MindyD Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I'm thinking about just taking a week or two off of this forum until a new topic can come up. I just want to talk about school, kids, and maybe tea every now and then. I don't want to argue or shut out someone who believes differently from me. Honestly, if all my friends were the same, what would we talk about? I love talking to all kinds of people. For what it's worth, I'm one of those Christians that believes in a literal 7-day creation and the inerrancy of scripture. I homeschool for educational rather than religious reasons, and I used to be a gemini until they changed the charts, now I don't know what I am. And I love chocolate cake, but not chocolate ice cream. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLG Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 :iagree: Although I used to be an Aries before they changed the charts! Thanks for bringing this up since it has been on my mind also. I am always reminded of the 'divide and conquer' saying when it comes to these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommee & Baba Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Oh how I feel you! :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynyel Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Hmm I used to be a Leo, it changed but by golly I am still a Leo! I am a LION, not a.. well whatever comes before Leo, I forget. I love chocolate cake as well as chocolate ice cream. Mint chocolate chip is my favorite though. I love dipping my pizza in ranch. I believe the Lord created earth, 7 days or 7000 days, doesn't matter to me. I started homeschooling because the teacher my dd had in school was... not nice. She thought she could school me as well as my daughter. :glare: I had news for her. So basically for educational reasons. Now none of my kids want to go to school! Japanese Cherry Blossom is my absolute favorite Bath and Body Works scent! Closely followed by Wild Honeysuckle and Magnolia Blossom. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I'm thinking about just taking a week or two off of this forum until a new topic can come up. I just want to talk about school, kids, and maybe tea every now and then. You can always find refuge in the K8 board. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) Hey, I'm happy to talk about other things! I'm the Scorpioest of Scorpios, regardless of any changes in the charts. I like chocolate, period (including in wine form). Rocky road is my favorite ice cream flavor, but I'm more of a savory girl. I'd rather have a big bowl of salty, buttery popcorn. I don't believe in abiogenesis. I don't believe humans ever rode on dinosaurs. I homeschool because my eldest dd was reading Stuart Little when the school wanted her to learn her alphabet. Edited March 30, 2011 by Mrs Mungo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Wait, they changed the chart? :001_huh: Um, maybe this is a sign I need to get out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakersDozen Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Wait, they changed the chart? :001_huh: Um, maybe this is a sign I need to get out more. News to me as well! Not that I care what sign I am (although it did give me an excuse for some behaviors, lol). I won't even read the threads going on if they even hint at controversy in the hs community. I have enough controversy just trying to raise a small tribe and figure out my life as it is. I don't like ice-cream anymore, Japanese Cherry Blossom is definitely a favorite scent, and all I want right now is salt and more salt. :D Oh, and I homeschool because what I saw in just the first week of student teaching convinced me I would never put my dc in that situation...ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I was thinking the same thing last night after I had myself all worked up reading some very annoying threads. I do not need anymore stress in my life.:001_huh: I like dark chocolate not milk chocolate, and could not care less about signs.:lol: Forgot to add that i homeschool for religious, and educational reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I'm the least piscesesc of all pisces and therefore reject their reality and replace it with a banana. I hate chick peas yet I eat them (or hummus) once every few months just to make sure I still don't like them. I homeschool because it was what lay behind Door Number 4 when DS and I played "Let's Make a Deal" with our local PS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakersDozen Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I hate chick peas yet I eat them (or hummus) once every few months just to make sure I still don't like them. