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    5 hours ago, KrissiK said:

    Baby is home sick today. I think she really isn't feeling well, but she also hates school. There are a couple of mean girls who are making her life miserable. She keeps telling me she wants to come back to homeschool. This one of those, "I hate being a parent," situations. I'm paying a lot of $ for her to go there and part of me thinks, just pull her out, sign her back up with our charter and save myself a boatload of cash. But, she also needs to learn to deal with difficult people and how to handle tough situations.

     

    I really think I need to go to the island for a month and think about this.

    I will go with you to the island and we can make bazooka plans.

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    1 minute ago, Susan in TN said:

    It's the thought that counts, right?

    I'm trying to figure out when I should get my hair cut.  Maybe Saturday.  I found the camera behind a bunch of old electronic stuff under the keyboard desk downstairs.  It's charging now thanks to a YouTube video that showed how to do it.  
        
    I am so grateful for people who will make videos aimed at people who are just at the level of correctly identifying what it is they are holding in their hand.  I.E. this appears to be a camera and over here it has the word "Sony" and a number written on it.

    YES. I don’t know how I survived before google and YouTube.

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    3 hours ago, Susan in TN said:

    Good morning!

    I killed another spider but this one was in the garage.  It looked like a black widow, but might have been a brown widow.  I've decided that the big wooden rocking chair will be included in the yard sale.  I think it's time for it to go. 😭  Also, I found the electric trimmer.

    Imma look on youtube and see how you put a sawhorse table together.  I have the end pieces but somehow it is not intuitive for me.

    Anyone used a rowing machine before?  I've always wanted to try one.

    Coffee!

    Bazooka, flamethrower, or napalm?

     

    (Rowing machines are booty-kickers.)

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    1 hour ago, Susan in TN said:

    Good morning!

    Hope you can get second sleep, Junie!

    Also Second Breakfast, because it's the nirthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins!  🎉

    I am a fan of nacho cheese.  I'll pretty much eat any kind of cheese or cheese-like substance.  This morning's scrambled eggs with veggies had American cheese and colby-jack.  I guess I don't care much for goat cheese.

    I have some decluttering/cleaning spaces planned for today.  Late this afternoon the girls have planned some outdoor fun and games near the library for the girls in their scout troop.  Kickball if there are enough who come or bean bag toss, pickleball, or bocce ball if not.

    Coffee!

    Please eat cheese for both of us. The evil Food Sensitivity Test has revealed that I should avoid dairy.🤨

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    25 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:

    So I was so proud of myself for remembering to take the chicken thighs out of the freezer for tomorrow night's dinner (West African Plasas) and then I realized that only two people, neither of them me, will be home for dinner tomorrow.  Maybe only one.  Oh well.  Back into the freezer they go.

     

    1 hour ago, Susan in TN said:

    😂 I've driven enough of the Natchez Trace to know that I don't want to do that road trip, lol.  It's a curvy, boring road that has nearly the same view - trees on both sides - for some 400 miles.  Unless you stop and hike along the trails.  There are some nice bits then.  Same thing with hiking the AP - I just couldn't hack it mentally.  Forest claustrophobia. 
       
    Now the Blue Ridge Parkway?  Totally worth it!  THAT's a beautiful drive!
       
    If I do a long hike, it will have to be along the PCT/John Muir.  Have you ever read Wild by Cheryl Strayed?  Not kid friendly, but a really interesting book about a woman who hiked the PCT totally unprepared in a sort of mid-life crisis.

    I loved the hiking dd17, the scout crew, and I did at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico.  I also want to do some hiking in the Sedona area.

    Sign me up for the Sedona trip!

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    2 hours ago, Susan in TN said:

    SchedulingVentPo!

    What the carp is wrong with people?  The first of ds18's string quartet was scheduled for 5:00.  The next week 5:30.  I just got an email that confirmed tonight for 6:15.  Who is deciding this?  And why are we not finding out about it until 4 hours beforehand?  It is making me very pissy because as previously stated, we are struggling to get people where they need to be as it is - and ds18 will now be late to Advent choir.  I have said I will not send an angry email at this point but if ds18 doesn't have a conversation with them about this pronto, that email is going to happen.

    Lemme know when it’s bazooka time.🤨

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    11 hours ago, Susan in TN said:

    I made hot and sour soup for dinner.  I'm pretty happy with this recipe. Easy and tastes like what I remember from a restaurant way back when.

