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18 minutes ago, Katy said:
Oh my gosh. If you want to have a well-fueled rant, watch the movie Mom's Night Out. All she gets is an attitude adjustable, not actual help. Life changing message, obviously. 🙄🙄🙄 Ranty rant rant.
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That sounds somewhat fraudulent. Is this a community property state?
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1 hour ago, Terabith said:
Pockets 😆😆
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I'm sorry that's going on. That's so hard. Praying for your peace and stamina.
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Aw, man! Feel better. I'm sorry it got so bad.
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The comments were interested, too.
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It's Calvin Ball! "To inform these maneuvers, colleges lean on consultants who analyze applicant demographics, qualifications, financial status and more using econometric models. High school seniors think this is checkers, but the schools know it’s chess. This has all become frankly terrifying for students, who are first-time players in a game their opponents invented."
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That's challenging, when they read everything in sight! I liked the book Honey for a Child's Heart when my kids were that age. It's a book of great book lists, curated for quality by someone more careful than I am.
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I'm reading The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta.
"Jesus instructed His followers to “take heart!” because He had overcome the troubles of this world. But most of us don’t listen. Christians remain just as susceptible to panicky groupthink and identity-based paranoia as anyone else. Despite Jesus promising His followers that they would suffer—or perhaps because of this promise—Christians since the age of Constantine have run anxiously into the arms of the state, desperate to be protected by the rulers of their time and place."
It's not good bedtime reading; I get all riled up.
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4 hours ago, Faith-manor said:
It really is horrible! I can hardly people anymore, as Mark would say. Just an hour or two out in society at the farm store, the grocery store, the hardware, and I am just done. Aggressive driving, aggressive speech, aggressice gestures, aggression e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. So then I am exhausted from people.
Truly, I think we can't make schools better. Even IF we managed to convince the power mongers to radically change stupid policies, and overhaul funding, and all the things that would make things better for teachers and students, at the end of the day, we are still dealing with an egregiously selfish, scarily aggressive society where really, we now have more people acting like that than less. I don't see how we can move forward until the rampant self absorption lessens considerably.
Our Dd just dealt with an entire set of totally OVER THE TOP parents at a homeschool co-op who bring kids who aren't in the class she teaches but expect her to babysit those kids AND teach simultaneously so they can "have a break", and then when the teens got in trouble outdoors while she was teaching a 7-10 year old science lab indoors, they went F bomb crazy on her and the director. Not 1 person, not 2 persons, 9 women frothing at the mouth because they had to give up their "personal time" to go deal with teens. Dd isn't even paid. Just volunteering. She told the director she quit, gathered her children, her things, and left. She then had to block emails and facebook because these same women sent personal communications calling her effing unreliable and "woe as me, now I have to find somewhere else for my kids to go so I can have downtime" emails and posts.
Sickening. She is done peopling now. She invited 2 nice women and their children to her house every other week for a science lab, and an art project, then play time. I think that is better. Form a small pod of decent humans who seem to be few and far between a lot of the time.
That's wild.
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Hurray! Still praying. I'm so glad there were people around who helped him get to the hospital right away.
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Here's the list of calculators for this year. We got a ti-84 on Facebook, but I wouldn't say DD is using all its capabilities. https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/exam-policies-guidelines/calculator-policies
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I'm surprised by how much I'd forgotten about him, and how much of what I thought I knew was skewed by the political environment in which I grew up. What a complicated saga, more about the society than about him.
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Ow, that must really hurt! Gentle hugs!
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So sorry you're hurting!
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DS12 says he wants archeology, but clarified that he wants to study fossils. He's NOT interested in dinosaurs at this point (which is too bad because I found a great coursera option about dinosaurs... sigh).
I've found a few books aimed at adult hobbyists. He is a strong reader, but not ready for a college textbook. Is there anything awesome you've used?
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This weekend I'm going around waving my arm and saying, "Walla Walla Washington!" (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court).
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Lots. My own personal most-used line is "Welcome to the party, pal!" I'm kinda spicy lately.
We quote the comedian, Brian Regan, all the time!
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Maybe one of these? I'm kind of surprised how expensive these are.
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Thanks very much. You really helped me make the decision. She went to kitty heaven at the vet's today. It was the right move.
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This one is hideous, but I'm thinking older-directed department stores might have something?
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Stay out if this is going to break your heart. Sorry. 😞
My cat is 19, maybe a little older. A year ago we thought she was dying (gasping for breath, lying still on the floor) but she started Solensia injections every month and perked back up. Now she's not doing well again. She's not due for a shot.
She appears to be in pain when she walks, more than her usual arthritis. Last night she vomited foam. Then I saw her crawl into the cat box and kind of lay down. I got her out gently and put her in the soft cat bed. She got up twice this morning, but didn't jump up for tap water, which is normally her routine. She breathes hard when she walks a little; her sides suck in a bit more than normal. She has not defecated. She's shut in the pretty bathroom with everything she needs, so the dog won't bother her, and is not asking to be let out. She's lying curled in her cat bed.
I'm thinking this is the end of the line. I'm considering taking her to the vet to be put down tomorrow.
How do I decide? I've never had a pet this long before. If she defecates in the litter box, do I reconsider?
The kids are going to be very sad. Me too.
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We have family i disagree with on important issues. I talk about things that come up with the kids afterwards, and explain my own thoughts. I've also taught them that we don't need to take stands on every little thing, or to mesh perfectly to remain connected as family. I do pay very close attention, though.
Could you sit down with your kid over ice cream and explain why you want college to be a priority for him? I'm concerned that if you cut him off from them, he'll be left wondering why you thought he couldn't handle exposure to their ideas.
I'd play the longest possible game, which is to deliberately train him to think for himself. And I'd maintain my edge, first and most frequent access to his ears. 😉
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Zelle help -- anyone successfully added a 2nd email to your account? EDIT: problem figured out
in The Chat Board
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I had to call them one time. I had to have extensive identification info, which was good, but they fixed my issue over the phone.