Amy in NH
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What do you do with them?
Someone gave me a gift of medjool dates. I don't know what to do with them. Please advise. :D
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Turns out I am allergic to basil. :(
Double garlic, cinnamon, don't really measure most herbs and spices, just make it up. Cut sugar and salt.
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I'm answering the underlying question(s) which weren't given a question mark...
No way would I add a new dog at the same time as a newborn. Remember the sleepless nights? Imagine just getting back to sleep and then having the puppy need to go out again. Etc etc
I'd probably wait a year or two (or three or four until the kid is old enough to be trained to be nice to the doggy).
I know you weren't actively seeking opinions on this, but there it is.
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Care Credit also closes credit cards if you don't use them frequently, without warning you. Big unpleasant surprise when you suddenly need to use it! They are owned by Synchrony Bank.
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We wear Kamiks, but Bogs are popular.
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I love my AWD Pilot.
That's a tough choice.
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Quite often.
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Reminds me of Gregorian chant. What about Mozart's Ave Verum? Also, Palestrina.
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I'm really not. I am really not into it this year. I don't have a solid shopping list. I've missed the black friday and cyber Monday sales. I'm behind on a big school work deadline. Nutcracker is in less than a week. It's past 1am and I have 4-H here tomorrow. Maybe after next weekend? There's only Wal-Mart for local shopping. It won't be too late to order online next week, will it?
Oh yeah, and dh changed jobs this year, so likely no Christmas bonus for the first time in 15 years.
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Unless you are severely downsizing, you don't have to give them up just yet. Put them back into the storage area and go through them later, maybe with the adult children when they are more settled into their life paths.
I was a difficult kid, which carried over to a difficult-ish launch. But I'm okay now, found my passion through parenting, finishing a terminal degree so I am ready to move on when my kids do.
I understand where you are coming from. My oldest children have not finished finding their adult paths yet. There are some concerns that keep me up at night. But we change every day. The important thing is to not assign judgment to things as they happen, but accept and move forward from that new place we find ourselves each day.
Dreams don't have to die just because you didn't accomplish them on the original timetable. If they're important enough, they can come back around.
Wishing you peace.
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My 14yo built this Herbie Mouse bot last year. He required a lot of help because it was his first solder kit, but if he had prior soldering experience he could have been more independent. It comes with all the parts including enough solder to make it, went together with great instructions, and works well. It's a pretty cool project, and doesn't cost a fortune, so a good choice to go along with the new soldering iron. I would also get a soldering station if he doesn't already have one. There are less expensive ones than the one linked below, but this is on my wish list for ds.
http://www.robotshop.com/en/solarbotics-herbie-the-mousebot-red.html
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I don't think I've noticed a physical change, but the young women I've known who have gone from childless through first pregnancy sound different. The natural tone of their voices is a noticeably lower pitch.
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But the shareholder is letting the business use capital that belongs to the shareholder. The shareholder could do something else with this capital.
Receiving a return to capital encourages the shareholder to invest capital in the business--without it the business would not exist and the jobs for the workers wouldn't exist. Without this incentive, why would the shareholder invest his or her capital in the business?
Why is a person sitting on a pile of capital in the first place?
What else would they do with it if this constant need for higher profit margins to pay shareholders disappeared? Should they be happy with the same level of returns in stock dividends they would have gotten if they put their money in a traditional bank account?
Perhaps they could invest for altruistic reasons rather than greed? But perhaps that's asking too much of some people... you know, to have a sense of morality.
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I can tell you another difference. The preschool teacher is likely buying books and materials out of her own pocket and paying for recertification classes. With the possible exception of a uniform shirt for a fast food job, usually you don't have those ongoing expenses.
No, teaching preschool isn't brain surgery. Not being a brain surgeon, I can't say which is harder. I can say that I find teaching preschool (which I love, BTW) more difficult than teaching pre-service early childhood teachers at the university level. And at the university level, I'm paid a lot more. And my students buy their own supplies.
FWIW, I would probably now have a hard time getting hired to teach ECED-I'm overqualified, even for most center director positions (and given that a center director is more business than teaching, I wouldn't want it anyway).
And teachers get to deduct those expenses on the front of their 1040.
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And what exactly are we supposed to do with all of the folks working service jobs who are replaced by robots? Let them starve in the streets?
I get when a professional might be irked at a service worker making as much as they do but let's face it there are not enough professional jobs for everyone let alone service sector jobs. And for folks saying that McD's jobs are not meant to be living wage jobs and teenage jobs, I disagree since there are only limited manufacturing jobs out (although FTR under Obama 850,000 manufacturing jobs were created) and service sector is a big part of the job market. So I guess I am saying is that we should not diss service workers and begrudge them living wages.
