Maybe that is the issue - CLE is SO wordy yet boring I kept paraphrasing and shortening it up. And the word problems were sometimes phrased poorly I felt. I should not feel I know LESS math after reading a lesson than I knew before reading it, lol. Wheras the lessons I readi n Jacobs had me nodding along going, "ah, yeah, exactly!" Or "huh, that's a good way to show that!"

Out of those, AAR for sure. Get the letter tiles app! I had the magnetic ones first and OMG the stress of finding tiles missing, behind the couch, chewed up by the dog, rearranged by a toddler, etc was NOT OKAY. The tile app is fantastic. My other favorite is Abecedarian - at least if you have a kid struggling. For handwriting I like Print Path which is on Teachers Pay Teachers OR The Good and The Beautiful handwriting. I don't use much from The Good and the Beautiful but my kids LOVE their handwriting - even my dysgraphic kid! There are little things to color or draw each day and maybe that is why. But my 8th grader was sad that they don't have any handwriting books past 7th.

At the last minute I went with CLE instead. I hate it. I can't even fully explain why, but I find the explanations confusing. I end up paraphrasing them to my kid to make them easier to understand, and the work bogs her down. Today I printed out the sample of Jacob's from Masterbooks and she did great. More importantly I understand it, so I can teach it! So yeah, ordered that, and hopefully it arrives before we run out of sample lessons (I think I have 9 lessons printed out). REALLY wish I didn't waste nearly 3 weeks on CLE.

When I was in highschool math homework was self check at home, and/or the teacher went over the answers in class. Definitely there was a time in each class period where people could ask the teacher to show on the board how to work out any problem they had gotten wrong and couldn't figure out. Then work was turned in and you got 100 percent for completing it. I am lazy about doing grades, but when I do homework is 100 percent for doing it, to balance out quizzes and tests.

These are all the same to me!

Walk and Wok sound identical to me - I pronounce them exactly the same. And awk sounds the same as ock to me as well - clock and gawk have exactly the same vowel sound when I say them. I've never heard them said differently.

I'm smacking myself. Duh! I should have realized that! In my defense I have a cold and so do all my kids. So....blame it on that, lol?

I think I get what you mean, Heart. You HAVE a degree in the field you want to work in, but are lacking in experience due to being out of the workforce to raise kids. Since you do already have the degree, the idea/hope is that you will then have the experience to be able to find other jobs in that field down the road.

I do wonder how "homeless" is counted. Given the sky high price of rent/housing I imagine there are a LOT of young people that are technically homeless who are couch surfing with friends, so not homeless in the sense of on the streets. Seems that would drive up the homeless stats in the Bay Area a lot. (I know there are actually people on the street as well, and that San Francisco in particular has a real problem with that, but just speculating on the whole area in general and how couch surfing 20 somethings inflate the figures, if at all)

1. I follow the person with the ball not really the ball. And even then, sometimes it is hard. that's why they have replays 🙂 2. I have a VERY odd reaction to the sounds of football in the background - it makes me very sleepy. Now, if it is my team and I'm actively watching it doesn't make me sleepy. But if I'm in the next room or not following the game instant nappy time. BECAUSE....my dad used to make us kids go take naps so he could watch the 1pm Dolphins games, lol. So football commentators in the next room were my weekend nap soundtrack. Now it is just ingrained. huh...wonder if I could put on a game on low volume to help my perimenopause insomnia....

This. You could switch to just an antifungal cream, and if the vet thinks the others are needed it mix it at home with a steroid cream and antibiotic cream. otherwise, just an antifungal.

Diabetes as in type 1 or type 2? Type 1 is caused by an autoimmune reaction in the body so anything that triggers the immune system from a cold virus to strep throat to a flu shot can trigger it. Disease triggers the immune system more than vaccines do, so. more often it is an illness not a vaccine that triggers it. But anything can. I have no idea how a covid vaccination could trigger type 2 diabetes though.

true - I had POTS symptoms for 6 weeks after getting covid, and that was my only symptom

The vaccine is linked with myocarditis - it happens later, not immediatlye, and is not treated with surgery. It sounds like this guy had a heart attack?

anecdote, but I have a friend who was a distance runner - half marathons - who now can't exercise at all per cardiologist orders because she has had a lot of cardiac issues post Covid infection. She has had myriad tests and now is scheduled for even more extensive testing to try to figure out what is going on with her heart - the next round is a nuclear echocardiogram I think. She's already done the holter monitor, regular and nuclear stress tests, etc. I don't know anyone that has had heart issues after the vaccine.

