This was a big part of the problem in my first marriage and I wasn't a minor when we started dating I was 19, he was 27. Almost 22 and 30 when married. The difference in life experience, the feeling in charge because of age/experience, were definitely a problem. Dh is 13 years older than me but we were 35 and 48 when we got married. We have none of those issues. Now I do think personality contributes as well because we've had other "power differentials" in our relationship (mostly financial), but dh is much more laid-back than ex. I personally am not a fan of early marriage. I've always encouraged dd to get her degree before getting married. I would have supported her with what ever decision she made, but she also understood why I felt that way.

Morning. Another typical week at the science center. I'm hoping my teacher likes her new desk and cabinet.

Almost time for bed. Last load of laundry is in the dryer (to be fair, the clean clothes are mostly unfolded in baskets), dishes were done, school is set up for the week, classes all planned for the week, I did work at the science center, shared class pics on Facebook (usually do on Friday, I'm running late). Now one last visit here and I do my before bed off-screen relaxation. Good Night y'all!

Does the math work out? I can't think how to figure it out right now, my brain is fried. NJ has 15,000 deaths out of a population of 8.8 million.

The latest board change evidently took away the ability to use punctuation in names. I couldn't get it back at all for the longest time, when it finally worked, I wasn't going to quibble. 😁

We have a ton of stuffed dragons too. Mostly Pokemon or Webkinz types. I actually just put some dragon garden statues in our Amazon hold cart. Dh commented on them but I know I told him years ago I wanted dragons for the garden. I love baby Yoda and want to get figurines or stuffies or something. Not for holiday decorations, just to have.

I agree. Basically all advanced math represents division as a fraction. You pretty much don't ever see the division sign (the line with dots above and below one, that is) once you get to Algebra.

Morning. I've been feeling tired and lazy all weekend. I have been working through the laundry pile but still need to plan one class, set up school, and do some work at the science center.

I like musicals, rom-coms, funny/campy so: Bride and Prejudice Pitch Perfect Mamma Mia High Strung, Free Dance (on Netflix) Bring It On

Back from the restore. I found a spindle legged roll top desk with 4 little drawers under the roll top, and a small cabinet with two drawers that is pretty close to matching (similar wood grains). Both for under $40.

Toto is back!!! (finally) No punctuation though, and that's going to bother me.

Our dog needs to be sedated to cut his nails so has to go to the vet. He is an extremely anxious dog, really neurotic. We've tried giving him benedryl and/or melatonin before hand (at the recommendation of vet) and it was still a no-go. I used to clip my cockatiels nails and wings, cat nails, dog nails, etc so it wouldn't bother me to do it, if he wasn't so anxious.

I'm sure it varies from place to place, we live in a fairly affluent area so ours has some really nice stuff. Basically it's used furniture mostly, but ours also has books, toys, construction materials (we have a ton of flooring, sinks, tubs, paint, tiles, etc at ours), fish tanks, sometimes odd ball stuff. Ours has a room with really $$$$$ stuff in it that looks brand new and high end, but the majority of the stuff is your average furniture. Prices are really good. I bought a bunch of office chairs for my science center for $20 each, they were still wrapped and brand new, looks like a business shut down right after buying them. I also bought a chalk board table ($5), a square coffee table ($10), my roll top desk ($50), fabric waiting room type chairs($20 each), a kitchen cabinet piece ($20), and probably some things I'm not remembering right now. I think I bought a tank for the cockroaches there for $10 or so.

Morning! Happy Friday. Just two classes today, then heading to the restore with dh (it's senior day!) to look at desks/file cabinets. This weekend is laundry, laundry and laundry. Maybe some other cleaning and hopefully starting to decorate. Inspector is coming today so that should mean we can get some of the boxes out of the kitchen nook.

My oldest is now 26 but even going back to when she was a teenager, dutch seems to be the norm around here. Since they are already talking quite a big and hanging out together, I would suggest they talk about it so each knows how the other feels about it and if they massively disagree, see if they can work out a compromise or if its a deal-breaker.

