Cooking, rinsing, and cooking in fresh water is also supposed to eliminate the...err...gas problem. Never really did any experimentation on it though.

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It's to keep us on our toes! Seems like there's more exceptions than rules sometimes -

This is something they say in the south a lot too - takes some getting used to but do you really let other people's dialects "bother you"?

Good grief - like I said, I like to be social and have fun on forums as well. :tongue_smilie:

No. Someone said he was giggling like a schoolgirl, and I brought up his gayness. It was a joke, and it wasn't (shouldn't have been) a big deal. But half a dozen people got their PC feathers ruffled. Sorry. And that's just one instance. The whole Confederate Flag/Rednecks conversation is another. More PC feather-ruffling. Oh, but it was okay to make blanket statements about "rednecks" in the same thread. The spanking statements - asking people if they spank then making judgmental statements, "It's wrong to spank, etc." Well, no. Not to a lot of people it's not. I just think there is a lot of good information here, and a lot of nice people. But there are some folks here who are pretty condescending and downright nasty to folks who might not think - or choose to live - like they do. Look, I try to have a good time, enjoy interacting with people on forums. It's a lighthearted thing for me - and I'm fully aware that I'm not a tiptoe-around-sensitive-subjects type of person. I'm also not easily offended, so I can take it like I dish it out. But back to the original subject, calling anyone who uses a certain word in a certain way "ignorant and uneducated" is just obnoxious. And to find so many people like that, all on the same forum where a person like me - who is just starting out and could really use the homeschooling information - is just tiring.

We just bought a place in TN and dealing with the folks down there, the language is like music to me. Sure, there are grammatical errors, but it's part of the dialect; part of the culture. There are some that just blow me away but that I find so charming. "If you connect the fitting, that might would help." "I don't care to stop by and help you." (Meaning the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it would mean in the North - he means he wouldn't mind stopping by!) In our country there are so many flavors of English--grammatically correct or not--it just adds to the privilege of living here. Just like landscape, weather, urban vs. rural, anything you could possibly want to experience, it's here! Whatta country!

haha LOVE it!

Now that's funny!

Amy that's fantastic, you must be so proud!

Remember the HP Laserjets? Man oh man what a workhorse! They retired them from my office and I bought one and it lasted me about 5 years of hard labor. What a champ that model was.

Really, are we? Because anytime I've expressed an honest, straightforward opinion or even a lighthearted comment, I've been excoriated. So which is it? Do we walk on eggshells or do we tell it like it is?

True, true. Our home printer is for onesie-twosies. The big stuff I bring to work lol.

Isn't there a nicer way to put things, sometimes, you know, to avoid hurting people's feelings? Gosh.

Ugh, one of those days! I was going to suggest puking, then sucking it up but realized that sounded disgusting. So I went with "pinch yourself". Tomorrow the work will be done and it'll feel like it was a bad dream! :) Incidentally, printer-wise, keep in mind that the ink is where they make their money. That's why the cheap printers are so cheap. Also why they make toner that only fits in one model of printer...so you can't use it when the printer dies, ARRGH. We used to go through a printer a year, give or take. But then about 3 years ago we got an HP Photosmart (meh, maybe $120) and it's lasted for a long time. So I can vouch for this one, at any rate, not being the disposable sort. Good luck--

Depends on where you're located... Good Lord, here in NJ just to get a dog from the POUND is $125. A cat is $75. Puppy/kitten is even higher. From a rescue, where you'd think they'd be happier to find a home for it...it can be 2 or 3 times that. On the other hand, in more "down to earth areas", things are more reasonable. We got our Reba (redbone coonhound) at the pound in Tennessee, and she cost us all of $43...and if we had presented her spay certificate within a certain period, we'd have gotten $25 of it back.

For anything I'm really trying not to drop a lot of coin for, I try freecycle first. Then a couple days later I'll move to Craigslist. It's amazing, the perfectly good things folks want to get rid of...and they're just as pleased to have found a home for it, as the receiver is to get it!

Around here, it's also slang for someone (usually a woman) who appears to have led, shall we say, a "rough life" (i.e. Very rough around the edges...smoker, drinker, cusser, behaves in a lewd manner, etc.) ETA: Also, means "broke" i.e. without money ("I'm flat busted"). So it appears we've come full circle! lol

It's preferable to me, that someone would say "It's broken" rather than "It's busted". HOWEVER, I'll take "It's busted" any day of the week over "It's broke".

My poor kids used to practically drown if I was overdue to nurse them. I hope that's all it is! Pls keep us posted -

Exactly...? Pertussis is a very contagious illness. Apnea...not. I know nothing about "infant apnea" though so either way, no great suggestions; just trying to understand the problem. He has apnea and then gasps, so she's afraid it might be pertussis and not apnea? ___________ eta: ah, gotcha. Can't the doc determine if it's pertussis?

Nice! haha

I signed up today, there doesn't appear to be any sort of obligation to participate in the forum. Signed on without a problem to brain pop Jr. (and spent about an hour playing there myself...) :D

Well, again I have to say, if you liked her and want to use her again, I can see giving her the benefit of the doubt since you didn't lay out the rules beforehand. Perhaps her last babysitting job allowed guests and she just assumed that's the norm? If you don't care that much for her, though, I'd ditch her. No harm done--

We use the dining room table but have a setup for books, etc. that slides under the table. We took that chair out, and the one across from it, and set them against the wall in another room for occasional seating. The binders are kept in a set of two milk crates - one sideways and one facing upward, bound together with zip ties; and the other stuff is in the little set of drawers. Behind the little drawer thingie is another milk crate with books and supplies that I don't need yet. I just slide them in and out as needed. That said, Yes, there are some things that we keep on top of the table (pencil cup, white board, stapler, etc.) and we don't eat at the DR table very much at all and it's a fairly large table. I also only have one to school...