Renthead Mommy
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That is about a rat life span. And they are cuddly. Get pinkies and you can litter train them.
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You would hate it here. They sell fireworks everywhere. New Years eve everyone sets them off out in the street. All the burnt trash bits get left in the street. The big containers got moved but anything small they just left there in the streets. Only in the last week or so have I stopped noticing it. Apparently traffic and wind either broke it down completely or moved it along. And this is not just one neighborhood but all over San Antonio.
In CA the street cleaner came by every Tuesday afternoon some time which I thought was a little excessive. It just went around parked cars.
But if you asked me to move my car I would probably think you were crazy. Then say sure as soon as I finish xyz. Then close the door, roll my eyes and go about my day. If I was going out then it would be moved, but I probably would not bother otherwise just for a street cleaner.
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Having recently just rewatched Grease, you may not want it for 12/13 yo girls. While most of may go right over their heads, like it did most of us when it came out, as a parent and having other people’s kids there, you may spend the entire night cringing at the dact you let them watch it.
I got asked what a gang bang is....
As for decorating with records. Thrift shops often sell them for .10-.25 cents a piece. If you are taking them out of the sleeves, it won’t matter who the artist is. They wouldn’t know even if they were close enough to read the labels. But anyone who actually owns vinyl now is not going to want to lend their vinyl collection out for deciration purposes.
Plus you may be able to make a craft out of old lp’s. Picture frame? Clock?
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Bye Bye Birdie for a movie. I have never seen the whole movie but I was in the play in high school. I think it has a young Dick Van Dyke in it.
Cracker Barrel for candy maybe.
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Our cats were brothers that lived to 15 and 19 years and in four different houses. They never got on the counter or the kitchen table. They would get on the patio table on the screened in porches, but that put them up higher to see things and get a breeze.
My friend has four cats. They will get on the counter only to get to the big bay/greenhouse window behind her sink or to get to the top of the fridge where I am guessing it is warm up there.
I have never really known anyone with cats that have a counter top problem.
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How on earth have you never pumped gas?
She lives in Jersey! Even if you go to NY you can find full serve. But if you go over the line to PA, the PA people laugh at the Jersey girls.
My take on it was sure laugh at me now on the lovely spring day while I struggle with the pump. I’ll think of you in the dead of winter while it is sleeting and you are standing out there pumping your own gas. I’ll be in my nice warm car while appropriately dressed attendants pump my gas!
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We were in Scottland and I asked a random person to take our picture. After he asked me where I was from. I told him Jersey. He said he already knew that! LOL! (apparently I have an accent) So I told him 148. He was from 145. And he attended two of the same three colleges I went to. And he worked at Medical/Dental school hospital that my husband attended when I first met him.
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Never mind the Twinkie but you have never tasted a M & M? You are joking.
No. As a kid the candy coating thing creeped me out. And it only covered chocolate, which really does not do anything for me.
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Eaten a M&M or a Twinkie.
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It might make it easier if there were numbers not dots. Yatzee is not that hard, especially if she can play Rummikiub, but sometimes the dots get in the way.
Try wraping the dice in masking tape and writing the numbers on each side instead.
If the adding is still hard, give her a cheat sheet to work with. It will help with memorizing facts.
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Hiw about a chinese food feast? Get a bunch of appetizers, and dinner and cookies and follow up with cake. Dumplings, egg rolls, shrimp toast, pupu platter fun stuff like that. Chinese is easy to bring home and easily can be “festiveâ€.
Then play a game or watch a movie. He probably won’t have much energy gor much else.
And tell him this is the temp dinner till you go out fir the real dinner.
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Do we know what ever happened to the kids in KY that lived in the shack on land with the goat poop everywhere? With the crazy parents who recorded their traffic stops and the dad told the kids the police had kidnapped the kids in the car with mom and the police were coming for then? Mom and her crazy blog.
Stories like this always make me think of them.
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Are butter tarts anything like mince pie? I always pictured mince pie looking like butter tarts. Maybe they are the same thing with different names. Or do mince pies always have to have meat in them. I'm so confused now. ;)
Well they are both brown sugary base. But mince pies have raisins and dried fruit in them.
(I know this because I buy them at christmas and every year someone says "what exactly IS that?" So now I tend to read the ingredients so I can tell them.)
Mince meat pies are different. Can't help you there. I remember them also being called suet pudding and being more a bread pudding type thing, but you steam cook it, not bake it. But I only really remember my Grandma doing it as a kid and it's been 40 years since I saw her not even make it, but serve it. So I could be completely crazy on this answer.
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The many Canandian Snow Birds living in Florida by my grandparents always made them. I always though they were like pecan pie with out the nasty pecans. But that is based more on looks than taste. I have never eaten pecan pie since it was filled with those nasty pecans. But the filling looked the same. And they were quite yummy.
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As an adult TCK (third or trans-culture kid), I'll never have home. I feel less stress when amongst people who are aren't hostile to 'outsiders', and don't have the "I've got mine, that sucks for you, Ms. Minority, who isn't from here" type of attitude. I'm a bit tired of people who ask just enough questions to determine whether I and my children should be shunned.
We had this while living in the south and Texas. Just enough questions to find out our religion and if we were the right kind if christians. We weren’t. This time in Texas is better that way at least since it seemed wirse with people with young kids. Or it could be we just gave up and pretty much hide in our house and avoid the locals....
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In the past we would give it away. Here in TX we have no one to give it to other than the husband taking it to work. And that is sort of weird as we are not friends with any of them at all. So it would end up in the bokashi if it was food. Things like packed food, like snack bars that are a bust I ususally leave in my car and had out to the homeless on the many, many street corners here.
