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Wow! I'm impressed! I'm in college, too and I'm taking 2 classes. My brain is so over the workload! I think after my math final next week, I'm going to re-read Harry Potter, eat popcorn and drink sangria. :lurk5:
Hey, that's close to what I'm doing after finals. :D Except my last exam is Spanish, and I'll be re-reading Harry Potter, eating cheese popcorn and drinking Dr. Pepper. :lol: I'm taking 5 classes this semester.... :glare: Only taking a week to "relax" though, over the summer I have 3 languages to study and a thesis to make waves in...
To the OP:::
:party:Great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My opinion is that age span makes the relationship unequal. I'd call that inappropriate and depending upon what they were doing, perhaps not abuse.
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:lol: That was awesome!
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DD made a monkey when she was.... oh, 18 months? She carried that thing around EVERYWHERE for years. The monkey doesn't getting taken everywhere anymore, but has made a permanant home in our bed. For the time when DD was actively playing with the monkey it was a nice treat to go pick out a new outfit or something.
(She also has a dog with puppy and dog carrier that she still plays with)
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:lol: I was just headed here to update....
I may or may not have burnt it. :glare: I thought everything was going well, stirring every couple minutes, and it looked amazing. But then when I tasted it- something was off. Did some investigating, and the whole bottom was burnt..... :thumbdown: So... we had pizza rolls. -sigh- How ridiculous.
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Wow! Nothing like jumping in the deep end!
Sometimes you can find youtube videos for cooking various things.
:lol: I know. But wanting to try feijoada is actually the reason for this most recent attempt at learning how to cook. I really want to try it. :tongue_smilie:
Good idea.... off to stalk youtube. :D
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I did know to chop them up.... but of course, they are already chopped up in the canned version. :D
I bought some beef stew seasoning, carrots, stew meat, and potatoes. I figured I'd start really simple. Next weekend I'm going to try and make feijoada- this should be a significant disaster!! :tongue_smilie:
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Why would you want anything but NPR??
Okay,okay. I do NPR, BBC, and a few French newspapers (more for language than content at this point.) But I love me some NPR. My nighttime ritual is checking the NPR app on my phone and reading all the new articles. :D
(And I think I'll check out some of the sources suggested in this thread, so thank you everyone!)
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Um, I just had a thought that maybe I should add that when you are actually making that stew, you want to peel the carrots. ;)
Wow. Thanks. I... didn't realize this! :tongue_smilie:The ingredients list just says "Add fresh vegetables as desired: potatoes, carrots, celery, etc." I'da never thought to PEEL the carrots!! haha.
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Keep asking questions! Cooking with fresh foods is not as hard as it is made out to be, but there are always those little questions that everyone seems to take for granted that you know.
A good cookbook to try would be "Clueless in the Kitchen". It has lots of recipes for simple, basic foods cooked from scratch, from roast chicken to chocolate cake. It's pretty good at telling you all the stuff that other cookbooks take for granted, and the recipes are straightforward and use easy-to-find ingredients.
Thanks! My fridge only has one big drawer at the bottom, but with the little sliding humidity thing... would I show my ignorance if I admitted to keeping water bottles in there?:tongue_smilie:
That cookbook looks great!! :D I'm trying to make up for the fact that I never learned how to cook while I was younger (and didn't get an appreciation for many foods either)... but it's hard. I've looked at recipes that will tell me to do some crazy feat that I have to look up. Then I just get intimidated and quit.
I'm never giving up my hamburger helper.... but hopefully I can balance it out some! :lol:
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I always leave mine in the bag you put them in at the store. Never had any problems.
Thanks! :D
You guys are awesome. Much more straightforward than Google, which gave me 20 different ways to store my carrots.
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I ADORE Christmas music, but, only from November to January :)
I'm an October-January girl myself. No one ever wants to ride with me during those months.... :tongue_smilie:
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No green tops. Should I leave them in the (plastic)bag I put them in or take them out?
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Yeah, you know I always thought he'd grow up and come around eventually. I really hope your situation is better. :grouphug:
This is kind of the mind-set I've been in... DDs father has made comments to people we know mutually about "never having kids" because he enjoys his freedom, etc.etc. :001_huh: Uhm.... really? Because.... she's 5. (And yes, these comments are recent)
I do hope things work out for your DD. It's sad that she is being denied a relationship with her siblings.
