If I managed to give you a smile, Karen, then I am very pleased.
I am still trying to find the humor in this insanity -- sort of like mining for rare and tiny nuggets of gold amidst all the muck and dirt that gets dumped on us. They're there, and we just have to keep looking.
And, on the projection thing -- yes, that's it exactly. Eccentricity and serious psychological disorders run throughout her mother's side of the family, and she knows that all too well. That's why I made the particularly discreet reference to "glass houses".