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My hell, Kya, that was miserable and sad and unfair. And it was your real life, not a book or a TV show. 😞 But you were strong and you rose above it and you made a better life for yourself and your kids. You are a champ! Do you think, do you feel like you have PTSD?

Kya, honey, why you censor yourself? You know we love ya, right? (I hate missing out on the stuff that's good enough to delete).

Ouch! Pointed reference, much?

Probably more excited than she would be if Not Gigi was announcing the same news.

I thought the narrow green stripe was someone's skinny leg next to her and I was like Truely, is that you? But it looked too long to be Truely's leg and there was only one foot so then I was all confused. Sometimes this posting and reading deal is its own workout! But I remain committed to the goal!

deirdra, yes, there is a procedure, a ritual. It's called sealing and unsealing. You can be sealed for time (on earth) or for time and eternity (on earth and in the hereafter). It's common for widows and widowers who marry again to leave their original sealing for time and eternity as is and to be sealed to a second (or third) spouse for time. It's the same for those who are divorced but there's a much higher rate of totally unsealing the divorced union. Familes are sealed the same way couples are sealed so with death and divorce the kids can go either way, it depends on what the parents decide to do. I have a friend who is 50, an only child, mainstream LDS in good standing (temple worthy) who never married. (I suspect she is gay). She was sealed to her parents when she was a kid. Depending on which sect you belong to, someone like her will be either a servant or a plural wife in the hereafter. A never-married male in good standing is eligible to receive a planet and plural wives in the hereafter. I've never heard that males go the servant route. Go figure.

OMG those shoes are fugly and so is that outfit and so is that body. I was disappointed with the front view photo because she didn't look bow-legged. Usually when she stomp-walks there's about 12 inches of daylight between her knees.

"One weekend a month and two weeks a year" was the longtime Guard and Reserve motto but depending on rank or specialty it could be six or seven weekends a year. And then the long wars in the Middle East messed up the National Guard. The Army Reserve, OK, as the name implies you would expect to be called up in time of need because you're part of the Army. The original intent was for the NG to stay home and protect the homeland and each governor was a state's commander-in-chief of its Guard unit. We most likely will never see an active draft again because of the anti-war movement in the '60s and '70s. Washington knows that masses of people question authority now. So, instead, the feds gained control of the NG after the Middle East wars and 9-11. Some Guard and Reserve units did two, three, four, 12-month deployments. Guard units are still shipping out as one-year peace-keeping forces but the peace exists only until the other side starts firing and then here we go again. Washington won't actively draft anymore but it deploys and deploys and deploys. As if we don't know the difference. Baa, baa we are good sheeple. Thank Universe that we ended the BS in the Middle East so we can almost halfway afford the COVID emergency financial packages. We are SO vulnerable right now to some random wealthy madman or dictator. We can bail out the homeland or we can fight a war but we can't do both. Janelle's sons are the faces of those who serve, along with lots of daughters.

During the early '80s I watched UFOs night after night when I lived in the mountains in SoCal at just under 7000'. They were triangular with three lights and they were FAST when they wanted to be. They flew straight across the sky or they stood absolutely still or they darted like fireflies and when they left they zoomed outta sight. I watched them from my north-facing bedroom window and the only thing north of Big Bear is the Mojave desert. Have you driven from SoCal to Vegas? That's the Mojave, a whole lotta nothin'. My ex was a boozer so he was hard to wake up. I would call my friend who lived a couple miles away and let it ring once and then call again and she'd grab it before her husband woke up and we'd watch together, sometimes for an hour. Big Bear has a premier solar observatory (because of the altitude) and we called them a lot but of course they were non-committal. They did always suggest that we make a report on the UFO Hotline in the local phone book. 😉

An item from Kyle's line is that last clean thing you have left to wear when you go to the laundromat.

The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena." The Navy pilots found an oblong object about 40 feet long hovering about 50 feet above the water, and it began a rapid ascent as the pilots approached before quickly flying away. "It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen," one of the pilots told The Times. The pilots left the area to meet at a rendezvous point about 60 miles away. When they were still about 40 miles out, the ship radioed and said the object was at the rendezvous point, having traversed the distance "in less than a minute," the pilot told The Times. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-confirms-3-videos-showing-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/ar-BB13h51b?li=BBnbfcL#image=BB13h51b_1|1

They didn't show it but I'm pretty sure Janelle rotated in to teach the Home Ec classes.

Fried eggs on top of bread. I hope you are able today, amid the everyday bustle that blurs our focus, to devote a few moments in contemplation of fried eggs on top of bread. Fork optional, depending on your belief system.

The most recent direct deposit info. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/27/more-1200-stimulus-checks-are-way-here-are-key-dates-next-set-payments/

I didn't see the special but acording to what's been found the indications are that humans can infect their pet cats. There were two cases in Europe a month ago, one was in Belgium and the other place I can't recall. Two cases were verified in NY and that info was released a few days ago.

This is so cool! Jimmy Fallon rocks with some random guys and a few classroom instrumemts. He seems like he's a good husband, father, son, friend, neighbor, citizen.

IIRC the water is trucked in at Christine's place also. That can't be cheap, supply and demand being one consideration. Or maybe the price is capped because water is an essential?

I was bummed when I found out the LiMu emu is partly real and partly CGI. But it makes sense for some of the OTT moves he makes because his head/his beak wouldn't stand up under it. I do love those commercials!

After the King Of Queens marathon ended this morning I got into the Time Life Classic Soul Ballads infomercial and when I saw the Chi-Lites I beat feet over to YouTube. James Corden a few years back intro'd the Back Street Boys by saying he wants to bring back proper boy bands: "matching outfits and synchronized dancing." Yep. Howie, Nick, AJ, Brian and Kevin. And James. 1971 OG proper boy band: and some best of Buh-Weet (the third song is Bette Davis Eyes, right?)

No it was not.

Reading this with your sad sack Meri avatar looking at your post was perfection.

I have Xfinity and seasons 1-13 are free via TLC, and season 14 is $22.99

It sorta looks like an individual pizza beneath the egg or, maybe, what passes for a scone in Parowan. Here's one in Layton that northern Utah swears by, on a dinner plate:

Nicely done! I look forward to reading more, if you have the time. I didn't remember that Robyn showed up so soon. I do recall being surprised when I realized awhile back that it happened during the first season and now I realize it was the first episode, yikes! I've been watching since the beginning but evidently don't remember as much as I thought I did.