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I would love to have an iPhone. It would solve all of my iProblems. I would give ds my old iPod and then i'D have an uber cool toy/phone just for me!
Oh my, what did our mothers worry about?
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Well this brings me to another problem.
I kind of have a fundamental issue with letting an 11yo have a better iPod than mine!!! :001_huh:
I think that mine is only 2GB and if I got him a new nano his would have 8.
And that would make me jealous because I am immature. :lol:
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And it's so much worse during the holidays. By New Years, I will no doubt lose all four sets of car keys, lose my wallet, and have presents squirrelled away all over house in places I just can't quite recall:)
Ahhh, yes, the squirreling away of presents is hard for me too.
I have yet to find two American Girl nightgowns from maybe 3 years ago. It's very sad. I have no idea what happened to them!
And as the kids get older it's actually harder, because they think they've figured out all my hiding places and they're probably right. I will have to start using my neighbor's house.:001_smile:
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I have a recipe from Cooks Illustrated for crescent rolls.
It says that I can make the dough up to four days ahead of time. But it doesn't say if I should (1) make the dough, put it in the refrigerator and then on TG day let it rise and shape the rolls, or (2) make the dough, let it rise, punch it down, put it in the refrigeratore, and then on TG day just shape and bake.
When would you let it rise?
Dana,
You'll probably get more responses if you start a separate thread. This is quite the hijack!! :D
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Ds would like an iPod this year. Well, he's saying iPod because I have that brand. The nano seems like the most fun, but honestly I can't see spending $150 on one item. And to tell you the truth, that would blow his whole Christmas budget. So it doesn't make sense to buy that. The iPod Shuffle is only about $50, but doesn't hold as much music, doesn't have a screen, etc. It just doesn't seem like it would be as fun to use.
So now I'm wondering about the other brands of mp3 players on the market. Is there something else that gives you the memory and some of the "fun" of the nano without the price tag?
Thanks!
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But I also think that many a man out there would get a great surprise if he loved his wife no matter what. Treated her as if she were beautiful no matter what. And loved her, no matter what.
Just one woman's opinion.
Nope, that's more than one woman's opinion, Jill.
Thanks for saying this.
I haven't read this whole thread. I just can't.
But I wanted to make one point.
When you grow up you find out that nothing...absobloominlutely nothing is just what you expected it to be like. And I'm quite sure that Heather's brother has been somewhat of a disappointment in his own right. And Heather, I'm not saying that to pick on him, I just mean that we all disappoint one another. That's what we do. It's the human condition.
On the contrary, we often surprise one another with our ability to be great.
Jill, this is one of those times that I really miss rep. Your post is definitely deserving of a big old :thumbup:.
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Cin,
You win. Hands down!!!! :ack2:
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Abbey,
Thanks so much for digging this up. It's a Thanksgiving tradition!! :001_smile:
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You can also listen to DR on the radio free everyday as well as check out his books from the library. He has a lot of material available free on his website as well. We're not quite debt-free yet but have been following his plan for a year and a half and have made incredible progress. Following his plan has also brought much-needed peace to our marriage, with no more power struggles over money. I haven't bought anything from him.
I found all his info for free!
Kris
Exactly. We use(d) DR's method to pay off our debt and control our finances. We haven't paid him a dime except the cost of the book, which we wanted to own and not just borrow.
Larry Burkett sold plenty of things too. The worker is worthy of his wage.
Thanks for saying this, Kris!
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I seem to recall that you had all the rep. :biggrinjester:
Touché!!!
(But I didn't really have alllllllllll of it. Mindy and Jenny had a lot more! ;))
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Ya, but do you like *mine*? ;)
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Me too! And Anj, Elaine, Gardenschooler, Plaid Dad, Volty, Genie, Pam...
Hey there, Jenny!! I miss you too.
Oh, and I totally love your new sig line! ;)
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I had a disputation once.
As long as you didn't have a reputation you're okay! ;)
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Dang! It's been 40 years and I haven't even STARTED mine yet. I can see I'm a little behind.
:lol::lol::lol:Same here, Mindy! We'd better get to work, eh? :D
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Well, I'm still holding out hope that it will be! :-) I've been on for 7.5 and I will admit this appears to be one of the lower places, but I'm hopeful it will bounce back. I've been accused of being optimistic more than once. :001_smile:
When the skies are brighter canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green.
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead,
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head.
I hear the human race
Is fallin' on its face
And hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whippoorwill
Is sellin' me a bill,
And tellin' me it just ain't so.
I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
And appear more intelligent and smart,
But I'm stuck like a dope
With a thing called hope,
And I can't get it out of my heart!
Not this heart...
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But, anj......who am I gonna get all silly with if you are off being responsible?!? Elaine is awol too!
You're on Facebook, and you're my on my friends list. Get all silly with me there! I check that a few times a day.
As a matter of fact, I sent something silly like that to a couple of people the other day. I'll send it to you right now! :auto:
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Hey, I'm here!
