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I share your amazement, IslandGirl. I was born in SoCal and lived there for 35 years. During the '70s my ex-husband and I were propositioned by three couples in our social circle. We declined but continued to mingle because there was no way of cutting them out and keeping the circle intact. It was awkward but dropping them would have blown up the trap shooting team, deer season, fishing season, 4-wheeling, weekly BBQs, etc, etc. My husband said we should take it as a compliment and I said "Um, no." It's not like they were toothless wonders, all were upstanding and self-employed or gainfully employed. A fondness for alcohol and/or weed was one common denominator. I eventually moved to northern Utah and found out a few years ago that my ex didn't actually "just say no" to one of the invitations. He and my very best friend carried on for a few years while she and I were in daily contact, by phone if not in person. He died last year and I wish I was 700 miles closer to her for just 5 minutes. Maybe 3 minutes, I'm still fairly spry.

For Deirdra and Yeah No: If the descriptions of your type fit you quite well (no matter which test you use) is that enough of a reliable indicator that the test measured you accurately? I tried a free version of the Baron-Cohen Autism Quotient test and landed three points into the scale. Hmmm. Then immediately began wondering which of the questions I wavered about came into play, and to what degree.

When I posted this I forgot to mention that even the obit knew it was Kim's goddamn house. IW is 30 minutes from Palm Springs and swanky AF. ... Of Indian Wells, California, passed away March 2, 2002, at her daughter's residence in Indian Wells, California ... ... daughters Kathleen Hilton of New York City, NY, Kyle Umansky of Beverly Hills, and Kim Richards of Indian Wells, CA ...

Well, if you're gonna get all sane and logical about it...

I'm bummed. A couple months ago I rec'd an email from Xfinity informing that due to the pandemic they are making certain cable and internet upgrades available at no charge. One of those upgrades is access to Peacock, which makes Paramount available. I jumped on the first two seasons of Yellowstone and binge-watched just before this season began. I watched the first ep of this season with no problem... and then the current access poofed although the first two seasons remain available. I've been reading here because I do (and don't) want to know what's happening, even though I won't be able to watch this current season until just before season 4 begins. Gah!

1) Those eyebrows that Meghan scrawls on are waaaay too big. 2) Gotta love the photo TRS chose to accompany the article. (See #1) 3) She is a lying liar who lies. “As the only Republican in mainstream media... "

I totally understand. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd/index.html https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I read this here before the show aired in my time zone and I was able to watch what she said in real time. In context, she was saying that it "negates" the point. But... if she's the GD pundint she claims to be she should be easily understood. A pundint is an expert who shares factual points of view. The audience shouldn't have to analyze and translate what she is saying. Spit it out clearly, dumb bunny. Gah!

I saw another article about it today and she chalks it up to I've accepted who he is, why waste the effort when I can make the best of every day because he's such a good dad, yadda yadda. Translation: I'm desperately trying to get another egg fertilized while I pretty much have him in isolated lockdown, which is the only way I will ever get this much undivided attention from him. Yay, me! Can't wait to see her on The View this week. Will he make an appearance during her segment? I will be surprised if he doesn't.

I am so frustrated, and disgusted, about being told that the current upsurge is aaaall about testing, that it's solely due to more people being tested now. That just cannot be true, or accurate. We are 4% of the world's population but we have 25% of the world's cases. Being asymptomatic is not a given. Plenty of people show symptoms and then seek treatment and are diagnosed and tallied without being tested. They are cooking the books, because someone knows the number of symptomatic self-diagnosed cases and the number of test result cases but we're not being given a complete set of facts. I feel like the isolating I've been doing since March is child's play compared to the standard I need to meet now.

Makes for a nice photo. It looks like a room in a doll house.

Gotta hate-watch Khloe, already marked my calendar.

Nice, relaxed, natural photo.

Oh good, you would divert from (as Kohola so astutely said) silently staring at our plates.

