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Use a mainstream detergent, not a natural or green detergent. Our clothes looked dull and grayish when I was using a green detergent. When I switched back to mainstream detergent, the optical brighteners made our clothes bright again ! I like it.
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Hugs - I don't know anything to advise, but I am so sorry. I have a friend who lived through this. She has a beautiful life now. I wish I could help.
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JC Penney Arizona Flex Slim Straight jeans come in 26x36. They don’t stock the small waist tall length jeans in the stores, but you can order them online and have them shipped to the store for free. You can order multiple sizes and when they come in, try them on and immediately return the ones that don’t fit.
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I had a tib fib spiral boot top fracture from the ankle to about halfway up my tibia. I had a tall buttress plate and a leg full of screws. That was all taken out 2 yrs later. So...the walking boot was messing up the alignment of my hips so I bought a sale rack pair of platform shoes and wore one on the other side to stay even. When I finally got out of the boot, I had a pronounced limp I couldn’t correct. I asked for PT for that and I went twice per week for 2-3 months. It was very very hard work, rebuilding all those little balance muscles and reflexes, but worth doing. After a session my leg would be red and throbbing and so so hot, and they would just bury it in ice for 20 minutes. It sounds awful now but then it felt soooo good. I hope your healing goes well. I’m sorry about your leg because I know it really sucks. Oh they also taught me how to massage the scar to prevent adhesions. It’s been 20 years and I still have to do that sometimes.
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It never worked for me or my mom. We both have yellow undertones but look best in winter colors, plus some autumn colors. We both baffled the people who tried to match us to a season.
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5 hours ago, City Mouse said:
Has there been a discussion about permanent retainers with the ortho? I know that is not very common anymore but back when I was a kid, I had a "permanent" retainer for about 2 years after braces.
They are an option. I told him when we got the second retainer that if we ever have to come back for a third, it will be for top and bottom permanents.
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13 hours ago, itsheresomewhere said:
I am on my phone so I can’t see his age but has anyone ever suggested a sleep study? I wonder if he is not getting a really good sleep and that is why he is destroying his retainers.
He sleeps very deeply most of the time, but sometimes has really active dreams with a lot of talking or even conversations that he doesn't remember later, or he gets up and does things that don't make sense. The first retainer made him wake up in a panic gagging so I can see how it became part of a nightmare. He says the invisaligns don't really bother him as long as he isn't wanting to eat or talk - they are comfortable for sleeping. He has disposable contacts, so I wonder if in his dream state he equated throwing away a retainer with tossing lenses ? I'm just glad he remembered what he did with it. I've taken the garbage away - it's not accessible to him at night anymore.
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Thank you ! We will have a conversation about daytime wear. Last night and today he was so so upset - he gets really frustrated by the sleepwalking - he hates it. He felt awful about crunching the first one and has promised to earn the money to pay us back for the replacement retainer, and he's horrified that it would have been lost if he hadn't remembered the weird trash dream.
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He is supposed to wear them for 8 hours. He won’t wear them during the day because they bother him/ he has to take them out to eat and drink anything hot and he eats all day / he goes to school for one class and won’t leave the house with them in. He sees night as the only possible time to get the 8 hours.
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What to do about a sleepwalking kid who destroys retainers in his sleep with no awareness of doing it ? The traditional retainer was crunched in two as part of a nightmare - orthodontist didn’t think it was even possible to do this until she saw the proof. It was replaced by a set of Invisaligns - not cheap !! The top one was just narrowly saved - it was thrown in the trash in a barely remembered dream - he panicked when it wasn’t in its case and suddenly remembered the dream. ? He tries hard to take good care of them and wear them as he should, but then he has weird dreams about them and this stuff happens ? ?
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On 9/8/2018 at 4:36 PM, DesertBlossom said:
So a couple other friends just knocked on the door. The dog jumped up in anticipation so I tried to get him to come into our bedroom so I could shut him in there and he wouldn't come. This dog is mostly obedient, but then again, I don't ask him to do much. But he was questioning my motives so he wouldn't follow me. Even with a treat. (We've had this problem trying to get him back in the car-- if he doesn't have his leash on and he's not sure why you're taking him somewhere, he won't go.) He ran outside and barked at the newcomers from a safe distance and is now sleeping.
We don't have a crate for him. Never have.
I would get a crate. Also when a dog is questioning our motives, we pop a leash on. We don't negotiate with the dogs (we are on our second set of three).
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I wouldn’t count on training to correct this. I would crate the dog anytime a child visits. We have a dog that we crate for all visitors.
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1 hour ago, gardenmom5 said:
well - having had the experience of "forgiving my abusive grandmother" - I can tell you, forgiveness is NOT about the other party. It is about ourselves. It was about me and "moving past" it. to hang on to the hurt, etc. - would have been too much like my grandmother. a woman who never forgave anyone of anything - and could hold a grudge against anyone so long - she couldn't even remember why she was angry at them. she wouldn't let go of her anger because she wanted to keep other people in her debt. at least in her mind. I'll tell you - it doesn't work. I recall the day my much beloved by her many nieces and nephews, great-aunt came up to me in tears, wanting to know why my grandmother hated her. - well, she's mad at your for something you did 35 years ago . . ..she's forgotten what, she just remembers she was mad.
