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  1. Good luck everyone! I'll be rooting for you all but lately I am at the stage of keeping up with every day cleaning and household management stuff.
  2. I'd call Uhaul now and find out your options. They might have a very reasonable solution that is much less stressful than to keep looking. I'm praying for you! Dear old St. Anthony's intercession for lost items!
  3. YOU'RE GETTING CAT HAIR IN MY PANCAKE SYRUP!
  4. Mr. Waiter, Grandpa's time is up. Go put our orders in without his. He can try again tomorrow. Maybe he'll be hungry enough by then to not waste everyone's time.
  5. ORDER YOUR FRICKIN DRESSING! YOU'RE GETTING A CAESAR SALAD SO GET THE CAESAR DRESSING! OR GET ITALIAN. OR WHICHEVER! JUST PICK ONE!
  6. Well, Beth, I don't know what to say. Many people here feel a kind of tenderness or concern for you and your struggles, including me. Maybe it is bc you've been here so long or bc it appears you are so open. Or bc we see ourselves in what seems like a 2 steps up, 1 step back struggle that might not be eating disorders or anxieties but other things that are painful and debilitating. I wish you the best healthful healing however it happens.
  7. Maybe I read your dates wrong...But you said you've spent much of December going back and forth struggling with your eating issues and it is only the last couple days you've been OK. And other areas of your life you self describe as being off track. But then you are going AMA about the outpatient program. And you were shocked the doc recommended it. It seems like your clinging to an illusion of control that what you are doing is working but it isn't really helping you... And that you recognize on some level it isn't helping but then hit a wall of denial on another level. Random advice from internet stranger based on reading your posts for years: Do the outpatient program for the longest possible time they allow.
  8. I don't have advice but congrats and way to go to your DD! AND...bump, to see if anyone has advice...
  9. Oh em gee...your last line. I feel like I am always putting out fires with SOMEone and hoping I am not failing someone else bc they feel like they can't come to me.
  10. I've got my dad in my mind today... But one of his jobs, he worked in a factory and just needed some quiet when he first came home. I know teachers who need quiet, too, like a little space, at least when they first come in the door. I'd tell my own kids, give dad a kiss and hug(...after he took off his work clothes...)then give him a bit to decompress. XXXXXXX As for THIS thread...everyone needs to work to creative a supportive home & family environment, right? Can't both the 12 yo boy and his sister BOTH contribute to that? If someone is LITERALLY pulling their hair out, she needs help, right? And shouldn't the other family members help, even if one is a 12 year old boy? Like: "Susie needs a break from Billy humming right now. Since Susie is helping me with dinner, Billy you need to stop or go where she can't hear you." I Susie picked up a bad coping skill. If she picked up the flu or broke her leg, wouldn't we want Billy to cut her a break while she healed?
  11. I'd join in...But I'm still LOLing at @BarbecueMomhaving uncoated balls in her freezer. I mean, they are oreo balls, but still...
  12. No, not at all. He was a small town boy/man for the beginning of his life. The articles were about a prisoner of war who was being released at end of the Korean War and included my dad bc he was related by marriage to the POW. Like I said...these were nice, not ones about him getting in trouble/arrested. Those articles weren't so cool, hahaha.
  13. It's weird...I'd love to be a Be Here Now type person. And yet... But I love history, and the volunteer work I'm doing now is past and preservation focused. So it is pulling me back to old neighborhoods and places that "used to be" which leads to so many personal childhood memories and the memories of a culture that is long gone from this city and the U.S. in general. In a related situation, I found a couple old news articles about my dad that showed him as an ordinary, every day kind of guy (not articles about trouble he got into, which I knew about it and had read years ago) and I feel like it broke my heart in a way that the articles about him breaking the law didn 't. Like a whole bunch of feelings of what could have been FOR HIM had he made different choices. I might not be here, LOL. And another strange past oriented thing...those darling little Baby Yoda memes...they are killing me! My kids keep sending me the ones that start "4 year old me..." or " 6 year old me... " and go on to say something about an innocent childhood memory. And it reminds me of how sweet and innocent and adorable my babies were... I want a Baby Yoda.
  14. Yeah, the 3 oz packages aren't around in my area. Also, our grocery sells four- 8oz packages of their store brand bundled together for a reduced price. The sell by date is months in advance so I almost always by the 4 pack.
  15. Bump for New Year's Eve dippers @scholasticaAlso to collect my check as a spokeswoman for the Council on Cream Cheese Manufacturers. LOL
  16. Handi-wipes? Do you know anyone who works in surgery? Those blue med-surg towels are awesome...But you need to wash them first in order for them to become their most absorbent.
  17. Yes, what happened? Or are you planning to have an appetizer party? I know sometimes people have drinks and apps before going to a play or theatre. When my brother visits we might have a drink before we go to a restaurant or other event but not the apps.
  18. I bought the squeeze bottles for taco sauce (and A-1) when the kids were little and they were well-used and worth every penny. I feel the same way about reheating BBQ and sides and Turkey dinner and sides...It isn't as much work as the original meal bc it is oddly much more annoying.
  19. I've picked inspirational words before but not a word of the year. Jumping in with: HONE ...in the improve or sharpen (a skill, talent, etc) sense. Not the sharpen a knife sense. Watch, now. I'll get stabbed this year. Hahaha... /uncomfortable laughter trails off awkwardly ahem.
  20. I am glad you wrote this. I had been thinking...pushing kids! 16! 17! years old! to "figure it out" I think can lead to so much pressure and anxiety in and of itself. I think of 16/17 year olds as very young in many ways...yes, some are driven, dedicated, single-minded...But just as many AREN'T. With my parents dead, when I was a teenager, I was FORCED to "figure it out" school, life, my future...all of it, alone, no input. It sucked.
  21. I don't know what's going on...but I literally said, "Start a truck farm." have a great night!
  22. who is it? it isn't our SWB...that poster says she lives on a large organic farm in IL...and other biographical details don't match up with SWB...unless I missed a lot of info along the way somehow
  23. An academically brilliant student could graduate at 16, take a couple years off and start a truck farm, then decide she wants to go to college, study for a few months and CLEP out of a semester's or 2s worth of classes...
  24. You'd want to know how to differently prepare an academically brilliant student who is burnt out with school vs a student who isn't brilliant who is burnt out with school. I don't know, Martha. You've been here a long time, and you have almost a dozen kids...nearly half of whom you graduated. I feel like I'd be carrying coal to Newcastle.
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