I usually prefer not to rejoice over anybody's death, but I'm all out of f$%#s to give about terrorist assholes.

Ha! That is great.

A few weeks ago there was a link going around facebook that claimed Netflix offerings could be searched by code. Do the super secret codes differentiate between legit documentaries and "documentaries" put out by conspiracy theorists, ancient aliens guys, and other dubious sources? I roll my eyes when I look at the Netflix documentaries area and see that 2/3 of them are just junk.

Here is the book for you!

Our insurance doesn't pay for an EpiPen until the (high) deductible is reached, so I ordered my daughter's Jr. from a Canadian pharmacy. Instead of $600 out of pocket, we paid $168, including shipping.

In a former life, I worked in a bookstore, doing inventory-type stuff. I came in at 5 or 6 am and shelved books, pulled publisher returns, set up displays, ordered books, etc. I wasn't terribly good at customer service, but I did enjoy the occasional opportunity to wear a costume for themed story hours. Something about wearing a giant fake head made it much easier to interact with customers. :) My dream job would probably be reference librarian in an academic library. I like searching for bits of information.

Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay [You Fit into Me] by Margaret Atwood Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks

I think she would look fine if she were wearing the proper size. Instead of buying jeans to fit in the waist, women with a more ample rear need to buy jeans that fit in the rear/hips, and have the waist taken in a bit.

I don't know, I think that they look a lot nicer than the saggy-butt look promoted by a blog that was popular a few years back. I don't really have a jeans body atm, but when (if :huh: ) I ever lose the baby weight I'll be looking for some nicely-fitted jeans.

Is this where I admit that I also like unsweetened chocolate? Lol

I like to drink orange juice after brushing my teeth. The mint/orange combination is nice. I don't understand why citrus + mint is considered gross--it's like a mojito!

I just looked at the new site, and I noticed that after you are in the bookshop, there is a UK flag at the upper right hand side. If you click on it, there are other flags to click. If you click on the US flag, then choose your book, the description indicates that the book is print on demand in the US. :)

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod teaches baptismal regeneration. :) I'm not sure about the ELCA. When I went from ELCA to LCMS I was surprised at how differently communion was practiced and thought about in the two church bodies. My LCMS congregation took the real presence in communion much more seriously than the ELCA congregation in which I grew up. In fact, I remember my ELCA congregation referring to communion as symbolic. Looking back, it was more of a nondenominational church that happened to baptize infants, than a Lutheran church. PS: Sorry for the derail. I read the beginning of the thread yesterday and the rest today, and lost the chain somewhere along the line. My only "conversion" experience was from one Lutheran church to another, and the worst I experiences was good-natured ribbing.

Still inching through Neurotribes. Bettelheim was sure a jerk. I feel kind of dirty for having one of his books on my shelf. I had to smile while reading the chapter about ham radio operators. We used to go to church with a man who talked about nothing but ham radio 24/7, and I have privately wondered if he has asperger's syndrome. I was looking with interest at the mushroom logs in the Territorial seed catalog, but I wouldn't be able to babysit it properly. Anything in my garden has to thrive with benign neglect.

When I had a functional vitamix and no allergic kids, my boys liked a smoothie with frozen banana, spinach, peanut butter, and chocolate almond milk. It was like a chocolate pb milkshake.

I think that when most people think of smoothies, they're thinking of the super sugary concoctions you find at coffee shops and the like. All fruit and veg smoothies are a different beast.

Preach it, sister. This is the hardest thing about working with my ds. I wouldn't be surprised if NVLD runs in families. Everything else seems to. :glare:

I am not the OP, but I am using the Linguisystems Executive Functions Training Elementary book with my 8 y/o and it is very helpful. We are only on the first section, working memory, but his ability to hold information in his mind is much improved. There are five units: working memory, time management, planning and organization, flexible thinking, and self-monitoring. The strategies are very concrete and practical. I might need to implement some of them for myself. :) The elementary book is indicated for ages 6-11, or grades 1-6. There is also a secondary book--there are sample pages available at the Linguisystems website, so you could compare the two and decide which would be more appropriate for your son.

Elements. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and everyone I knew had an electric stove with coils.

I have finished two books so far: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, and The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. For years I have been meaning to read Rushdie, but I was put off by false impressions gleaned from the television news when I was a child. I thought that Rushdie would be dry, political, and...I'm not sure. Maybe a conspiracy theorist? I think that maybe I associated The Satanic Verses with the mid-1980s hobby of finding evidence of Satanic symbols in everything from cabbage patch dolls to the Proctor and Gamble logo. Anyway, I was delighted to have my expectations smashed by a lovely magical realist tale--lightly political, yes, but far from dry and very enjoyable. The second book, The Emperor of All Maladies, is subtitled A Biography of Cancer. I was a bit apprehensive to read a "pleasure" book about such a heavy and scary topic, but it was actually strangely comforting. What I liked: the scientific and clinical accounts of cancer and its treatment through the ages. What I could have done without: the political and public relations bits. Snore. Now I'm on to Neurotribes. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it, and I am finding the history of the study of autism heartbreaking, fascinating, and frustrating. Asperger certainly comes across as a far more sympathetic personality than Kanner, at least so far. I almost forgot: I have SWB's HotAW in my stack too. I read a bit here and a bit there, but I get bogged down in Mesopotamia. My 8 y/o son was appalled to learn that I'm just not that into the Mesopotamians--he thought mom/teacher had to enjoy every subject. :lol: I think that he was relieved to know that he's not the only one who is less than enthusiastic about certain subjects. I do enjoy SWB's dry humor, and find that her asides keep me interested enough to keep picking it up, so it's a win on that front.

Maybe one of the Martin Gardner books? I had this one when I was a kid.

I need to do this too. My problem: my dh thinks that all our of financial woes will be over when he gets a new job. I find it frustrating to try to make headway when he doesn't see it as a priority. And paying off our credit cards should be a giant priority--our balance is ginormous after a major home repair last year. We never carried a balance before that, and now...well, I don't like it. Grocery shopping seems like the natural place for me to reduce spending, but dh is very picky and if he doesn't like what I cook, he goes out for fast food. grrr. He does like cheap, salty, unhealthy frozen dinners, so I will keep some of those in the freezer for when he doesn't like the healthy food that I cook. I am not a bad cook--he just doesn't like food unless it involves a big hunk of meat or is so salty it makes my eyes water. :glare: So I will focus on trying to keep the grocery bills reasonable, staying out of the craft stores :closedeyes: , and planning our vegetable garden. Not very specific, I know. When I grocery shop, I am trying to make the less expensive choice when possible--in season fruits and veggies, generic pasta and rice, etc. We are somewhat limited by food allergies, so I can't always make the cheapest choice (peanut butter :scared: ). I will be experimenting with new inexpensive dinners--dh likes the biryani from one of the local Indian restaurants, so I will be trying my hand at that tonight. We currently track our spending with Quicken, but I don't find it very helpful. I need to find a different system.

I just remembered--my 2 and 5 year olds play My First Carcassonne. The 2 y/o doesn't really understand the idea of closing off the path, but she likes to lay tiles and play her meeples when we point out a finished path. :)

Thanks for the suggestion. We did a geology unit over the summer, but can't quite let go--it's become a perpetual back-burner unit study. :) We like the Roadside Geology series too. We got pretty good at spotting basalt in road cuts. lol. We also like the geology books from the Built it Yourself series. We used Geology of the Pacific Northwest as the spine for our summer unit.

We like Haba games for those ages--Orchard, Animal Upon Animal, Ghost Blaster, etc. Bugs in the Kitchen is fun too--I think it's by Ravensberger.