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Just now, kfeusse said:
thank you. But will they make usable baby blankets? That is what I am trying to figure out.
Well, I think so. I received, used, and made plenty like that. The only "digit entanglement" stories I heard were long or curly hair related. Every new mom has her own hang ups, but everyone will appreciate the gift, even if they decide to drape it artfully out of reach for a couple of years.
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Those are so pretty!
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My grandfather had a record that included that take on Beethoven's 5th as a sportscast. I can still hear his chuckles when we listen to it. 😀
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I agree with your assessment. They streets departments of all the affected municipalities have had time to clear the roads. Pack your car for the slim possibility that you get stranded (warm clothes, some easy food, water, whatever you have at hand that makes sense.) Stay on the highways and high volume roads. Know that hospital routes are top priority for road departments and then just drive calmly and attentively.
Sorry about your fil.
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My in-laws' house got cold one winter while they were away and all their dishes crackled. So give a bit of thought to what you would leave behind, I guess.
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11 hours ago, kbutton said:
A couple of months ago, I finished the stitching for the top and bottom of a biscornu. I assembled it now, and it has lavender in the fill to use it as a sachet.
I improvised the plaid on the bottom because the bottom was a simplification of the top, and I like plaid better.
Beautiful! I love the little beads. I would hate to put pins in this. 😀
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1 minute ago, kbutton said:
have heard that migraine and trigeminal neuralgia can go together (IIRC, the nerve goes to jaw and temple and above the eye?).
Oh, yes! I think I can often trace the course of that nerve.
You started this thread with the disturbing idea that your symptoms are wriggling around like a landed fish. That sounds terrible, and terribly difficult to address. So you have any medical support? Doctors or prescriptions trying to help?
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I, too, suffer from low-pressure induced headaches in the sinuses on the right side of my head. I am hesitant to self-diagnose as migraines because they don't seem as bad as what people with actual migraines suffer, but they can definitely make me nonfunctional while they last. Acetaminophen, pseudoephedrine, and Breathe Deep Tea have been my go-tos, but I'm not convinced they actually help consistently. I'm going to add some more suggestions from this thread to try out.
One problem I have is that when I get one of these headaches I can't seem to decide what approach I should take to address it. It is as tough the headache comes with a large side of analysis paralysis. I'm trying to get dh to just tell me what I should do, but that would require breaking too many years of training, I guess. So I'm going to have to make myself an instruction list. "Dear future headache sufferer, Step 1..."
What would make a headache actually a migraine?
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1 hour ago, Lecka said:
It seems like a good option for him.
I imagine this is stressful to watch, as a parent, but I'm impressed that he has selected what looks like a workable plan for going forward. So many times people seem to get mired in rejecting the thing that is not working for them and seem unable to look forward. I hope things work out as he would like.
My ds also got "okay" grades. Since he doesn't seem to have any interest in graduate school or a super-selective career, none of us are particularly worked up. I burned that Straight A, Superstar Scholar dream years ago. Now I feel content just watching him transition to being an adult (🤞🤞)
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28 minutes ago, SKL said:
Do they still hand those out at the libraries and post offices?
Not around me, they don't. We talked about that approach for ds last year but ended up using an additional return option on the software we had to purchase for ourselves. I made the argument you are making, but in the end the electronic return made more sense.
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1 hour ago, jen3kids said:
there a setting to chose a 2nd language to work on as well?
You can do as many languages on Duo as you want. On the mobile app, tap the flag in the top left corner and it will let you choose another language.
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14 minutes ago, marbel said:
My daughter traveled in a few countries in Europe as an authorized signer on my Bank of America card. It was fine. She also took an ATM card attached to a savings account in which she kept a low balance,
I agree with your post, but wanted to jump off this part. My 14yod was on Germany for 2 weeks last spring. She couldn't get her atm card to work at all. I was surprised because I have never had persistent problems with that when I've traveled. In the final analysis I decided that it was most likely because she only had a savings account and not a checking account. At home she very rarely uses it, and the credit union allows atm withdrawals from savings. I think the German network couldn't support that. 🤷🏼♀️
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4 minutes ago, kbutton said:
It’s a batik print that I picked up at a sewing collaborative sale
Such lovely fabric!
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🤦🏼♀️ Of course! I forgot about the flavoring injections.
