Oh yeah, that's a tough one. I also don't like conflict or potential conflict so I trend to avoid it if I can- not always the best way to handle though.

Sound like you are making great changes, Julia! I'm proud of you for going too!! It's not easy getting back on track, but all the little things add up to big things.

I'm Facebook friends with her, too...but she doesn't post too often (either that, or she just doesn't show up on my newsfeed that often). She occasionally comments on some of my posts, though. She's doing fine, as far as I know. I miss some of these folks!

I'd never do a fish foot bath, either. that's just too damn weird...

a couple other people said they were looking for me, too! I was pretty far up, though - unless the cameras were scanning the audience, you wouldn't have been able to see me. My sister did spot DH though a couple of weeks ago when he was at Kamala's rally! Given there were over 10K people there, that was pretty incredible!