Amy in NH
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Fed Ex got stuck in my unplowed driveway this morning. The guy pounded on the door and asked if I had a chain to pull him out! I told him that I'm not pulling out his big truck with my littler Honda. I did invite him in where it's warm, but he borrowed the phone in my mudroom and called for help, then went to sit out in his truck. They took about an hour to get here, and then tore up a small section of my lawn where the truck had backed in to turn around.
The plow guy was supposed to be here last night. We already had 6-8 inches in our driveway and it continued to snow overnight and all day. I was shocked that he attempted and made it up my driveway to begin with! Plow showed up just after Fed Ex left.
UPS just called to say they were on their way with nine! packages, and would I like to meet them in town if they felt my driveway was unsafe for them...
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No stickers here this year. My poll workers said they used up the last of their old stickers at the last election and haven't gotten more.
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Work with other faculty and student leaders to institute study groups and tutoring services?
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Dark circles are sometimes called allergic shiners. They get worse if you're dehydrated. Try drinking more water?
Bags under the eyes are either fluid collection, or a sign of high cholesterol.
If you're dehydrated and have fluid collection, maybe you're eating a lot of salt?
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16 hours ago, goldberry said:
That would concern me also. If it comes up, deal with it. But what OP is describing is almost like assuming there will be a dysphoria.
I don't think so. I think it is a way to begin to challenge and change the culture/society that we live in away from heteronormativity. My older kids (nonbinary & transgender) are both frustrated by the unmindful heteronormative assumptions made by most everyone around them. When they first started talking about that, in their mid-teens, it really made me think about all the ways in which non-conforming genders and sexualities are invisible. Those cultural assumptions are what lead to rejection and discrimination. I am aware of a few areas of the US and Canada in which groups of people are trying to move the culture away from those assumptions to a more neutral position.
If you read Vygotsky on social constructivism, you'll understand that our social reality is created in large part by language. Using different language is an excellent place to start changing the fabric of our understanding.
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3 hours ago, Friendtothefriendless said:
He had a trak phone and had apps. We haven't started the phone clean up bc I can only handle so much at a time.
i purchased the trak bc I thought that stuff wasn't possible on it. Now I know Trak phone pushes it on kids by making it so available and pushing their apps in ad messages to kids.
I have a trac phone, and my kids each have one too. We haven't found this to be the case at all.
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11 minutes ago, Ktgrok said:
I had what was sort of like PMS or post partum depression a few weeks after weaning my oldest. The others I've had another baby by then, so no physical or emotional changes...just one less kid nursing at a time. But that hormone smack down after going from 1 nursling to 0 was harsh. It didn't last long though.
This makes sense because breastfeeding releases oxytocin, which makes you feel happy and relaxed.
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Our cooperative grocery store sells them for ~$20/lb, but there was a sign that their supplier (United Natural Foods Inc distributor) is out of stock.
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What I read said that cadmium is being found in women's jewelry. I don't think I'd give anything to children with pica that is not meant for oral use/teething babies.
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I've seen it for sale at the local food co-operative grocery store (or a health food store). It is in a special locked case at the service desk because it is so expensive.
Good luck!
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" Humans normally absorb cadmium into the body either by ingestion or inhalation Dermal exposure (uptake through the skin) is generally not regarded to be of significance (Lauwerys 1988). "
https://www.cadmium.org/environment/cadmium-exposure-and-human-health
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21 minutes ago, Murphy101 said:
One problem is the onus always seems to be in the women to make her discomfort clear and that’s unrealistic for a couple reasons that our society refuses to accept. While I would damn near stand up and applaud my daughter for kicking a guy in the nuts for touching her - the reality is my daughter is far more likely to be like me. Dumbfounded into inaction and or confused and too brain fried to respond in the moment. Flight or fight is strong and usually flight wins if it’s an option. Any guy not a complete dumbass jerk would know she wasn’t into him, but guys who are complete dumbass or jerks are not known for taking subtle or polite hints. To girls who are self conscious and tend to want to be kind first - being polite is our default knee jerk response. And daaaamn. It is HARD to fight social conditioning in the moment. I had an minor verbal incident just last week that I posted on FB where I froze and I was so crying furious with myself within moments of leaving the situation. Fat lot of good that did in the moment though. I’m still ticked at myself for not responding the way I would have preferred.
Fight or flight aren't the only two adrenal responses to a perceived danger.