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I like chocolate ice cream but not chocolate cake! But I prefer a cherry pie to either. I like to base my science on literature: I think Odysseus' lethal creatures & medieval dragons could have been dinosaurs. :D But I haven't written a science curric on that yet. Sorry. I'm a cancer. I forget what that means, & yeah, now I'm something else. I forget that, too. Please don't hold the cancer thing against me. It really worried me as a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindyD Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 Glad I'm not the only one. :) I do actually love Rocky Road ice cream, and now I feel the urge to go to Bath and Body Works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) Now that I am over my dismay at the change in charts: All chocolate, all the time, and the darker the better. My faith is not based on the how of creation, only on the who. I homeschool because it is what I believe is educationally, emotionally, and developmentally in the best interest of my children. Our faith is a part of who we are and all we do; it is naturally a part of their education, just as it would have been if they were enrolled in a regular classroom. Love twisted peppermint and clean cotton. (I have to avoid most dyes in lotions and soaps because of some weird sensitivity. :glare: ) Most days I am happy to have a complete grown up thought that doesn't center on what I am serving for supper or the fastest route to the urgent care center. (I have a dare devil son.) :grouphug: ETA: I don't know my sign, then or now. Never seemed important. Edited March 30, 2011 by BLA5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felicity Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I homeschool because it was what lay behind Door Number 4 when DS and I played "Let's Make a Deal" with our local PS. I love this and it pretty much sums up why I started homeschooling. I love this board but up until just recently I was too shy to post. I'm trying to get over that and play along. I'm incredibly picky with sweet foods but I'll eat anything made with salt. Oh, and I used to be fluent in Swedish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VA6336 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Japanese Cherry Blossom is my absolute favorite Bath and Body Works scent! Closely followed by Wild Honeysuckle and Magnolia Blossom. :D Mine, too!! :001_wub: I also like Midnight Path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I was born in the year of the Rabbit and that's about as zodiacal as I can get. That's the Chinese zodiac, though! I have a salty tooth instead of a sweet tooth, though I love Lindt's "Touch of Salt" Dark Chocolate which combines both. My favorite ice cream is peanut butter and chocolate. I homeschool because I don't delegate well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Most days I am happy to have a complete grown up thought that doesn't center on what I am serving for supper or the fastest route to the urgent care center. (I have a dare devil son.) I am right there with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I have a salty tooth instead of a sweet tooth, though I love Lindt's "Touch of Salt" Dark Chocolate which combines both. . YUM!!!!! Cost Plus World Market has it on sale right now for $1.99! YUM!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 At McDonalds I put fries on my burger!! When I was pregnant I would put BBQ sauce in my choco milkshake and yes that sounds gross now. I actually got to buy everything I wanted for school this year, first time ever in 5 years so that rocked. Today I drove over 40 miles to buy FLORIDA souvenirs at a welcome center to make a state box for a group I joined and bought my son a shark in a bottle. We came home to eat dinner while passing it around the dining table when it suddenly hit me, we were at the table having dinner passing around a dead shark soaked in preservatives. Only a homeschooler I think lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 This thread has me lol! I was an Aquarius the last time I checked.. but I have no idea what that's supposed to mean for me anyway! I HS for educational and family reasons - simply, it just works for us. :001_smile: YE/OE? I have no idea. I'm looking forward to the Lord explaining that to me someday, like everything else I don't understand in Scripture! At any rate, I don't think it affects my day to day efforts to live as Christ did. And I love chocolate in any form. Far too much, in fact. Especially when it's as one of the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavours... :drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 My understanding is that the sun signs did NOT change for those of us who use (or at least are familiar with) Western astrology. So continue with "I yam what I yam." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 This thread has me lol! And I love chocolate in any form. Far too much, in fact. Especially when it's as one of the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavours... :drool: Yes that is a plus!!!! Didn't they have a cake batter flavor at one time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindyD Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 At McDonalds I put fries on my burger!!When I was pregnant I would put BBQ sauce in my choco milkshake and yes that sounds gross now. I actually got to buy everything I wanted for school this year, first time ever in 5 years so that rocked. Today I drove over 40 miles to buy FLORIDA souvenirs at a welcome center to make a state box for a group I joined and bought my son a shark in a bottle. We came home to eat dinner while passing it around the dining table when it suddenly hit me, we were at the table having dinner passing around a dead shark soaked in preservatives. Only a homeschooler I think lol. :001_huh::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I will bring some ice cream to eat with Jean. I love peanut butter and chocolate ice cream. What's really good is have chocolate ice cream and put some PB in the microwave and pour over it. It's yummy. I'm a Taurus. I think the kerfluffle with the zodiacs was all a misunderstanding. I know I'm still bull headed and not even the realignment of the stars will change that. My dh sanded and refinished our hardwood floors over the weekend. They're dark mahogany, gorgeous! Today my son and I laughed in school and we finished an algebra assignment. After that all the rest is gravy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I really am sick of hearing about Ham & Enns. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdalley Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I'm addicted to Magic Shell. I used to put fries on my cheeseburgers in high school. Now that someone has mentioned it I want to go get a cheeseburger and fries. Chocolate - in all forms - is wonderful and should be a right. We homeschool because our boys and the local public school system were completely incompatible. Now I can't imagine anything different. I used to be a Cancer but I think now I'm a Gemini. I can't think of anything else right now except I'm currently marveling how a 9 year old can go from tearfully sick to literally bouncing off the walls in less than two hours. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I homeschool because it was what lay behind Door Number 4 when DS and I played "Let's Make a Deal" with our local PS. I love this and it pretty much sums up why I started homeschooling. . Perhaps I should put that in my siggie. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I really am sick of hearing about Ham & Enns. LOL I read this as Ham and Eggs and wondered what breakfast had done to you! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amydavis Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I'm a Leo, which seems to fit me...or so I'm told. My favorite ice cream at the moment is Bryer's Heath. It is soooo good. However, I'm actually more of a cheese and meat gal. Typically I'd choose potato skins over the chocolate. I enjoy a nice glass (or two) of wine, although in the summer I tend to lean towards a nice margarita. I'm addicted to diet pepsi, which I know is a bad, bad thing. We tend to eat naturally/organically, so the whole diet pepsi thing really doesn't work with that...but... I love music and I love concerts, but haven't been to one in far too long. I'm taking dh to see Bob Segar (his fave) in April. The best concerts I've been to were Dave Matthews Band and Paul McCartney. In fact, I've seen both of them more than a couple of times, LOL. I'm a church-going Christian that doesn't take kindly to people insinuating I'm not one if I don't think the Flintstones really could have kept a pet dinosaur. Oh, and yes, my family LOVES Harry Potter...which really ruffles some feathers also... Oh, and I love to play board games. We recently went through a "Clue" phase, but we are currently in "Scrabble" mode! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I read this as Ham and Eggs and wondered what breakfast had done to you! :lol: :lol::lol::lol: Too funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 in harmony like that. I can't separate my two reasons for homeschooling which are religious and educational so don't ask me to choose which side to be on. I'll just be the odd guy out. I love good quality vanilla ice cream and dark chocolate. Diet Pepsi, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I like chocolate ice cream but not chocolate cake! But I prefer a cherry pie to either. Chocolate ice cream yes, don't care for cakes except cheese cake. I'm a cancer. I forget what that means, & yeah, now I'm something else. I forget that, too. Please don't hold the cancer thing against me. It really worried me as a child. Me too! Including being freaked out by the name 'Cancer' as a child Wow, we must live parallel lives. I homeschooled because I like my kids and found the topics of early childhood development and education to be infinitely fascinating. I always thought at some point it wouldn't be fun and I would let them go to school. hmmm, nope, didn't happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 :lol: Technically, the charts have not changed. I'm still a Virgo (much to my dh's horror). Either way, I am not a literalist about the Bible but I agree with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elinnea Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I'm a Taurus. I like chocolate, the darker the better, and salty licorice. I think it is sad that politics and religion are such huge dividers. I think differing viewpoints are great. Judging others for their views is not. We homeschool because I LIKE spending time with my kids and because my oldest could read chapter books in two languages in Kindergarten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I'm still a Gemini. I don't care a bit what that new chart says! I love mint chocolate chip ice cream. I homeschool because I wanted to make a mindful decision, not just send my kids off to school because that's what people do when their kids turn five. I just couldn't comfortably put them on a schoolbus at such a tender age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Big Lots has organic Gorilla Munch. for $2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 My favorite ice cream at the moment is Bryer's Heath. It is soooo good. However, I'm actually more of a cheese and meat gal. Typically I'd choose potato skins over the chocolate. I totally thought you said Bryer's Health ice cream, and I was thinking how is that even possible.