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  1. I wanted to give a little update. I did it! I just completed my first week (two sessions) with my personal trainer, and I love it! The one-on-one instruction and attention have been fantastic for me. The emphasis has not been too heavy on nutrition so far. I think this might be the best investment I've ever made ! Thanks to everyone who shared experiences--you helped me decide to go for it!
  2. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to look this one up.
  3. We had a local author come read her book that centered around colors and the rainbow a few weeks ago. Our craft that week was cutting small squares/rectangles from strips of construction paper to make a rainbow collage on a rainbow outline on cardstock. I must like squares of color. Lol
  4. I'm a children's librarian and I do Storytime twice a week, and my crowds skew pretty young. Instead of focusing on St Patrick's Day, I'm reading the picture book Good Luck Bear by Greg Foley (cute book about a bear and his friend mouse looking for four leaf clovers) and Green by Laura Vacaro Seeger (concept book about shades of green with die cut pages--won a Caldecott honor). I always have a craft because the precedent was set before me, but honestly the moms mostly do the crafts due to the age of the kids. I do try to make it something that the kids CAN do (those who are closer to preschool age than toddlerhood) with help. For this week I copied outlines of a four leaf clover on cardstock. I cut out little squares of different shades of green tissue paper. The children will scrunch those into little balls/wads and fill up the shamrock outline with the shades of green using school glue. We have our standing songs we sing. I might look for something about St Patrick's Day to sing, but I'm leaning toward keeping up "Let's Go Fly a Kite" from Mary Poppins (using scarves for our kites) for the rest of March. It was a hit last week! another idea I had when I was at Trader Joe's was to buy a pot of shamrocks to share with them, but I decided my participants are generally too young to notice. Hope this helps!
  5. Just finished the award winning YA novel All My Rage. It's the first book I've read with trigger warnings listed on the flyleaf. It turns out the warnings were justified, but despite the difficult subject matter and the huge volume of trauma the main characters suffer, it is a beautiful and tightly written story.
  6. Everything already mentioned about Huntsville and Decatur, plus if you're willing to drive about 60 miles north, you could also visit (among other cool things) *the birthplace of Helen Keller (Ivy Green in Tuscumbia) *the birthplace of WC Handy (Florence) *the Rosenbaum Home, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (Florence) *the birthplace of Jesse Owens (Danville) These places are actually kind of between Nashville and Huntsville
  7. These flowers and that sunshine might be used as a "relocate here!"ad for FL! (Though really, does FL need any help in this arena? 😂). That's saying something--I live in AL. 🤣
  8. I'm following this conversation with interest. I just turned 49, so I feel all this. I'm curious about how your attitude toward all of the things you mentioned has changed if you're willing to share.
  9. My 9 yo dressed up as The Wild Robot for book character dress up day yesterday. He told me, "I was the only one with a homemade costume," which made me both happy and sad. (It wasn't much--just a big box painted silver, those dryer vent hose-thingies for arms, and a silver spray painted bucket for his head.)
  10. I've never taught second but have been a system-wide STEM teacher before, and I did enjoy the second graders I had. I'd move down, given all the reasons you cited.
  11. They're definitely about weight loss, as I'm sure that's one of the initial goals of most of their clients. (It's mine, too, though not really my primary goal. I hope it's a side effect.) They say that up front, and I'm okay with it (to a point) because I do need to lose some weight.
  12. Thank you for sharing. This particular training involves nutritional coaching, too. I have never been in great shape but I am much, much worse off than I was even a decade ago. It's a lot of money, but if it can help me remain mobile as I age, it will be more than worth it.
  13. Thank you for sharing your story. This is very encouraging. There are a lot of women age 50+ at this gym, so I am encouraged by that and the questions the owner asked me today that they are, indeed, cognizant of women's issues.
  14. Thanks for pointing this out. I will be careful of this.
  15. I also have been in PT recently for plantar fasciitis and I actually have had that dream--to have a PT as a personal trainer. This gym has a PT on staff, and based on my discussion with the owner today, I do feel like this is something they are cognizant of (he referenced my plantar fasciitis and mentioned that he thought it was something we could also help there.)
  16. We do have planet fitness and my teens actually go, but I am not aware of any classes they offer. I have even asked my girls, and they said they didn't know of any. Obviously, the thing for me to do would be to go in and ask, but I do wonder if it differs from location to locations.
  17. Good points. I actually met with the gym owner this morning and talked about goals, etc. I will meet again with a trainer on Thursday for some evils and then a trial session. I am pretty confident that this is a legit place in terms of qualifications.
  18. I'm considering hiring a trainer at a gym that operates as a personal training place with some small group circuits (5-6 people with trainer), etc. If you have positive experiences to share, I'm especially interested in those. This is not exactly a JAWM, but the cons of "I can do it at home" and "I can research this and figure it out" are really not true for me because, well, I I haven't had I don't. I would be interested in hearing any red flags for "bad fit" trainers if you have those.
  19. My mother recently got hearing aids at Sam's Club. They weren't cheap, but I do think they were less expensive than ones purchased at a standalone audiology place. She has been pleased with hers, and she is now able to hear her grandchildren. That's a glowing recommendation.
  20. I kind of fell off the face of the earth last month. I've been in a slump. I'm hoping my latest read, Master Slave Husband Wife, will rejuvenate me.
  21. N AL here, too. I watched the straight line winds gust through the portico of my work building, and I commented that it looked like a hurricane. We are accustomed to tornadic weather (though does one actually ever get used to it?) and we've had F1s sit down close to two different homes. The 2011 tornado super outbreak definitely made me look at severe weather in a new light, but today was quite different than anything I remember.
  22. I'm a public librarian and in our library of things, the metal detector is the most popular. Well, it comes in third after WiFi hotspots and Fire sticks.
  23. Just before I resigned from my last teaching job, I had a parent who was angry at me because her son had plagiarized an assignment and I gave him a zero, per our school's policy and after discussion with the academic principal. She said she was angry at me because I didn't communicate with her about it. However, I updated the online gradebook with an explanatory note, and I also expected some level of communication with the parent and the high school student. She admitted that she did not check the online gradebook. (This was also not the first time her son had cheated in my class. The first time he denied it and though I was 90+% sure he had, I gave him the benefit is the doubt.). Anyway, our conversation was on the phone and she ranted and raved for many minutes. I finally just told her that I didn't think there was anything else I could do to help her, so I hung up. Not even thirty minutes later, she was at the school in person complaining about me. Thank goodness for our academic principal who ran interference for me and handled the mom! One of my few regrets about quitting involves being a little aggravated that this mom might think I quit or got fired because of her complaints. Parents. . . They often do make an already tough job twice as hard as it needs to be.
  24. Thanks to everyone who responded! I've fallen down the rabbit hole of influencers and stylists on YouTube. So far my favorite has been Kay Harms of Dressed for My Day.
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