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  1. We use an online service called "You Need a Budget" there is a 34 day free trial, then after that it is just a few dollars a month. We like it because of how easy it is to use.
  2. Normally the tire places put the nuts on so tight (because they do it with a machine), that they are nearly impossible to budge manually with the tool that comes with the spare.
  3. We stayed at the Capitol Skyline Hotel: http://www.capitolskyline.com/IIRC, it was about 140 a night or so. It is at the corner of SW Capitol and I Street---5 blocks from a metro station or 8 blocks from the National Mall (closest to American Indian Museum and Air and Space). We never went to the Metro stop near the hotel, as we normally just walked into the mall and it was quicker to walk the extra few blocks than it was to go to the metro, pay, wait for a train, etc. According to my parents (who used to live in DC), the area around the Capitol Skyline was super sketchy in the 80s, but I felt perfectly safe walking around by myself in the early evenings about 2 or 3 years ago when we were there.
  4. Ticket to Ride Apples to Apples (basically a tamer version of Cards Against Humanity---though depending on the group it can get fairly offensive as well) Dixit--a pictoral version of Apples to Apples. You get a picture card and have to use a few words to describe it. People turn in a picture card they have that they think matches the description, the cards are mixed up, laid face up and people vote with tokens to see if they can figure out which card was the main card. It is a lot easier to play than explain :)
  5. I feel the same way---I've had several of them get up in my face and demand to know why I'm not donating----so I explain my stance on why I'd never ever give to the Salvation Army and then that specific bell ringer leaves me alone whenever I see them after that, but there are always others who keep bugging me. I don't mind the ones that just stand quietly off to the side and ring (though the noise is annoying when they're at Kroger since they're in the front entryway with all the carts and it echoes a ton.
  6. I wouldn't use it for a craft project. Check out the thrift store, I'm sure they have a bunch of old metal pie plates etc.
  7. We had about 15-20 at the house, but the weather was awful tonight. They also started doing a new event downtown so most people just went to that and skipped going from house to house.
  8. I've seen invites where the couple includes info about their wedding website which will list extra info about the ceremony as well as info about the registry. If that isn't the case, I'll just go to registryfinder.com and search for their information. It always turns up something.
  9. Here it depends on the store---the Aldi cashiers just say the total and ask if you want any cash back, the ones at Wal-Mart are way too talkative, the ones at Kroger even more so---I use the u-scan as much as possible to avoid small-talk. I don't mind the "how are you", but I hate when they're asking about plans for the weekend/evening whatever---it is none of your business, and I don't want to know what your plans are since I don't know you. When I cashiered, I hardly spoke to people beyond their total etc., and I always had a steady stream of regulars come through my line who loved that they didn't have to talk to a person. I can't wait til there are u-scans in every store/touch screen ordering in every fast food restaurant. .
  10. As a kid, I remember having fire drills and tornado drills. We did have to stay after school an hour or so one time when someone made a bomb threat and mentioned the school buses. Now the kids have tornado drills, fire drills, as well as active shooter drills. I (substitute teacher), only got the training for the active shooter drills because I happened to be subbing in the building that was having the training for the kids that day (so I have no idea what the plans are for the other buildings in the district). The kids are supposed to try to run out of the building and go to a designated safe space (normally a church or public building). If we're unable to leave for whatever reason, they're supposed to barricade and lock (only possible in schools where we get a key) the door and grab whatever they can find to fight back (books, desks, etc). I don't mind the training and drills, I just wish they'd make sure that we all received the training and had an opportunity to ask questions about it---the regular teachers had a pullout session for it, but the subs didn't, and there are some questions you just don't want to ask in front of all the students at the entire school training (such as "am I responsible for making sure all the kids in the class make it to the safe space or is it an everyone for themselves situation" etc)
  11. Yeah that is definitely not a typical substitute assignment. The schools that I work at have us fill out a form that has us rate the usefulness of the lesson plans etc.---I definitely give people a lot of slack if it is a last minute emergency thing, but in this case, I'd definitely write down the issues I had---there is really no excuse for that level of disorganization. Many teachers use a "boilerplate" lesson plan, where they type up all the procedural junk (arrival, lunch, dismissal etc), and save that then all they have to do is insert the stuff specific to that day. It makes life a lot easier for everyone involved.
  12. 2 syllables---car--mul, but that is pretty standard around here since there is a nearby city called Carmel, IN, so most people just pronounce the candy the same way.
  13. A church I went to did a nativity play thing that had more modern music, it was called "A Strange Way to Save the World"---it used songs such as "Breath of Heaven" by Amy Grant, "Virgin's Lullaby", and some others. They had kids play the shepherds, the kings, the angels, and do most of the narration. There were adults playing the roles of Elizabeth, Joseph, and Mary (the role I had). I want to say we had about 8-12 children involved (pretty much any kid between 3 and 14 who was in town that night), but I don't remember exactly as it was several years ago. After we finished the little play/musical thing, the kids played the handbells and a few hymns were sung.