    Hot and Sour Soup (serves 4-6)

    6 cups beef broth   
    ½ cup sliced mushrooms   
    ¼ cup soy sauce (regular or reduced sodium)    
    ¼ cup rice wine vinegar (or white vinegar)   
    1 tablespoon sriracha sauce   
    1 teaspoon white pepper   
    3 tablespoons cornstarch (arrowroot or tapioca starch)   
    3 tablespoons cold water   
    2 large eggs (well beaten)    
    6 oz. firm tofu (sliced into thin strips)    
      (I add steamed pot stickers instead)
    2 green onions (sliced)

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Simmer: Bring the broth to a simmer over medium high heat in a large saucepan. Add the mushrooms, soy sauce, vinegar, sriracha sauce and white pepper. Continue to simmer for 5 minutes.  

    Thicken: In a small bowl, whisk together the corn starch and cold water to make the slurry. Add it to the soup and stir well. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the soup starts to thicken.  (Cool and freeze at this point)

    Swirl in the eggs: stir the soup to make a whirlpool.  Slowly pour the beaten eggs into the soup.  Stir again if necessary for whirlpool.

    Add tofu: Add the sliced tofu or pot stickers and green onions, stir and remove the saucepan from the heat. Serve immediately.

    NOTES   
    To Store: Keep in an air tight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.   
    To Freeze: It can be frozen for up to 3 months in a freezer-safe container.   
    To Reheat: Thaw completely and heat on the stovetop or in the microwave

    I puffy heart love hot and sour soup.

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    ((Susan))

     

    re. Chester: As my Buddy’s condition deteriorated, he got pickier and pickier. I found the he would always eat FreshPet grain-free ( refrigerated, in a tube.) Not cheap but more convenient than cooking his food myself.

    Also, the older I get, the more I respect our traditional views re. mourning periods. Grief sucks and I think we all need space to kinda wallow in it (Well, some of us do.) (Well, that would be me. I do.) 

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    I am so very sorry that you have to walk such a difficult road. My child has graduated and I don't come here often, but I think of you and pray for you. I lost my grandmother to ALS, the bulbar form. ALS is awful; you are handling it with amazing grace and strength. ((Kelly))

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    1 hour ago, Renai said:

    Jean knows more about homeschooling with ASD, but wanted to throw something out there. Would your ASD son have an IEP if he were in school? There are often different requirements for special needs students to graduate. I don't know your situation, or where you see them headed, but what do you think they need to be launched (if that is a goal)? Life skills? Financial literacy? Vocational studies? All those are viable, creditable aims.

    My oldest didn't test well either, so I got around it by having her dual enroll at 17, taking mostly electives (towards a patissiere diploma) plus a basic math class, and did self-directed English and History at home. I used the dual enrollment classes on her high school transcript, and when it was clear she was DONE (she also left home at 18), I saw she had enough credits to be issued a diploma and gave it to her with a biliteracy seal. Her math was "Integrated Math 1 & 2" financial literacy, and her science was biology, with the rest related to the kitchen (kitchen chemistry, etc.). She has a very eclectic transcript, but it got her through.

    And, no one is ever educated enough. That's why there are "lifelong learners..."

    What she said.

     

    Also, I think your standard shouldn’t be what you want to achieve or what you believe you ought to achieve. I think you should realistically consider what public schools are handling out diplomas for (little more than breathing to be brutally honest- and that is not hyperbole. Check out the curriculum at at “alternative” schools.) and then ask yourself if it fair to your student to deny them a diploma for doing the same or more.

    Also, I am a raging hypocrite and my kid quickly learned that college was waaaaay easier than homeschool so you probably should ignore me and listen to Renai.

    Also, I am perpetually cranky. So there’s that, too.

     

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    34 minutes ago, Slache said:

    I think the fob battery is dying. Fortunately, it was actually Jiffy Lube's fault so they paid for AAA. I don't really understand the thought process behind all of this because they told him to lock the car with they keys in it outside so he could wait inside and then were all surprised when the keys were locked in the car. Matt even clarified because why would you lock keys in a car? He assumed they had a way to get in and it was normal protocol. Nope. The manager was angry that he didn't have a spare set of keys. The entire story is odd.

    I think I would reevaluate who was going to do my lube job.

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