Kim in Appalachia
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She has ADD also, if that helps giving advice at all.
I have 2 girls with ADD, so I do understand how your dd gets overwhelmed when there's too big of a mess. But it's not too late to help her learn some techniques to help keep order.
Going all drill sergeant will not work, and it sounds like you know that. I can be the same way. I get frustrated then go a bit nuts overboard, but that will not work.
You need to start you giving your dd a task. Have her help clean up dinner, and maybe once or twice a week she cleans it all up. Start off with having her load a dishwasher. Keep the tasks simple or she could get overwhelmed.
You could also have her help out with general pick up in the house or just vacuuming/sweeping once a week.
Cooking is also a good skill. Maybe she could learn how to cook her favorite meal. At first just cook, but then learn how to cook and clean it up. If she ends up enjoying cooking, maybe once a month (or more) she could cook for the family.
I will add, that even though both my girls know how to cook quite a bit, and know how to help clean around the house, their room is a mess. I mean, it is so bad that it drives me a bit nuts and I try not to look. My oldest (21) is much better, but my 18 year old is bad. Some of it is a phase, some is her ADD. She was a neat freak until she turned 16, then it was as if some switch went off in her head and she forgot how to pick anything up or put anything away. I'm hoping that the switch flips back someday.
I think most kids find their own way eventually when it comes to organizing and cleaning, but it can take a while.
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So my dd21 and I met up with friends for dinner at a pub last night, and I may have had a little to much to drink.. :tongue_smilie: ....Running this morning was very hard. Everything has been going a bit slowly. But I did run 4 miles (with plenty of walk breaks) and then came home and did 2 rounds of Turkish Get-ups and renegade rows.
I have company coming tonight, so I'm baking cakes and cleaning, but I would like to get 30 minutes of yoga in.
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Kathy, thank you! Every time I share that with someone they're like "Oh that's easy. I can do that." No it's not and no you can't. It's hard!
Kim, lunges in every direction? Just take the fun out of it why don't you. :p I bought that spiky mat thing. I don't think it's the most amazing thing ever to have existed, but I do like it. I think it's loosened my shoulder knots a lot. I hope you're the one that was interested in that thing, otherwise disregard this post.
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Yes, I had been looking at the mat. It's on my Amazon wish list. :)
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:grouphug:
that's hard.
I know having a schedule for the kids is probably helpful, but I might be inclined to take a few days off and just do field trips with them if possible. But :grouphug: again. It does sound stressful.
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Sunday was a 90 minute yoga class
Monday, 4 mile run followed by kettlebell lunges, pull-ups, swings, ab rolls and snatches.
Tuesday, 60 minutes of yoga. I tried a new class on yogaglo and I didn't care for it, but I still did yoga, which is good. I'm getting increasingly picky. I may drop having that service soon and stick to do things myself.
Slache, that video is amazing. It's like doing slow, graceful lunges in every direction.
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I have a Kindle, but I've been using it for library books for years. I love it, and now I get annoyed when I need to get a hardcopy of a book, but that mostly because I use the library in the next town or the one in the city which is an hour away.
I'm glad you got it figured out. My sister finally figured it out for her Nook, and it took my dad several months to try it with his Kindle. Now he loves it. Almost every book he wants to read is available for the Kindle through his library system.
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Best of luck! Prayers and good wishes being sent your way.
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So we are looking to buy for my dd18 for graduation a new laptop. She doesn't want Apple, so that's out. I was looking at the new Dell XPS, which is nice, but then I was comparing it to the Dell laptop (maybe Inspirion??)
The laptop is cheaper with more memory. Both have 4G RAM, and say that the battery will last 7hrs. I'm assuming something must make the XPS worth $300 more. But what is it?
Just looking at them, I would go with the XPS. I thought it looked pretty.:D My dd says she doesn't care. I just want something that will hold up through 4 yrs of college.
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:grouphug:
I know how hard it is. We live in a very rural town and when friends of our left 6 years ago it sort of devastated our family. It sent my dd (now18) into a terrible spin. Their move was also like removing a leg in a 3 leg stool. Our church then shut down and we lost that too. Everybody ended up leaving except us, and it was bad.
6 years later my boys have made friends but my dd never did.
Now we are considering moving (for a job, and a better place to live), which will devastate my boys and their friends, who will not be able to find "replacements".
Just typing this is making me tear up.
So I so understand your son. :grouphug: again. It is hard and it stinks.
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All of the studies I've seen or read suggest at least 150 minutes of moderate cardio exercise. That means it has to be a brisk walk, one that increases your heart rate.
Knowing what number to get your heart rate to can be tricky. For me, at my age, a moderate easy jog would keep my heart rate at 130-135. My normal run usually gets me to at least 140.
