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    Question about LOTR Return of the King

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    I am a die-hard LOTR fan, bordering on fanatic. I loved the movies, except for the parts I didn't--the Faramir thing was bad, really bad. But I thought The Hobbit movie was awesome, I love how they incorporated parts from the appendices. My dd, who makes me look like an amateur and did the LLftLotR plus two books and a seminar from Joseph Pearce http://www.amazon.co... pearce tolkien, says PJ did a great job with The Hobbit and keeping it true to Tolkien's writings.

    Oh fuuuuuuuuuddddge....

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    My dh is another one who's been wearing glasses since the age of one. He managed to wear out a lifetime warranty at Sears. :tongue_smilie: His favorite glasses story is from right before he joined the army. He'd gone bowling with his cousins, and something happened where one of the cousins accidentally broke his glasses. "The two most important things in the world to me are my family and my glasses. And my family just broke my glasses." It's become part of family legend now. I suspect there was alcohol involved. :leaving:

    I hate money

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    Sorry if you've looked into this already, but is teaching science in a public high school a possibility? We are in California, and depending on the district some teachers get paid more than university professors. Working in a ps would also free him up to take on a second part time job in education. My dh has taught adult ed for several years to supplement our income. He also tutors at lunch time and after school. The pay is good, $35/hour, on top of his regular salary with full benefits.

     

    Anyway, just throwing that out there. I think it's outrageous that they don't pay your dh a living wage and then cripple his ability to make extra money on the side. :(

     

    ETA: The full benefits cost us $850/month out of pocket for our family of seven, but his district pays more than half. Just clarifying. :)

    Need a little perspective here

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    Thanks everyone,

    The thing is that sick adults seem to show up everywhere, and they just don't get to close to people (I had an an interview last week where the woman refused to shake my hand because she was sick, but the interview went on - half the people in my office have a nasty cold and they still come in to work - I think maybe when you stay home with your kids you forget about things like that) so I wasn't thinking that bringing him there would be an issue as he is old enough to know not to get close to people. And he is not sneezing or vomiting or doing anything to spew germs through the air at top speed. In fact he went on antibiotics yesterday because of a low white count so there is a chance he would wake up feeling a lot better. And this woman works, and her son goes to daycare, so its not like they are spending most of their time locked up in a clean bubble. And there is no way that I would leave my 18yr old son, who goes to school 7 hours away and whom we have not seen since Aug, home, or upstairs.

     

    As well, my mother is doing the "White Christmas" thing and I fear will be very upset if we don't show (and upset could be a 6 months affair). Movie theatres are definitely a good option, thank you - I hadn't even thought of that. It just makes me wonder about my childhgruyereood, and whether my parents would have left me upstairs when I was a kid at a major family event (as opposed to staying home with me in solidarity) and that messes with my head, to think that maybe things weren't as I remembered them.

     

    I think your mom is a very kind woman, but she is being overly cautious. If the family was being very, very careful about the husband's second or third hand exposure to germs, I could see it. But they are already exposing themselves to sick people if the child is in daycare and she is working. I'd give my mom a gentle reminder of that fact.

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