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Lori's FB list from today -- how to save money and be godly like her. She says there's no judgment, but you know she's judging and believes if you don't do all these things you're sinning and hate God. Lori's God's ways are perfect and best. (my comments on the right) Ways I save money: -- To show everyone how perfect and godly I am I don’t go shopping just to shop. --But I do post all over the interwebz just to post. I don’t wear jewelry or perfume. -- She wore jewelry up until about 5 years ago. She seemed to change radically then. She's also stopped wearing make-up about 5 years ago. It used to be all organic and expensive and she'd show off what it was. I rarely buy new clothes or shoes. -- Does she thrift or just wear old clothes? Didn't she show off her new floral feminine blouses a couple of years ago? Our furniture is mostly hand-me-downs. From who/where and why? They're not broke ass people, I'm sure they could afford a new sofa to replace that broken-down brown one. I am content being at home. -- Where I can post all over the interwebz All. Day. Long. I rarely eat out. -- There just aren't any restaurants that serve sardine sauerkraut salad with salmonella dressing. I make most of my food from scratch. -- If by food you mean sardine sauerkraut salad with salmonella dressing, undercooked chicken, and garbage water soup. I rarely throw food away. -- Because salad lasts for at least a week in the fridge -- what's a little slime after all. I cut and color my own hair. -- Yes Lori we can tell. That dye you use may be herbal and vegan, but your hair is dried and fried. You need some conditioner girl -- and I don't mean cooking grease (save that for your hands). I don’t paint my fingernails or toenails. -- Yes we know; we've seen the photos of your nasty feet. I use vinegar, water, and a bit of soap to clean almost everything. -- With my super special chicken juice soaked Norwex cloth. I mostly shop perimeter of food stores. -- Well truthfully I only shop for organic food and $14/ lb butter. I try not to waste electricity and water. -- I rarely bathe because I don't need to as I don't smell. We use everything until it can’t be fixed. -- Really? Is Ken that much of a handy man? What about the perfectly good useful counters you ruined so you could new granite ones? I walk daily for exercise and sunshine.-- But I never wear sunscreen because I'm too godly to get skin cancer. (see below) I try natural cures for everything first! -- Black Salve for the win!!!!!

It's also possible Joy was there and requested not to be photographed.

I think it says something that Thom Tillis there refers to the GOP as a "brand." When most people think of a brand, they think a product for sale, a business, a corporation, a carefully crafted image designed for the most profit possible. Sounds about right to me.

That was a dreadfully extreme reaction and yes therapy needing or she's among the 1 percent of most selfish people on earth. Joy has PPD and is getting therapy. I can see where she mighht not go to the funeral, but support Jill in other ways.

"Very thoughtful and intentional updates". That's a load of bullshit. She wanted her kitchen redone and they were willing to spend six months in a rental to have it just like Braggie wanted it. If she'd really put thought into it, she would have arranged the kitchen so that it was more child-friendly. She could have actually had the kitchen designed so it would be easier to prep for meals and clean up afterwards. I see nothing like that. It's just new knobs, distressed painting, and old furniture. (That distressed green door is making me nuts.) Where are the pull-outs for pan storage? What about, you know, rounding the damn corners so your little boys aren't always cracking their skulls on the corners as they skid around the kitchen? What about comfortable seating? What about a pantry that's closer to the kitchen counter? What about making the daily dinnerware easier to put away and not using shelves in the kitchen to display your mismatched bowls and cups? And why is there a bandanna hanging right near a stove burner? Yes, they will. The girls are twinsies and the boys are twinbies. Abbie thinks that's cute. She mentioned in a story yesterday that she had to clean some poopy diapers so the boys are nearly four and she still isn't toilet training them. They will stay babies for a couple more years.

Trump's lawyer at the Supreme Court immunity hearings (or whatever they are called) seems to think that a president can assassinate political rivals and lead a coup with total immunity from prosecution. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/04/25/trump-attorney-john-sauer-doubles-down-on-argument-that-presidents-are-immune-from-assassinating-political-rivals-at-supreme-court/?sh=58bc715d6686 Trump thinks he should have total immunity for all things ever. But I'm not sure he realizes "immunity from prosecution" and "immunity from all consequences" are not the same thing. He's managed the second for the most part, but he shouldn't have.

Didn't she call them "twinbies" as a portmanteau for twin babies? Those are not babies anymore and haven't been for a while. I'm probably just being BEC about this but I do wonder if they'll be babied for as long as Janessa Rodrigues is.

I did a little Googling, Trump’s attorneys have twice moved for Merchan to recuse himself & both motions were denied, so that’s likely why Trump’s ranting about the ‘conflicted Judge.’

More proof she has a shopping problem. She sells stuff all the time. Therefore you don’t notice how much she constantly buys. More lies d from Braggie. She constantly complained about her concrete counter top because it was always chipping. She also complained about the paint on the cabinets chipping as well. She has been wanting to redo The Whole kitchen for awhile and a total gut job was not necessary at all. She lies as much as she breathes. I have to add she got two new dishwashers, a new giant fridge and a new $12,000 stove/oven. I’m sure they weren’t broken by the “flood.”

She never got therapy and actually had major issues with her own sister while she was pregnant. Once her sister had a boy, they were best of friends again. So unhealthy. I heard through the grapevine a few years ago that she had a second child and had a daughter. Now she acts like life is amazing and her family is complete. She still mentions her first daughter a lot (rightfully so), but I'm really hopeful that she doesn't compare her living daughter to her first daughter.