Some of your experiences are just awful. A friend of mine's 17 year old daughter had an aggressive customer come into her job and basically walk over and breathe on her when she said he needed to wear a mask inside the store. My oldest daughter (26) works as a store manager in a mall and has had to constantly tell people they can't come in without a mask, but she hasn't had anyone be very aggressive, just argumentative. At my business, I've mostly dealt with people removing their masks when I'm not in the room or wearing obviously mesh masks. I think I've pretty much dealt with all of that so we're good at this point. Mask compliance around here is pretty good but I mainly go into large chain stores so maybe it would be different if I was going into smaller stores or service locations.

I might have found the question icky if I didn't know that Not A Number is very analytical and likes (?not sure likes is the word) data. I have been told I come across unfriendly or rudely because I tend to be very matter of fact and not flowery in the way I talk and ask questions sometimes. Anyway, I don't know anyone who was positive well enough to ask these questions. My aunt died a few months back of Covid but she worked as a CNA. I do know people who think they are being careful but they have eaten indoors at least once or twice, they go shopping, they may meet up with a small group of friends (not a pod) for dinner, etc. To me careful means only doing what is essential - work, groceries/pharmacy shopping, possibly other things for health (including mental health but I think to some people taking care of their mental health means living life like there's no pandemic).

Morning. I can't remember if I ever posted yesterday. This week is kind of a blur. Today is one of my long days, 3 classes with fairly involved activities. Although yesterday was supposed to be an easy day, just 2 classes, yet after just one class I was exhausted and felt like I had been running for hours. The activity was a big crazy so that's probably why. This weekend I have got to do laundry. Didn't do any last weekend since we were away and I'm running out of clothes. I think I want to run to our Habitat Restore and see if I can find a desk for my teacher. Right now she has a table in a window nook in the room where she teachers, that is also our lobby/entryway (bigger than the room she was using so can spread out more). Kids are always playing with the stuff on her desk, especially when she's not there. We have a screen for the classroom portion that can be moved around but a desk would allow drawers/shelves, plus we could rearrange so things weren't so out there.

I do if I'm around people. If we can be farther apart, I don't. I'll sometimes sit outside at my business chatting with people and I'll take the mask off if we are 10 feet or so away. Sometimes I'll go outside to eat if the weather is nice rather than have to unmask inside. I'm pretty sure we still have a mandate that says wear them if you can't avoid people outside.

I'm surprised NJ isn't higher on this list. We don't have that many exceptions for vaccination for school kids. Although I couldn't tell if the vaccination rate was mainly for kids under 5 (since that's the population they mention) or all kids. I do know a lot of people who "catch up" with vaccines in order to go to school. Universities (at least state universities) here require meningitis to live on campus. I'm not sure about any others, dd was fully vaccinated so it wasn't something I paid a lot of attention to. Dh and I were just talking about Covid vaccine the other day. I think I'll be comfortable making a decision about it by summer 2021. By that point, I think a lot of people - healthcare workers, military, high risk - will have been vaccinated and we'll hear about any major issues. Odds are good we wouldn't be able to get it before that point anyway since neither of us work for the type of industry likely to require it (I run my own business) or travel for business very often. What I do hope is that the mask mandates continue until a decent percentage of the population can be vaccinated or is vaccinated. I'm sure I will run into issues if I try to require masks longer than the mandates go on. Requiring proof of vax will definitely be a no-go (my "clientele" is mainly children so that has multiple issues) so the way this all shakes out could end up being very awkward for me.

I would assume one of the test they did was an antibody test which led them to conclude a post-Covid syndrome.

Around here the blue collar workers that have no choice but to go in to work are mostly being very careful in all areas of life. They seem to take the risk seriously and since they really don't want to get sick, they are as careful as possible both at work and off-work hours. But I'm also in an area that was hit hard in the beginning and we've had a pretty strong mask message since April.

Yes! I only did water in my kettle. I switched to adding the teabags when I got the glass tea pot. I think our extremely hard water even filtered, killed my kettle.

I had an electric kettle but it stopped working pretty quickly. I have a glass tea kettle that goes on the stove and I use that everyday. I put it on when I first get up, then go in the bathroom to take care of things and by the time I'm done, it's usually just starting to boil. I put the tea bags (one black, one green) in the kettle while it's heating, have one cup and put my cozy over it to keep it warm for my second cup. If I drink tea later in the day, I just microwave it a cup at a time. Usually that will be chai tea.

Benedryl helps my tinnitus and it's worse if my head feels stuffy. I take a 1/2 dose for allergies as needed and when I don't take it, the tinnitus is definitely worse.