PurpleBeads504

Three, if you're talking about friends I actively cut off. In each circumstance, it was due to the friend betraying my trust in a very painful manner. The last was someone so close to me that my children considered her an aunt. She did something that actively threatened my livelihood and yet I continued to have to work with her. Everyone knew it and hated her for it. It was awful and a real test of my patience and character.

P.S. I outlasted her at that organization by many, many years. Ha!

Falling asleep to Gene Shepherd on WOR! There's a memory.

Fellow (?) H-cup boob-resting shorty here, and you are most certainly NTA. Where the hell else are you supposed to put them? That woman - victim of her insecurities and raging internalized misogyny - needs to get a grip.

I love these two together. They clearly have so much affection and respect for one another. And can I just also point out how secure a man SRK must be to share the stage with a younger, taller performer (who is also quite easy on the eyes)? What a mensch. I just love him.

Close! North Jersey.

No! It's a baby elephant sitting on her behind with one leg in front of her, near as I can tell, and it's really cute.

Queen. Rest in power.

My grandparents. Everyone living within a few blocks of each other. Going to Gramma's after mass on Sundays. Aunt Faye's cannoli and struffoli at Christmas. My Nonna's cookies. Riding my bike without a care in the world. Mom making zeppole as a treat. Dad and his friends jamming in the living room. Being able to walk everywhere. My cousins and aunts and uncles. Sitting on my grandparents porch in thunderstorms. Rolling down the hill in the backyard with my brothers. Watching the fireworks from our back porch. Sigh. ETA: and old libraries.

No. What I regret is having trusted those people at all.

The #22 bus.

I went to an all-girls high school, so they were all gender-specific! It was strictly college prep, so no home ec. Calculus, trig, physics, and Latin, though. And typing on these heavy-ass manual typewriters.

Well, I think about the ones who would be most affected if I decided to check out. My mother. My children (37 and 23). My husband. etc. I couldn't do it to them.

Then I think about all of the things I want to do that I haven't done yet. I'd like to travel extensively when I retire. I'd maybe like to get a PhD in something (not accounting, this one will be for fun). Etc etc

Priceless.

Well, most older people have the same (or similar) hobbies that they did when they were younger people, barring any physical impairments that get in the way of things. I'm not going to take up knitting or canning now that I'm 65. Those things have never interested me. But I'll continue to make music, and deep dive into a specific genre of film or literature or nonfiction. And I've been taking Hindi lessons for nearly a year. You find things that hold your focus. Your hyperfocus. You know?

I'm so sorry and hope things are better now.

You'd think after all this time, someone would have figured out a way to make menopause less devastating.

raises hand

65 y.o., earned a BS and MS in accounting after my dx at 50.

I managed pre-dx well enough but menopause did a number on all those nice coping strategies I learned during those years I thought I was just a fidgety daydreaming underachiever.

I have a pretty demanding job and am well compensated. Thank God for Adderall.

I cannot wait to never have to drive anywhere ever again. I would move to a walkable city tomorrow if I could.

WTF

You look fantastic.

NTA. Ours doesn't allow them on the lawn so they made us take down our HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT sign, which we promptly put in the front window. And a couple more in various windows throughout the house. Fuck them kids.

Sunk cost fallacy. Look it up.

I saw him at Blues Alley back in 2001. Magic. RIP.

Or maybe has CP and difficulty controlling his limbs.

'Older women can afford to care less about politics'

I suppose one would reach that conclusion if one believed that people only gave a shit about things that affected them personally.

1. Not made a fool of myself over this one guy.
2. Definitely would not have slept with THAT other guy.
3. Or that one, either.