Call her back one day this week that is not Sunday and tell her you do not agree to her edict, so don't sit around waiting for a phone call on Sunday that may or may not happen. Then continue to answer or ignore calls as your time & energy allows. She's trying to wrestle some control over a situation that you have not allowed her to control for a couple years now (yay you!). You already have your boundaries set on this, she's just trying to push on them to see how firm they are. Smile and wave at her over the fence and carry on with your day. Hugs. I hope you are able to sleep soon.

Ha! I love the frog headband. 😁

Let's stay away from strawmen. I specifically mention, in this very thread, two business types that I prefer to STRs. Hotels and corporate managed rentals, operating as an actual businesses with laws, taxes, and regulations. I said STRs, specifically, are problematic. Not business, in general.

I've lived in a hotel suite for 6 weeks with my family during a move. I could cook my own food, and get included breakfast. There was laundry facilities for me to use, and also housekeeping for the bedding/bathrooms/deeper cleaning. If you choose to travel for work, you choose certain trade-offs like living in a hotel and making it work. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We have slumlords here, too. 🤷🏻‍♀️They choose excess profit and buying more property over maintenance. I've lived in a lot of long-term-rentals over the years. The "big bad corporate" apartment buildings were always the easiest to deal with and get maintenance done in a timely manner. They were a business. The individual landlords... well, we moved out at the end of the leases because maintenance just did not happen. However, I do believe there is a place for LTRs. STRs, not so much. Those already existed-they are called hotels or room and board. Want a STR - rent out the spare room in your house.

I know you would prefer that. You already said it. But you called it a home. I called BS. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Let's not confuse primary residence homes with corporate, money-making houses/apartments/townhomes, etc. Whether the owner is an indiviual or an actual corporation doesn't change the fact that their "extra houses/apartments" could be used as a home by someone, instead of a vacation rental. @SKL, I should have been more clear with my language. I was comparing housing vs. hotels. Not necessarily just single family houses with yards, etc. I mean any building zoned as residential - houses, condos, townhomes, apartments, etc. Commercial hotels have their own zoning, tax structures, and various laws they must follow re: fire safety/signage/health standards, etc. There can even be random inspections by various governing agencies to hold them accountable to these standards.

This. All I get is the obituary.

In the Kellogg's thread, it was mentioned that someone used VRBO vs. hotels. It was implied as a "better alternative" to corporate hotels profiting from their stay. Can we discuss the negative effect VRBO/AirBnB has on the housing situation; effectively raising prices/shorting available stock, contributing to pricing the younger generations out of home-ownership because ALL housing is now potentially "a lucrative side hustle?". Also related: the growing trend of the "financial/ early retirement educators" hawking housing rental ownership is the key to financial indepence. At what size does a company become "greedy"? Is there a size/income threshold? Or is it how the corporation is structured? What if it's an individual owner operating under a huge publicly traded corporate umbrella? Should there be more regulations in place to protect single family housing from corporate ownership? Or is it up to each individual town/city/county to try to regulate that beast?

Blind spots are one of the first things I look at in car shopping/test drive situation. Sometimes I don't even drive, I just sit in the driver's seat, then nope out. They are getting ridiculous b/c of side curtain airbags current design, but I don't think the added "safety" is worth the added risk in most of them.

Thinking of you, hoping for some calm and boring for you all.

Very scary! I'm glad your bladder woke you up and you are all on the mend now. Some family friends had a similar experience last winter and lived (it was a matter of minutes) to tell the tale. We have smoke/CO detectors in every bedroom and in the hall outside of the bedrooms on both floors.

DH and I have only had a few fights in our 23 years, but they were not over "little" things. I am very much a "water off a duck's back" personality type, so if I'm going to expend the energy to argue/fight, it is about something pretty serious. That said, there are certain topics of conversation that I also will not really engage in with him, or will only engage when I feel like I'm totally in a "water off the back" headspace where I can employ a mostly Socratic discussion where I just mostly ask questions and just let him be 'wrong'.

Aww, it's always so sad to lose a fur family member. Sending your DD love and light.

Big hugs. It's rough!

My condolences to everyone who loved Ernie.

My sister's kitty loves a similar list of foods. Broccoli is his absolute favourite, loves his peanut butter and honey, and also fries. With him you must put any chocolate behind closed doors or he would commit suicide by chocolate.

I hold the government leaders ultimately responsible. There should be rigorous background checks, extensive training, and massive liability insurance requirements to purchase and own any firearms, along with stringent storage laws once you do own them. There should also be limitations on type of firearm and ammo available to citizens to purchase. As for 2A, I'm fine with randos owning the exact firarms and ammo that was available at the time of the 1st writing of it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Nobody at the church, parade, mall, grocery store, movie theatre, concert, backyard BBQ... should be carrying any weapons, and especially not high capacity ammo weapons.

Nope. Try again.

Did the "good guys" not shoot a kid in the head in this incident? I may be thinking of a different one. There are so many to keep track of, I might have them mixed up.

Thicker soups like roasted creamy tomato, broccoli cheddar, loaded baked potato. All are fairly thick yet soft. I make them using full fat cheeses and heavy cream, so they are also filling if he's not eating much.

Vehemently disagree. Learning to drive is exhausting as they are learning so many new things at one time. Once they've built the muscle memory of the basics, they have more capacity to deal with a$$holes. Other drivers getting infuriated to the point of violence is a them problem and those people should not be on the roads if they don't have the patience to be out where humanity lives and drives. They need to stay home and never get behind the wheel of a car, ever.

Sending you all the get well soon vibes. Hugs.

Sorry! Couldn't get rid of the quote at first. Sounds like a case of 'friend's little angel can do no wrong'. There really is nothing to discuss, at all in that case. I once had a discussion with a mom who "witnessed my child being mean to her child" by not letting her sit in the same bus seat as her. It took a bit of chatting, but eventually she confessed the part where her child hip-checked mine first and she refused to share her seat in response to that. She could not get it through her head that her child was the jerk in the situation. I told her if her kid touched mine again that she'd soon discover who can be a real jerk if need be.

I agree with everything Faith-manor said. And I agree that it is easier said than done, but do the best can to keep those boundaries strong. Sending strength and hugs.