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1 hour ago, Susan in TN said:

PSA:  Mountain Rose Herbs (.com) finally has elder berries back in stock.  Get them now before they go out of stock for another 8 months! 

It’s because I just found some at Natural Grocer and paid too much for them. You’re welcome.

Seriously, though, I love Mt Rose but they are out of elderberries 80% of the year and it makes me sad.

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I have a mild viral something: chills, muscle aches, and a yucky nose. I got it from Youngest. She used me as a human Kleenex while snuggling last week. Awesome kindergarten germs. 

PSA: Burn and run away from the recipe that adds acv and propolis to your regular recipe of elderberry syrup. It makes it taste like gasoline.

Imma brew up a new batch tomorrow.

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12 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

Hey. I dreamed that I was being tortured with razor blades. I woke up at 4-something and realized that it corresponded with all the places that are in pain. I got back to sleep after a new pain med. I have to teach in both services today.

I actually feel less pain when I am up and not pressing on a bed so that part will be ok.   But can someone invent an air-filled chamber that I can just float in?  It’s not a I-need-a-new-mattress thing. I have slept on sleep number beds and regular beds and latex and memory foam and water beds and...  Your body still has to touch. 

This is a brilliant idea. 

Do you still feel pain free when floating in water? For me it’s the pressure points of my body’s weight against something—any weightless sensation will do.

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This is a brilliant idea. 

Do you still feel pain free when floating in water? For me it’s the pressure points of my body’s weight against something—any weightless sensation will do.

Actually water puts pressure too.  I have made more than one doctor really mad when they go "does this hurt?" and every single place they touch gets the answer "yes".  It's not a screaming pain  but pain none the less. 

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Query: what should I do?

You notice while pulling out of your subdivision that there are two Nike shoeboxes and a pair of dress shoes tossed behind the landscaping.

I live in a subdivision where neighbors do not improperly dispose of trash but where we have homeless people wander through looking for recyclables or stuff to porch pirate and we occasionally have a car left on the street for an hour or four that is probably stolen and on its way to be processed.

WWYD, if anything?

 

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4 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

Actually water puts pressure too.  I have made more than one doctor really mad when they go "does this hurt?" and every single place they touch gets the answer "yes".  It's not a screaming pain  but pain none the less. 

Bummer.

They get mad, really? I have a stink eye and a kick in the shins for them. Sorry, Jean...that stinks. I find relief in my hot tub at least half of the time.

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Bummer.

They get mad, really? I have a stink eye and a kick in the shins for them. Sorry, Jean...that stinks. I find relief in my hot tub at least half of the time.

Frustration which has exhibited as anger, yes.  I understand that saying that everything hurts makes it hard for them to narrow things down but when I tell them from the start that everything hurts, it's not a big surprise when . . . everything hurts. 

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Query: what should I do?

You notice while pulling out of your subdivision that there are two Nike shoeboxes and a pair of dress shoes tossed behind the landscaping.

I live in a subdivision where neighbors do not improperly dispose of trash but where we have homeless people wander through looking for recyclables or stuff to porch pirate and we occasionally have a car left on the street for an hour or four that is probably stolen and on its way to be processed.

WWYD, if anything?

 

In our neighborhood, I would pick up the shoeboxes and would ask on Nextdoor.com if anyone had any shoes stolen and then ask them to call you with a description. 

And it's a Neighborhood Booyah

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9 minutes ago, prairiewindmomma said:

Query: what should I do?

You notice while pulling out of your subdivision that there are two Nike shoeboxes and a pair of dress shoes tossed behind the landscaping.

I live in a subdivision where neighbors do not improperly dispose of trash but where we have homeless people wander through looking for recyclables or stuff to porch pirate and we occasionally have a car left on the street for an hour or four that is probably stolen and on its way to be processed.

WWYD, if anything?

 

 

Is there a bustle in the hedgerow?

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Good morning!  I'm going to do a little cyber Monday shopping, regular school or as much as possible and celebrate dd's birthday, should she be home.  I would also like to give the Donkey of the award to my Dh, this morning as I got on the scale:

dh: did you lose anything?

me: I lost a few ounces

dh: wow, when I lose, I lose pounds 

me: well, I'm just glad I lost anything, I didn't say what was really rolling around in my head, you guys should be proud because it was nasty.

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40 minutes ago, mama25angels said:

Good morning!  I'm going to do a little cyber Monday shopping, regular school or as much as possible and celebrate dd's birthday, should she be home.  I would also like to give the Donkey of the award to my Dh, this morning as I got on the scale:

dh: did you lose anything?

me: I lost a few ounces

dh: wow, when I lose, I lose pounds 

me: well, I'm just glad I lost anything, I didn't say what was really rolling around in my head, you guys should be proud because it was nasty.

IMHO, they need us to tell them those things.  It's enlightening, educational and character building for them.  Really, we wouldn't want them to live the rest of their lives so completely ignorant of proper communication skills.  Next time, let him have it!  For his own good! 

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Good Morning!!!

