College police need to be informed. Every time the boy does something, she needs to tell them. The dean of the instructor's department needs to know what is going on. It is really hard to get rid of a guy like this, but it can be done--it will take a lot of work on her part though. No one else will do it for her.

Me too! I grew up in Southern CA, and I had a great-aunt in Anaheim. We went to Disneyland every year. There were always half-used books of tickets in my mom's desk--the E ones would be all gone and there would be all these A and B tickets left. The best time we ever had was when it started raining. The park emptied out like magic, but there were free ponchos! So we stayed and went on everything.

Liz has a good point. My small city has everything on your list except snow, but head a few miles east to the foothills and you even get that--though in a much smaller town with longer drives to many things on your list. My town has ~100K people but it's surprisingly similar to a smaller town in some ways. Everyone seems to know each other, but in a very nice way.

I just finished an EPIC fridge cleaning. The kind where you take out all the shelves at once and do the walls, and much to my joy I discovered that the veggie drawer does come out! (Putting it back in again is another thing entirely, but it's back now.) I'm all happy because those grotty edges have been bugging me for a long time but I couldn't figure out how to get at them. :)

Yesterday I did the cutlery drawer (was gone all day Tues, crazy day) and the ENTIRE pantry, woo! Am looking forward to the fridge today because goodness knows it needs a cleanout. --It's not a biohazard, I am pretty careful with my fridge. So it doesn't look like a terrifying episode of Hoarders or anything. :001_smile:

At the local Masonic Family Center. I'm not sure if that counts as a Masonic Lodge, or if it's a sort of community center that is a different location than the lodge. It's a big place.

My husband grows out a beard every winter. I love it! And I like variety. :001_smile:

Necessary!

I did the junk drawer! Otherwise, just regular Monday housekeeping--I usually do a lot of laundry and sheets- and towel-changing on Monday. There was not a lot of trash in there, but it sure needed tidying up.

It's a smaller town and houses there are less expensive, plus the housing depression hit the area fairly hard.

What a lovely location--it's pretty around there and only a couple of blocks from the library/park. Though it's even closer to the school--I don't know if that's a good thing.

Certainly not. My daughter was nearly 12 when I let her read it (under some protest--I believe I said "Fine, but if you have nightmares it's not my fault!") and I wasn't all that thrilled.

I finished my October readalong of The Italian, which was fun. I finally finished Piers the Plowman, which is loooong. I read A Homemade Life, which has recipes!

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That's certainly true. I think most people were just addressing the 'How could he?' question.

:iagree: This does seem to be true. They can't stand to be alone.

Well, I did do something today--the surface of my desk is now all lovely and clean. It was piled high with stuff, much of which left in a garbage bag. Please do not ask about the shelves of the desk; that stuff belongs to my husband. There are a lot of cables that don't appear to actually be hooked up to anything on one end. I hid them with a family photo.

I was not in the mood to do much today--I had a Halloween hangover for sure. But we had people over for dinner, so the public areas look pretty good now! Tomorrow I think I'll clean off...MY DESK.

I have one, and I didn't even eat any candy yesterday. Soooo tired. Dreading the two-hour chemistry session with another kid at noon.

My older daughter is in the same boat--all boys at the park group, who are obsessed with Yugioh. Pretty much, all of our best friends are in public school, and that has always been true for us.

You are exactly correct, I think. It's just something that colors everything a person does, and it's so difficult to get inside a different, uh, worldview I guess the word would be. You'll never get it just right. I lent the book to a friend to read because I knew she'd love it, but would also have good comments about that character. She felt pretty much the same as I did--really enjoyable book, but the author did not run that by someone who really knows. I think she thought she knew more about Mormons than she really did.

Wonderful news!

You could talk to some of the moms at these classes/days and propose playdates. I find that I have to be a little bit more active in making phone calls and issuing invitations than I might otherwise be. But that has worked out pretty well for us.

The only book I posted on this week was The Atlas of Love, a novel about 3 grad students who start living together in order to raise an unexpected baby and try to make a family. I enjoyed it very very much except for the one character, and you can read my rant about it if you want, but except for that it was great. I finished my Gothic readalong book but haven't posted the final one yet, and otherwise am all taken up with MRJ stories and haven't had the energy to do much else blog-wise.

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