ktfran

Nice copa! Where did you go? My friend gets some light under eye work at a place on Southport that she loves.

I’m hoping to get back to my laser hair treatments soon. I had to quit because of the rash, which I had 27 phototherapy treatments for.

Omg, I get my colored and cut every six weeks, religiously. The color could probably go every 8 weeks, but the pixie cut could not. I could actually use a cut every 5. That last week is painful. Ha.

EDT: laser hair removal.

EDT: the phototherapy gave me a very light tan. I was up to 4 minutes or so each session, starting at 32 seconds.

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Oh yeah, my solo vacation would def be low key. Not the big “eat, pray, love” thing. I’ve thought about doing a solo beach vacation for my bday in Jan. I also wouldn’t mine a solo luxury spa vacation. I’ve been eyeing one in NM. For a solo city vacation, I’d prob do two nights, three max.

Bonus, I’d prob do during the week when sometimes rates drop and things aren’t as crowded.

I think solo traveling would be fun! Or a staycation once in a while to just chill.

Our company is actually losing a lot of good people / experts. It’s been happening for about 18 months. We have a new CEO and President that kind of suck. They’re on year 2, entering year 3. In the last year, we lost four of our top women who were leading work in emerging markets, three of which the husband was tied to.

Bringing this thread back for a sec. My company just announced that they’re doing away with PTO and instituting a “Flexible Time Off” policy. Basically, unlimited PTO as approved by your manager.

I know a lot of companies are already doing this or are switching. I don’t think I like it? I was already received the max PTO accrual at 5 weeks and we can carry over up to double. I had a nice little bank built up. With the new policy they’ll pay out our PTO bank upon termination.

Do any of you have the unlimited time off policy? Do you like it? Do you actually take time?

They are also taking away our floating holiday and we are down to 7 holiday days.

1. You need a new therapist. Stat. You should have started looking for a new therapist the second your current one didn’t take you seriously. They are completely unprofessional. Since you live in a small town, you’re probably better off finding an on-line therapist.

2. Your grandma is an asshole. Don’t take what she says/does personally. She’s apparently treating cousins the same way she treats you, so it’s not really a slight against you. She’s slighting everyone who isn’t your sister. I have some experience with this. As the oldest grandchild on my dad’s side, my paternal grandparents slightly favored me. They used to take me out of school for shopping trips and lunch. They didn’t do that with my sisters or cousins. They’d make comments about weight to the others too. I’m naturally thin, like my grandma, and so I didn’t have to deal with that. I quickly learned how wrong they were and distanced myself. On my mom’s side, everyone favored my cousin, the oldest grandchild. She had natural charisma. Shit happens.

3. Your sister is an ally. She has her own struggles that she was trying to tell you about, but you dismissed. I absolutely understand you have it hard and the comments are tiresome, but don’t take that out on your sister. Everyone has struggles, even smart, athletic, beautiful people.

4. NEW THERAPIST to help unpack everything. Also, agree with others and move as soon as you can. Until then, everyone had good advice. Instead of coming back and listing more slights, maybe try engaging in dialog that could help you, which people are trying to do. If you want to vent, that’s fine, but people are sincerely trying to help.

Thanks! I was thinking MOMA originally, so that might be the one. I’ll look up The Whitney too.

It’s silly, but I also want to go into Sezane since NYC has one of two in the U.S.

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