So true. I noticed under subscribe &save, they now try to bundle all the stuff together. Why? So you won't have so many boxes cluttering up your mailbox or something. It's hilarious.

Oh, yes, I knew someone who stayed in one after having surgery.

I heard something similar to this (or maybe the same thing) on the radio. I think it was this "For an Italian business operation, perhaps awarding contracts to your friends in the industry is not an unusual thing. It shouldn't really be happening at the Vatican. ... In the Vatican, people get jobs by being recommandato, right? They need somebody's connection to get the job. If you want a parking place, you need to go through these connections. Almost everything done at the Vatican is through connections. So when we talk about corruption, it's often this very petty kind of corruption that, as I say, is part of the process of living in Italy. And yet people are questioning, 'Should it be part of the process of operations at the Vatican?' " http://www.npr.org/2013/02/27/172986758/behind-the-scenes-at-the-vatican-the-politics-of-picking-a-new-pope

I am glad you're able to get his needs taken care of. :)

I would say probably 4. I did a good chunk of MEP 3 before BA 3A and B. Despite what people say, MEP is not "behind" by one year, in my experience. There are some things that are presented earlier. I think the real difference is in Y1, the focus on numbers between 0 and 20. However, multiplication is presented earlier in MEP than in Beast Academy, from what I could tell. There are other examples. Anyway I would take a look at http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/default.htm Specifically the scheme for the whole primary program, and the learning objectives and overview for each year, to get a sense of the progression. I think 4A will be released this summer, but not the entirety of year 4.

If you don't feel they will be safe on their own, it makes much more sense to use one, especially as there are two of them. I always thought they were a bit strange, but a lady on my street has a child with some sort of developmental health issue who is certainly not a toddler, that she has a leash for, and I realized it was probably a safety issue and made sense. I did think it was idiotic when an elderly man on the airplane had one for a barely able to walk toddler. It just didn't seem like the kid could escape at that speed. Especially going up and down the aisles of an airplane.

Given that many people lost their job and took way more than 3-6 months to find a new one, if they even have, I think that number is more useful in the realm of "advisors" who give pep talks on TV. (Reading "Pound Foolish" right now. I recommend it.)

You can set up different ring tones for different people, or have it only ring when certain people call, if that's easier.

There was a period when men showed a lot of chest. At some points it was the hairy chest (plus or minus large gold jewelry), then it became the muscly chest (often with washboard torso), a la Ricky Martin. Obviously, though, the man would have to radically reform the suit/tuxedo, aside from leaving his shirt unbuttoned, to show skin. However, the male outfit, esp formalware, is so standard, so uniform, that there's not much room for individuality besides color or maybe a bow tie. Trust me when I tell you not to google for men with hairy chest images.

I had a digital converter box that would change channels on its own! I contacted the company (not Roku, obviously) and they had me return it. So I say, call Roku.

You may have exhausted all pig stories, then. Beatrix Potter also has Little Pig Robinson. Arnold Lobel also has a book of pig limericks called Pigericks. How about Peter Porker, Spectacular Spider-Ham? Or Bob Burke's Third Pig Detective Agency series?

I think NMoira talked about this in another meatball thread

Come on, you've got to admit it's funny that IKEA-US has something on their website saying http://www.ikea.com/...restaurant.html Are these the same meatballs ? "Well ... no actually they're not!" ... So if you’ve been wondering whether the meatballs look and taste different… you are right! They are different. We hope to bring you a little bit closer to Sweden by serving you more authentic looking and tasting meatballs.

Lori D suggested the Oliver and Amanda pig series. These are longish readers, and there are tons of them. My library has 19, I think. They are very cute. Her other suggestion, the Freddy books, is composed of longer chapter books. My library has almost 20 of them. So, she actually suggested nearly 40 chapter books from these two alone. :) Poppleton is a pig, too. There are quite a few in that series. Dick King-Smith has quite a few pig books as well. You'd be surprised. "The Petsitters Club" has one volume (#5) in which they watch a pig. Beatrix Potter has Pigling Bland, Stolz has Quentin Corn, and Van Nutt has the Lucky Hart series.

Neat. I have noticed opera singers - I've particularly been struck by Jessye Norman - seem to have an effect from singing in other languages. But the training involved in using the mouth and vocal cords reminds me of watching ballet dancers in their everyday life: they just do it differently, so much more deliberately than regular pepole. I really admire it.

I have an orangeish living room, and I love it!

Aw, I am sure it's not all bad.... After all, your hair might grow long and luxurious. Or you might start being able to run really fast. But it's kind of funny to think of inadvertantly eating horse, isn't it?

If you have a x minutes plan on AT&T in the US, both incoming and outgoing calls come out of your usage. I believe it is similar for other plans; the other day my insurance agent called me on a cell phone and offered to call me back on my home number "so that I don't use up your minutes." In other words, it's the same in the US for at least some plans, unless you have an unlimited plan. This is NOT the case for my inlaws, who do not live in N America. They prepay for their services. There is extreme competetion for their business, and it is shockingly cheap to call internationally for them. American phone and home internet service is overpriced. Asian and European internet is vastly cheaper. Vastly.

I wouldn't eat an Ikea meatball regardless, but, given horse's popularity in Europe, I get the same impression. Maybe Ikea should move into escargot? Isn't that sort of a nice, ready-made meatball?

And the American IKEAs did not, as far as they currently know, ever sell the horseballs. I think people just got excited thinking they'd been a victim. I've known about the ongoing scandal too. And the other recent IKEA revelation that they kept their goods so cheap by using prison labor for a long period of time. So right. So, so, so right. They have a cafe and sell a small amount of Swedish-themed food (cookies,candies, and some frozen goods, including meatballs and fish and some pastries, mostly I think). I bought the lingonberry jam a couple times (the only food) but then I realized, unlike every other jam I've ever bought, it has some weird preservative in it, and then it started to taste funny, so I never did again. They also have a bouncy area for kids. It's to keep people in the giant, labyrinthine warehouse for days on end, I suspect.

Really? I find there to be one region at least with a very strong Australian accent. I don't know what it's called or where it is from (!), but I consider it the sort of cowboy Australian accent. Like that Paul Hogan guy, and also one male politician (maybe it was Kevin Rudd??). I have no idea if they're actually from the same region; they just sounded strong and nasal and over the top, to me. I have relatives there and none of them really sound like that, and definitely not so nasal. I think I really love you people. Australiais just a great country. I am not sure. southerners move their mouths that much, they just have it in a different position and keep it there longer. "Baaaaaa-baaaaaaa!" (Bye-bye) and all that. Let me guess - stiff upper lip? I don't smile when I say "pink" either! I don't understand why I say it exactly the way these other people do, which is supposed to be a short i, but it doesn't sound like a short i. To me, that is the puzzle. I think it's totally fascinating that parents and societies pass on mouth position and so many other things to the next generation!

Thanks for the advice. Ugh. I wish Amazon would just straight discount the paperbacks, like $5.50 instead of $7. I rarely ordered 4 that were the same price.

They weren't quite masala dosas, I didn't put anything in them, they were sort of vege crepes, I don't know what to call them. But not bad. No one else liked them! Ha Apples for Jam is a cookbook by Tessa Kiros. ;) Eta: The cookbook blog lady had other ideas with minced veges because her kids don't like them, e.g. for rice http://www.nisahomey.com/2012/09/easy-vegetable-pulavveg-pulaostep-by.html

I bought some there. It's not fake sugar syrup. funny. I think maple syrup bottles are weirdly hard to hold and pour from. Is that by design??