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On 2/22/2019 at 9:54 PM, CES2005 said:
So this makes me want to send my kids to college abroad... Is that possible?
Actually, a nearby college's tuition and fees are about $180 per credit hour, a grand in fees, and $600 in books. R&B bring it to around $8k-$10k per
year. Not terrible. It's not a prestigious school, though. It's just a school. Public funded, fwiw.My private LAC is about $44k/year for the whole thing; $30k for tuition et al and $14k for R&B. It was around $23k/year when I was there. I don't have particular attachment to it, anyway. I think they'll be going to the public college and living at home, lol.
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Per semester. $8k-$10k per semester. I can't read. Like, I can't see the words on the screen....
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Awesome!! Cograts to him!
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Lots of ::hugs:: and prayers!! I'm pretty sure I'd feel scared, too. It's so great you're doing it anyway!
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On 2/22/2019 at 5:12 PM, WendyAndMilo said:
I feel like someone, somewhere had a hypothesis about bored, intellectual moms and said "Now I wonder what will happen if we only give half of them randomly giant emojis." They convinced SWB to allow them to take over the website back-end for a while; now she is sitting back, thinking "..........................................SMDH."
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I wonder what makes the difference between persistence and self-resolution?
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Hmm... I'd still have kids. I'd do that over again, though I'd learn from my mistakes. Same thing for all my relationships, of course.
Otherwise... Coffee house owner (original game plan; get a business degree and open a coffee house in "the city"), world traveler, homesteader, nun, house flipper, singer (not of idol fame, though; that sounds terrible), woodworker, maybe writer...I might think of others in time, lol
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Oh the emojis!! lol
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1 minute ago, AbcdeDooDah said:
I was reading about the book thing. DD is terrified of needles so she thought it sounded like a fine option.
I don't blame her. I'm torn between needles and books; surgery just seems pricey as the thing is not super inhibiting. It's on my right wrist and I thought it was one of those little bones out of place, but I just can't put too much weight on that wrist, so I'm in wait & see mode.
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I was told it needed to be surgically removed, unless I wanted to slam a huge book on my wrist, which I don't! The PA said that they could drain it, but there was a chance in would just refill.
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Other: it didn't occur to me to think about having a favorite, lol. But I'm generally not good at the, "What's your favorite..." game. Tan cloth is fine; it's what I'm used to.
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3 hours ago, Plum Crazy said:
It's not one specific thing, but lots of things.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/
So this makes me want to send my kids to college abroad... Is that possible?
Actually, a nearby college's tuition and fees are about $180 per credit hour, a grand in fees, and $600 in books. R&B bring it to around $8k-$10k per year. Not terrible. It's not a prestigious school, though. It's just a school. Public funded, fwiw.
My private LAC is about $44k/year for the whole thing; $30k for tuition et al and $14k for R&B. It was around $23k/year when I was there. I don't have particular attachment to it, anyway. I think they'll be going to the public college and living at home, lol.
Edited for additional thoughts and formatting.
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30 minutes ago, Storygirl said:
Hope springs eternal. Trying again.
Grr
Aww. Here.
edit: weird things are happening with my emojis!! My smiley was tiny the first time I posted, then after I edited the post, *poof* it was huge! Hmm..
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::hugs:: ::more hugs::
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Yes, but not in that sort of way. My big changes have to do with interpersonal and faith stuff.
I wouldn't mind traveling; I love seeing new places, but I'd want to spend several months in each place.
I'd love to volunteer...my idea of mission work is more helping people build/repair houses, though.
Spend quite a while in a women's monastery (months).
Otherwise, it's changes I can make now--hike more, camp more, find a few live entertainment events, go to the beach...things I just haven't given myself permission to enjoy for the past 15 years.-
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On 12/20/2018 at 11:46 AM, happysmileylady said:
I don't buy soft furniture used, but hard furniture that I can wipe down with bleach, I don't have a problem getting used. The bookshelves in our living room are used, the chairs in our dining room are used, as is the pantry cabinet.
This is me, too. Though to be fair, when I was 16, I got a 2-year-old purple corduroy sofa from a boyfriend's neighbor and JUST replaced it about 5 months ago with a nice leather reclining sofa.
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Testing...
Default emojis are small, "text" emojis are huge?
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My theory is that it's both account and emoji specific. I'm on Chrome on a laptop, fwiw.
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That sort of thing is just...really unfathomable for me. It's someone else's stuff...you could just give it back...
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Holy wow. Ok. Thank you for sharing your stories. ::hugs::
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7 minutes ago, HeighHo said:
The research Erik Kandel has some thoughts on that in his book The Disordered Mind.
It seems there is trauma, which is reinforced to the point that there is a physical change that can't be recovered from. Or the person was born that way, physically.
For ex., my NPD seems to have had trauma and does not want any help dealing with it, preferring the drama and attention that narcissism brings; the offspring that is NPD is also a sociopath, and one of that person's offspring is a sociopath but not NPD. So a mix. The problem with the first two is that they live in a very small world, so they don't have to acknowledge that their behavior is abnormal. The third person has a large world, and learned the norms towards other humans in school and from extended fam as it wasn't available in the home. The offspring that were abused but don't have any mental health issues found most physical abuse stopped at age 7, the typical, as that's when the public school officials take note. Also as usual, they realized other people weren't in that situation and what the norms were.
Thank you. And just to clarify in general, it's not an aspersion on anyone here or meant to undermine; I'm thinking of people I know and myself in particular. And I think of specific things like gaslighting, and am trying to square that with things like faulty human memory, different perspectives/perceptions, etc. e.g.: Do I just think I have a bad memory and am really gaslighting? Am I narcissistic toward my children? etc.
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Is it possible for narcissistic generation A to abuse their offspring (generation B) and essentially turn them into narcissists who then abuse generation C? And if so, how is C not also turned into a narcissist?
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Really great (sorry!). But ours was straight forward, we never itemized, and they withheld way too much in 2018; I'm having it adjusted.
My son is going to be on Story Pirates this week!
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