I've also seen a regular meditation practice recommended to help fight Alzheimer's and dementia, as well as a healthy diet.
Of course, none of those suggestions are magic bullets, they can help, but so little is truly understood about Alzheimer's and dementia. They can see some links that seem to increase risk or bring the disease on faster (younger), but they can't find what can prevent it.
One of the reasons behind the moderate exercise and diet advise is the prevention of very tiny mini strokes. It is thought that an individual could have multiple tiny mini strokes that cause small amounts of damage to the brain that then lead to the onset of dementia.
The problem is, while that is true, there could also be other reasons leading to dementia (other avenues leading to the damage). But the exercise/diet combo can help prevent/slow that one way on getting dementia.
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5.5 mile run today, followed by 3 rounds of push-ups, pull-ups, and planks.
This weather is so nuts. When I folded my workout clothes from the wash, I had in one week, warm tights and plush half zip, knickers and a light, long sleeve top, and shorts and short sleeve shirt. Today was another shorts with short sleeve day. I was a nice, but slightly difficult run. I lost a lot of fitness from when I had a cold, and it always feels hard to get it back.
On a different note, this past Thursday I had decided to go to Dick's and get some new running shorts. I've owned numerous brands of shorts over the past 8 years of running, and Nike Tempo don't seem to chafe. They don't fit me well, which is why I keep trying other brands. They are baggy in all of the wrong places, but not chafing is more important than how they look :p They were a decent deal, buy one get one 50% off, which meant I could throw out an old pair I had and still have 4 pairs of shorts for running. I also bought 2 new sport bras, Reeboxs were on sale, bringing the price down to what I normally pay at Target.
But when I got done I had decided I really wanted and was going to go buy the Run Swiftly tech from Lulumon. There is a store in Knoxville. I don't normally spend that much, and I usually buy from Gap or Athleta (and from them, only on sale) because I have coupons/points from our CC. But I was engaging in a bit of retail therapy and decided to drive to the store to buy the shirt. As I pulled into the parking lot my phone starting dinging with text messages. They were from Gap. I had earned $240 in coupons, and they chose that moment to let me know. Needless to say, I didn't get my Run Swiftly tech shirt, but when I got home I ordered what I wanted from Athleta, and didn't worry that it wasn't on sale. I ordered 2 t-shirts, and light half-zip, a yoga tank, and running capris :) Serious retail therapy, and it didn't cost me much at all. :D
It's the first time I've spent all of our points on me. All year, they have went towards the boys school uniforms and clothes for my dd18. We make out well with those points. It was a bit of a thrill to spend that much on myself and not feel guilty.
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:grouphug:
I'm sorry for your loss.
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I don't like those type of movies, and never watch them, but I love, love, love watching John Goodman. For that reason, and because it genuinely looks good, I may give the movie a chance when it comes to Redbox. :)
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Thursday was 90 minutes of hot yoga
Friday was a 4 mile run, followed by single leg deadlifts, presses, and swings.
It was a rough morning. My son went for his driver's test today. He didn't pass. During parking, he went forward to much, over a small curb, tapping the retaining wall. He was so upset and disappointed. This all followed last night, when he realized that he had last his wallet, which had his permit and debit card in it. :(
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Athleta has plus size clothing. Their stuff is high quality, and pricey to match. The fit is usually true to size. They have a few store locations, but it's more of an order online type place.
But I will also echo the Wal-Mart suggestion. They carry Danskin, and the quality is decent for a low price.
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Tuesday I was able to do an hour of yoga then my son and I went for a 2 mile, very strenuous hike. It was beautiful. :)
Today I ran 4 miles, then did goblet squats, pull-ups, and single arm kettlebell swings. Finished with a tabata of high pulls and push presses.
My body is really feeling the strength work. I am sore in places I haven't felt for a while. :D
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Oh I agree. I mean, really??? If you want to move to unsettled territory, it might behoove one to learn something about living out there! LOL
I couldn't believe that even as a child that it didn't occur to him that a land not "settled" in the white man tradition that had a very clearly used trail running through it might be signs that somebody was using it, if not the people living there FIRST, then the military or the pony express or something. Good grief!
Actually, many of his decisions were weird and not particularly rooted in known "street smarts" of the day. Laura's quote about what Pa said when they found the couple who had been robbed stranded by the road as they left the territory was particularly the "pot calling the kettle black". He was angry that they were out there without a watch dog. Really??? He himself sold Jack before they left for Kansas. The part about Jack going with them was completely made up, so my guess is that the whole encounter with the "greenfeet" was total fiction and created by Laura to make Pa sound more savvy than he actually was.
