tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13587220.post505247457269008891..comments2023-11-05T22:09:32.884+11:00Comments on nailpolishblues: The woman is going to drive me mad.Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13587220.post-66234599034500266242009-07-07T22:47:51.976+10:002009-07-07T22:47:51.976+10:00Mitzi, they're usually pretty firmly in their ...Mitzi, they're usually pretty firmly in their place but mother is undergoing a bout of extreme neuroticism and is in danger of sending all of us up the wall. Fortunately, the fates have conspired to throw some genuine crises in her path and the insanity is slowly easing while she acts brave and together.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13587220.post-21943089641081122562009-07-07T21:37:22.680+10:002009-07-07T21:37:22.680+10:00I hear you. While I wouldn't wish any vampiric...I hear you. While I wouldn't wish any vampiric acts upon 'em, the Crumblies have a way of wanting the impossible as if they are a board of shareholders and you the workforce, or 'workforced', meeting unachievable demands. I have found amazingly useful ways to enable a strategy of temporary "disapperances" thus avoiding that burial: at the risk of sounding totes conds, the courage is in eyeing them off over your well-placed boundaries, and not crossing over the picket line back to their side. More info available at Save the Children dot mitzi dot au ...M L Jassyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13918911547104202603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13587220.post-37781585313709911412009-06-28T16:10:52.179+10:002009-06-28T16:10:52.179+10:00I am sharpening my stake already and she's not...I am sharpening my stake already and she's not yet sixty.<br /><br />There are times when I wish I'd had the courage to disappear myself from my family and bury them firmly in the past. It's so much harder to let things go when they will keep reminding you.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13587220.post-45418698472369389762009-06-26T21:01:36.944+10:002009-06-26T21:01:36.944+10:00And they never stop doing it until they're dea...And they never stop doing it until they're dead and Van Helsing has visited with the pointed stake.<br /><br />Believe me.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.com