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LOL! You're a political rebel. The Brits are going to come after you. <-I kid people!
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Everybody I know back home eats a very carb heavy breakfast. Fresh rolls from the bakery (or frozen reheated in the oven) and a sweet spread (jam, honey, nutella), or cereal, is the norm. Soft boiled eggs - maybe on Sundays. Nobody in my family, for the last four generations, had a cooked breakfast at home.
I have never heard of a "carb related meltdown", and the admonishment "you must have protein with every meal" did not exist when I grew up and still does not seem to be touted back home. But sure, we do eat two hours later - that is the typical 2nd breakfast that is a standard part of the day, one of the two smaller of the five daily meals (breakfast, 2nd breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, dinner).
Kids eat breakfast at home before school, and then around 9am they have 2nd breakfast in school for which there is a slightly longer break between periods scheduled (15 or 20 minutes instead of the usual 10). Kids bring food for that, typically sandwiches, yoghurt, fruit.
Yeah, we don't do cereal for b'fast. Cereal is for snacks, lunch and dinner, not b'fast. Blech. Indy usually takes a spinach tortilla, and puts on hummus, some sort of meat, pepper jack cheese, lettuce and hot sauce, rolls it up and wolfs it down. It's so spicy just being around it makes my eyes sting. Han Solo prefers carbs in the morning, but he has fruit a little while later, so I'm not all that concerned.
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I rarely make a real breakfast. If I do, it's on the weekend, so it's more of a brunch, or special days, like b-days or the first day of school. Indy gets to pick whatever he wants for the first day of school, so I usually have to make a big b'fast, but beyond that, nope. Indy makes his own b'fast, and Han Solo likes plain toast (he's like me), strawberry waffles, or fruit. Sometimes he'll eat a piece of turkey sausage, which I have to microwave (GASP!), but that's rare.
Indy makes his own lunch most of the time, and I make something for Han Solo, but it's not what I would call cooking. Sometimes he'll ask for a grilled cheese, and really that's as much cooking as I do for lunch.
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In the state of Baden-Wurtemburg, in Germany, the school was a bit different than what was described for Saxony. We lived right across from an elementary, middle school and regular high school (not a Gymnasium, which is a different type of high school), so we became really familiar with their routine. The kids went to school M,T, Th from 9-4:30, with an 1.5 hour break for lunch, and a couple of breaks throughout the day. Kids who lived nearby went home for lunch. A lot of the high schoolers went to McDonald's or one of the many imbiss that were nearby. On W and F, they went to school from 9-1:30, and from 9-1:30 every other Sat. They had a 6 week break in the summer, 2 weeks in Oct and Dec, Mar/Apr (coinciding with Easter). School starts the first week of Sept, and runs through the 1st or 2nd week of July.
It was similar in the state of Hesse, Germany, but there were some differences in the lengths of the school day, and they didn't go on Sat IIRC. We didn't live next to a school, so I wasn't as familiar with their schedule, but we had many friends who went to the German schools, and I'm pretty sure they didn't go on Sat.
Here (where we live in WA), they get on the bus at ridiculously early hours! One of our friends has a high schooler, who gets on the bus at 6:20am, a middle schooler (8th) who gets on the bus at 6:45, and an elem kid who walks to school, and he has to be there at 7:15. They don't get home until 3:30/4pm. They must be exhausted all the time!
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Catwoman! You know I adore you! Happy, happy, happy birthday! I hope your day is fantastic. And look, I got you a CUPCAKE!
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I am coming to your house if anything should happen.
Me too. i promise to bring chocolate (I have the good stuff!).
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Really, Quill? Grow up.
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Don't do it Quill! I like you just the way you are. Like Mark Darcy liked Bridgette Jones!
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I kept expecting that, but other than the healing stuff, not really. There's very little in the book about her dealing with the dramatic change in culture and period expectations. There's the baby and the spanking scene. That's almost it. When in reality, the daily grind of just surviving was a LOT of work and I would think would quickly cause some major mental health issues. At the very least, I'd think dealing with having her period would have been frustrating compared to today.
I've always been disappointed the books didn't deal with more of the daily life hassles a time traveler like Claire must encounter. How did she deal with her period or the clothing...or anything that happens in a bathroom? How does she manage to brush her teeth in 1743?
Yes, I've wondered this too! Shouldn't she be a little more shocked at the quality of life, sanitation, food, etc? I would freak the hell out.
