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  1. Morning, Happy Saturday. I cleaned my living room yesterday (I'm really really bad at housework so that is an occasion). Now I have space to do yoga in the mornings. I really need to get back to that because my muscles are achy again. Today I'm going into work to do some arranging. I had to move some stuff out of the way because the town put in a new water meter and it was in my closet. Now I have to move things back but we're also rearranging a classroom since we moved the junior room and put in shelves. Looks like I did hire an admin. She won't be starting until August but I had mentioned it to some people and one of them was interested so brought it up to me. We met so we could see if she was even interested once she knew what it entailed and she was. I'm excited, I think she'll be really good at it.
  2. We have "party" buses around here that the company will drive to your house for a kids party. I've seen them with mats and padded walls for tumbling/gymnastics parties, with gaming computers and video game systems, arts and craft activities/tables, and lights and music for dance parties.
  3. Okay I'm seeing that some "Boston Creme Pie" is actually most definitely cake. But I've usually had Boston Creme Pie that is actually pie in a crust.
  4. Why isn't Boston Creme Pie a pie? It has a crust. I like ice cream pie - softened ice cream mixed with cool whip and pudding mix in a chocolate cookie crust then placed in the freezer to harden but in the fridge an hour before serving. Maybe some Magic shell on top. Yummy.
  5. Yeah, but I'll actually only be working 10am to 3:30pm Monday through Thursday and only until 12:30pm on Fridays except certain weeks. Not even full time (if I don't have all the paperwork to do as well). 99% of my classes will be fully planned if I can resist tweaking stuff.
  6. Pumpkin pie is my favorite. Otherwise I like a nice warm cobbler with ice cream.
  7. I had someone talk to me today about the admin position I want to hire for. Someone else to do all the paperwork stuff would be wonderful. I'm teaching 20 classes (some are repeats of each other, all are things I've already taught in the past) next year. I don't want to do paperwork too.
  8. Power just came back on! Yippee! Now I can do laundry tomorrow after work.
  9. According to the electric company our power is coming on sometime between 7:30pm tonight and 11:30pm on Wednesday. We've gotten multiple messages with all different times. We are in a small deadend neighborhood so don't tend to be high on the list but I hope it's tonight and not Wednesday. We have a generator but it's not full house. We have lights, water, refrigerator and wifi but no heat and have to light the stove manually. I'm not sure about hot water, I'll have to ask dh. I think we have a propane hot water heater so that should work I think?
  10. Happy Monday. It started out cloudy and wet which had me very upset since it was supposed to be nice today. It did clear up and get nice and sunny but it's super windy and trees are down all over the place so we have no power at home. It went down briefly at work then came on sort of half-way/brown out-ish before coming back on fully a few hours later. I was going to do laundry this evening and now I can't.
  11. Sorry, another vote for people are dumb. We always have people who try to drive out on ice that's not thick enough, people who try to swim under the ice, we've had people go hiking in places they are unfamiliar with without carrying essentials or knowing anything about avoiding bears, people who try to pet bears, people who stick their heads into known bear caves, who drive in snow/ice conditions where the roads are closed/there's a state of emergency, climb up onto a roof without safety equipment, use power tools without safety equipment, shoot off fireworks while drunk, etc. All the time.
  12. Looks like Italy may wait until 2025. If we go this October we'd have to use credit, if we wait to 2025 there are a bunch of payments/bills going away and we could pay cash. We don't really want to rack up that much credit. Plan B is probably Vegas and the Grand Canyon, two other places on my bucket list. I don't drink and very limited gambling but shows, shopping, etc. will be fun. We looked at Alaska cruises (the other trip we want to take) but evidently they don't run in November and that's when I have a week off close to our anniversary. Next year hopefully my schedule will open up more.
  13. Morning, the parade yesterday was even more miserable than I thought it would be. It was 46 degrees but very damp and it started raining right as we started marching. I couldn't get warm afterwards, not even with a warm shower, fleece pjs and a blanket. Only crawling into bed with the heated mattress pad did it.
  14. Our local bank (Lakeland) still does free student checking accounts with no minimum but their normal free checking accounts have minimum balances. We have our mortgage at the same bank as our checking accounts so we meet the minimum with that. For my business, I found free business checking with a physical location at Columbia Bank. That is the only place I found that wasn't an online only bank that had free business checking.
  15. Wow, somehow it was an entire page ago that I was last on here even to read. This week has been busy but I didn't think it was that busy. I have to march in a St Patrick's Day parade tomorrow and it's going to be raining. Yuck. We have snowbells, crocuses, daffodils and hyacinths coming up. That is not normal for this time of year where I am. We also have the spring peepers croaking down by the river and fireflies in the yard. Also not normal. We are having really screwy weather. dh and I are possibly planning a trip to Italy for our 20th anniversary in October. Probably a tour since neither of us speak any Italian. Older dd is actually going to Italy in July for a wedding.
