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  1. This sounds miserable. I've not had infections as bad as you describe, but still I've had many issues with an overactive bladder. The only thing I've found that makes a difference is not consuming any sugar--very hard to do--and drinking water. For me, dehydration coupled with too much sugar=bladder problems. I say problems because many times I thought I had an infection, but the cultures taken show no infection. I do not take baths, but I do swim, and often after swimming if I am not hydrated I get that miserable feeling. If you search on the internet, there is an interstitial cystitis community that may offer more insight.
  2. 13" MacBook Pro. I know they're expensive, but they will last for college. I bought two for two college students on time at Best Buy with no interest for a year. I also have a Lenovo for work, but the resolution is not so great.
  3. Thanks for posting this link. :hurray: This is exactly what I was looking for to shape how I am going to approach reading with my DD in 8th grade.
  4. Marin was once nice. Now the traffic is horrible. It is posh, no doubt, but $$$$$ for housing is painful.
  5. Bolinas, CA back in the day when locals/kids took down the road signs and the town just disappeared from the map. Now just too many people want to be here in CA on the coast up and down the state. I like where I live, I'd just want to go back in time when there were fewer people vying for the sunshine and lifestyle.
  6. I learned to swim later in life. I could swim before and not drown, but I didn't learn to really swim until after the age of 50. Swimming laps or with a masters group is one thing, open water swimming is another. I highly recommend doing a bunch of trial swims in the same type of swimming conditions you're going to encounter for the swim leg of your triathlon. A wet suit with arms free is better than a full wetsuit. My first open water swim I did all breaststroke. I didn't want to put my head in the water after I saw that I was swimming in a duck pond that is usually not open to swimmers.
  7. Hi~ Coconut oil is considered comedogenic, meaning it clogs pores. Jojoba oil is a better alternative as it mimics one's own skin oils and is relatively inexpensive. I bought mine at Trader Joe's for $8.00 for 4oz. My DD-13 has teenage pimples. She's tried all kinds of things to calm her breakouts. She's been most successful with facial masks twice weekly using french green clay without fragrance and jojoba oil. She really thinks the jojoba oil makes a difference. My older DD-19 uses rosehip oil. Also keeping hair clean, which means washing hair every other day, help prevent breakouts. Over washing your face, over dries your skin and does not seem to prevent breakouts, it only makes your face feel extra dry and scaly. Less is better.
  8. I have a friend whose daughter took this path and it worked out great for her. I could have done this with my oldest DD, but she wanted the opportunity to go to college as a first year student. She did Laurel Springs Gifted 10+AP classes for high school. How does applying to a four college as a freshman applicant work if you've taken CC classes? From what I remember, the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) is a must for CCs in California with huge student populations. Concurrent enrollment just doesn't work here. High school students are last for class choice.The CHSPE is not the same as the GED. Since business has tanked these past few years and I can not longer afford Laurel Springs, I am looking at this option again for my younger DD.
  9. Didn't spend any money today because I didn't go to town. :hurray: I'm trying to keep $$ in check since business is down. I am only spending money on food, gas, and plants for the garden, OK and an Amazon movie for the girls. We finished the goats' new pen. Now the goats have an extended pen with lots of vegetation, so I am not buying as much feed for them, but a stray cat adopted us so I need to get him fixed. Fortunately, I can do this for free because he is a stray. Good deals were had at Goodwill this week and fruit in season is cheap. Keeping the girls off the internet by making lavender wands. Oh my! They are a lot of work. I made the mistake of using 1/4" ribbon.
  10. Check out the Led Zeppelin lawsuit over the opening chords to The Stairway to Heaven. It is a similar type of appropriation that your thinking about.
  11. You would be infringing on copyright. You are talking about using their brand to sell your product--A no, no in business unless you get authorization from the business to use their brand/logo. Making something similar, but naming it something very different may work for a while. Some companies are vigilant in protecting their assets/brand and some are not.
  12. Heads-up, It is supposed to get hot, hot next week. Jenner: Kayak rentals across the street from Cafe Aquatica. Paddle up the Russian River. kind of pricey, but fun. Historical Fort Ross- Russian fort on coast. The drive alone is worth the adventure. Dramatic views. The San Andreas Fault makes landfall near the fort. If visiting the Barlow in Sebastopol, there is a Free Party in Ives park with live music on Wednesday evenings starting June 29th. Healdsburg has nice shops, a lovely town square, and good food.
  13. Regentrude~ I guess you represent most everyone else in wanting an all-in-one price. Thanks!
  14. I've posted some items for sale on the classified boards here at WTM, and I am wondering about postage. Shipping is expensive even at book rate prices. Sometimes I think buyers would like to choose their own shipping. Maybe they want it faster and will pay priority shipping prices; however, most sale listing pay for postage. Does that "postage paid" sway your purchase?
