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I'd say not an angel. Christian ideas of angels are very different. I love the penguin idea though.
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"Where Love Is, God Is," by Leo Tolstoy. I read it for the first time last Christmas and it's lovely.
Oh! And Connie Willis wrote a book of Christmas-themed short stories--some are funny and some will make you cry. A couple are just weird. It's called "Miracle and other Christmas stories."
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I was told that vision therapy would not help the issue. That was two different ophthalmologists. The eye doc thought it would help, so I decided to take the chance. I was very happy with the results.
I'm sure there are situations where VT would not help. It's just that mine wasn't one of them. And my kid does have a permanent eye condition, it's not like everything is normal and they could say that all was well.
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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.
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I remember E tickets, so don't feel lonely.
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.
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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.
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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. :)
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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:
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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.
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My husband grows out a beard every winter. I love it! And I like variety. :001_smile:
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Necessary!
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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.
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Pretty! Can't believe the price!
It's a smaller town and houses there are less expensive, plus the housing depression hit the area fairly hard.
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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.
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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.
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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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This is me: dangermom
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Frankly, I am surprised that everyone seems to be so immediately accepting of the new fiancee. I'm not saying that her motives are definitely suspect, but they certainly could be, and I think it's something to be considered.
That's certainly true. I think most people were just addressing the 'How could he?' question.
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:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: I'm so sorry for your loss. I know that your grief is great and nothing I can say will make that better. All I can say is that sometimes esp. for men when they've been in a good loving marriage, those are the men who will marry the soonest - not out of disrespect to the deceased wife but because their wife showed them just how good marriage is.
:iagree: This does seem to be true. They can't stand to be alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have put a lot of effort into befriending moms and trying to schedule play dates for the kids over the years. That has resulted in some good friends - who all chose public school, and our paths run in very different directions now, in more than one way. It may be just our bad luck that the local homeschool group is almost all boys...
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.
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I just ordered this from the library after reading your review & also because there was a praise quote by Marisa de los Santos who has written a couple of novels I liked (and one not quite as much.) I'll just take that character with a grain of salt. I have found that unless someone practices a faith with full conviction, or gets good editing insight & advice from someone who does, they mess things up every time.
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.
Book a Week in 2012 - Week 46
in General Education Discussion Board
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This week I finally finished Aristotle's Rhetoric. Took me forever. Boring. (Now I'm reading Plato's Republic, which is not quite so boring, but they are wrong about everything.)
I read The Dharma Bums, which I didn't even know was a book until recently.
And I finished Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, which was great. I wish I could read the one on Russian literature, but the library doesn't have it and I haven't read all the books yet anyway; he does assume you've read them. I have also not read Proust or Joyce, but oh well.