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1 hour ago, 73349 said:
One of the biggest sources of salt in Americans' diets is chicken, so you might swap some of it out (e.g., with no-salt-added chickpeas) and see if that helps.
Do you (or anyone) know why this is? Is it added salt to dishes with chicken, or something about chicken itself that is high in salt?
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It has been a long time since we enjoyed those books together! Instead of the review cards, we put together a lapbook for each of the first two books. They served a similar purpose. I think every 5 chapters we would stop and spend a day talking about the pieces for each of the previous chapters, assembling them, and gluing them into the books. As a bonus, there was additional review when Grandma visited and everybody wanted to look through the lapbooks with her.
I just pulled out the lapbook my high school freshman made way back when to remind her about the Seven Wonders after a discussion with her sister this week about the Colossus of Rhodes.
If I were to use the cards I would either use them to prompt a casual review conversation or else the Montessori idea might be appealing. Avoid the trap of letting it get tedious for your dd! Maybe let her be in charge of the cards half the time, or something. Another idea that I used to see from other families was to hang a string in the wall and then as you review the cards, hang them up with clothes pins like a laundry style time line.
In our house, history was a subject I tried to keep pretty casual about. I feel like it is one of the few subjects where even low key, consistent exposure really makes a difference.
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12 minutes ago, Pam in CT said:
So for me, the **constraints** that the free version imposes on me actually help me slow down, check my work, be more careful, and force me to review, all of which I need.
This is true for me also.
When I'm forced into those short term free trials of Premium I've been using that time to go back and get to legendary status on lessons from a few levels ago. During Premium there is no cost to trying for legendary and it allows me to do some deep review.
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6 minutes ago, Rosie_0801 said:
Yup.
I'm not actually any good at sewing, having been known to end up with two different sized frocks out of the same measurements. And by different, I mean vastly different. Like size normal person and size pregnant heffalump.My first pair of pants came off the machine as an ankle length pencil skirt that went directly into the trash with a scream. The machine didn't see daylight again for quite a while. 😀
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10 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said:
I am going to get dd to body block me for my birthday, then I will probably stare at it for at least a year trying to psych myself up.
What will you be psyching yourself up *to*? Clothes drafting? I, too, often need to live mentally with big projects before actually starting.
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I'm interested in the responses you get. We have one of the real estate agent combination lock boxes on the back door with a spare key, but some day maybe we will upgrade.
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27 minutes ago, Lady Florida. said:
Fast forward to 2023. It's a Kenmore. Who even services those anymore?
I've wondered that too as I ramp up my use of the Kenmore that I've been using off and on over the last 20 years. 🤞
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9 minutes ago, Pam in CT said:
There are limitations to any mode of instruction, even including a live teacher working 1-1 or in small groups. Access, cost, ease of use all matter as much as pedagogy. The "best" program is the one you can actually afford / access / use.
I do free because the way the free version functions (you have to keep going back into old lessons to practice to generate the "hearts" that enable you to keep playing... and my memory is so bad I really NEED to keep going back to practice old lessons. So for me the constraint of forced practice, and also that the more mistakes I make on the main lesson sequence the more often I'm forced to go back and earn the hearts, is very good discipline, and I'm retaining more than I ever have with prior efforts at other programs. If my memory were better I'd step up to the $5/month paid version; it's certainly worth it.
I benefit from this forced practice too. In fact I don't care for the premium level because I can't seem to figure out how to keep the 5 heart limit. No live person would enjoy participating in the amount of repetitive practice I seem to require. 😀
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I agree with pp about Duolingo. One thing it is missing for most languages is any formal grammar. If I wanted to really learn a language from scratch I would supplement with some grammar resource. Maybe a workbook like those Practice Makes Perfect books (are they available for lots of languages?), or a regular podcast containing a grammar portion, like Need in Slow <language>, whatever suits you. That is where you get explicit background on things like irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, common idioms, preposition usage, etc. Duo teaches those through exposure and repetition, but for me it is helpful to have them spelled out for me. If course just having those resources does not mean I use them regularly, as I should!
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4 minutes ago, Eilonwy said:
I use Duolingo daily for Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Ukrainian, though not each of them every day.
So you have any tips for studying multiple languages on Duolingo and keeping them straight? My brain starts to cross language boundaries when I study more than one language using the same platform (generally Duolingo).
hand knitted baby blankets
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Also, I've never seen a loom used in that fashion. Very intriguing!