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  1. Same. And as others said, if there was truly a valid, logical reason for not having one AND the person was able to get where they wanted to go without relying on this new person they just met, that would be different. Say they had a vision issue and already had a system to get to where they need to go - be that public transportation, or a budget for Lyft, or had an apartment close to stores/restaurants/work/etc to make it feasible, that would be fine. But it generally is guys that haven't budgeted for a car and are not in a place financially or otherwise to be a good partner in a relationship.
  2. This! and as far as health, I'd just be eating the cheesecake for breakfast - at least you added in the bagel! (I love to eat cream cheese on graham crackers, so I'm not judging at all)
  3. yes, exactly! This is also a suspicion, and we are pursuing testing.
  4. Today her big complain, with lots of feeling, was that "If I do something I shouldn't, you say something to me, and then I don't do it anymore." This was said as a complaint, because somehow I'm forcing her to be good and she really wants to be rebellious and bad?
  5. I'm definitely staring perimenopause - the insomnia, anxiety, etc. Last time I had a 13 year old I also had a 2 yr old and was pregnant, so that was worse, lol.
  6. I love my daughter. She'a. great kid. But dear heavens has she become full of teenage angst lately - ALL of which is directed at me. ALL of it. I am the bad person. I am the problem. I am the one that makes her anxious. y'all I try very very hard to be a good parent. But it seems I'm the enemy. And I KNOW this is normal. But heavens. I'm going to drink a High Noon Tequila Seltzer and try very hard to be grateful she is comfortable enough with me to come to me with all her big feelngs - even when they are about me. Edit - there is also some physical stuff going on - she's anemic and low vitamin D so we just found out that and are addressing it, that should help. And we are waiting on celiac test results which I'm sure is stressing her out (she is going to be very upset if positve, and I don't blame her one bit) and may also be causing anxiety if she has it - her brother gets neuropsychiatric symptoms when he gets glutened (he has celiac)
  7. I know this is old, but just saw this. I'd dismissed Funda Funda because I thought it was a play on the word "Fundamentalist" and would be conservative religious stuff, lol. I seem to be wrong. So, thank you for this.
  8. He is SO adorable! But of course, he will just keep getting cuter and cuter - so no worries about him getting bigger 🙂
  9. Ah, my primary care copay is $25, Urgent Care is $40, ER is $200 I think, maybe $250.
  10. This is why I was thrilled that our new house was 3 minutes from a well run and very clean urgent care. It's just easier. That said, our new primary office has an ARNP who sees just sick visits several days a week, so maybe I could get it fast now. Oh, and when i went there the first time I was super nice to the receptionist, and complimented how well they ran things. She ended up giving me the number for her direct line so I could call her to schedule directly, rather than the main system for the bigger practice! Score!
  11. Well, today hit a new low for the website/social media/communications! I was really disappointed my church didn't have an Ash Wednesday service, and spent over an hour last night and today trying to find another church that had one that worked timewise and that I would feel comfortable going to. I eventually posted on our members only facebook group that I was looking for an Ash wednesday service, and might be going to the service at the church down the street. A few hours later the education director sent me a text - she saw my post and told me our church DOES have an Ash Wednesday service - but someone NO ONE had put that information ANYWHERE. So she thanked me for bringing it up, and she had put the info on Facebook on the member page and the outward facing page. I had even checked the church calendar - nothing, and NOTHING was said about it last Sunday during announcements, NOTHING was in the bulliten about it OR the newletter that goes out monthly. NOTHING. So, we may be the only ones there tonight, lol. YIKES!
  12. I think it was over the line and bad sportsmanship for him to get in his coach's face because he was mad about being taken out of a play. Poor sportsmanship. AND Any Reid is the reason they won and were in that game in the first place - he knows what he is doing! I don't think it means he's an abuser, but it does show a lack of self discipline and the best players have self discipline. And it was ego centric which again - bad sportsmanship. it's a TEAM sport.
  13. Yes. I had to get off Reddit the other day after reading about someone who refused to watch her neighbor's kids for an hour while the woman went to the hospital. She said the people in the apartment complex all would hang out in the courtyard while kids played together, including her kids. She'd been there a year, knew this next door neighbor for a year. But when the neighbor knocked on her door at 3am in a panic because she was in very active/advanced labor and her sister couldn't get there to watch her kids for another hour, this woman refused to watch the laboring woman's kids for that hour. And many if not most comments supported her decision, saying it "wasn't her problem". For a "Christian nation" we sure seem to have skipped over the story about the Good Samaritan. (not to mention in this particular case about the innkeeper NOT being the hero of the story when he says there is no room in the inn!) it made me so sad/angry I just got off social media for the night. Read a nice book about a serial killer since at least that was fiction. (and I know, often posts on Reddit are fiction as well...but at least some of those commenting were likely serious)
  14. What kind of monsters do you associate with that no one wanted to eat the buffalo dip? My ONLY concern with it is sometimes it is too spicy for me, but it is so yummy!
  15. Oh, I get that - people who are doing well and enjoying their job don't have to go on to Reddit to complain. You only see the negatives. All this!!!!!! I did comment on Reddit about a kindergarten assignment, where they had to write down 10 things that started with the letter F that they could find in their home. A parent had posted about it, wondering if it was okay that the kid spelled words wrong (because hello, a 5 year old can't spell Fridge even if it was a real word). I said that hey, maybe it would be more developmentally appropriate to have kids who are still learning the alphabet/basic phonics to just draw a picture of objects, or dictate the words to an adult. I was told no, that it was very important to have kids that age writing. I am apparently insane for thinking requiring writing should come AFTER knowing both how to form letters and spell a decent number of words. Years ago DS24 decided to try public highschool, for 9th. He got into a "Scholars Academy" program. The writing "instruction" consisted of going to the computer lab and writing short essay responses to various questions to practice for the end of year standardized writing test. There was ZERO instruction. Worse, when they were done, they were told to just delete their answers. No one actually GRADED or reviewed or corrected or critiqued it. Somehow, they were expected to get good at writing by just....writing, with no feedback at all nor any instruction. My DS was so annoyed that he hacked into the system to save and email himself one of his responses that he was particularly proud of. But seriously, how do you expect kids to care about their writing when no one will ever read it???? Yes, it's again about age appropriate levels. In early years, kids are learning to read, so they need to be doing that with instruction in class, with someone there to check if they are getting it. But later, they are reading to learn, so doing reading outside of class lets them then discuss the reading IN class. If class time is for reading, there isn't time to discuss.
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