ROFL

Charlie had been sober for five years when they met and he had not yet been fully possessed by his demons. He had issues and behaviors but it was middle weight stuff in comparison to what was coming. He has a progressive disease that takes up where you left off when you relapse. Who he was when they split five years into their relationship (after two years of his shenanigans) was very far removed from who he was when they met. His disease has continued to progress for almost all of the 15 years since their divorce in 2005 because he has achieved only very short bursts of sobriety. Denise is between a rock and a hard place because of court-ordered visitation. Luckily, he doesn't exercise it very often and yet that must feel like abandonment. She doesn't bad-mouth him to her daughters because #1 it's not fair to them and #2 she tries to minimize the probability of lasting daddy-daughter issues as much as possible. She says she knows that girls who feel abandoned often make self-destructive decisions for their entire lives. She has to discuss things with her daughters that should never come up - things that her mother never discussed with her, things that her sister doesn't discuss with her kids - because she has to head off and provide a loving but also realistic interpretation of whatever the latest asshole-ery is that her girls will likely hear about or be taunted about. One situation (among many) that she mentioned in her book was especially sad. Her girls loved the Eloise books when they were littles and in 2010 she booked the Eloise Suite with an adjoining parent suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The nanny came along because Denise was doing a press junket for a TV role. Charlie invited himself when she told him about their trip, and provided a private jet and booked a suite across the hall. While they were having dinner the second night she realized it was their first family vacation and also their first restaurant meal as a family, ever, and the girls were 5 and 6 years old. They ate meals at his house or he came to their house for meals but they'd never all been in a restaurant together before. Then they saw Mary Poppins on Broadway. Normal, right? During the last night of their stay Charlie invited her to dinner and the nanny stayed with the girls. Denise was shown to a private room in a restaurant where Charlie was sitting with three friends and what she soon realized were four prostitutes. They ended up discussing the ins and outs of "the business" and she made herself have an OK time even though she resented the scene behind Charlie's invitation. Why even invite her? What was the point? She went back to her hotel, made sure the girls were in bed and was asleep for about an hour when she heard lots of voices, and walkie-talkies, in the hallway. Not a good sign. She opened her door and saw many of New York's finest, in uniforms and suits. The working girl she met at dinner had called 911 from the locked bathroom saying she was in danger. Charlie was drunk, naked, in a rage and had trashed his suite. The Plaza didn't press charges and he wasn't arrested but was taken to a hospital. With all the questioning and situating Denise got only that one hour of sleep before fulfilling her interviews that were starting in a couple hours and Howard Stern was first. With Charlie's name and face all over the news. Luckily that was the last day of the junket and she sneaked out of town and back to SoCal, to charge her batteries for dealing with another round of Charlie fallout after daring to let herself think "How nice, a family vacation. We're finally in a good place." I'm fairly confident that she can handle her some HWs but I keep wondering what's taking so long. I wish she would tell Aaron to stuff a sock in it and give those smug hags both barrels for 10 minutes, or however long it will take. I keep waiting for her to blow because, in addition to being circular, their bullshit is entirely petty. If she blows they will rue the day they started with her. Team Denise.

My hell, that is beautiful! There's a canyon like that 20 minutes from me but I haven't gone there this year because I don't know if people are masking. My birthday is coming up in a couple weeks and I'm considering a weekday picnic for that because I am so tired of being confined. It would be a tad cooler in the canyon, it's gonna be 94 in our valley today. But only 19% humidity. There are a couple reservoirs nearby (and lots of streams and rivers) but the shoreline is limited these days because of distancing. So I stay home... 😞

So I picked up groceries at WalMart this morning and because I'm nosy observant I always watch whatever I can in the rearview. In the car behind me I saw a mom and three or four little heads bopping around in the back seat. Mom wasn't wearing a mask and her window was all the way down. Obviously she thought there was a problem because she passed her phone to the employee who was wearing a mask and standing right at her door, their mugs were maybe two feet apart. He scrolled on her phone awhile and handed it back. Then he handed his phone to her for awhile and after she handed it back he signed for her on the other device he was holding. Neither one was wearing gloves. (I never even crack let alone roll down my window, I speak loudly and if they can't hear me I motion them to the open hatchback). Then... she told him to put her grocery order on the ground. On. The. Ground. I heard him question it, twice, and then saw him shrug. He did as she asked and after he walked away she scrambled out of the the car and loaded the bags into the front seat. So now the surface of the parking lot (sneeze, spit, loogies, gum) is on her shotgun seat. Are you willing to bet that she sets those bags on the kitchen counter while she puts the food away? (Benefit of the doubt there was a towel on her seat. Nah...). I see a lot of phone-passing when people pick up their orders and I don't know what the deal is because I've ordered every week since December and there's only been one error, one time. They send an email when your order is ready that notifies about out-of-stock items and substitutions. There's no need for conversation about the order if you read the email they send. If the employee tries to go over details with me I do a thumbs up and nicely yell "I got the email, it's all good." I mean, they're on camera so they're probably following a scripted guideline and I can't fault them for that. As luck would have it the same employee brought out my order. He knows I don't roll down my window so he just heads for the hatchback. I couldn't resist so I said "You're not gonna put my food on the ground, right?" and he rolled his eyes so far back in his head I thought they were gonna stay there, and he grinned. He's a cool kid.

Interesting and insightful post. I guess those who want to could chime in as to which test was used and how accurate the result was/wasn't. (?) Not that it would require a chart. At ease, Kohola.

CV truthers deny the severity of the pandemic and think statistics like the US being 4% of the world's population but having 25% of the world's cases are fictitious. She brings her friendship to our attention because she's a shit-stirrer.

Yeah, there's a bit of debate re the -T (Turbulent) and -A (Aggressive) designations because relatively speaking they are a recent development. They're not about aggression and turbulence per se but speak more to personal confidence levels and whether reactions to emotions and triggers are inner-directed or outer-directed. They are meant to further fine-tune test results for people who don't have professional guidance with their interpretation. One example: does negative feedback or interaction faze you and set you back (T) or do you blow it off (A)? There's more to it but that's the general idea.

Big Kathy was 63 when she died. I don't remember how old she was when she was diagnosed. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=kathleen-richards-fenton&pid=259058

You are right, thank you for the heads up. I was thinking Rinna, don't know why I typed Kyle. (Both are crass).

When I try to picture Me-Again tolerating being in labor I get "Do you know who I aaam?" I can see her scheduling a rich lady vanity C-section. Because, otherwise, with the mouth on her... yikes.