I started watching Continuum on Netflix the other day (thank you for existing, Netflix!), and they jump 65 years into the past. You should see the characters confusion over how things work. The lead isn't know how to drive a gas powered car, and didn't know how a bluetooth earpiece worked. It's kind of funny in that way. And that was only 65 years! Jumping 200 years is a HUGE gap, and there has to be a serious learning curve (and freak out factor). I'd like to see more of that, other than, Oh, okay, I'm in the 1700's, no big deal.
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I also don't get the whole time travel thing having a point. I can only presume it will actually have some value to the plot in future books bc it seemed pointless in this first one.
This is exactly what James Bond said about the show. He said it wouldn't be bad if it were just a show set in Scotland in the 1700's and the settings and costumes are great, but the time travel just doesn't work for him. Of course then it would be Outlander, so....
I will continue to watch for now, unless I get really bored with it. I'm liking it way more than the books at this point.
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Oh no! That sounds horrible. I hope you're better soon.
I have to say though, when I read the title, all I could think of was that stupid movie Zoolander. "I can't turn left."
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Indy saw the poop thing and was grossed out. He said he would totally play with it though. Ick.
Both boys got the candy pooping chicken in their Easter baskets, and thought they were hilarious. It always reminds me of the movie HOP, where the rabbit poops jelly beans, and the girl eats them. ACK!
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Is nothing sacred to you whacko bacon people???? I swear you will wrap anything in bacon! There's bacon beer, bacon perfume (GROSS!), bacon flavored lip gloss, bacon roses....where does it end? Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! You bacon people!
Of course I'm just kidding(ish). I do not eat bacon though, as the smell makes me ill. I cook Turkey bacon at our house (very rarely though), and everyone loves it. Indy won't eat pork bacon now, because he says it tastes weird and greasy, not like the bacon we have at home. BTW, all those things I listed above are real. Bacon perfume? For the love of all that's holy, WHY?
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I just finished the first book. I wanted to read it before bothering with the show.
I thought it was rather lame and boring. It read as though the author just suddenly thought, "oh I'll have this happen next!" And tossed it in there. No real plot or character development. *shrug*
I figure the sex abuse (both in Clair and Jamie's relationship and with the psycho Randall) will be featured in the show, tho frankly, I thought it was just lazy writing in the book that didn't contribute much to the characters or make them very relatable for me. But I know sex sells. Even bad sex apparently.
I just don't get the appeal and have no desire to read the second book unless someone can convince me it gets significantly better.
Finally, someone who agrees with me on the books! I *tried* so hard to like them, because it seemed like everyone else did, but I just couldn't. I think I made it through to the middle of the 3rd book before I said "Enough!" and tossed it aside. I *kind of* like the show, but I'm still on the fence. Also, I'm still not seeing any chemistry between them. There seems to be more chemistry (not to mention more interaction) between Claire and her two guards than Claire and Jamie.
I am not a fan of Game of Thrones either. I watched one episode and thought it was just rubbish porn. I kept thinking it would have to get better at some point, but no, it didn't. I'm not sure I can forgive you for this. :toetap05: :D Yes, there is a lot of T&A in the show, but the plot is so good. The T&A is mostly thrown in to attract viewers (IMO, though there is PLENTY in the books), but after an ep or so, they stick around, because it's good. I'm still dying over all the things that happened in the last season (there was A LOT in 8 episodes), and the finale, and can't believe we have to wait until Feb/Mar of next year to see more. Also, GRRM better get off his arse and finish writing the books.
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Fantastic! I've thought about changing mine, but then how will people know I'm into heels and am pro-cupcake? I might get confused for a flat wearing, cupcake hater.
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NEVER! :party: Granted, we have lived overseas for much of our marriage, but even when we were first married, and lived 30 minutes away, they never set foot in our house. Once, when we lived at Ft. Stewart, GA, they drove 12 hours to see us, stayed in a hotel, went out to lunch with us, then left the next morning to go back home. That's it. They came because James Bond had just had surgery a week before, and mentioned that he'd like to see them. Unless we go to them, it doesn't happen. We saw them in April 2012 before JB left for Afghanistan, because I insisted he should see them, plus they'd never met Han Solo who had just turned 1. Fortunately, because we were doing back to back overseas tours, the military paid for our tickets back to the US, or it wouldn't have happened. Before that, the last time we saw them was in 2008. Them not visiting doesn't bother me at all.
JB's whole family is freaking weird, so...whatever. I *do* make him call them about every 2-3 months just to touch base. He grumbles about it, but one day they will be gone (they're both in their 70's), and I don't want him to regret not talking to them once in a while. Weird or not, they're still his parents. It boggles my mind that he doesn't want to talk to them at least once a month. Like I said, they are weird, and none of his family is close AT ALL, but still. I would be heartbroken if we never heard from our boys when they're adults.
