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True, there are trolls afoot.
www.collegeconfidential.com
is fun for the same reason, and has the same pitfalls.
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FLL wasa few years ago, but DD and I still recite Ozy every now and then with very overly dramatic gestures (well, at least Ido).
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I am SO confused reading this. I "thought" your current government was bringing in some kind of universal health care like other countries have.
Churchill said "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
Give it a generation, our grown kids have universal coverage, and they'll look back and think how quaint we were. Either that, or we'll still be aruguing the same points -- it could go either way.
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Just made this Cranberry Apple Pie and it definitely makes the house smell like Christmas.
I don't seem to have replaced any of my beat up string lights with the LEDs I keep planning to buy off-season, which means there will be longer segments of dead bulbs to be hidded in the back of the tree. Two of the four bulbs in the candle lights we let burn since last Christmas are now dead, so I suppose that will need correcting within the next several weeks. Fortunately, it was the middle two, and it still looks symetrical from the outside, so there's that.
DD's been practicing music for the NJYC winter concert, so it sounds Chirstmas-y already.
It's the little things.
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Both Chicago and Cleveland have major tier 1 orchestras, and both cities have ballet companies with pre-college divisions. Chicago Symphony is outsdanding - very muscular sound.
I often poke around the forums on City Data, just to see, you know, where my post-powerball second home might be. There's bound to be someone there who has already posted similar questions:
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OK, my local pharmacist just told me it's fine to go with any sealed containe. At the rate of 2 shots a month, that empty Tide bottle in the basement should last a few years.
Thanks for the tips!
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Although I understand I guess even with a medical condition, it is just MUCH cheaper to live in Dallas or OKC than it is to live in New York. It just is. And those places have VERY good healthcare. It doesn't have to be a high cost city to get good medial care or other perks. Cost of living was a BIG factor in our choosing where to live.
Great healthcare can be had in many places, until you need a really special specialist. 6 out of every million people contract my rare cancer, and those who progress to stage IV tend to find their way to Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and/or Pittsburgh, because that's where the treatment is. Now if we're talking lung, breast, or prostate, different story.
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No, I don't think so. It is partially why New York, Alaska, California and Hawaii are never places we considered living. My uncle lives in a little house in a suburb of San Francisco. It is worth 1.5 million. Here where I live, you would pay maybe 100,000 for it. I shudder to think what our 50 acres and 3,000 square foot house would cost. So part of looking at your financial goals is looking at where you live. The cost of living here is low. We never considered living in those higher places. I think that makes a BIG difference. I'm not sure how teachers survive in California... Actually most of them have to live an hour or more out of district to afford a place to live where my uncle lives. So, where to live a big part of becoming debt free.
I just checked realtor.com - you want 3000 sq ft in my town? $650 to just over a mill. 50 acres will be harder to come by, but you could always buy up the neighbors and demolish. I think that's what the landed gentry do.
There are a lot of young teachers in DW's school commuting an hour plus. On the other end, we know couples who are both veteran teachers at the top of the salary guide, which here means a family income of about $250K. If there is an eventual upside, it's that a teacher's pension is based on the last three years' salary, so those working in expensive states have more when they pull the ripcord and retire to cheaper states. Virginia and Florida seem to be popular among DW's retired colleagues.
Other things to consider are what sort of infrastructure do you want? As long as I'm alive, I'll have to have access to my oncology team in Philadelphia who are the world leaders for my particular little bug. So there's a cost comparison -- patients do indeed fly in from as far away as Australia, so which would be more -- property taxes or airline tickets?
There isn't one answer.
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If the houses in your area are too expensive for your budget, then you rent or move or increase your income, right? I don't see how geographic location demands endless debt. I mean, even if you take out a 30-year mortgage, aren't you aspiring to be debt-free after those 30 years?
If we're counting a full term of 30 years as debt free, then yes, we will be debt free in about another 15, since we're about half-way through the mortgage. Going by the Dave Ramsay talk-show-model, there seems to be a movement to pay off everything early, and that is the part I don't see as feasible on one income in this area. Fortunately or unfortunately, we've been in our house long enough that rents in the area would likely exceed out current mortgage payment.
Yes, anyone could move to anywhere by choice, but whether the upheaval is minor or major would tend to vary family to family. In our particular case, which may not be someone else's case, DW is in a tenured position, would rather not start over in another district, and is less likely to find another position after 26 years because she is simply too expensive. Would I pull DD out of the dance school she's attended since 2, or would I pull her out of her professional youth chorus after 5 years of hard work? That would be no to both. Yes, I'm sure parts of Iowa are much, much cheaper, but the over riding question has to be what's right for your family at the time (not unlike the decision to HS).
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It's a sticky wicket. The feds said they won't interfere with the legalization in Colorado or Washington, but technically it's still not legal under federal law.
