Krista in LA
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It's my lunch break everyday. The kids go do their free reading and I eat lunch while watching it. My dh makes fun of me. I used to watch GH in high school because it was the only one on late enough to see after school - that was back in the Luke and Laura days. I also watched One Life to Live for several years. I'm glad to just have one now.
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I started last week so I have the initial bigger weight loss of 4.5 lbs this week. I'm sure it will be far less next week. I'd love to lose about 30 more.
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I hope everyone has safe travels. I can't imagine what you are going through. You will be in my prayers.
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You know, ours might be LCD. I really don't know. I was far more concerned with how it was installed than I was what sort of screen this is!!!
How can I tell what type of screen it is? The kids are watching a history documentary on the computer right now, I could run to the living room and check!!!
I have no idea how to tell - I had to go look at the box from ours to see if it was 720 or 1080. I just know that we made sure we bought LCD after talking to various people in the know.
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I got the Keys to Algebra books for her. She would do her Singapore 6 math 3x/week and the Keys to books 2x. They were simple and introduced the negative numbers right off the bat. She loved that she was doing Algebra. The other nice thing is that they are inexpensive. She has since moved on to Jacobs' and is doing well in it.
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And it happens to be a Vizio. Our 27" JVC that dh bought in 1989 finally died, so we went browsing this weekend. I learned a lot. From what I understand, you want LCD, not plasma or HDP. The 1080p is supposedly the best, but also tends to cost more. We ended up with a 32" Vizio, LCD, 1080i. It has a great picture. I can't believe how clear the digital channels are - we don't have cable, just use rabbit ears, and it's incredible! The pictures look like we have cable. We are very happy with it so far. Sears price matched Sam's taking an extra 10% of the price difference off so it was $588. We could have gotten the 42" for only $945.
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I pay $40/month for dsl with them. I have had great service with them - very few outages or anything over the many years we have had them.
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I have never had a problem with my cooktop. Ours is a GE, just the cooktop, not a whole stove, in black but it has white speckles so it's not solid black. It cleans up very easily and always looks good.
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My kids and I have all been taking it for nearly 4 years. My dh goes when he can. He's a yellow belt (the 2nd belt) and the kids and I are 1st degree black belts. Tae kwon do actually means punching kicking way so TKD is primarily a punching and kicking sport. Our forms have punches and kicks. We also do sparring sets, which would help us defend ourselves should we ever get in a street fight, and self-defense moves, which teach us ways to get out of bad situations like a choke hold, shirt grab, etc. I love the self-defense training. As we have progressed to black belt, our training is also including things from other forms of martial arts. For example to get our first chevron, we learned 12 different wrist grab manuevers like are used in hapkido (I believe). Our master stresses values in class. My kids have grown in so many ways from taking tkd - strength, discipline, confidence. I think martial arts are great and it's about finding an instructor that you like first and foremost, and then style.
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I hope you'll stick around or at least pop in once in awhile. You always have such good advice and I enjoy reading your posts. I hope school works out for all of you. My 7th grade dd is considering going to school so I'd be interested in hearing how the transition goes for both you and the kids.
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The Farmers Almanac do not believe in Global Warming. They said it is Earth going through its cycles. Remember back in the 30's to 50's they thought there was going to be an ice age coming.
Remember who is presenting the Global Warming ideas. The very people that are presenting are wanting to tax us for breathing carbon dioxide into the air. I have heard some really wacky stuff from the global warming people on how they want to tax people due to global warming. YIKES!
My belief is Earth is going through cycles as it always have done. Let's let it take its course.
Holly
I think we are awfully vain to think that we alone can control such events. I'm not saying that we, as people, aren't contributing to it and perhaps making it worse, but I do believe that most of it is due to cycles that would happen with or without us.
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Which one did you buy? I've got several here. ;)
I got Aesop with the B books. I wasn't sure if I wanted to start with A since ds will be in 5th grade. I think I saw on their website that they recommend B for 5th. Which ones do you have and are you using them? I was contemplating the workbook for older beginners for dd, but I want to check it out before I make any more decisions plus I need to figure out what else I'm doing with her next year.
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I think I paid about $10 for it a couple of years ago. I forget which edition it was, but it worked well for us.
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I just bought Classical Writing used so I can check it out. I'm hoping to actually use it with my ds next year, but I have to take a good look at it first. I generally won't buy something new just to check it out though as I don't want to lose too much money.
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When dh said, "Mea culpa," my dd asked him if he even knew what that meant.
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It's still pretty new, so I can't tell you how it will hold up, but I love it. It's a 2-in-1 pillow that has the memory foam and a traditional type filling. I find that I sleep so much better with the foam, but the foam pillow I had was too thin. This one is a great fit. My dh got it at Penneys, but I know they have them at Kohl's too.
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When we were back last year visiting dh's family, we got a room at the Springhill Suites on Weaver Pkwy in Warrenville. It's right off of Diehl Rd very near lots of things. We were very happy with the service. Our room had a queen bed and a sofabed along with a kitchenette.
I used to work on Diehl Rd before we moved, and I agree with the others that any hotels in that area would be fine - Lisle, Naperville, Warrenville, Wheaton are all nice areas. I would not go any further west than Rt. 59 though because there are not so nice parts of Aurora. I'm almost missing our old neighborhood just thinking about it. Hope you enjoy your trip there.
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I think just changing it to k-6 and 7-12 makes far more sense than a separate logic stage board.
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We have one that is just the cooktop with a separate oven. We've had it for 10 years and have no scratches on it. I haven't been able to figure out how people get scratches as it's not like we are super careful about that. It is also so much easier to clean than the gas or electric coil stoves we've had in the past. I just use softscrub on it and it's so easy. I would get another one in a heartbeat.
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Center Point elementary school, Center Point, Iowa
1st grade Mrs. Schaeffer
Columbia Elementary, Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Can't remember principal's name but I can still picture him
2nd grade Ms. Zullo - I loved her
3rd grade Mrs. Geiger
4th grade Mr. something or other - he was mean and I can picture him too
5th grade Mrs. Bugbee
6th grade was in Mt. Vernon Middle School and I had several teachers there
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Next year my fourth grader will be using Singapore My Pal's are Here Science grade 4.
This is what we are using this year for 4th grade. It's our first year with it and I really like it because it is very simple and straight forward. I hate doing labs and I don't have to with this if I don't want to. The book presents things in small pieces and the workbook is great. We do the activities most of the time because they are pretty simple, but we have skipped a few if we didn't have things on hand for it or it didn't appeal to us. I'll be getting it again for 5th grade.
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Nan,
This is another great post I have to keep. You are such a big help to those of us approaching high school.
Thank you.
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Glad you decided to post. I used to be a lurker, moved up to an occasional poster and now I'm posting more often with the new board formats.
Hope to see more of you.
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Did you see on the http://www.flyoceanicair.com website that there is a press release that lists the cities that they are resuming flights to? It's an interesting list including
Los Angeles, CA
Tustin, CA
Ames, IA
Miami, FL
New York, NY
Portland, OR
Knoxville, TN
Seoul, South Korea
Sydney, Australia
I have to wonder the significance of some of those places...
A hypothetical flooring question
in General Education Discussion Board
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They have a grout stain that you can get at Home Depot that comes in different shades. I believe it is supposed to seal it at the same time as coloring it. So, my friend cleaned the floor well, without getting on hands and knees and really scrubbing at the grout. Then she applied this stain according to the directions. It looked great when she was done with it and she almost contemplated doing it to her family room and kitchen until she realized how long it would take to do it to such a big area. But hey, the bathroom looks great and didn't take that long.