The Vent and Rant Thread

[CWatkinsNash]

This is no vent or rant - this is a hallelujah.

THANK YOU HITCH! The book did it. She stayed up till midnight reading it last night, and today she cut contact for real. I know she's telling the truth because I checked her email and the one she said she sent him was there. She also has blocked his number and blocked him on Facebook.

Thank ALL of you so much for the tips and support. You have no idea how much it means to me.

And I can start sleeping again, maybe. Nice to have my Mommy reconnected with her better judgement.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

This is no vent or rant - this is a hallelujah.

THANK YOU HITCH! The book did it. She stayed up till midnight reading it last night, and today she cut contact for real. I know she's telling the truth because I checked her email and the one she said she sent him was there. She also has blocked his number and blocked him on Facebook.

Thank ALL of you so much for the tips and support. You have no idea how much it means to me.

And I can start sleeping again, maybe. Nice to have my Mommy reconnected with her better judgement.

Must be smart parents week. My dad (actually stepdad but we claim each other) is selling his motorcycle. I just hate it took losing one of his friends to open his eyes.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

This is no vent or rant - this is a hallelujah.

THANK YOU HITCH! The book did it. She stayed up till midnight reading it last night, and today she cut contact for real. I know she's telling the truth because I checked her email and the one she said she sent him was there. She also has blocked his number and blocked him on Facebook.

Thank ALL of you so much for the tips and support. You have no idea how much it means to me.

And I can start sleeping again, maybe. Nice to have my Mommy reconnected with her better judgement.

Oh, that's TERRIFIC. I'm so glad. And I'm going to send Diana a note, too--the author--and let her know that the book helped someone. That's why she wrote it, and she'll be really pleased to learn (somewhat first-hand) that it's done just that.

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Must be smart parents week. My dad (actually stepdad but we claim each other) is selling his motorcycle. I just hate it took losing one of his friends to open his eyes.

Bummer on the friend--glad that your Dad has sold his, if you were worried. A good friend of ours lost his wife in an horrific MC accident, I'm sorry to say.

Again, CWatkinsNash--so glad that the book was helpful. She must be one hell of a voracious reader--as I said, the thing was 800+ pages when we got it for formatting!

Hitch

[CRussel]

Well done, Hitch! And CWatkinsNash, I'm really, really glad you were able to get her to read the book.

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Again, CWatkinsNash--so glad that the book was helpful. She must be one hell of a voracious reader--as I said, the thing was 800+ pages when we got it for formatting!

Hitch

Oh no, she didn't finish the whole thing yet. Just enough last night for a bunch of red flags to ring some bells with how that guy was interacting with her.

Though she is a voracious reader. She likely finished it this afternoon but I didn't ask.

Edited to add: Thank Diana for me. I owe her... well, I don't want to think just how much damage could have been done.

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Must be smart parents week. My dad (actually stepdad but we claim each other) is selling his motorcycle. I just hate it took losing one of his friends to open his eyes.

I imagine that reduces your list of worries. Just a shame that he lost his friend.

Originally Posted by CRussel

Well done, Hitch! And CWatkinsNash, I'm really, really glad you were able to get her to read the book.

Thanks - me too!

I've a minor rant. Without going into the whole how and why, I ended up fixing my roommate's old mac mini for myself, and I'm turning it into a media pc. The only decent spare keyboard in the house is a Canadian English / French keyboard that he ordered by accident off of ebay ages ago.

I was only superficially familiar with using Macs to begin with, so in addition to new keys for that, I have to contend with extra keys I have no use for, with several common keys being labeled as something else. I'm mostly a touch typist, so I'm fine until I look at the keyboard - then I get totally lost until I force myself to look away.

Of all the problems to have... But it's a minor one and no one's at risk this time, so I'll take it.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

This is no vent or rant - this is a hallelujah.

THANK YOU HITCH! The book did it. She stayed up till midnight reading it last night, and today she cut contact for real. I know she's telling the truth because I checked her email and the one she said she sent him was there. She also has blocked his number and blocked him on Facebook.

Thank ALL of you so much for the tips and support. You have no idea how much it means to me.

And I can start sleeping again, maybe. Nice to have my Mommy reconnected with her better judgement.

Excellent news! And who says books are a waste of time? (Well my brother, for one, but then he's an eejit).

[poohbear_nc]

In case I vanish from this forum, there seems to be a sinister plot to kill me at home ...

This morning, as I emerged half-asleep onto the back stairs down to the driveway, my brain registered - JUST IN TIME - that there was a large something hanging motionless in the air in front of me - with no visible means of support ....

I slowly backed up to the landing and focused on the something .... it was a large spider suspended in the middle of a huge web she had strung from the branches of a pine tree down to fill the span between the 2 stair rails. Fortunately, I had left a broom on the landing and wielded it to clear my way down to the car.

Whew!

So, tonight after dinner, I needed to take the trash bag down the back steps ... opened the back door ... AND THERE SHE WAS ... swaying at the end of a thread at head height .. dangling from the top of the door frame! Blocking my access to the broom!

I seized the long handled dryer vent brush and once again removed the menace ... over the rail (I hope) to the ground.

What will be waiting for me tomorrow morning?

[Cinisajoy]

Poohbear,
Hopefully your menace finds a place to make a home where you won't destroy it.

In other news, my tortillas turned out great. So did the carne guisada.

[Cinisajoy]

PSA for today.
If a recipe says grease the pan, grease the pan before pouring the caramelized sugar in it. Otherwise you will make a very pretty sugar rock.

[kindlekitten]

Oh Pooh.....

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

In case I vanish from this forum, there seems to be a sinister plot to kill me at home ...

This morning, as I emerged half-asleep onto the back stairs down to the driveway, my brain registered - JUST IN TIME - that there was a large something hanging motionless in the air in front of me - with no visible means of support ....

I slowly backed up to the landing and focused on the something .... it was a large spider suspended in the middle of a huge web she had strung from the branches of a pine tree down to fill the span between the 2 stair rails. Fortunately, I had left a broom on the landing and wielded it to clear my way down to the car.

Whew!

So, tonight after dinner, I needed to take the trash bag down the back steps ... opened the back door ... AND THERE SHE WAS ... swaying at the end of a thread at head height .. dangling from the top of the door frame! Blocking my access to the broom!

I seized the long handled dryer vent brush and once again removed the menace ... over the rail (I hope) to the ground.

What will be waiting for me tomorrow morning?

Just checking: are you alive?

Hitch

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Just checking: are you alive?

Hitch

http://xkcd.com/1530

or:

Yes I am.
The chicken was tasty.

poohspider_nc

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

http://xkcd.com/1530

or:

Yes I am.
The chicken was tasty.

poohspider_nc

[cromag]

Brings back unpleasant childhood memories?

https://www.currentinspiration.com/f...funny-spiders/

[kindlekitten]

I'm pre-pouting. I thought I had asked for tomorrow off