Fair enough. I don't like football (don't tell anyone where I live), hence my grinchiness about football romances.

Eh, I'm a grinch about football romances.

Have you read The Long Game yet? It's book 6 in the series but picks up Hollander and Romanov's story.

So, so angry. If my MN uncle spoke like this? Run.

Seriously. I can't even. Like, why?!?!?

Yeah, I'm both pissed and mystified. Like, what? I mean, this is what I told 1st graders today--their paragraph had to have at least 3 sentences NOT because that's the rule for paragraphs, but b/c they needed to use three different verbs.

YES. We got a new mattress* AND a tankless water heater, and both were super exciting to spouse and me.

*CA king for my 6'4 spouse.

Well deserved. Congrats!

As someone raised in that environment...let's just say the work to establish healthy boundaries and parenting is intense. My siblings and I are 30s/40s, and our mom still does not get that we are autonomous adults. We get it (yay, therapy), but it took a lot of work.

As someone to whom you have said, 'no. just no,' about a backstory point...1000x this.

Toss up between:

A guy in grad school (we had the same diss. advisor) who called me 'the shortest 10 foot woman in the world.' (I'm 4'10)

And the pastor/LPC who said I reminded her of Elizabeth I as played by Cate Blanchett.

Right? Though not as mean as the 'your hair is longer than your team's post-season' comment considering the man shaves his head.

This might be my favorite part of hockey season at my house.

Seriously.

I want a Rosey like the Jetsons promised me.

This is me right now. Not a damn thing AI can do about the demands on my time & mental/emotional stress that have killed my writing.

I don't want AI to write/solve my writing block; I want an autochef like in the JDRobb books and a droid that does the laundry (& puts it away!) & dishes.

Right?! Kid is still struggling to believe that not everyone can do this thing that is their normal.

MS did not get called to regional (none of the alternates did) and is sad/not sad. Sad b/c it would have been fun & makes you eligible for all state auditions; not sad b/c they won't miss hockey.