COFFEE!!!!!~D

Monday!!😩😩

It is foggy out this morning, but DS’s school isn’t on a fog delay, which is good. DH is still in bed. I made him take the day off. He’s on the recovery side of this flu, but I still think he would greatly benefit by one more day in bed. The rest of us have school today, and I am going to try to sneak away, since DH is home, and get a little grocery shopping done. We are out of produce.

Happy Demolition Day, Ellie!!

Mama25Angels, I commend you for your restraint. I’m not even stepping on the scale today.

 

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Step 1: Cry for Datty.
Step 2: Get up early.
Step 3: Put all the Mickeys in a pile.
Step 4: Climb on top.
Step 5: Complain that the light's off.
Step 6: Lie on Mickey pile while saying "eyes" with eyes closed because the light is on.

 

Back to routine! :ph34r:

85 days. :ohmy:

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A little while ago I gave dd10 the first volume of Story of the World.  She said that she would have trouble reading it because the print is too small.  😞

I wonder how much of a problem this is going to be as she moves out of elementary books with largish print.

She goes to the eye doctor next week.

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13 minutes ago, Junie said:

A little while ago I gave dd10 the first volume of Story of the World.  She said that she would have trouble reading it because the print is too small.  😞

I wonder how much of a problem this is going to be as she moves out of elementary books with largish print.

She goes to the eye doctor next week.

If her vision problems are not correctable with lenses, can I very highly recommend doing the paperwork to access Bookshare (which is free to children under 18 with print disabilities)? You can pump the font size up to as big as you'd like, and even put yellow filters behind the text.  I cannot recommend it highly enough. FWIW, you can request that any book be scanned and added to the collection. A large number of homeschool texts (including almost all of the Apologia stuff, Life with Fred, etc.) are already there.

Also, depending on the degree of the problem, there are low vision specialists who are accessible through OT who are extremely helpful.  We accessed one when dd began losing her vision and another when we realized that not all of ds's vision issues were going to be resolved.  Ours were extremely good at figuring out how we needed to adapt our house and school materials---like they told us that essentially dd was seeing stuff float out in space, and that we could bring it back to a tangible reality by using a slant board and using a taped border around her work area on the school table. It was especially helpful because almost all of her solutions involved very little $ outlay from us.... 

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I backed up my recipes to the cloud this morning.  It appears that I had not set up Paprika to do that automatically. Now I just need to get the phone app and I can sync between my laptop and phone and look at stuff on a whim while at the store instead of having to meal plan and email my grocery list from my Paprika laptop edition. 

I'm gradually donating my cookbook collection and moving everything to digital with a paper backup of only the family recipes (in their own handwriting). 

 

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Did genetics with M&M's today and Consumer math going over unit pricing and percent off sales. 

Went to AFSA to get a few things I need by Wednesday morning and they didn't have any of them.  I have three other AFSA's I can go to in the general area but all are slightly farther and it's pouring torrential rain here today.  I'm hanging at my classroom for another 1/2 hour, then tutoring for 1/2 hour then I can leave.  I want to go home and dry off.  My trip to AFSA got me soaking wet.   

I'm going to have to go out, probably after dinner.  I'm on the go from 10am until 7pm tomorrow so can't really fit it in then  I can hit my local AFSA before 10am, but the others are too far to do before class.

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1 hour ago, KrissiK said:

I survived The Afsa, I got school done with oldest DD and now I get to clean up the disaster that is my house.

Well done!

We finally got the living and dining rooms clean enough to run Wally the Botvac this afternoon. 

I have taken 2 walks today and still don’t have my steps in.  It’s so cold outside! 💨

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9 hours ago, Another Lynn said:

IMHO, they need us to tell them those things.  It's enlightening, educational and character building for them.  Really, we wouldn't want them to live the rest of their lives so completely ignorant of proper communication skills.  Next time, let him have it!  For his own good! 

What she said.

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27 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:

Well done!

We finally got the living and dining rooms clean enough to run Wally the Botvac this afternoon. 

I have taken 2 walks today and still don’t have my steps in.  It’s so cold outside! 💨

It's  cold here too, I'm headed to the mall to get my steps.  Is Wally a robot vacuum?

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Okay, as promised. I woke up this morning to a full request. Not one like the first full request I got (which was you can send me this), but an email from an agent asking for me to send it right away because she needed to find out what happened next after reading the partial I sent back in October. And wanted to know if I had other stories in the works and to please tell her all about them. Which I did. 

So all that went out this evening, and now I can eat birthday cake. Whew!

And I still need to write 2000 words for NaNoWriMo because my team is in third place and I want to win... 

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9 minutes ago, Critterfixer said:

Okay, as promised. I woke up this morning to a full request. Not one like the first full request I got (which was you can send me this), but an email from an agent asking for me to send it right away because she needed to find out what happened next after reading the partial I sent back in October. And wanted to know if I had other stories in the works and to please tell her all about them. Which I did. 

So all that went out this evening, and now I can eat birthday cake. Whew!

And I still need to write 2000 words for NaNoWriMo because my team is in third place and I want to win... 

Squeeeeee!!  That’s our girl!  

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