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A nice sweet biscuit! YUM :drool: ETA: I don't care for the angel food cake version.

I started seeing an increase a few years back and the only thing I think it was linked to in my area was meth use. I haven't noticed any increase lately, but our small town is at least 20 years behind the times.

Hee Hee Hee !:lol::lol::lol: (hurrying off to finish some things, so that I too can have inner peace)

Thanks, I'll stick with doing half I guess and little by little add to it and see where it gets me. I really need to do something though. I am not getting any younger or thinner:glare:

Hot soaks in the bathtub. Hot and spicy food that makes your nose run, such as gumbo, posole, that mustard horsradish stuff they give you with eggrolls or wasabi. The best way for me to get over a cold is to go to bed and sleep for about 24 hours straight, not really an option with kids though.

Praying and :grouphug: to you.

I have question...well more like an explanation with a question attached.:tongue_smilie: I have started to do C25k on my treadmill because I can't seem to wear shoes anymore and the temps and lack of pavement here are not conducive to running outdoors without shoes. The problem is, I can only get about halfway before my asthma kicks in. I could push through and finish I think but then I would be coughing all. day. long. Would it be as effective to do half a workout everyday instead of a whole one on alternating days? The main reason I'm doing it is to get into shape. TIA

Thanks ladies, sometimes I just need someone to tell me to stop thinking :D

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Tell me if I'm over thinking this or just plain weird. Well, don't really tell me I'm weird, that might hurt my feelings.:D Here's the deal, I went to a very small alternative school for high school and we (students and teachers) were all really close. I didn't keep in touch with anybody, but recently I have reconnected with some friends on FB and it's kind of neat to see their families and how they're doing. So I saw on another friend's FB list a guy I went to prom with and had a casual "relationship" with that fizzled out because he joined the military and I was too much a dolt to see what a neat guy he really was. I want to friend him because I'd like to know how he's doing and how his life has been, will that be too akward? I'm single and so is he and I don't want it to appear that I am pursuing him. I have avoided FB friending guys I used to know for this reason. Will people (or he) think that about me or am I over thinking this.:tongue_smilie: I am an introvert so, I am a terrible judge about what is too wierd to do.(Talking to people outside my family seems weird ) My main objective is usually to go though life with the least notice taken of me. Anyhoo, I'm all :bigear: to hear the Hive concensus on this.

My dear Dee-Dee lives to argue, contradict and have the last word on every subject. So the kids were watching a little T.V., when their show ended I jokingly said "Okay boys that's it." Dee-Dee said "I'm not a boy!" So, I then said "Alright then, that's it boy and girl." Before she could even think she said "I'm not either of those!":001_huh::D:lol: Needless to say she quickly backtracked and revised her statement and still had the last word.:lol:

I just want to offer you all some holiday time:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:. As my dear girl told me today it's only 22 more days to Christmas:D. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

So I don't dye my hair much, I have naturally red red hair. I used to get some shampoo that was r.e.d. red that I used when I felt I need the need to have something more exciting. So my hair color and the r.e.d. red combined ended up being sort of fuschia:D The shampoo is not made anymore, I have used some temporary dye that just wasn't as bright as I was going for. I found some dye at Sally that is semi-pemanant. So, my question is what does semi-permanant mean? The directions say to bleach your hair to a strawberry blond before dying, I tried it out on a piece of hair without bleaching and it's exactly what I'm wanting, but.... I'm afraid it won't wash out gradually and I might not want to keep dying my hair fuschia forever:tongue_smilie: My hair grows fast, I had it cut chin length in August and it's now past my shoulders, so in a few weeks time I will have a line, which is why never used anything but temporary stuff. So, if you've made it this far:D and you are a hair dying expert could you advise me please? ETA: Should I dye it after washing it or dirty?

