has enabled me to know more than I ever wanted to about people I actually know. Here, we have DMs if you want to share more with posters, but you can keep private if that is your preference.

I was on a criminal trial for a week back in the mid 90's. It was a really interesting case and experience. I was less interested when I received a federal district court summons 15 years later. Luckily, they didn't choose me and I only served one day.