  16. I've seen houses described as "tiny houses" that are bigger than my house. We live in 750 square feet, an old summer bungalow from when my area with a ton of lakes used to be the summer homes for people from the cities. It works mostly. We've had 5 of us here when older dd was home, now we have 4. Each of the teenagers has their own bedrooms - 9 x 9 1/2 and 9 x 12, while our bedroom is about 6 x 8 (literally just fits our bed with a small space to walk to the door). Biggest issue is no storage since our garage is not chipmunk tight and we have no basement and only two small closets. But we are in a quiet community, on a river, yet still very close to jobs. Rare to find around here. It's worked for 20 years and the kids are happy. We have no plans to change anything since it's perfect to age in place. Probably biggest problem is only one bathroom, but we're all on fairly different schedules so it tends to not be an issue too often.
  17. So it's the "necessities" that have gone up and the mindless entertainment to keep everyone compliant that have gotten cheap.
  18. Morning, Happy Friday. Dd is getting new tires on her car so will come here to wait while they're done and do laundry and her taxes while here so I can help with taxes if needed. I was going to do laundry myself but ds decided to do some last night before I could get started, now dd wants to do today. My schedule is somewhat more flexible than theirs so I guess I wait. No big projects this weekend for a change. Just general putting things away, laundry, regular class plans.
  19. Morning, It's Tuesday. My head-in-to-work-super-early-because-ds-needs-the-car-for-school day. Yesterday there was a problem with the sewer system at work so my sink wouldn't drain and the toilet starting leaking out the bottom. So we had no bathroom to use all day. It wasn't a me problem it was a whole building problem so they took care of it last night. So we should be good today when I get in. Older dd's car issue has been resolved with a new (used/refurbished) engine but she also is driving on a bald tire so for safety sake we're paying for new tires for her the end of this week. Younger dd was having an existential crisis last night about the state of the country (she's a 16 year old lesbian with a black girlfriend who lives in North Carolina) - too young to vote or be effective but old enough to know how screwed up things are. Plus she's an artist and AI is making it hard on artists. She didn't want to tell me because she thought I'd scoff at her being "silly" but we spoke about it for a while. Ds seems to be doing well. Pre-Calculus is turning out to be easier than he was worried about.
  20. I'm in Northern New Jersey and I've had friends that didn't drive due to various medical conditions. There is a fairly robust NJ Transit bus/light rail/train system that can get you to most areas - malls, city centers, NYC, jobs, etc. from most areas. I'm in a rural area that's not great walkability and would be about 2 miles to the nearest train station, but there are towns on either side of me that have train stations, little town centers, and are very walkable. Plus larger towns/small cities all over the area that are very walkable and easy to get to the bus/train stations. A few towns have their own free bus service, generally meant for seniors but open to use by anyone, that travel in a loop around town stopping at apartment complexes, town centers and grocery stores.
  21. Morning, Happy Friday. Except this Friday is a sign that my week off is almost over. I did get a lot done. After feeling like I was sick, it kind of seemed to be more allergies after that one day. The weather is screwy and really messing with things around here. Things are blooming but molds/mildews are cropping up below the snow so I'm getting it from both sides. I took dd to open a bank account yesterday. She wants to start doing commissions for her art. I gave her all the warnings about online transactions. Then I went to MVC to get my car inspected. It passed despite the big crack in the windshield because they don't check anything except emissions.
  22. We have a lot since we have various muscle/arthritis/injuries plus allergies. Besides prescriptions we have: Advil (my preference) Tylenol (dh can't take advil anymore) Children's Tylenol and/or aspirin (ds can't swallow pills but is now old enough for aspirin) Benedryl children's Benedryl Dayquil Cough drops Tums Pepto-bismol tablets Benedryl cream neosporin creams Magnesium gel Icy-hot type muscle ache stuff peroxide alcohol Vicks vapor rub Advil PM (which is really just advil and benedryl so not sure why we bothered)
  23. I had my "mid-life" crisis early. I was in my early 30's, had been married for 10 years, and just felt like life was never going to get better. I was having panic attacks, my ex was emotionally abusive, things seemed hopeless and I was actually wishing for some crisis to interrupt life as it was. I ended up getting divorced, spending a few years figuring out who I was and what I wanted (I obviously had married really young). Dh and I will have been married 20 years this October. The difference between how I feel now when I'm actually "middle age" and how I felt then is astronomical.
  24. I'm in New Jersey and have AT&T. It's working fine.
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