I'd have to get pretty desperate to go that route, but I've learned to not rule anything out (Stage IV will do that). Cannabidiol is supposed to be on of several non-psychotropic derivatives with potential cancer benefits, so if it ever makes it to ingest-able or injection-able form, that will be a good thing. Seeing how fast the FDA moves, I won't hold my breath.
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My question would be is "debt free" universally feasible regardless of location? I'm on the train line, one hour from Manhattan, and thus little 3 bedroom capes here start at half a million. I would think it is possible near the local median income of about $100K per parent, but yeah....that isn't us. At least we aren't in Essex County, where that half mill cape would also have property taxes of $20K a year to subsidize Newark.
I like a lot of things about northeastern New Jersey, and the state in general, but cost ain't one of them.
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Kareni --
I didn't start out at 20%. I started out higher, although I'm not sure if it was all the way to 40%. They push the percentage down as you do more business (although I can't seem to remember just when they lowered mine). I guess they want to weed out people who just hop in and do it short-term, which makes sense.
If you want to see an example of what to put in the profile, here's mine:
http://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/NJ/Morris-Plains/2929/
There are definitely tutors on WyzAnt with many more completed hours than I have, but I only take a few kids a year from this source. Everything else is referrals.
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I get a few of my SAT students thru Wyzant each year. I had to test into the subjects I prep, and pass a background check. It's the best service I've worked for, and the only one I use now to fill in my schedule as needed.
Wyzant takes 20% of the tutor's earnings, FYI.
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I have to agree with hands. Sanitize in the car and wash first thing in the door at home. It's a habit DD has embraced, and we never get flu shots. DW will get a series of colds or strep, but when you teach middle school band, there's a lot of....ahem...hot air and certain fluids being sprayed hither and yon.
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Yes, it was planned, and I suppose "jabbed" is the wrong word, as I was using #25 needle and I barely felt it as it just kinda glided in under gentle pressure. It was my first self-administered testosterone shot, prescribed to compensate for my pituitary gland having gone dormant after cancer treatment in January. I'm on synthroid for the same reason.
My question for any diabetics or other self injectors is about disposal. I re-capped the syringe and put it back in it's peel-open package. Can this go in municipal trash, or do I need a sharps container with those biohazard labels? Were might one dispose of such a container once it's full? I'm only using one syringe every two weeks.
Thanks.
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Gummies win for concept and execution, but I'd rather eat the chocolate one.
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It will go far in Costa Rica!
And in Panama, Nicaragua, and a bunch of other places I'd rather not live! In all reality, we'll probably be somewhere not far from DD, since we know first hand how much it can totally stink not having grandparents around.
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I had to click "other" in the poll because there wasn't a selection for driving out there in a crazed fury. Police might be a good idea, too.
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I just did a cranberry-apple pie with currants that had a brown sugar/oat topping, but perhaps that doesn't count. It IS awesome cold for breakfast, though.
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We actually used to run those game days at Panera under the yahoo group NJ_Homeschool_98201 (kids born between 1998 and 2001). It went gangbusters for a few years in Bergen County, but fizzled. Haven't found a book club yet.
We did just do model UN through AHMUNC in Princeton and DD loved it. Made some friends.
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Living on DW's NJ teacher pension, which probably means NOT living in NJ!
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I fell into the "Discworld" series by Terry Pratchett, which was in the YA section of the library, but doesn't quite belong there, IMO. Sometimes subtle, but very funny.
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As the owner of a Y chromosome or two, i have to say it sounds like it could be one or more different things.
A.) What exactly does he mean by "respect," and is it different from your interpretation? On the surface, respect could mean anything from partners-as-equals, to one partner's complete dominance. It's a loaded term to be sure. It also probably has a TON to do with how his own parents interacted. Some guys unwittingly grow up to be their dads, while others spend a lot of energy trying NOT to be their dads.
B.) Having been home fulltime for 12 years, I will say the communication style of the genders can be so radically different it's a wonder the species ever got going. If he's the kind of guy who views conversation as one-ups-man-ship, then he could very well misread statements as attacks, even if you don't intend them to be attacks.
C,) It could be a desperate feeling of lack of control. If you're the teacher/researcher/curriculum-buyer and he's not, that's a huge swath of your kid's life he has little input on. So, why should that be different than PS, for which he still wouldn't have such input? Maybe because that's considered more "normal." Everyone at work talks about the same school-related things, so it's normal, even when it's negative. Lack of control is scary for anyone, but I suspect it's more so for men who expect more control. I could see how this might just manifest itself in the arbitrary-ness you mentioned, like a knee-jerk reaction to individual incidents out of frustration.
Just a theory.
Just jabbed a needle in my thigh
in The Chat Board
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Bending the needle is not something I considered. since I just re-capped and left it screwed onto the syringe. Are you capping the end of the needle and bending in the middle, or using the leverage of the syringe with an uncapped needle? Has a needle ever snapped?
Sounds like a method for which I'd get out my safety glasses, but I'm paranoid about my eyes.