The calendar becomes more than a place to see what's coming it becomes all she will do. For example, she had an old calendar that I let her keep in her room to look at the pictures that she somehow:confused: mentally adjusted with the current calendar so that she could know exactly what day things would be on. Then at bedtime instead of reading (which she enjoys) she would "read" her calendar, for hours keeping herself up long past when she normally falls to sleep. It's more than a need to see that something is happening, it's hard to describe, it's the desire to have all of life be fun and ideal, but also the inablity to control herself when life is exciting. She always ruins her own fun by getting carried away on the way to the fun, then after it's all over she's crashing and burning, because the fun is over. I feel like I'm d'd if I do and d'd if I don't. No matter what happens it will never measure up to her ideal. She will be mad either because she didn't get to do something or because it wasn't perfect or it didn't last long enough. Dee-Dee is also a very talented artist, and we have gone through the same things, not quite as intense as some describe. She picks things to copy and will then try to replicate them, some of them not really worth it, like other childrens drawings. Weeks spent drawing the same thing over and over. She has seemed to come to the realization that art must be practised, so we don't have much drama over that. We just can't throw any paper away. I guess I am coming to the realization that her heart is mostly healed, but her brain is what it is. Going into all this I held onto the hope that her heart would heal from her rough first wo years and I would be left with a pretty much typical girl. She is anyting but typical.

8FillTheHeart, thanks for that. I think that's pretty much what I'm dealing with. Now that I think about it, she told me not long ago that she wished we could go somewhere everyday :blink: I'll have to look for ways to balance the routine. She lives for things to happen and I am always hoping that nothing will happen. :001_smile: She's given me all the excitement I can handle for a life time;)

I used my quota of images in the above post so , I am adding these that I wish I could have used:mad::crying::svengo::boxing_smiley::glare::thumbdown::smash::blink:. There, that's better:D

I just need to have a vent here. I wish my Dee-Dee could enjoy a holiday or special occasion without going totally bonkers :banghead: afterward. We had a very low key Thanksgiving yesterday. My folks, the kids and I, no big deal... or so I thought. Things went fairly smoothly yesterday and TODAY:willy_nilly::cursing::angry:. Sometimes I wish I could just skip holidays and birthdays. She can read a calendar though. If she's not obsessing over the currrent whatever, she's scouring the calendar to find the next one to count down to.:001_rolleyes: So, there hasn't been a calendar up in my house for several years. I'm just tired of the drama and the bracing myself for the drama. I wish she could just go along for the ride :auto: and take life as it comes and really just take a giant:chillpill: Okay, I feel better now. I just had to clear the air a bit and get the stink blowed off me:D Thanks for "listening".

Glögg:D, Christmas music and peppermint sticks. Ooo, I almost forgot, making pfeffernuse, fruit cake and lebkuchen and then eating them a few weeks later.

This looks basically the same, only they sell plans. I personally like this.

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My question is, do we(Christians) ever really hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold others to? I know I don't. I see others faults very well from the outside. I'm sure others do the same to me, looking at my life from the outside. But many of the things people get to judging others for are a matter of conscience or conviction. While we are asked to avoid things that make others "stumble" we are also asked not to judge, to let God do the judging. I've been reading this thread from the start and I just had to say that FWIW

Okay, I've typed out a reply twice and lost it. The long and the short of them was this. I planned starting spanish next year and continuing it to graduation because I know some spanish speakers where I will be moving sometime this year(whenever my house has "facilities"). I guess I'll just add italian to my plan. I'm of two minds on whether to continue with latin right now, or to put it off until middle school as Charlotte Mason suggests.:001_unsure:

Please contact the library director and tell them all you have said here. I have worked in a library before and some of my co-workers could get very uptight about their "idea" about what the "rules" were. The library is there to serve you and help you, not the other way 'round. The lady you describe sounds like she had "a bee in her bonnet" to put it nicely. People like that run people (children mainly) off for life though and her director needs to know she's putting people off. Ok. rant over:tongue_smilie:

:lol: I thought, "What can it hurt to buy the books a few years early, plus I'll know exactly what they're doing when they are in year 7.":lol: The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!) Robert Burns, To a Mouse (Poem, November, 1785)