:party: Yay!!!!!

Back and shoulders from tension. Although today they feel better than they have all week. :grouphug: To everyone

:iagree: ;) Sucks about the flooding

Also if you go for the hot bath pour some peppermint oil, some eucalyptus oil and some lavender oil in to the water. It will clear up your sinuses.

:iagree:Those are beautiful beautiful books. I highly recommend them

:grouphug: I am slowly coming out of the fog I was in for a long long time. I am however scared as winter is coming on. You are in no way alone. :grouphug:

I re-read the Anne series about once every year or so. Love it. Right now I am reading Sense and Sensibility and Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguru (that one is for school)

Oh good heavens I had completely blocked out college accounting especially management accounting. Just didn't understand it AT ALL. Studied and studied and studied, went to my tutor for help, went to the professor for help, asked my friends. No one could explain it. In the end I gave up. The one major question on the exam was on the concept I had had the most problem with. I just barely scraped a pass because all the studying at least meant that I knew the layout of the darn thing. Ugh ugh ugh

Almost everything is exciting especially if it is big: Big Truck! Big Plane! Big Dog! Two can mean two of something or many of something I love two year olds :D

I think this is my problem with grammar. I have always read tons of books so I know when a sentence is wrong and how to correct it, I am just not getting the Why.

:iagree: We never really learned to diagram sentences when I was in school. Now I am taking a gradschool course in linguistics (it is a requirement for my english lit major) and the grammar portion is making me want to cry. I am just not getting it. Also Algebra. I loved trig and geometry but algebra and I never got along. And anything sciency. I managed biology okay but only okay. Chemistry and physics I died in. I failed optics in physics. My teacher told me that no one ever fails optics. Well I guess I proved him wrong:D

:D Oh I burn myself on the wood burning stove we use to heat our house every single time I put wood in, the pot when I cook, my drink in the morning (I can no longer call it by its appropriate name;)) anything hot basically. Also I cut myself if I have something sharp. I am a clutz. According to my dad I am also the only one he knows who can fall walking up stairs. :D

Don't think I have any scars from the iron but I have burned myself on it multiple times. I am a bit of a clutz.

I nearly spit my tea over the computer when I read the subject. But you were asking about the drinking kinda tea. Twinings is good. Lipton works well for me too. I like Earl Gray but it is flavoured with bergamot and I am not sure what that would do to your headaches. I drink mine black and without sugar. Right now I am drinking mint tea because I don't want to drink black tea in the evening (I'm in Europe) and my green teas I tend to sweeten a bit with honey. Hope that helps:D

Girls: Emma Iona Boys: Nicholas Edward Robert Patrick Although I don't think I will use the last two for any boys of mine as we already have plenty of Roberts and Patricks in the family.

Well if it is wedge shaped wouldn't that be a cake then? *slinks back into lurkdom...you guys have been cracking me up*

Oh yes we most certainly did :D Eagles 38 Rams 3 :D:D

Reading (when it is for pleasure ;)), quilting, photography and writing.

I would call. Your tax money still goes to pay for the schools even though your kids don't attend. Then again I have always been a bit of a pot stirrer:D

Oh I am jealous! Several friends have managed to see him speak and came away from it even more blown away than they had been before. It will be a memory for life for both you and your daughter!

:iagree: Books that have racial epithets that we would not use now is a good way of starting a discussion on WHY they were used then and why we do not use them any more. Also they will give fodder for discussions on the changing use of language. Look at all the learning opportunities

I am going to start with a qualification: Sweden doesn't have a perfect system, far from it. One of the things I truly and profoundly disagree with the Swedish about is that they do not allow homeschooling. HOWEVER one thing they do offer is at high school level there is a great breath of vocational programs. There are still problems with them (a large portion of children do not qualify directly because they fail in core subjects in year 9) BUT it looks like the current parliamentary proposition will go far to remedy these problems. I think that there are parts of this system that you might find interesting.

*whispers* Did it for ya! Also because I agree with what she said :D

:iagree: Which is why I try and get my news from as many sources as possible. Tv and newspapers from three different countries plus I hang out here and on other message boards because I feel I get a much more balanced and honest view on "news" stories.

Check the major news channels. I watched them on msnbc's site. ETA: There isn't commentary on the video from the news channels. I know the commentary during the live feed annoyed some people.