Did she take driver’s Ed? Some of the driving schools around here will give you something to take to the dmv to show you can drive after you have a certain amount of lessons. My teens didn’t take it, so I’m not sure of the exact details, but it might be something to look into.

If you decide to stay in the US, I would look at the FL Keys. Hurricanes are not a problem in February or April.

Shipping anything is so $$ anymore, that if I send anything to my college dd, I send if from Amazon. It’s easy to send their favorite snacks and many of the other things mentioned. Bonus is I don’t have to find a box or go to the post office. Edited to add: Her school added the Amazon lockers on campus over the summer, so secure and easy for her to pick up.

I’m not from FL, but grew up on the gulf coast. From what the National Hurricane Center is forecasting, you will probably not be able to fly on Wednesday. You can see if there’s a flight tomorrow. If there’s not, keep the number for your airline handy and be ready for the call that your flight is cancelled. Call the airline ASAP and reschedule. Then you won’t have fees for changing the flight. I did that when a hurricane was impacting a flight several years ago. I called so fast the service agent couldn’t even see the cancellation on her computer yet. Be aware that if you don’t leave today, you may have to wait until Friday, depending on what happens and how long it takes the airlines to get planes back in that area.

We went to Miami Beach for a wedding in October several years ago. We didn’t have a lot of time for sightseeing, but we’re did stay right on the beach, thanks to a generous family member with connections there. We loved the boardwalk along the beach to take walks. I can’t remember the name of the hotel, but it was a little more towards the north end. It seemed a little quieter there. There was more shops/restaurants towards the south. It could be different now, but that’s what I remember.

Another idea along those lines is a football team blanket where you do one color row when your team gets a touchdown and another when the other team gets one. Do it for the whole season. A friend of mine did this for her husband one year and it came out really great.

Air mattresses are the worst for sharing! I refuse to share one with dh because he’s taller and heavier than me, so I end up trying to sleep on a hill while not rolling on top of him or off the side.

Dh gets insomnia with prednisone. I wish he would clean the house! Seriously though. He usually gets the doctor to give him Ambien too. He usually gets 1 or 2 nights of sleep before it quits working. By then he’s at least feeling some better.

Please let me know if you can find it. Although it’s ridiculous that FB doesn’t have a way to deal with this directly. It seems to happen to so many people.

My mom’s FB account was hacked recently. She delayed doing anything at first because she really didn’t know what to do. My aunt and uncle tried to help her, but I don’t think they really knew what to do. I’m too far away to do much. She tried to reset the password with her email as login, but it wanted to confirm her by texting to a number that is not hers. If she tries anything by her phone number, it shows a different email. She made the mistake of creating a new account. I sent her a link for support that I found, but she says she has to wait until September 8 because she made a new account. The hacker changed the profile picture. I would really hate for her to lose the pictures and posts she has on there, because there are many from before my dad died. Please tell me what we can do to fix this.

But if that’s not the mandate, the mask order isn’t doing much. And unless they are giving them to the students, most will buy the cheapest thing they can find, which may not be the better masks.

My dd is a college junior. She would be leading the protests if they tried that at her school. She’s still angry about all the things she didn’t get to do because of Covid. Didn’t they finally say that cloth masks were worthless and surgical masks not much better? So what’s the point of a mask mandate unless they are using N95 masks?

I use Walgreens, unless I’m ordering photo books from Snapfish, then it’s really cheap to add some photo prints to the order.

Not to high jack the discussion, but after the rain and flooding are over, does it look like enough to lift a lot of the areas out of the long drought conditions?

During the night last night my upper arms started itching and felt a bit bumpy. Sure enough, by morning there was definitely something going on, but not severe. I have had contact dermatitis on my arms like this before, so I’m pretty sure that’s what it is. I have taken Benadryl in addition to my daily Zyrtec, plus used hydrocortisone cream. I’m on vacation, so I can’t see my regular doctor. I really don’t want to spend hours in urgent care and I really don’t want oral steroids. Is there anything that will treat it without going to the doctor? When I had it before, I was never able to determine a cause, but hard to take 2 rounds of oral steroids before it went away.

Can you play Superfight with a group? I’m thinking my coop class might like it if it can be played that way.

I wish you could still buy a “dumb” tv. Give me some places to plug in all of dh’s toys/devices if we want to. That’s all I need.

I couldn’t do several of the things mentioned, like medical stuff. Another that I have realized as an adult that I could not do is be a lawyer. I just can’t stand the arguing. Even if it’s more civil discourse and less Judge Judy, I still don’t like it.

I didn’t even know there was a full xl size!

He has seen 2 rheumatologists, the second just last week. They were no help at all.

One of the doctors said it wasn’t Ehrlers Danlo, but didn’t do any testing. Something about his symptoms didn’t work for that one. Oldest dd has CD. Dh was biopsy tested twice 18-ish years ago after her diagnosis. Both times negative. I have the genes for it, so she could have gotten it from me.

Dh has had joint pain off and on for years. Knees are the most problematic. He can’t stand for very long without pain in his knees. It’s gotten worse over time. He’s been to doctors who have ruled out a lot of the obvious things, like arthritis. 20 years ago he ended up in physical therapy for a while and the therapist said he had too much elasticity in his joints. He’s never been given any other reason for it. He’s really struggling as it’s gotten worse because he can’t do a lot of things with the rest of us because it’s too painful. What possible causes should we look at? What can he do to get some relief, besides otc pain meds?

Several years ago we got the city pass (citypass.com) for Atlanta and went to a bunch of places like the Coke museum and the GA aquarium, plus some we might not have thought to look for, like a tour of the CNN studio. They have city passes for a lot of big cities, so maybe pick a new big city to explore.

I don’t understand why it’s causing such a backlog to issue new plates to everyone. We live in AL. When we pay our yearly vehicle fee (whatever they call it), we usually just get a sticker to put on the plate. In years when they change out the plate, we get a new plate with the sticker. Over the course of the year, everyone gets the new plate. We pay online and they mail the sticker/plate a week or so later. It doesn’t slow down people getting new tags. What am I missing?

Nooo! What will we do without regular monolith happenings?