It is often called:
fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
OR
fight, flight, freeze, or appease
I think a lot of us have the freeze or appease response, which sets us up for accusations of consent because we didn't fight or flee.
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Assault (also called attempted battery) is a threat or physical act that creates a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, whereas battery is a physical act that results in that harmful or offensive contact. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault_and_battery
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1 hour ago, Ktgrok said:
Several times it was mentioned in the other thread that grinding on someone without consent, grabbing them, etc was just how boys were in high school and not something worth getting upset about.
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On 9/30/2018 at 8:06 PM, texasmom33 said:
I would see about fencing slightly inside the property line- make sure you have a survey before you put in the fence. If you get the fence put in, they're/you're going to have to clear it to get the fence installed anyway. After it's up, what I would suggest is getting some bales of hay and laying the hay along the outer perimeter of the fence, then cover it with landscaping rock. That will help keep anything from easily growing over it. Depending on how far you set your fence back, I'd shoot for a two-foot wide rock perimeter, and then you can trench the ground in front of the rocks with a heavy duty weed eater. Does that make sense? It will give you a defined line for later up-keep. Don't trench under your fence or your dogs will get out. After you have the rocks in, you should just need to spray with Round-Up or a similar type of weed killer periodically and it *should* keep the vines/weeds away. Overgrowth is hell on a fence- if you can't keep it under control it will make it a bad investment because fencing is expensive.
Hay will eventually compost down to dirt and become weed food. I'd put down landscaping plastic, old carpet on top of that, and then the crushed stone.
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Homeschoolers here don't get any sort of accredited diploma unless they are enrolled in a distance learning program which provides one. Credits really don't matter.
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Have him take the GED (Hi-SET in NH) and get a full-time job. He needs a dose of real life to discover for himself what his real passions are so that he has the intrinsic motivation to work toward his own goals.
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It was my understanding from World Religions class in college that there are some Buddhists who choose to let go of all of their attachments as they enter old age. They leave behind spouse, children, family, close friends, etc., and become monks in the pursuit of enlightenment. Is this what you mean?
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Just bought two used vehicles online, flew to them, and drove them home.
To get free accident/title/theft reports, run the VIN through https://www.vehiclehistory.com/ and https://www.iseecars.com/vin
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Just this summer I started getting vertigo with big fronts moving through. I didn't sleep well last night and just feel off today - just realized reading this thread that a front came through overnight. It was 80 yesterday; 65 today.
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14 hours ago, milovany said:
With some finance companies, you can ask them to get verbal permission from your husband to talk with you and they keep this on record so that from that time on, you can make the call yourself. Not all finance companies do this, though.
I handle all of the finances, but DH has the income so the cc are in his name. I just tell them I'm him when I have to call for any reason. I have all his personal information to answer the identity verification questions, and even the security questions since I'm the one who set them up in the first place.
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We got our first off of Freecycle. That one lasted about 2 years, then it went on the burn pile. The one that replaced it came from craigslist for $300. Even after cleaning and tuning, it wasn't perfect. It sounded like a honky tonk piano, so a musician friend of Dh took it when we wanted to upgrade after another 4 years. We replaced it with a refurbished 1978 Yamaha U7 for $4000, which is a gem. We will never need to replace it, and even the tuner was impressed.
So, it really depends on the quality of the instrument. You might find a refurbisher to take it if it is worthy, but even an old upright Steinway is not worth it.
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Just coming online to research this as a possible remedy for some horrible asthma symptoms I'm experiencing. Please share!
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My ds was diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis 3-4 years ago. He had an 11% curve on the first xray - you could see it on the xray. They did a follow up xray exactly one year later, and the curve had increased only a tiny bit, but he had also grown A LOT in that year. He had gone from a stage 1 hip to a stage 4 (out of 5) in one year - which, according to the specialist, meant he was almost done growing. At that point, there was not much they could do - AND the slight curve he has was something they wouldn't treat anyway. He's 16 now, and it doesn't affect him at all.
If your son is almost 16, I would guess that he is almost done growing, too. Probably his curve won't change much from here on, and they won't treat it. If it had been noticeable enough for you to see in everyday life, it might be more concerning, but maybe not. For a couple of years before his diagnosis I had thought my ds's shoulders were uneven when he was sitting in his computer chair, but I chalked it up to slouching while mousing.
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Shipping snafus so far
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We discovered when doing a recent 4-H project that you can use smooth-sided coffee cups as ramekins.
We got cups w/saucers at Ocean State for $1/set, and the apple & cheese souffles were delicious!