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I wouldn't know what to do with a cellar, except maybe store wine in it! (Except, I don't drink wine- but a wine cellar sounds so... hoity-toity. :))
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No real advice, just :grouphug:, especially for your daughter.
This is a situation I fear we will be in someday, since DD's father and his mother are the only two members of their family that DON'T acknowledge DD as part of the family.
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Can I admit I giggled a little? Store them in the fridge. In that drawer marked, "Vegetables"
:lol: Yes, yes you can. I can admit that we didn't eat very well growing up, all of our vegetables came from a can!! I've recently switched to frozen vegetables instead of canned, and thought that home-made beef stew would be healthier than in a can. This should be interesting..... :tongue_smilie:
Right. That's probably why it's called a vegetable drawer... huh? :lol: I honestly didn't even think about that!
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Sort of. I probably listen to country music the most, but I listen to a HUGE variety of stuff. DD and I both love music and almost constantly have music on.
I listen to music for the lyrics, I like stuff I can relate too. DD listens for the beat, she likes stuff she can dance too. Anyone else see a problem here? :lol:
(My top 3 though would be: country, Spanish/French/Portuguese artists of all genres, and top 40-pop)
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I bought carrots (from the vegetable department- not frozen/refrigerated ones) tonight while at the store. I'm going to (uhm... attempt... :tongue_smilie:) to make beef stew sometime between tomorrow and Tuesday.
Well... how do I store these things? Do they go in the fridge? Or on the counter? Or.... some other option?
:D
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My summer reading list is currently being formed. It's mostly non-fiction, on Brazilian social history. :tongue_smilie:I'm writing a thesis next year and decided to get started this summer. Also lots of foreign language books for the summer, since I want to really focus on my Spanish.
ETA: And I'm sure I'll get some fluff reading done also, just don't need a list or plan for that! I am planning on re-reading all the Harry Potters though.
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Very interesting poll!
I'm an omnivore and.... something else. :lol: Not really sure what that is. FWIW, I'm currently registered as a Republican, but only because I haven't had a reason to change it. I'm split on the issues... don't really fit in any political camp.
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This is a possibility. I joke with my daughter like this all the time and it's never really even crossed my mind that people may think she is being abused at home. It's just our (admittedly odd) dynamic. I don't use actual corporal punishment at all.
This. I tell DD that I'm going to beat her up quite often.... her response is to laugh hysterically, and tell me she's going to beat me up. We do a lot of "rough housing", and this is just sort of an extension of that.
I've also joked about leaving her behind before.... and admittedly gotten dirty looks. :tongue_smilie: DD knows that I'd never leave her, (or beat her up!!), and finds stuff like that funny.
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I'm not married, but I can answer that it would bother me greatly.
I'm weird about food. Particularly food that keeps it's shape (so drinks, soft ice cream, soups, etc. are *mostly* exempt from the following statements, although there are a few that fall into this category :D) I eat my food in a very particular way. Burgers have small bites taken all the way around so that the burger is almost always round, ice cream with hard coating is eaten coating first, reese cups eaten one specific way, my whole grain cheerios are eaten one color at a time..... :tongue_smilie:The food just doesn't taste the same once it has been ruined. Oh, and I have to take the first bite.
(But if it happens to be a food that I don't eat in any purposeful manner: I'll share with whoever.)
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Well. The place I'd most like to live right now isn't a state. :D That would be Brazil. If I *had* to choose a state.... Texas, but only because that is where the graduate school I hope to attend is. Climate-wise, I'd rather live closer to.... Alaska! :tongue_smilie:
For retirement... well. I haven't even started my career yet, much less begun to think of retiring! :lol:
Ear piercing
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I'm going to (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th?) a professional tattoo/piercing shop. Pick a good, reputable shop. They are much more experienced than the 16 year old down at Claires or Piercing Pagoda. (The piercer who did all of my piercings regularly went to new classes, conventions, etc. to keep up on her skills). Using a disposable needle is also much cleaner, the piercing "guns" can't be cleaned all the way.
DD had her ears pierced at 6 months (shock!!! :tongue_smilie:) at her ped's office. Tiny, single use pieces that I was very happy with. She marked DDs ears, made sure they were even, and then I watched as she opened the new packages and then threw them away. (Oh, and after doing the first ear we checked to make sure it was still even.) When she gets around to wanting a second piercing (which... I'm imagining will be soon since Mommy is getting a new one this summer.... :D) she'll be going to a professional piercer.