I haven't been here much lately, that's true, but I do pop my head in from time to time. I think you're right, Colleen, that we're probably just not here at the same time. I've really been trying to control my screen time, and to actually do more homeschooling, fancy that. ;)
If I let myself hang out here for more than a few minutes I end up reading threads...long threads...sometimes very long threads...and I get sucked in, and that's not good for me. To be totally honest, it was easy to sort of drift off a month or so ago because I wasn't getting involved in the political conversations and there seemed to be so many, and I just really, really dislike unpleasantness.
But that's all done now, and hopefully things will return to normal soon, and I will continue to practice self control with the computer monitor!
Thanks so much for mentioning me, Colleen. I miss your wit and perspective too. It really means a lot that you would ask about me (and everyone else, of course. I feel like the Narrator in Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and I don't want to come off that way! :tongue_smilie:)
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While I understand the desire to resell, I have to say that if I can use one curriculum to teach my four children several subjects, I feel like I've gotten a pretty good deal. If I can use that same curriculum four years later for the same children, I feel like I've gotten a great deal. If you break down the entire amount (and I think I paid $295 for my complete bonus package last year), it really isn't as expensive as it seems. I know that we get sticker shock when we see the big number, but I encourage you to break it down. In my case, if I use it to teach 5 subjects, now I've paid $60/subject. And then when I teach each child a subject, I've paid $15/child/subject. And if I use it twice during their education I've paid $7.50/child/subject/cycle.
Okay, fine. If you resell it then it'll be like teaching your kids all those subjects for even less, but how much less will it really cost you? And is that really your bottom line? I don't mean to sound harsh, but I just want to encourage people to think outside the box on this, and maybe think of the DE as a sort of consumable.
I understand that this reasoning doesn't apply across the board: some people only have one or two children, some people truly cannot afford to invest this amount of money, etc. But then I guess it's not for you. Truly, and without guile, I am glad that there are so many choices available. Some people vacation in Europe, others go camping. Some people go out for pizza, others to 4-star restaurants. Some buy their clothing at Target, others at Nordstrom's. This is just the way things are. And you just do the best you can with the money that you have, and trust the Lord to make up the difference.
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As an outsider looking in, I'm confused by the expectation that people seem to have that TOG should have, without cost, kept the Classic version up-to-date instead of upgrading the product. I don't know of any other company that does that? From the number of people I know using Classic, it must still be usable, they have just come up with a newer product. Isn't that what most companies do each year when they update their product? They aren't sending 'update pages' or new copies to their old customers.
You made several excellent points.
I'd like to add that the upgraded pages are actually available free of charge. They can be printed from the website. The formatting may be slightly different, and they won't match your preprinted pages perfectly, but the information is available. If a customer wants the pre-printed pages, there is a cost. And I agree with you that that's to be expected.
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I too fear that the high price, inability to resell, and having no printed copy will keep many people away. I believe there is the possibility that Lampstand may do print runs of all year plans during the busy time of year (late spring/summer) and there's also the possibility that they may sell portions of each year plan. Hopefully those incentives, if they come to pass, will keep customers and gain new ones.
Yes, this is what I'm hoping too. It sounds like the major problem is insufficient funding to have things printed during the slow season. I think it would be great if they had enough money to do a printing sometime in mid-summer each year and then people would just understand that if you miss that window, the only thing available is the DE.
I'm personally still trying to decide whether I want to pre-order Years 2 and 3 in printed form and then just wait for the Year 4 DE. I'd really love it if I could get the printed copies, but have digital access to the Reading Assignment pages so that I could print out copies directly from the computer.
Oh, and Karen--I just saw your location: and you're right. You are too far away from me! :(
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Funny, that is what some people say about reading and responding on message boards! :lol:
(I don't watch the view because its ick, but I am sure I do things that people would consider a waste of time)
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I understand. If you look back in thread, you will see that other hostesses (at least I assume they're hostesses) were bashed prior to negative comment about this particular hostess. So I suppose it is equal opportunity bashing of all hostesses and program itself.
Well yes, I guess that's true. I think that maybe people felt justified because of Joy Behar's remarks, but it's true that bashing is bashing.
I've been thinking lately too about how easily and handily we feel free to denigrate public figures, but I'm not making any changes in my actions or outlook because of it. Being subjected to that sort of ridicule just kinda goes along with seeking a career in the public eye.Also true. But sometimes I remind myself that they're still human and they have human feelings. And I wonder how I would feel if I were just reading a message board and suddenly my famous sister's name came up. And people were saying things about her that were unfair or just mean. There's a fine line between criticizing a person's work and tearing them to shreds on a personal level.
Oh well.
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I took it to mean that, in poster's opinion, Elizabeth is the stupidest hostess on "The View." I believe the context had strayed from the homeschooling comment to generally bashing "The View" as a silly, stupid program.
Maybe.
I guess I'm just really, really tired of people insulting other people. And I'm not saying that the people who posted the comments are always going around doing that. I've been talking to my kids about kindness a lot lately and I've become more sensitive to things like that. So it bothers me.
Can we talk about mp3 players/iPods?
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Thanks for all of your replies. I think we'll either go with a refurb. or I'll just give him mine (not as a Christmas gift) and then treat myself to the nicer one. We'll see. But thanks to each of you for your input. :001_smile: