We are perfectly matched with our love languages, which I understand is rather odd. Both of us are: 1) Physical Touch 2) Words of Affirmation Touch is our primary with Words as a close second.

Off the top of my head I'd say that the areas in which I could use some practice before starting school would be note-taking, study skills and writing papers. I'm really not worried about math since I don't plan to go into a math-related field. In college 30 years ago, I finished calculus so basic college math should be a breeze if I should have to take 1-2 math courses.

Thought I'd add this info that I just included on the high school board. I only have 1 year between now and then so doing 4 years worth of TWTM would not fit in that time frame. I'm not sure about TWEM. Anyone cover that material in a year's time? Doing CLEPs could be useful. As for the old credit hours-- Another friend of mine recently submitted about 30 old credit hours and they were accepted by her school. So I'm thinking good thoughts about that. I haven't exactly settled on a major but so far I'm considering 1 of these 3: Art History, B.A. Classics, B.A. English Language & Literature, B.A. I'm thinking about getting a B.A. and then following that up with a Master's in Library Science. If I work later on after college I'd prefer to work around adults, as opposed to teaching elementary or high school. I think I might enjoy working in a library. I'm also looking for other ideas for ways to use any of these 3 degree programs where I could mainly be around adults.

I only have 1 year between now and then so doing 4 years worth of TWTM would not fit in that time frame. I'm not sure about TWEM. Anyone cover that material in a year's time? Doing CLEPs could be useful. As for the old credit hours-- Another friend of mine recently submitted about 30 old credit hours and they were accepted by her school. So I'm thinking good thoughts about that. I haven't exactly settled on a major but so far I'm considering 1 of these 3: Art History, B.A. Classics, B.A. English Language & Literature, B.A. I'm thinking about getting a B.A. and then following that up with a Master's in Library Science. If I work later on after college I'd prefer to work around adults, as opposed to teaching elementary or high school. I think I might enjoy working in a library. I'm also looking for other ideas for ways to use any of these 3 degree programs where I could mainly be around adults.

I'm seriously thinking about going back to college. Some 30 years ago I only completed about 30 credit hours... 1 full year of college. A friend of mine is in the same boat, finished 1 year of college 30 years ago. We are talking about going back to college together, starting in Jan 2010 to get our bachelor's degree. I feel like I should make use of my time between now and then with some reading or studying but what??? What can I systematically study in one year's time? What would you do in my shoes?

I'm seriously thinking about going back to college. Some 30 years ago I only completed about 30 credit hours... 1 full year of college. A friend of mine is in the same boat, finished 1 year of college 30 years ago. We are talking about going back to college together, starting in Jan 2010 to get our bachelor's degree. I feel like I should make use of my time between now and then with some reading or studying but what??? What can I systematically study in one year's time? What would you do in my shoes?

I forgot to mention that it was Easy Grammar Plus that my kids ended with before going on to college.

EGPlus worked just fine for my two college girls when they were still homeschooling. It's all the grammar my oldest did. She's in her fourth semester of college now and she's been in the Honor's Program since she started there. My youngest who is LD, also did EGPlus and then she finished up with Voyages in English- gr. 7. She probably didn't need Voyages but I put her through it anyway just to give me more assurance. This dd is at CC currently taking English Comp II and her teacher is well impressed with her grammar/writing skills.

Is your grandmother taking pills for diabetes or insulin injections? If injections, you have to be more particular. If she eats too much and doesn't cover it with insulin, her blood sugars will shoot up and kick her into a hyperglycemic mode. If she eats too little and doesn't cut back on insulin, her blood sugars could drop low and send her into a hypoglycemic mode. If she's only on pills, you have more wiggle room. Today, diabetics can eat most healthy foods that everyone else eats. Just don't give her anything that contains concentrated amounts of sugar-- stuff like regular (not diet) pop, candy and the like. Be sure to offer her a meal or snack every 3-4 hours and be sure that each time she eats a meal or snack, there is a decent amount of protein included. EXAMPLES FOR SNACKS (all containing protein): piece of fruit and protein (PB, or yogurt, or cheese, etc.) She can have canned fruit only if packed in natural fruit juices, no syrup. a slice of bread or a small tortilla with protein on it (meat, cheese, PB, beans, eggs, etc.) small bowl of cereal and milk mozzarella cheese stick and crackers sm serving beans and rice boiled or fried eggs with 1 piece toast or 1 English muffin NO BAGELS-- Bagels are full of carb grams and will run her sugars up high. FOR MEALS: She'll do fine on anything you eat except only offer her sm amounts of bready, carby stuff. Make 3/4's of each meal to be protein and veggies or protein and fruit with a little tiny serving of carby stuff. Healthy diabetic eating is all about watching the carb grams so you're not consuming too much carbs. I'm type II diabetic and my dd is type I diabetic. We've been doing diabetic eating for 11 years now.

Thanks for the links, guys.

That looks like a good site. Thanks for posting it. I was thinking that there was a WTM group who started a yahoo group or something like that?? Anyone know?