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HootyTooty Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I think I am one of 100 people in North America that LOVES rum and raisin ice cream. I love apple pie, BUT when I a young lass I happened upon a strawberry, apple, rhubarb pie. It was divine and that is my favorite pie, but alas I never found it again and I suck at baking pies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Hey, I'm happy to talk about other things! I'm the Scorpioest of Scorpios, regardless of any changes in the charts. You know, it just struck me I'm supposed to a virgin-goddess of justice. :001_huh: :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I was a Virgo when I was born and I am a Virgo now- I don't care what the Astrologers of today say. All I know is that we Virgo's are PITA's. Also, chocolate should be a food group on the pyramid.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJCMom Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) I'm a Virgo. My mother was a Virgo. My oldest daughter is a Virgo. Yet, we're not very organized. I feel like my family got the short end of the Virgo stick. I like chocolate in all forms, the darker the better. However, just because there are healthy antioxidants in dark chocolate I haven't allowed that to fool me into thinking it's "health food" like some people I know. I prefer to eat Cheetos with chopsticks so that the orange powder doesn't stain my fingers. I've always known my husband and I were meant for eachother, but my friends were utterly convinced when I posted the following conversation between us in my Facebook status: DH: "Do we have any chopsticks?" ME: "I don't know. Why?" DH: "I was thinking of having some Cheetos." I forgot to add my "why do I homeschool and how old do I believe the Earth is." I started homeschooling because I'm a glutton for punishment. I continue homeschooling because I ended up kind of liking it. I think it's better for my kids, too. I believe the Earth is really, really old. Really. Old. I also believe that God did it. All the rest is fun to debate, but I think we're fooling ourselves if we think we can truly KNOW the answer to those questions this side of Heaven. Edited March 31, 2011 by EJCMom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Oh, I love this thread! Thank you for lightening things! :001_smile: Like Mrs. Mungo, I refuse to give up my Scorpio status. I adore most things chocolate, and mint chocolate chip is my all-time favorite ice cream. It must have chocolate sprinkles on it too. Actually, I'm a sucker for almost anything sweet, including pies. I don't have a particular belief as to WHEN God created the earth, but I do believe he did. I'm open to hearing all sides of the YE/OE and other religious ideas/debates with the realization (imho) that we really are not meant to understand the exact answers because man has limits. I find it's safer to lurk in the controversial threads rather than risk being misinterpreted should I speak and not adequately express myself. :D We are not homeschooling for religious reasons, although some of our curriculum is Christian (ie. Rod & Staff). When my son was about to enter K, he was already reading chapter books. Knowing what I did about the schools here and unable to afford private schools, I feverishly researched homeschooling, convinced dh that we needed to do this, and here we are! I believe it's a lifestyle, and although I never would have thought I'd be one to live it if you had asked me 7-8 years ago, I cannot imagine the alternative for my family. I'm also a very wordy person... it drives my hubby nuts! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I prefer to eat Cheetos with chopsticks so that the orange powder doesn't stain my fingers. ." Sheer genius!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 The signs didn't really change anyway: No, your zodiac sign hasn't changed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 You know, it just struck me I'm supposed to a virgin-goddess of justice. :001_huh: :lol::lol::lol: :smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJCMom Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Sheer genius!! Thank you. To me it makes perfect sense. I've encountered many scoffers, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Inna* Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I was born in the year of the Rabbit and that's about as zodiacal as I can get. Hey, me too! :D I love coffee ice cream. I want everybody to just get along. *Envisioning myself as a beauty queen, smiling, waving and saying "World peace".* :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 This may come as shock but I am a LEO. :D I would eat pretty much anything if it were dipped in chocolate. My favorite ice cream is german chocolate cake from Coldstone Creamery and if I move back to the U.S. it will be for that alone! I am definitely YE but I don't think it defines my christianity (or yours). I hate cherries or cherry-flavored anything. HATE HATE HATE. But I grew up eating banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. YUM. :drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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