Oh and when robots do replace a lot of our jobs our country is going to have to figure out how to give a living wage benefit to those out of work unless we want to live in like Victorian times or something like that. Of course I don't see the right agreeing to that at all.
I completely agree.
As we go into our study of the Industrial Revolution, I was looking today for just the right Dickens read aloud. You know, the books with all the starving homeless children, workhouses, debtors prisons, and poor couples forceably divorced by the state. I ended up reading that the reason the Industrial Revolution and accompanying social problems started in the UK was because of the high cost of labor there in comparison to other places.
I can see us headed down the same path as more jobs are lost to automation with nothing to replace them. When do we get to the tipping point of "we" as a society having enough to sustain everyone without a 40 hour work week. When do we get rid of the hoarding greed and move toward a Star Trek vision of the future where we can all have enough just because we are valued and given dignity due purely to our sentience, and we can spend our time in pursuit of higher goals?
Valuing "life" sure has a funny meaning for some people.
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From a rather selfish point of view--
It irks the crap out of me that people who do nothing more than stand at a cash register and take an order (thinking McD's, not waiters and such) will get paid the same as a preschool teacher who has a degree and spends extra hours planning, designing curricula and making materials, and conferencing with parents. I am not saying cashiers don't work hard--it is hard physically to stand there for hours and hard mentally to deal with people. But the jobs are not equal in my mind, and I do not think they should get paid basically the same amount.
I don't know what to do about that, frankly, just saying how I feel.
I don't believe people who get paid higher wages will necessarily pay more for things like child care, either.
You're right, that is a selfish point of view.
I don't see why it is okay for people who work a full time job to not afford basic necessities like shelter and utilities, food, clothing, and basic transportation and communication without government assistance. This low wage which puts huge profits into the pockets of families like the Waltons, other CEOs, and shareholders, who obviously aren't doing the work, amounts to tax dollars subsidizing the creation of the overlord 1% class. Those same welfare dollars which subsidize the low-paying corporate-wealth model are then spent at those same businesses (ie Wal-Mart), amounting to a double dip of those corporations into the taxpayer wallet. Add corporations-are-persons influence on the political system, and we'll continue in perpetuity. And because Congressional staffers were cut in the 1980s, issue-experts no longer advise politicians - it's all lobbyists * who actually write the bills! *
What a mess.
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We told ds not to tell his sister and he was really good about it, but he is the absolute worst liar you have ever met. They spend all day every day together so it wasn't going to take long.
I looked at your signature and was confused about your 11yo not supposed to tell your 22yo! :roflol:
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We do the "junk" food smorgasbord on New Years, but it's more like eggrolls, shrimp cocktail, a cheese ball, spinach artichoke dip, potato skins, leftover Christmas cookies, etc.
Our advent calendar is a Christmas tree with ornaments in the pockets, similar to this one http://www.lillianvernon.com/product/christmastreecountdowncalendar.do?code=16JAO726&zmam=78703194&zmas=1&zmac=14&zmap=Z810619&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping&gclid=CIjD24-h19ACFQKBswodb6EMpA
Teeth go into a little wooden box, which is easier to find under the pillow. You ladies who started off with the tooth in another room are brilliant! Tooth fairy is often late here, especially if the kids stay up later than me. As they get older, though, I just hand over the dollar when the tooth comes out, and everyone is happy. :)
My biggest pita is Easter, when the kids expect an egg hunt around the house with a clue in the special egg to find a gift. Why did I ever think that was a good idea? I'm often up past midnight to perpetrate that one. I'm sure I'll look back on it fondly in a few years when they're all gone.
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Filling stockings in general is so darned expensive! And I handmade adorable stockings for each kid when they were small, but those suckers are HUGE! Every year I bemoan all the extra carp I have to buy just to fill up those bottomless pits!
I've started resorting to whole fruit, socks, and undies. :leaving:
I made little bitty patchwork-quilted ones for my whole family using holiday fabrics. They're probably 4"x7". They're still expensive to fill, but not nearly as bad as the normal-sized ones.
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Never made buttermilk dressing. We use plain yogurt as a buttermilk substitute in recipes.
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Septimus Heap series
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I don't think it's strange. If I didn't want people to see it I would put it away. Now if they started rifling through my desk that would be another story.
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It took me forever to find these weatherproof boots with warm fleece lining, small heel, and no fuzzy stuff sticking out that would look horrible after getting wet in the snow. They have good non slip tread, as well. You can find them for under $100 if you shop around.
Unlike the cheaper boots I had been used to buying, these have held up for more than a year (so far) and still look brand new with no separating soles.
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Dates?
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Thanks everyone!
Does anyone know long they will last?