Which knitting forums do you consider to be the best? Please post links. Thanks..

Anybody????

I'm wanting to order from them today if I can but I'm having a little difficulty distinguishing size and style/features between some of them. What I need is a bag that could hold a folder or papers or magazines, etc. without rolling or folding them. After communicating via email with a Bihn rep, I think I want the Large Cafe Bag. He told me that it would meet my criteria. My question--- Does anyone know if one of their other messenger bags would also hold folders and stuff without bending anything? ~~Thanks

Please look over this list of approx 50 poets whose works can be found in the English language. If you were going to study from their works over a 5-6 or longer year span, which of these 50 poets would you choose or put on a "must read" list? Let's say you have to choose 20-30 poets from the list. Also, do you know of a one volume sweep of the best of the best poetry which also contains study notes/questions for each work? .. like a poetry anthology with study notes. Thanks~~ Anna Christopher Marlow, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Wyatt, Lord Byron, Alexander Pope, John Milton, William Blake, E. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, W. B. Yeats, Robert Browning, Isaac Rosenberg, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Hart Crane, Emma Lazarus, Wallace Stevens, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, William Empson, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Derek Walcott, Henry Lawson, Shel Silverstein, Banjo Patterson, J. T. Bongiorno and Geoffrey Hill

My dh and I don't pay for college tuition or books. We're still working on gathering retirement funds, which is what we feel we should be doing with our money at this time. Oldest dd's first choice was Hillsdale but their scholarship package didn't offer enough. She ended up at her second choice private school, with tuition at approx $25,000. a year. She earned an academic scholarship which pays about 3/4 of tuition and she works part-time to help pay the rest and to pay for her books. She had to get a small student loan so when she graduates she will owe a total of about $15,000. My dh and I only help with the other stuff. She lives home so she gets free room/board, we pay medical, insurance, bought her a car. She pays for her gas. We often buy her necessary clothing and stuff and she pays for nonessentials. Currently, she's working through her third semester. Other dd is finishing her first year at community college. She works part-time and pays her own tuition and books. We pay for the other stuff like I mentioned above. By the time she completes her second year at CC, she will owe nothing. Then she transfers to the 4-yr univ as a third year college student. We haven't looked beyond CC expenses at this point but as we get closer to univ study, we'll see about scholarships and student loans for her last 2 years of college.

Keeping all of you in my prayers.

In generally I don't care for the content of BJU texts, esp with their history, but in their lit texts they do an excellent job of covering literary analysis. I have used both BJU and Prentice Hall so I wouldn't have a problem recommending either publisher for someone wanting to use lit texts.

I can't take anything except what the doc today told me to take between now and surgery date on Jan 27... not even natural herbs or anything. Dh's sleeping soundly on the couch as I speak. I guess it will have to be this way until he is feeling better. Thanks.

You know, you're right. I sure don't want this surgery postponed. I think I will go with his plan of letting him sleep on the couch. Thanks for your thoughts, Carol.

If you were having surgery in 2 weeks and your dh had a bad cold, would you sleep in the same room with him? Yes, this is us. He's saying he thinks he ought to sleep on the couch to cut down on the chance of me catching what he has. I think he's worrying too much but I don't want to take unnecessary chances. So, what should we do about this? what would you do?

Oh, I feel bright today.:banghead: Dh took a 30 second look and said, "I see what happened." I was supposed to fill the water in one part of the machine and then pour it into another part of the machine before turning it on. I left the water in the first part. To my defense, dh's been putting the coffee on most mornings so I've only made it a few times since we've gotten the thing. But thanks anyway for taking time to post suggestions for me.

For all I know we could be getting "pond water" out of our faucet;). Seriously, though, we've only used the kitchen tap water. Dh's on his way home tonight from a business trip. so he'll be looking at it. In my thinking, this seems awfully soon for this to be happening... just since Christmas day. When I looked in the instruction booklet, it said that a blinking light means 'mineral deposits'. I was hoping that someone else might have one of these coffee makers and could tell me that the blinking light wouldn't necessarily mean that.. perhaps it could be something else? Dunno...

One of my dd's gave us a Hamilton Beach BrewStation, which we love, for Christmas. This morning when I hit the on/off switch for the coffee to brew, the switch light only blinked, indicating that mineral deposits needed to be cleaned out of the maker. The coffee wouldn't brew.:confused: [it was a sad morning:crying:.] Is it possible that mineral deposits have already formed in this thing? I didn't think our tap water was that bad. I mean, we drink the water right out of the faucet. Can anyone help me figure this out? Is there anything I should do to prevent this from being a frequent problem? Thanks..

I agree as long as your kid can spare a year to cover each of these. A few good supplemental resources that I love, not to use as textbooks: Stephen E. Ambrose, To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian Edited my David Colbert, Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of American History in the Words of Those Who Saw it Happen Sparknotes 101: U.S. History, 2 volumes Sparknotes 101: American Government, 1 volume