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I can honestly say I never even gave it a thought. Indy has been drinking hot tea with b'fast every day for YEARS. Han Solo started drinking sips out of mine (via spoon) when he was about a year, after that, I started giving him some, very lightly sweetened, and just barely warm, in his sippy cup with b'fast if he wanted. He doesn't want it every day, but usually 4-5 times a week. It is a strong black tea that has caffeine, but it doesn't seem to affect them at all. We don't drink anything but water the rest of the day, so I'm not concerned.
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I don't use the online thing. We use the text and the student workbook. The workbook just basically reinforces the lessons. The teacher's guide is pretty useless, except for the answers. We have tried so many Latin curricula, and Cambridge is the absolute best one we've used, IME. Indy loves it.
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I dunno. I'm just not feeling the chemistry between Claire and Jamie. James Bond watched it, and said he'd like it a lot more if it weren't for the whole time travel business. I told him it was the impetus of the books, but he said that bit was just boring. ;)
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Sorry to derail, but how do you stand it?!? That is so adorable, mispronunciation and all!
It is ridiculously adorable. There are days when we absolutely cannot stand it. The amount of laughter and "awwwww....ing" that goes on my house sometimes borders on insane. Even Indy is in on it. "Aw, Mom, did you hear that? He's so cute!"
Most restaurant managers would replace that fish without a second thought.
Most managers would. And they would also speak to the table. Since neither happened, she probably spoke to a cook, not a manager.
Yeah, it sounds to me like she didn't talk to the manager at all.
OP, I didn't get the impression that anyone is blaming your 2yo, jut making a statement that the 2yo dropped it, which isn't really the servers fault. If you two were sharing a space at the end of the table, I'm not sure where else the server was supposed to put it. Please don't feel like we're piling on you. You asked what we would do, and we're answering with the info we have.
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Awww, that's so sweet of your kids to call. If you're missing kids, you can have mine for a few days. :lol: :lol: :lol: I kid. Mostly. ;)
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To the OP, no I wouldn't complain. It's not the restaurant's fault. If they had replaced it, that would have been nice. Heck, if they'd offered, I probably would have told them I appreciated it, but it wasn't necessary. Also, catfish is expensive? Isn't that like the most common fish ever?
Seriously. Sometimes I wonder what sort of amazing polite babies other people have. Pardon me, mother. Might I have the tiniest nibble of your delicious entree? It looks positively scrumptious.
I had to laugh here, because one of Han Solo's (3) favorite words is 'scrumptious.' I have no idea why, but he uses it all the time in reference to food, although he pronounces it 'cwumptious.' "Mmm...smells cwupmtious." "Mommy dat stwawbewy was cwuptious." "Oh, dat looks cwumptious." I have no idea where he got it, but at least he uses it correctly. He also uses 'delicious,' but pronounces it 'alicious.' One day he used the word 'delightful' when he was eating something and I laughed so hard. He took a bite of whatever we were having, looked over at me and said, "Mmm, delightful!" So freaking funny. He actually won't take food off anyone's plate, but if we're out and there are fries on the table (like a big serving for everyone), all bets are off. He's got fries in his mouth and in both hands. Kid has a thing for fries.
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I only wish I had the stockpiled chocolate. It always gets eaten.
I know! How does that happen???? At least my wine stockpile is safe (for now!).
As far as food stockpiled, well, we'd just be screwed and would have to go hungry. I don't buy canned foods if I can help it, so...yeah, we'd be screwed. I suppose I should put something together and put it in the basement, but, I don't know. I mean we could survive a few days off what's in the cabinets and fridge/freezer, but that's about it. Oh, and we always have water, so I guess that's a plus.
I never understood the advise about keeping extra meds. We can't just GET extra meds. The pharmacy won't just hand them out because we need to pack them in an emergency kit. One of them has to be called in every month by the doctor for a refill. We have to sign for it, as it is a controlled substance, so I don't see them just dolling out an extra month.
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I'm not worried, but then again, I never do. I mean, what am I going to do? I can hide away from the world and be scared, but if so, IMO, the terrorists win. That's what they want.
To the woman who wear hijabs, I a so sorry that you have to put up with the ignorance of others. That I can't imagine going through. (((HUGS))) to you and your families.
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I haven't read the article yet, but Indy has crazy melt downs when things get too hard. He wants to get EVERYTHING right, and when he doesn't it makes him crazy.
What do Americans think about Scotland possibly splitting from the UK?
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I don't have a dog in the fight, thus have no real opinion either way. I am curious to see how it will turn out. How will the economy in Scotland and England be affected? Will the economy be a deciding factor in the final vote? Curious.