I saw this at the Boing Boing link. It slayed me. I don't really pay Disney any mind here. My youngest loves fairies, so of course she loves Tinkerbell. Luckily, my MIL keeps her stocked with that so I don't have to. I don't even think she knows the movie exists. She has seen Princess and the Frog, but only because it's streaming. It really didn't hold her interest, not like Miyuzaki films. I don't think my oldest has ever seen one of the Disney "princess" movies, We do have Barbies. They may have started out as beautiful, but they certainly don't stay that way. Not after my girls get done with them.

I just looked up Flying Saucer. I am so there. Are they kid friendly? We've been to BJ's but I didn't drink. When I was a senior, we tried really hard to make that our class trip for the year. :tongue_smilie:

Well, kind of real. I've smelled Guinness and that was enough. My mother drank Coors Light when I was younger, so I'm familiar with that. Budweiser and Shiner I'm quite familiar with. The wine that was being served was a step up from Boone's Farm so I went with beer. It was good and better than I remembered, but I can't remember the label, but I remember stout :tongue_smilie: For its darkness I expected it to be more strong/bitter, but it was surprisingly light. I didn't love it, but I guess I was surprised that I didn't hate it. I'm going to look at labels tonight and see if I can find it. With Shiner (my dh is from that area), we buy the bock to bake bread with. And for chili. They used to make a honey wheat that I used for bread, but I haven't seen it in a while. Shiner is what everyone drank in high school, when I thought it was gross, so it's an association thing that I need to get past. :tongue_smilie: I like the idea of a sampler. I'm going to HEB this evening to see if they have the Ruby Redbird. Pear cider? Want. Thanks for all the recs, y'all. I've got my little notepad filled with beers to try.

I've never been a beer drinker, but had a random stout a few weeks ago at a friend's. It wasn't anything like the nasty stuff I'd remembered from when I was younger. So, I go to the store and I have no idea what to get. What's your favorite beer and why? :001_smile:

Two summers ago, my oldest decided to guilt us into going to Louisiana. She's only been out of the state once, when she was an infant, so that didn't count. :D We ended up spending two nights in Lafayette. I don't know why we decided on Lafayette (over Lake Charles or Baton Rouge), but someone on this board helped plan it. It wasn't so much educational as it was more an adventure and we had a really great time. Really, the food and the alligators were worth the trip. That, and the scenery was quite beautiful. We're planning on going to Baton Rouge in the fall, but that will be more educational.

Thanks everyone. I think I may attempt this on my own. There's just so much stuff to choose from that I'll end up putting together a 2-year thing. I need to think of other clever activities to put into it.

So, I'm putting together a pre-k thing for my youngest because she wants to "do school" like her sister. We've begun Phonics Pathways and MEP Reception. We read. She seems to really love interactive couch time, so I was thinking of something like FLL or PLL except for a little younger. She knows her letters and sounds and is ready for a little copy work (a word or two). I want something with primarily a picture study and poems. I did look at Queen's Language Lessons for that particular age, but I wasn't sure about the religious aspect, and after a search, I wondered if it was worth the cost. other than that, it looked like exactly what I wanted. Any ideas?

What information is in the TG that is not in the student books?

Flippin', freakin', friggin', fecking, farking, fudging, and effing are pretty common around here. I also use ding-dang as an adjective quite a bit. All of the above are used as adjectives, too.

Since I tend to vote on the socially liberal side, I really don't have an interest in any of them. I don't believe for one second that one party is more fiscally conservative than the next, so it comes down to social issues for me. Now, if you'd give me a socially liberal, fiscally conservative GOP, it would get a whole lot more interesting to me. I think the terms may have been redefined.

Well. Two minutes before your post it still wasn't working. It's working now. I was literally checking every two minutes. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, but we mostly get school related things and DD is going to my grandparents in a few days, so I need to move other things up. I haven't been to the website in months and grrr. We have a lonely Blockbuster down the road. :tongue_smilie:

Could any of you please go to your Netflix queue and see if you can move things around. I've tried under Chrome and Firefox and it won't let me change the order of things. If I move to the top, it shows it moving to the top, but then the page refreshes and it goes back to the way it was. It won't change when I manually put in numbers, either. This is seriously driving me crazy.

If you are in Texas, we have a couple of very large statuaries, which would probably have something that would work. If not, try a local garden center or statuary.

For real.

At first it was because the town we lived in was notorious for having bad schools. When I checked into the private schools in the area, I was shocked about how much they were. Completely shocked. I thought they'd be a couple hundred a month. :lol: I was in my early twenties and came up with this grand plan to homeschool. Taught her to read and do some math and then well, I figured she was some kind of prodigy. :tongue_smilie: Way too advanced for PS. So, I told people that it was for academic reasons. Because I felt I had to nurture this "genius" in her. Turns out, at this point, we homeschool because we like it and to place her in school would just cause too much chaos in our daily lives. We school in the summer so that we can take the month of December off. We like to take unplanned vacations to the beach. I don't want a life that revolves around a strict schedule. I don't know if I can. If I wasn't so tied to the way we do things here and she really wanted to go to school, I'd let her go for high school. Both of those things aren't an issue, though.

I have my email alert turned off. I get most of my emails between 4 and 8 AM from various yahoo digests, websites alerting me of sales, etc. If I left my alerts on, I would be annoyed, but not at the sender. I would be annoyed that I'd not turned it off. I also send out my emails, personal or otherwise, between midnight and 3AM and I don't plan on changing that. I can't imagine ever angering anyone unless they don't know how to work their phones.

I really really need this for my kitchen. Really.

Well, it's 3AM here. DH may be a deviant and a democrat, but I can just picture his face if I woke him. I'm actually tempted to take a picture of his expression and have it as my avatar.

Yep. Thinking about homosexuality and abstract art. :D

Economic Left/Right: -5.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

Right now, I'm drinking cappuccinos (so 4-6 oz 2% milk). When I get tired of this, I might go back to espresso with a dash of real cream, if it's on hand. I only use real cream if I'd needed it to cook with and I've got some left over. Sometimes I like a double espresso with sweetened condensed milk. I change it up from week to week.

The new Sherlock.

I don't have a preference for coke or pepsi. I only like it in fountain drink form because otherwise it is too strong. The only time I get it is on road trips. We stop by Sonic and dh and I split a cherry vanilla coke. The girls split a cherry sprite or root beer. HEB has put out pure cane cola that DH drinks. Whenever I want a rum and cola, that's what I drink

I don't know if I can fully answer this, but I don't think it's too late. I'm one of those that did well in math through school, always scoring in the 99%ile on state standardized testing. I decided to go a different route with dd and honestly I didn't start to really be challenged until I got an older (pre 1975) edition of Dolciani's Modern Algebra. You'll find many threads about this on the HS board. DD is having a much easier time with it than I am. The earlier stuff: Miquon and Singapore; didn't serve as much of a problem. There were some things that I thought maybe I could just show her my way, but realized that I would just be defeating the purpose. I could usually read over it and understand what it was saying even though I didn't learn it that way. Except for Challenging Word Problems from Singapore. :D

:lol: It's so much fun, though.