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    Divorce folks, I need your help

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    It was the first attorney I called. He said we'd need proof of my and my daughter's disability by calling witnesses (which I don't have, we're isolated) which would be unlikely and cost thousands more.

    Has your disability not been documented by a medical professional? That seems essential. What do witnesses have to do with it?

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    positive thoughts please

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    So we have heard absolutely nothing. They are once again not going by their own timetables that they insist that they follow but don't. This time we do not even have a contact phone number or address to try and find out why there is a delay - so we can do nothing but wait - I am pretty teary

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    Current movie thread

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    I went to see The Greatest Showman three times....What is it about this movie?

     

    :)

    I would see it three times just to see the oh so clever scene in the bar. That choreography with Jackman, Ephron and that amazing bartender was fantastic!

     

    Plus, the whole rest of the movie. 😂

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    Please tell me about coconut aminos

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    It's not if you leave it until it ferments.

     

    I don't know how long it was sitting there for. :blushing:

    lol!

     

    Thanks for all the input. I'd never heard of it before and was curious how something called *coconut* "aminos" could be called for in what looked to be salty Asian dishes. It sounds more like a vitamin supplement! We will give it a try, not expecting perfection.

    Tom Hanks = Mr. Rogers

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    actually - I think the best actor who could have pulled it off is dead - jimmy stewart.

    Oh! I replied before I went through and read all the responses! Fun to know I'm not the only one who immediately thought of Jimmy Stewart.

     

    Maybe Victor Garber could do it.

    Wheres Your Pencil?

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    That used to drive me mad, especially the dropped pencil search. I did two things...

     

    1 - got one of those pen-like clickable erasers - work like a mechanical pencil, sort of, but with an eraser instead of lead. Kept it in....

     

    2 - a box of nice sharpened pencils that I set on the table during math lesson time. No fishing for pencils allowed. Drop yours? Pick up a new one and keep going. Stray pencils retrieved and replaced immediately following the lesson. Box hidden until next lesson time.

     

    Pencils suddenly got less slippery. 😄

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    Do you find this purchasing pattern wasteful/unusual?

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    People do get caught up in buying stuff that is basically unnecessary (and they do it collectively too so some of those things become necessary) and that takes up economic capacity and resources.

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    I think of this every time I pay the phone bill. Communications technology (acquisition and maintenance) is a huge item in the budget that wasn't there when I was a 20-something.

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    Do you find this purchasing pattern wasteful/unusual?

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    You know, I agree with you about getting lucky, and that housing is a big issue.

     

    But even with luck, there is a certain extent to which you can make your own. And one thing that can really enable making your luck is having a bit of savings for ready cash or to save as a down payment or to help secure a loan.

     

    It's one thing when you are scraping by with not much possibility to save, which plenty of people are. But saving enough to be worthwhile would actually be easy for this writer - she could do it and still have a pretty nice lifestyle and lots of fun. She could easily put together enough to invest a worthwhile amount monthly for retirement, think later on about starting a business, move out of London at some point, take a sabbatical and write a book....

    This is an excellent point. One may never be able to outright buy a house, but saving enough for a downpayment is not usually insurmountable.

    Do you find this purchasing pattern wasteful/unusual?

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    :lol: :lol: :lol:

     

    Housing costs have gone up WAAAAAY more than incomes over the past 40 years.

     

    The median home price in the U.S. adjusted for inflation in 1980 was $93,400. Today it's $206,300. And that's the overall U.S. median. In many areas, housing is double, triple, or even more.

    Compound that by the HGTV effect and you have buyers willing to do whatever it takes (dual income, extraordinary mortgages) to pay those high prices.

    Do you find this purchasing pattern wasteful/unusual?

    in The Chat Board

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    Ah. This reminds me of some young folks I know who are going to college on loans and Pell grants, but a fresh cup of Starbucks is an accessory in every IG pic. Makes me wish I could introduce them to my dad and some other elders who grew up in the Great Depression Era.

     

    FWIW, if one chooses to be an urban dweller and never anticipates buying real estate, the monthly cash flow may indeed be looser and allow for a lifestyle of perks. But everything comes with opportunity costs. To be indulging while carrying massive student debt... well, that's actually a mindset of one in poverty.

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    Is anyone reading Johann Hari's new book on depression and anxiety?

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    ... And exercise. The hardest part of the "exercise" therapy is getting a depressed person to do it.

     

    In his book Spark, John Ratey speaks of the effects of exercise on depression. One point he makes is that it is more successful for someone who initially engages in exercise in a group setting.

     

    This has me wondering - do many psychiatrists (or other antidepressant-prescribing practitioners) have exercise equipment on site? So, like physical therapy, a patient could start with supervised exercise therapy in a gym like setting, but with scheduled appointment times for accountability? I realize a doctor will likely suggest joining a gym or something, but seriously, like you say, getting started can be the hardest part for someone struggling with depression. I wonder if exercise-as-medicine would be more successful if there were a high level of (affordable!!! or insurance-covered!!!) support in the initial phases to help build an effective habit of activity.

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    M Night's The Visit

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    Oh well, guess I'll pass on it, thanks for the replies. I saw it at the library and as usual, I am so hopeful when I hear he has a new film out. Hopeful that it will be as good as his first few, scared they'll be lousy. Thanks for saving me a couple of hours (and maybe a lot of bad dreams!).

    Annoying dog people

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    I love dogs too, but don't get me started on people letting their dogs roam off-leash or taking dogs into public accommodation places.

     

    Oh, just one. Yesterday a dog ran out into the street and I almost hit him. His human, a middle-aged woman, was carrying the leash. Unattached to the dog, see. Just carrying it.

    My beef is folks who walk their dog on the street edge with those extending leashes. The ones the dogs can pull out like 30 feet. I am always afraid ones going to start in front of my car and the owner won't brake the leash reel fast enough.

     

    I honestly don't mind well behaved dogs in hardware stores. But grocery stores & restaurants? Blech.

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