Wow. That’s a really extreme reaction! I hope friend A got therapy or something. I could see not being able to handle throwing the baby shower, even explaining to friend B that it was just too raw and emotional for her to participate — but to completely cut her off as a friend and think it was insensitive for her friend to even celebrate? That’s showing some really deep issues. And if she already has a child, she’s bound to come across little girls at play groups, the park, school - she realistically can’t isolate herself from that….

True, we don't know what goes on behind the scenes, and perhaps I'm projecting a little. I had two friends that were best friends and had been since elementary school. So they had years of deep, solid friendship. They were both in each other's weddings, etc. Friend A got pregnant and Friend B threw her a massive baby shower. Everyone was so excited. Friend A gave birth at 39 weeks to a stillborn daughter. Entire friend group was devastated for her and did everything we could to support her. Two years after the loss, Friend A went on to have another child, this one a boy. Friend B threw another baby shower (this time after he had already arrived) and everyone was so happy. Two years later, Friend B gets pregnant. Friend A starts to get a little cagey. Doesn't know if she'll come to the shower, let alone throw it. Friend B finds out she's having a daughter and tells Friend A before the shower so she isn't surprised by it. Friend A is furious that Friend B is having a daughter and cuts her out cold turkey. Never speaks to her again. Removes herself completely from the friend group and tells everyone that we weren't supportive of her loss and it was incredibly insensitive for Friend B to have a baby shower for her daughter when Friend A never got to raise her daughter. Soooo.... I understand situations like this can be tricky. I understood Friend A was hurt but I also thought Friend A was a bad friend for not being happy for Friend B for something she can't control (ie the sex of her unborn baby). This is what I mean by it's a fine line between protecting yourself but also sometimes having to put your own issues aside to support a love one.

She's just as good of a source as wacb

We don’t know what goes on behind the scenes. Joy may have had a conversation with Jill on the phone discussing why she might not be able to attend and offer her condolences that way. Maybe even with a promise to get together soon in a more private manner. My brother suffered a devastating family loss. Most of our other family members went to the funeral. I was unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances. My other sister was out of town. When she returned a couple weeks later. she, I and our husbands took the three hour trip to visit Brother taking huge amounts of food and spending all day with him. It was very meaningful. Definitely a possibility. I was thinking what if her kid(s) had pink eye or something.

I don’t know. I think I’d understand if it was just too much for her to handle. Everyone is different. And it’s not like she doesn’t have multiple other sisters and her mom there. As well as brothers, in-laws, friends, etc…..If Joy was her sole support it might be different. It also might just be that Joy had the stomach flu or some other normal reason. Or a kid had to go to the ER for a fall , or one of the kids was having a meltdown cause they were scared of balloons so she took them somewhere else during the release, I think with that huge a family it would be difficult to get everyone in one spot for anything. Especially when so many have little kids.

There was one case with a pedophile (given the name "Mr Swirl" in the news) who had posted a manipulated image of his own face online and it took like...one guy with Photoshop who was like, "Uh, yea, that can be undone." Some reports suggest it took a little too long to find this one guy and perhaps the confidence of said pedophile made them thing the manipulation algorithm was more than it was but it was really...literally like the spiral twist function. I am mostly doubtful CE owns or bought any sort of interesting blurring algorithm. If we can pick past the diffraction of light with STORM...well. It just struck me as such an outlandish claim.

This sounds like Rachel had her baby. Or am I reading it wrong?

I saw Michelle standing next to Jill in one of the pre-balloon release photos. Also spotted a front view of Israel standing next to Derick. Izzy, Sam and Freddy all wore pink polos and tan pants, presumably for Isla which I thought was a very nice touch.

I don't think I'd find it understandable if it was me. I'd side-eye my sister if she didn't attend my child's funeral, especially knowing how deep the grief is. I would hope that my sister would be there for me, since she would be able to relate the most. I understand how some trauma can be triggering, but I also think there comes a point where we need to be there for loved ones. If Joy had just lost her daughter within the last year, that might have been a different story. It's a fine line between protecting yourself and supporting loved ones.

I've seen this happen elsewhere with self-important wealthy but not as smart as they think they are people. You'll explain something to them, they'll pick up on one word from your explanation, and start using it incorrectly like a weapon. Me to former terrible boss, who was complaining about the photo quality in an ad we ran in a magazine: "Well the image is fine, I've checked it and we ran it elsewhere with no issues. It looks like the color range somehow got flattened a bit along the way somewhere making it look posterized." Boss screaming on the phone to the poor person at the magazine "You POSTERED IT!!!!!!"

If I was implementing this, I would be blurring before putting in the database. Now I’m also very doubtful that it can’t be unblurred, at least enough to reconstruct recognizable things, but blurring is also likely to save space, so even from a database and systems design perspective, I would be surprised if they saved the original images somewhere permanently, also due to legal liability.

I retired at the end of March so every day feels like the weekend

I don't think it's a genuine MCM. I think it's an imitation. A $6000 piece of forniture in perfect shape is not sold for $500. Yes, sometimes this happens, but I suspect Abbie is lying to appear as the smartest buyer. She is noot overspending, she is nooot spoiled, she is investing!

And for most of the day yesterday I was thinking it was Thursday.

This is an astoundingly brilliant take on Trump: “President Trump” is essentially a fictional character played by a criminal conman.