  15. What about social interaction with people her own age? Senior group/senior outing? Since she is your mom, has she always been like this? Separate family dinners might be a solution. :sad:
  16. I am glad you had a place to say what you needed to say. Big hugs to you and your family in the coming months and years. :grouphug:
  17. Maybe a structured, outside activity? I know, it is adding more burden. Sports! I wish I had a magic pill that would make it all work :chillpill: . Your post is an honest post. I think more homeschooling days are like what you describe than some perfect, box checking day. If your days are going south, give them a book and have them read without distractions (No listening to music on the iPod), on the couch, everyone in the same room quiet. Talk about the reading.
  18. Have you tried Rosehip Seed oil? Read about it here. There is also this option too.
  19. To me this is the best option and the one I am going to use. It is affordable, and Math Without Borders makes the teaching less painful for the kids.
  20. You are homeschooling right? To me, grade level is arbitrary. For state accountability it is necessary. With my kid, I give them work I know they can succeed with regardless of "grade level." Is repeating 8th grade necessary? When my older, academically advanced daughter, was in 8th grade she did high school level work in most subjects. I still called it 8th grade. At the time, accelerating through high school and graduating early, before the age of 18 did not seem like a good idea. I wanted my DD to complete high school with her peers. I feel those four years of high school are about more than just academics. There is a lot of growing up and maturing that goes on during those four years of high school, and that is what I did not want to skip. What I did was found the most academically demanding high school option for my DD. Since I was not up to the task of homeschooling DD, I enrolled her in Laurel Springs gifted Academy. She went into high school ready for geometry, took honors classes as prerequisites for AP classes and by the end of her senior year she'd taken 12+ AP classes and exams. She did not use those AP classes/scores for college credit. Now at college, this DD still gets top marks, knows how to manage her time and meets deadlines for projects. My second DD is equally as accelerated as her sister. So I will be going the same route with her as I did with her sister. If my daughters had a passion, built things, were entrepreneurial, then I would give them time to pursue those interests, but my girls are just good students.
  21. Whole Paycheck Ooops! I mean Whole Foods is like any other large chain supermarket. It is corporate organic, monoculture heavy, too much packaging shopping. I hate going into my local WF and spending $70.00 for less than half a bag of groceries. What did I buy? Nuts, dry fruit, seeds, coffee, eggs, yogurt, and dish soap. And not everything I bought was organic! I stopped buying produce because it looks so bad at our local WF. We are a slim family that doesn't eat much, but we eat well.
  22. Do not forgo writing. Grammar and writing should be done together. Journaling may not be the best way to shore up writing skills. This past year I had writing assignments for LA due every two weeks. This is about all I could expected from my 7th grader. We also did writing assignments for history and science, so over the course of a month my student did two 500-600 word essays. Look at 6+1 Traits of Writing: Link (I have the book would sell to you if thought it would help.) Why I like the book is that it is filled with student samples. Together you can read and see the different levels of student work and why some writing is successful and why other writing is not successful. One of the best way I have found to teach kids about writing well and paying attention to grammar is to not only expose them to great writing from The New Yorker, Harper's, or the Atlantic, but I also expose them to "bad" writing that confuses the reader. Four Square Writing: Link This method really helps with structuring a paragraph. Twisting Arms: Link I used this book for 7th grade and both my student and I found it very helpful. Article of the Week is a good way to get kids writing without putting them on the spot. Most kids at this age have opinions and this is an opportunity to reflect and express those opinions well. HTH
  23. I have one of these: http://www.ebags.com/product/ebags/mother-lode-tls-weekender-convertible/143101?productid=1370035 It works well, but you really want one with wheels. I got one of these too: http://www.ebags.com/product/ebags/mother-lode-tls-mini-21-wheeled-duffel/125538?productid=10126282 Used them both for a trip to the UK for 3+ weeks. The two stack OK together. Both hold a lot of stuff. Both fit as international carry on.
  24. I live in a food snob part of the country. Folks here take food seriously in an organic, grass fed, free range kind of way. But for all the devotion to how the food is grown, I am seeing more and more supermarkets being converted to fast-food havens. In my local supermarkets more floor space is devoted to take-away food than vegetables, and more and more vegetables and fruits are in plastic packaging. I guess the plastic boxes are easier to stack, but the food rots faster because it is so densely packed. Moreover, I don't understand why buying flour in the bulk bins is more expensive than buying five pounds of packaged flour. I go to the store and I find it hard to shop. Are supermarkets becoming fast food markets now?
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