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Chapter 16. Ends with “where there is life, there is hope.” Super rough day for me today. Very angry at the world. The book softened it a little.

Chapter 15. Flashback…Marcus saves the day and takes Nessa’s place in the mermaid dance. Poor Nessa…glad she drew the line at doing tha crazy dance.

Chapter 14. Marcus joins the mutiny. I like him. They have discovered that fired employees are not removed from the website…except Nessa. There may be payroll fraud taking place.

Chapter 13. X is planning to fire Trisha! He suspects her of “shenanigans.” Carter is turning Nessa’s unemployment case over to another worker because of his friendship that is developing with Nessa.

Chapter 12. Cute…flashback to when they were instructed to do synchronized chair dancing. Crazy!

Chapter 11. Funny! Trisha sends Nessa and Jane a copy of The Art of War. And she loads blue glitter into the air ducts and glitter bimbs the office! Hilarious!

Chapter 10. I love that mom and the bridge club are on the case and that they brought Nessa food. What a well-meaning momma!

Chapter 10. Funniest thing on this one was poor Trisha driving around with a piece of Xavier’s foot in a baggy that she is supposed to “do something with.”

Chapter 8. The office Olympics during their lunch break! It nails the clueless CRO role that Xavier is playing. What a jerk! And he thinks he is fostering cohesion!

Chapter 7. This book is hilarious. Carter Beckett from the unemployment office is adorable. Xavier now has some mysterious foot infection…from the astroturf sabotage. OMG! So funny!!!

Chapter 6. So funny! They are listening in on Xavier and have found him talking to himself and that he has taken his cat to the office and is sleeping there. Cat is name Haiku. Then Nessa’s kittens get the receiver, flip it to transmit, and have him convinced he is going crazy as he hears the kittens. Hilarious!

Chapter 5. So funny…their drunken war plan against Xavier and bugging the conference room and trying to give him a disease via his AstroTurf and a dog disease!

Reread some of this. My bookmark had come out. Little Anne is so intelligent and well written. Yet she is pronounced as an ignoramus by her family. Not so. She is very intuitive and observant. What a position to be put in…hiding away with this other family and not being able to go outside for fear of being shot.

Chapter 4. Oh Xavier! What a character and the classic annoying head honcho trying to get everyone to coheese through social interaction…outside company time. So clueless.

Chapter 3. She goes to the unemployment office and they agree that being fired for “your face and the expressions it makes” is not a normal or fireable offense. The worker reared back though when she shot him a mean look. The visuals in this book are really funny. I like the kitten references.

Chapter 2. Love the mom! And how she gets his name wrong and wants to call their mothers!

Chapter 1. Loved it! Very humorous first chapter and intro to the characters.

Chapter 27. What a great chapter! Nick and Gabry are married. Trudy marries Wade. They are having new homes built. Vincent and Pearl are keeping company. Nick is enjoying his new teaching job.

Chapter 25. Gabry and Nick go out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Sounds fun! I’m sure there was more but that’s what left the biggest impression on me.

Chapter 24. Nick got a job as the head coach of the Fighting Bears and a teaching position! You know what that means! Now he can propose to Gabry!

Chapter 23. The group gets together for dinner. A fun time. Then they go and see the firefly show. Sounds amazing and it appears Trudy has found her man.

Chapter 22. The foursome are learning lessons in this vacation. Vincent knows where he would like to have his wife’s ashes scattered. Trudy knows what she wants in life and in her next relationship…and has met someone new. Nick realizes that God keeps putting people in his life that he is blessing.

Chapter 21. The foursome are on vacation together in Gatlinburg. The interactions are cute and it reminds me of past trips I’ve taken there.

Chapter 10. The ladies trap the raccoon and Tara comes to visit. They are also making Valentines to send to the family. They are still speculating on the who done it. No conclusions. They are thinking of researching who has bought rock salt.

Chapter 5. Liv and Anthony meet at the crematorium for the funeral and to say goodbye to Essie. They are the only two allowed at the service. All seems sketchy to me. Is she really dead? Time will tell.

At this point, I am really getting the wisdom of the run, walk, run method. It keeps you injury free and gives you the ability to run farther and possibly faster which seems counterintuitive as you would think the walking would slow you down.

Anne is describing the relationships and conflicts between herself, her mother, Peter, Margot, and Mrs van Daan. Her father is her soulmate. I think having the diary to write in is really helping her to survive the isolation.

Chapter 13. Mr. Bennett’s cousin is coming to dinner. He is now a clergy and wants to make amends with his family. He is set to inherit the Bennett home if Mr Bennett dies. He assures the family that he wants only the best for the family. Seems odd to me that he is the natural successor for the family instead of Mr Bennett’s family.

Chapter 17. Gabry came to Chicago to be with Nick. Melissa is out of rehab and into an apartment that Nick and Gabry set up for her. Laura is telling Nick he should pop the question. They are both headed back to Sleepy Valley.

Chapter 9. They discover that Freddie is not on sabbatical…she was furloughed because she is suspected of stealing antique coins…the doubloons. The cousins have a run in at the gas pump with the previous owner of the ice huts.