  14. I can't parallel park, but it has never been an issue. For the driving test, we went down a residential street, and if there weren't any cars to parallel park with, then we didn't have to show that skill. I got very lucky that day and didn't have to parallel park. Most places here have parking lots/parking garages around them. For the few areas that have street parking, I can normally drive a block or two away and find a big enough spot that I can just pull in.
  15. I can't swim at all. Never had lessons as a kid---by the time they built the Y in our town I was too old to get the cheap swim lessons. Also I hate putting my face in the water, so I really don't think swimming will ever be an option for me. The high school I went to had swimming as part of the summer PE class, but I passed the PE class without being able to swim at all---they just put a float belt on me. There wasn't any swimming instruction in that class at all---for the lap portion they said "ok, now do 3 laps of breast stroke (or whatever)". Well A---couldn't swim, and B, had no clue what breast stroke was---so I just had my float belt and faked what the others were doing. For the deep water portion, we mainly just did water polo, so everyone had the float belts. However, our end of class test for the deep water portion was to be able to tread for 2 min or something like that....again, no instruction was given, I wasn't allowed the float belt for that (cause it'd defeat the purpose of the test), so I just stayed near the edge and the teacher yelled to everyone to start treading. I let go of the wall, grabbed it again and raised my hand for him to tell me my time. I totally failed the deep water swimming portion, but somehow managed to get an A in the lap swimming (I think he gave one to everyone who had their suit on for every pool day). I've looked into lessons around here---and again, quite costly. $89 at the local Y for 7 sessions of 40 min each, which probably works out to maybe 30 min each assuming a few minutes at the beginning for them to talk and a few at the end. Indy has a swimming organization that has 8 lessons of 45 min each over 4 weeks for $69, but that is at least a half hour drive each way, probably closer to 45 min once you factor in the rush hour traffic).
  16. I'm kinda ok with navigating, but I do it by landmarks in familiar areas---I don't know what a lot of the minor roads in our town are actually named. I hate when people say that it is on the corner of Oak and Williams for example, because I have no clue where that is. Now if they say it is near X school, then I'll know exactly where to go. Though I don't like when the landmarks consist of things like "Turn right at the farm where the barn burned down" where if you haven't lived in the area forever you have no idea what they're talking about. Written directions are ok for me, provided that they are completely accurate---I hate when a street has 5 or 6 names and Google maps gives you three of them, none of which are the ones actually on the sign. (And the signs always tend to be so small and impossible to see til you've almost passed it.) Whenever we go on road trips, we tend to have the printed directions, then pull up the GPS on one of our phones as a backup since it helps us figure out exactly where to turn when things aren't labeled well and helps in cases of a road closure. We always do the paper directions after one memorable instance where we were in Harper's Ferry WV and decided to drive over to Antietam Battlefield that day since we realized it was only about 30-45 min away instead of heading there the next day before going home. Getting there was fine using the directions that were on the brochure that the NPS gave us at Harper's Ferry---but it was a nightmare getting back to our hotel in DC since our written directions that we'd printed out earlier were from Antietam to Indianapolis and there was absolutely no phone signal in that part of Maryland. (You know how on the cell phone coverage maps of the US how there is always that little blank spot in the WV/MD area? That's where we were. :( )
  17. Click "Advanced Search" there is a check box near the bottom that says "Available now"
  18. I'm not a fan of: Taco Bell--just don't like it Arby's---Way too expensive Chick Fil A---for reasons unrelated to the food itself Jack in the Box---just not good I like: Mcdonalds Subway Qdoba Around here, the McDonalds is normally packed, the Taco Bell is sometimes (though they never seem to have enough people working whenever my DH grabs food from there as it takes forever). The Chick-Fil-A is about 20 min away, they always seem to be crowded when I drive by, as does the Jack in the Box.
  19. Serial Criminal History of England Sword and Scale---a true crime podcast (definitely for mature audiences only. Some of the episodes are difficult to listen to content wise)
  20. It is airing on PBS, so I doubt it'd have anything too problematic. I saw the first episode today, no sex content or language. ETA: there is some romantic tension between a few of the characters, but nothing physical.
  21. See if the instruction pages list how many skeins of each color you're supposed to have---you might be able to figure it out that way. If they end up being the same number, I hold it up to the other colors in the kit (so in this case another blue and another purple) and see which one looks like it goes with which one (if that makes sense).
  22. Definitely take a tour of the Globe Theater and get tickets to see a show at the Globe----it is really cheap, it was about $10 to see Midsummer Night's Dream (standing section, but it was awesome). The Tower is quite interesting, as is the British Museum.
  23. $1.99 in central Indiana
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