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You need a pair of these. My girls wore them for dance.
This is exactly what I need! These are perfect. Just ordered two pair. These should would great. Thank you!
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I have done kickboxing and know where you are coming from. I pushed through and it did get much easier when I found that perfect spot. I cannot explained it beyond that it is different than on carpet or other flooring. Maybe is was related to my strength and I got strong enough to hold the plank on the mats. No special footware needed.
I hope so because my planking is much more impressive at home on carpet! LOL!
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Are you in bare feet for kickboxing, or do you wear some kind of shoe? What is the floor like? I'm confused about why you'd want to have socks for a warm-up. If you're putting something on your feet anyway, why not simply slip on a pair of runners. Then you get grip and some support for your toes.
You do KB barefoot. The whole floor is a thick mat. You can't wear shoes on the mat. I don't want socks for the warm up. I just can't hold my planks and push ups without my feet sliding out from under me before I'm done. I need something so that my toes/ball of feet are not so slippery.
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I do kickboxing and we tend to do planks and push ups during warm ups. I can't hold my planks as long as we are supposed to not because I am unable, but because my feet start to slide out from under me. I can hold them fine home on a carpet or a yoga mat, but the KB mats are different from yoga mats.
I was looking for either a grippy sock or a band that goes over the ball of my foot that will help me hold in position with out my feet sliding out from under me. I tried yoga socks, but they didn't really work, they are for a textured yoga mat. Plus I have not found ones with enough grip in the areas I need - top of the ball of my foot and on my toes.
What have you found to work?
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Target had the made for kids wp for about $35, which was nice compared to pushing around $100. It had a braces attachment. It does the same as a basic adult model. It was just in green and some other color versus the more adult looking ones. So worth it for the money and when I told the ortho he was exvited you could get them for thst much.
It is not big, but it is a countertop model. It would be a pain to carry to a dorm bathroom each time to use it.
If she is going into a suite with their own bathroom I would say ssve the money and get this one. If it is a dorm where you carry your toiletries in a little basket down to the bathroom each time, if you want her to use it continuously, then spend the money and get the handheld kind that looks like a bigger ekectric toothbrush you fill with water each time.
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I just realized read a text my 45yo friend does this. In longer texts with a few sentences she does use periods, but tend to leave it off at the end of the text. Sometimes they are not full sentence answers, so without a period I often end up wondering if she finished her thought or if she accidentally hit send too soon.
Oh sorry, that should say accidentally hit send too soon
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Will it match your outer jacket? Can you take it off for pictures and reception and not have your hair all messed up?
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DH opens it up, comments on its enormity, and FIL pipes up (proudly), "YEAH! This is the biggest one they make! Now you can fit anything you could possibly need into this bad boy!"
This is my FIL. Perfect example, I wanted a less than $20 birdfeeder. Specifically one that hung from a branch. But that also kept the price down. Christmas eve Iopen up a huge wooden feeder. FIL tells me this is much better. Well yes it costs more. But there is no way to hang it, it will require some sort of pole mount, which would need to be stuck in the ground, right in the way in our tiny yard. He “just could not get me that cheap little thing I wanted! This is so much better.â€
The funny thing is, it s all about him. The reason it mattered was because other people were there to see him give us something great. If no ne else is there to see what he is giving we just get a gift card somewhere. If somebody will be there to see it opened, it is always more/bigger/better than what we asked for. Can’t have people thinking you are cheap or something I guess.
The birdfeeder year we were at bil’s for christmas eve. He insisted we open everything from him that night in front of everyone. I kept saying but you are spending the night at our house! You will be with us tomorrow on christmas day. Did not matter. Other people seeing us open what he got us was more important than enjoying christmas morning with his grandson.
kid who is 2.5 years from college, wants a pet....
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Rats are great. I agree the Critter Nation cages are the best. But I'm sure others will do. But the CN cage has a tray bottom not a wire bottom, so very easy to clean. And like I said, young rats you can litter train. Ours were a rescue and they were already a year old so they weren't getting into the litter training. They liked the litter box, but as a place for all three to sleep together. We saved the empty oatmeal round boxes and old tissue boxes (took out the plastic part) and they loved those.
If they get a little smelly, you just give them a bath. I'd put about a half inch of warm water in the bottom of the sink. They'd walk around in it washing their belly and tails. I'd wipe them down with a small rag and maybe a little bit of Dr. Bronner baby soap. They would wash their own faces. Then they would snuggle while wrapped in a towel to dry them off. In summer when it was hot out, I'd put a casserole bowl with an inch or two of water and a handful of frozen peas. They'd swim for the peas and we'd call that a bath.
We had one start to really show his age and his back legs stopped working, but he was happy and still able to get himself around. But then his brother lost his balance and fell and broke a leg. They were three years old, 90ish in rat years the vet said. We had just gotten orders and their was no way they would do well moving cross country so I had all three put to sleep. (The third was healthy, but the least socialized and would have been lost without his brothers.) The vet charged me $30 for all three and was able to use a cat dose to put them down.
My son was just talking about his rats tonight. He won second place in a pet show and earned his Pets merit badge with them. We had promised him pet while living overseas. Then moved to NYC/LI and were going so much we decided to wait. At the next PCS he was promised for sure a pet. We chose a house from people we knew. At the last minute the husband says Oh we changed our mind we don't want you to have pets. I would have cancelled the lease signing but she kept saying don't worry I'll talk to him and stupidly we believed her. So a cat was out. The Rats ended up being a wonderful choice.