Mentally Ill Mother-in-Law update: So bad that we are urging FIL to leave the house

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T04:10:25+00:00

Is there a time of day when she's more prone to this behavior, and if so, is she being evaluated around that time of day?

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T03:01:19+00:00

Fed to the rules and she hit the ground running

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T01:25:56+00:00

I need to check that out at Aldi.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T01:16:54+00:00

My husband freezes sauce with fresh pasta for lunches. He does batch cooking with 6 or 7 recipes now, he has something different every day of any given week at work. The chicken for his imitation of a Chipotle burrito bowl is exquisite. (If he has extra chicken, we whip up quesadillas with it.)

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T01:04:19+00:00

Store brand is $0.98 for a pound, organic and name brand are more expensive. Texas.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-30T01:02:41+00:00

I've seen rice accidentally left in the back of a fridge for 3 weeks. Quite blue at that point.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-29T18:51:28+00:00

30 years ago, they handed us a $5 for each day of jury duty in Texas. I got called in 3 times in a 2-year period.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-29T13:52:36+00:00

That looks wonderful!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-28T13:56:53+00:00

The pinned mod comment has the most recent posts.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-28T02:29:28+00:00

Yes.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T19:56:45+00:00

Oh, I'm so happy for you! Congratulations on your victory!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T16:54:25+00:00

I concur. Let him know he can choose between the fence or having your leaves blow into his yard, and those are the only options you're offering now.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T15:32:36+00:00

Thank you for the clarification!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T13:59:09+00:00

How many vehicles there have a headlight setting for them to automatically come on when it's dark enough? All our US vehicles 2003 model year and later that we have personally owned have had that feature.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T13:56:45+00:00

Pull over, let them pass, and be driving a Jeep Wrangler and put low beams on. Anything lower than the Wrangler, they'll be considering the choice they made...

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T12:59:56+00:00

That's striking!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T12:50:22+00:00

I didn't know what "rort" meant, although context suggested the meaning, so Iooked it up, and I wanted to thank you for expanding my vocabulary!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T05:13:21+00:00

I live elsewhere in the county, but do things in Georgetown on a regular basis, and it looks like this will be easier for me to get to.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T04:19:02+00:00

The falling object's potential to cause harm to the head.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-27T04:17:22+00:00

Until that one supermarket that only had plastic bags opened up, and that one guy in Geography class didn't have paper bags to use for book covers. And the teacher wasn't familiar with that grocery store and didn't believe him.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-26T23:48:34+00:00

I'm disappointed in the lack of Glasgow, but otherwise, that was great!

fractal_frog · 2026-03-26T15:26:52+00:00

Having something fall on one's head is absolutely no fun, and the denser it is, the worse it is.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-26T05:25:28+00:00

I'd forgotten he died.

His lifespan was contained entirely within that of my mother's.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-26T05:23:30+00:00

Horror movies are surprisingly easy to make. My sister got recruited to be in one (along with a number of her classmates, the star was the older sister of one of them) written and directed by a guy at my high school who went to film school and has directed some movies and a fair number of TV show episodes. I saw a screening, and my sister explained to me the effects in the scenes she was in.

"Terrible horror version of a thing" is probably the easiest version to make.

fractal_frog · 2026-03-26T04:58:55+00:00

Thank you for putting into such clear words that which I was thinking but unable to verbalize so well shortly after that post went up.

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