Yes, I do it for myself. Not for them and certainly not for God or some idea of being a better whatever. IMO the last thing a person in this situation needs is to feel the weight of a moral command from heaven pressuring them to a point of release that they haven't personally arrived at yet.
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FWIW IMO forgiving as a virtue is overrated. I prefer to own my own justifiable anger with no guilt about it. When I decide to move past it, it’s my choice alone - not because I “should” for some religious or moral reason. I certainly don’t owe it to anyone. Any type of counseling that pushes forgiveness I think might be even more hurtful than helpful.
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Beautiful ! I used to have dishes that color - it was called Woodland Moss. I miss having that color around. The stools also look great !
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18 hours ago, LucyStoner said:
Yes, this is exactly what I hate. Most won't make money. Many will lose money. The requirement to spend or commit their own money to buy in, the fact that the products are overpriced and nothing special, the need to then try to turn all their friends and family into customers or recruits in order to make their investment pay out - yuck. The pyramid only works because the bottom layer is the largest, and the mathematical necessity that most people who start will not move up. Why don't people understand this !!!??? The company has to keep cycling new people through the bottom only for most of them to bear a cost of money, time, and relationships that won't end up giving any benefit to the person, just the company.
I think there are maybe some companies that are less of a pyramid, that have a commission structure that puts less benefit on the recruiting side and more on the product sales side. I know of someone who has sold for one company for 20 years and doesn't appear try to recruit anyone. I'm guessing she is with one of these companies. Or maybe she just made up her mind when she started that she was only going to sell, not recruit. When we lived across the street from her family, she was doing a party in her own home twice a month - handing out cards all over town, chatting up people everywhere she went and having them come to her home for free snacks, wine and a spiel. We went once. Her husband and kids mostly stayed in the basement during her parties. She sends out automated emails once a week. We moved away over ten years ago and I'm still getting her regular emails.
When our kids were little and I was taking them to playgrounds, I had so many instances of moms I didn't know striking up a conversation (nice) and then putting on a push for me to look at their product samples and come to a party or book one (yucky). I wish they would have just enjoyed their time at the park with their kids, and maybe a nice conversation, not ruined by a sales pitch. That is another type of cost they take on.
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DS1 has been invited to attend a quinceañera as the date of a guest. He does not know the birthday girl.
I was thinking it would be courteous to have a gift (gift card) even through he is not a directly invited guest - he will benefit from the enjoyment of the family's hospitality.
1. Is this nuts ?
2. What would an appropriate amount be for someone who is a friend of a friend to give ?
Thank you !
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Hugs to you - I am so sorry.
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4 minutes ago, Medicmom2.0 said:
I am watching a friend do the same thing. This is is mid priced jewelry; not hundreds of dollars but more than I would spend on that quality of jewelry.
They are living just above the poverty line and she’s watched a close family member rise to the top 5% of a brand new MLM and make reasonable money at it, so she thinks she can do the same and get them out of poverty. She’d be so much better off getting a part time job, but no education/no skills and their belief that women shouldn’t work out of the home seem to doom them to poverty.
It feels like I’m watching a train wreck. She keeps posting about “I’m going to be so busy working my new job” and “Finally we’ll have some breathing room.” No one seems to have the heart to shoot her down yet.
It is so sad to see ? They use slick marketing to prey on the optimism of people who don't have the money to lose.
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I hate seeing another friend get sucked into another scheme with such high hopes. This family works hard for their money and I hate knowing her work and cash will be going to build the bottom of the pyramid. Her time and relationships will be negatively affected. There will be a rush associated with an initial burst of sales as friends and family make obligatory purchases that won’t be repeated. Her venture might break even if she can pull a friend or to into the scheme and they manage to do the same. I hate seeing people step into this.
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Hugs to them - it sounds hard. I would encourage them and tell them they are great dads! The advice I would give is to use whatever works for them, but that with *any* approach, you have to be flexible once in a while and make adjustments to customize the system. They are hanging on following instructions to the letter, but it’s okay to make changes. They may oppose that idea, but still tuck it away and use it at some point.
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Go to the doctor. Don’t mess around with UTIs.
That said, I had one that came back after antibiotics three times ( three different abx) and the next option was going to be iv abx in a hospital setting. I got fierce with putting smashed raw garlic on my food 3x a day for about a week and finally beat it. I have no idea if that much garlic is safe or not, but it’s what I did.
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Tall icing that is hard is yucky. Tall icing that is fluffy or creamy is delicious but gets on my nose. Medium height creamy icing is IMO perfect.
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IMO the instructor sounds like someone who doesn’t care about helping people learn anything. If someone comes in with that kind of warning and doesn’t offer any suggestions for how to succeed, then they just like to gloat over people who fail.
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Would you encourage a student to pursue a major that is not necessarily in their area of strength?
in The College Board
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This was me, except I had very bad math scores, repeated Algebra 1, barely made it through Algebra II and never got to Trig, so I had to take remedial Trig in college. And I switched to engineering. I remember the people who told me I wasn't capable. Conquering math in a university environment, learning to enjoy it, and doing well at it - after having struggled with it since 2nd grade and being told I had a learning disability in math and should choose a non-math career direction.....ooooh, this was therapeutic. After I'm done getting my own kids through math, I want to do some private math tutoring, because my tutors made all the difference for me.