While much about Pa is sanitized, you can see some of Laura's criticisms in the. The largest one is the Farmer boy book, which stresses how that family stayed in one place, never borrowed money, and had plenty of food. Clearly, this was an indictment of her father. There were other, quick lines, in the other books, which showed she thought is decisions foolish, even though she clearly loved him. She tries to portray who the child viewed the father without full understanding of what was going on.
I can think of examples but I have to go out right now. :) But I do think while she tries to paint a rather rosy picture to serve to children, there are hints that she knew it was not all right.
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I'm so glad someone else has read this! I haven't read his other books. In reading reviews, it seems that so many people who loved Dog Stars, hated this book.
I just don't understand how I went from disliking the book to loving it. I also don't understand how I liked the main character so much. He wasn't a good guy, right? I mean, in real life, would I have liked this guy? How did the writer create a person who did so many wrongs (big ones) that you want to forgive?
I don't know that I liked him, but I understood him. I think the writer did an excellent job of showing how something can get completely out of hand and keep having repercussions. The starkness of the area made it all seem very believable.
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I'm glad that you're ok. That is scary. I wonder what was wrong with her? I hope there was something medically wrong, and she wasn't attempting something else. :grouphug:
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I finished The Painter, by Peter Heller, today. I'm not sure what to say about this book. The book started slow for me. I had difficulty adjusting to the writing. I didn't like the descriptions of scenery or of his paintings. But, at some point, my feelings about the book shifted. In the end, I think I loved it. I loved the underlying story about forgiveness and hope and grace. I wish someone else had read it and could talk with me about it.
I loved that book, even more than The Dog Stars. But I also loved all of the descriptions. The entire book felt like a work of beauty, like a painting telling a story.
I read it a year ago, so some of the details of fuzzy for me. I don't often reread books, but I may reread that one. I had bought it when Amazon had it cheap. :) I would like to read his other books, but the library doesn't have them for Kindle. I may have to get the hard copies from there this summer.
I really want him to come out with a new book.:D
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Yesterday was a rest day. Today, I have a hike planned with ds when he gets home from work, upper body strength training, and Zumba.
I'm hoping to get out for a short hike with ds11 tomorrow. The weather is so nice, though I know the trail will be muddy.
I woke up this morning to 2 inches of snow, so we are still very firmly in winter. Boo! But, on the bright side, my rowing machine is going to be delivered tomorrow, so I am super excited about that. I skied all day on Saturday, and am feeling it today in my thighs, so my exercise today may just be walking around in Costco.
Well, you made the best of the snow by skiing. And yay!, a rowing machine. The rhythm of that looks so peacefull. That may be the wrong word, but of all the cardio machines that one seems the most Zen, so to speak. I don't know why. But if I was able to do it, I think I could lose myself in it's rhythm. Enjoy.
Today I went for a 4 mile run, then came home and did 3 sets of deadlifts, push-ups, cleans, and swings, followed by a tabata of snatches, jump squats, and Russian twists. It felt good, and I don't think I pushed too hard, but just enough.
Tonight is hot yoga.
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Today I did an hour of yoga.
I also decided that I need to add strength training back on a regular basis. I love yoga, but I can tell it's just not enough to make up for my obvious muscle weakness issues. So I'm going to add some kettlebell work after 3 of my runs. Less is more with strength work, so I'm using a plan I own that does only a couple key exercises a day. There are 5 days, so I'll just keep working though them. I'm hoping in doing that I don't over do it yet still make some gains. I don't plan to back off any of the yoga. I do really need that and truly enjoy it.
The weather is warming up here, and I cough is getting better. I'm hoping to get outside tomorrow for my run.
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New week, welcome! Spring is coming. :)
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This week I read Murakami's short story, Strange Library and his novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun. Strange Library was a perfect Murakami story. I read it on my Kindle, and I had borrowed it from the library, but it is meant to be read in hard copy. It's a work of art as well as a story. I've always thought that short stories are much harder to write. You have very little space to make the reader care about the character(s). But Murakami can do it, and he did it well.
South of the Border, West of the Sun was also good, even though the ending made me want to scream. I don't understand what happened. Well, I kind of do, but it could have multiple meanings. But I did enjoy it.
I'm still reading through Stott's Basic Christianity.
I can't decide if I read Sputnik Sweetheart or something else next. I need a day or two to think about it.
Stacia, I'm glad things are looking up. I hope all of the details work out and your dh can find a decent place. My parents had to do that for a little over a year. My dad came home on weekends. They both hated it, but you do what you have to do. It all worked out. Congrats on your dh's job.
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Exercise Thread - March 13-19
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Yoga today. I didn't go to the city today, which is where I normally do hot yoga. Today I stayed home and did an intro to 2nd series Ashtanga, via YogaGlo. I loved it.
Anyone watch Modern Family? Last night one of the plots featured yoga, going at all of the stereotypes. It was funny, even if it was unrealistic.