Come Monday is a favorite of mine. And Jimmy Buffett is just...part of Florida. My aunt and late uncle lived in Key West for years and knew him - my aunt was the head of the tourist development board and my uncle was a bartender so they sort of knew everyone. Heck, my uncle LOOKED like him, lol. (seriously - same hair and mustache and similar voice). So sad.

They stopped giving it because it was unsafe - it was linked to heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and psychosis.

yup. Last week I had to break out some anti fungal cream because I could tell things were about to start. It's just so hot and humid.

Oh good! Praying you get it! And down the road, if you turn out to have Sundays and Mondays off long term maybe you can revisit visitation and get Sunday to Monday, with her.

Yikes! So sorry. I know when I was a kid my mom threatened to put me in a box with a red ribbon around it so I'd stop getting hurt.

These were sudden onset limping in youn dogs. From some kind of injury. If a pet is limping suddenly it is because it hurts to put weight on that leg. Rarely there can be neurological issues that might cause a paralysis type thing where motion is impacted without pain, but generally if a person or pet won’t put weight on one leg when walking it is because it hurts to do so. That doesn’t mean we can always find the reason- dogs are very stoic and often won’t flinch during an exam- but something is hurting to make them not want to use the leg. Pain medication should be offered

Thank you al for enabling me, lol. I'm going to ditch these and buy mp3 of whatever I want as I want it 😉

Regarding people's intellect...I can't tell you how many times someone would call in to the vet and say their dog was limping, "but it isn't in any pain". I finally started saying, "Oh? Then why would it be limping, if nothing hurts?" and you could hear the gears slowly turn as they realized huh....maybe the dog IS in pain. Seriously, they almost ALWAYS said "my dog has been limping for days, but since he wasn't showing any signs of pain, I figured it wasn't urgent" as if the limping itself wasn't a sign of pain. SO MANY TIMES. So many....

Here it is the raccoons that tend to have it and spread it. Jerk trash pandas who will beat up a small dog or a cat for fun. Roaming gangs of bullies. GRR.

No, but this is a post from an expert toxicologist and ER doctor who treats both spider and snake envenomations and lectures on these topics around the world. He's also written chapters in medical textbooks on the topic. https://www.facebook.com/spencer.greene.142/posts/pfbid02LrWDRTfQ5L2xwR6b5CiSR2fPK2GPuviizEPgDuZ379PuX4x4xymDjQ2tkt6zpc22l (Copied below, but might format better on facebook and the facebook post also includes info on recluse spider bites) Now a few words about widow spider envenomations: pain, sympathomimetic toxicity, muscle cramping, and diaphoresis. (Incidentally, I’m going to keep saying “widow spider” rather than “black widow” because in the United States there are actually five widow species, and none is technically known as “black widow.” There’s the southern black widow, Latrodectus mactans; the western black widow, L. hesperus; the northern black widow, L. variolus; the red widow, L. bishopi; and the brown widow, L. geometricus! Widow spider envenomations are the most painful thing I treat in the toxicology realm. These patients feel miserable. They are tachycardic (high heart rate), hypertensive (elevated blood pressure), diaphoretic (sweating a lot), and have severe, frequently obvious muscle cramping/spasms. Locally, we may see some redness, minimal swelling, and localized diaphoresis. What we don’t see are big necrotic lesions, despite what rudimentary Google searches may suggest. Sometimes their facial muscles are contracted, and it’s not uncommon to see people with risus sardonicus (look it up!). Finally, let me talk about treatment for our native spider envenomations. For widow spiders, it’s all about pain control, muscle relaxation, and preventing complications of excessively high blood pressure. An antivenom exists but it’s not always readily available. It’s very effective, and people who have used it frequently remark that they are going to use it in all subsequent widow envenomations. There has been one death attributed to it, but if you read the actual case report, it’s not so straightforward. A paper (I believe out of Colorado) estimated the incidence of acute adverse reactions at about 3.75%.