Which surfaces are you painting? (outside or inside?) If only one broad side, I'd tape off the four sides that face the frame (top, bottom, hinge, bolt sides.) And paint your edges/corners first so they can dry first. If needed, touch those up on a different day.
I take the photos, so I’m rarely in them. But a few years ago I started to try to include myself occasionally. I will ask a stranger to photograph all of us and I’ll also make a point of doing a selfie with one of the kids occasionally so they’ll have visual proof I was there and loved them.
I do annual calendars for each set of grandparents and always try to include a photo of each of them in their own version and each of their kids at least somewhere. My challenge is making sure my BIL is somewhere in MILs (he lives out of state so I have 2-3 days a year to get something) and I’ve had years when I finished my moms only to realize I should probably find one with me (and the kids) to swap in there. Lol.
I agree on scooping the cookies. And I think one cookie which fits in the standard treat bag is fine, even if that is more of a "medium" cookie. The kids will already have eaten a boatload of treats and this will likely be their third or fourth dessert of the evening, consumed in minutes without regret. So don't drive yourself too crazy
I use nongendered language when speaking about someone if I don’t know their gender, or a hypothetical person, or an undefined person. In the case of not knowing with a specific person, I sometimes steer away from pronouns entirely (including they/them). It’s not that one can’t use ‘they’ generically (that is fine), but it has a meaning as a singular personal pronoun.
On how grammar is taught - I think this depends on the school. My children’s school hasn’t changed their curriculum but I know kids who attend schools that have more inclusive grammar lessons. However, it’s worth remembering the singular ‘they’ predates the singular ‘you’ (Shakespeare used the singular they occasionally but would never have replaced thou with you). we are really just reincorporating and old idea.
Which National Park has been home to missile testing, oryxes (the subsaharan animal) and lots of gypsum? (White Sands. the sand is actually gypsum which means it stays comfortable to walk on at high temperatures when beach sand would be very hot. It is also home to the globe's largest collection of Ice-Age fossilized footprints.)
What color is the Golden Gate Bridge? (international orange - which is a very red "orange")
4-5 National Parks have a color in their name. Which are they? Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Redwood, White Sands, Yellowstone, Mesa Verde*
5-6 National Parks mention plants in their names. Which are they? Everglades, Joshua Tree, Redwood, Saguaro, Sequoia, Petrified Forrest*
Lots of people travel for pride celebrations. Where were the first pride marches held? (June of 1970 in NYC, Chicago, LA and SF to commemorate the anniversary of Stonewall).
I'm feeling very defeatist about everything right now.
so am I.
In the most clear cut of these protests, Students are asking a University to ask a Hedgefund to stop investing in a Company in the hopes that the company will respond by stopping business in Israel, in hopes that Netanyahu will be swayed and change course on bombings and starvation.
It’s a convoluted long game tactic for a very dire and immediate situation.
I fear for the lives of the hostages *and* the lives of the residents of Gaza who are staving and dying from bombs. This is a horrific tragedy.
The genocide in Palestine is also an American problem. Our tax money funds it. We have Palestinian-American citizens. They are re-writing laws in America to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. I don’t see how you could possibly think this has nothing to do with us?
i literally got smacked down for saying the protests should be directed at those who are in a relevant position of power - our possible next president, Congress, state legislators making those laws you mention. That's what started this. Me suggesting those same students could hop a subway to downtown if they wanted to impact those with greater power over American foreign policy.
Locally, I'm seeing actions that only affect people who don't have relevant power. Asking for divestment from organizations that are barred by state law from divesting feels like that.
Did you feel this way with the BLM protests happening in other parts of the country than the events that sparked them? Because I'm guessing that's a resounding, "No."
race based police brutality and mistreatment is a pervasive American problem - regardless of what specific incident or location is sparking action. So protests anywhere in the UiS is drawing attention to somewhere near where violence has previously occurred and may occur again.
However, I have a different (but related) reason to take back what I said. I oppose protest actions which directly target American Jews or Israelis living in the US. So stick with the college lawn encampments.
In come out of your house and find tracks around your house. Would you rather it be a bear or human? That one sent a chill up my neck.
I've loved this question and enjoyed the commentary around it.
I'd be more freaked out by Bear tracks.
But we on a corner and people think it's okay to walk their dogs all over our lawn and occasionally one even gets in the back yard. I'd just think it was yet another person who thinks owning a dog is a license to trespass.
if they want policy change, get where the people making policy are. Which isn’t some hall at Humboldt PolyTechnic. There is space set aside specifically for free speech/protest at the courthouse and yet I haven’t heard any reports of mass action there. Nor in DC near the legislature.
also, you don’t seem very informed on what has or has not been happening in NYC
True. Stepping out.
Locally, I'm seeing actions that only affect people who don't have relevant power. Asking for divestment from organizations that are barred by state law from divesting feels like that.
I want to see some of the Gaza protestors showing up at the courthouse. This jack ass could be making US foreign policy for four years. Let him know how you feel rather than shutting down finals study groups of equally inconsequential classmates.
This is some statement.
if they want policy change, get where the people making policy are. Which isn’t some hall at Humboldt PolyTechnic. There is space set aside specifically for free speech/protest at the courthouse and yet I haven’t heard any reports of mass action there. Nor in DC near the legislature.
His team set up a campaign stop last week with about 100 supporters at a construction site after Trump complained that there weren't sufficient crowds outside the courthouse to support him
I want to see some of the Gaza protestors showing up at the courthouse. This jack ass could be making US foreign policy for four years. Let him know how you feel rather than shutting down finals study groups of equally inconsequential classmates.
Brooks Brothers/Brooks Brothers outlet? I find the Nordstroms staff around here only help the regulars, so its not somewhere I'd look for a suit if you aren't in that department regularly.
Different campuses are playing out very differently.
At Brown, you have protestors and administration who negoatiaged and are actually moving towards both divestment and dismantling the protest.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have the situation at UCLA. Violence broke about *between* the protest groups (pro-Palestinian and pro- Israeli students fist fighting and beating each other with sticks) which was separated by police in riot gear.
This was probably already said, but just in case ...
The point is, you don't know if he's a good guy or not. So you're alone, you have to approach every interaction with a strange man as if he could be one of the bad ones.
I guess I’m wondering what people think of as strange for their definition. I live in a city and I encounter strange people multiple times a day. Most recently a very strange one I’ve never seen before was this man dressed up as the devil and saying he was the devil, but not like in a mean/I’m going to harm you way. He was very strange but I didn’t feel any harm.
I think there’s a big difference between strange and a creep that’s making unprovoked sexual advances. Anyway, that’s how I interpreted it and my natural instinct is I def would freak out internally if I was in the middle of the woods with a bear since it’s not something I encounter on a daily basis.
having lived in cities for much of my life, and spent time near psych facilities (on the streets near them, in the parking lots) I’ve encountered my share of people with truly unexpected behavior. They spook me much less than the calmest person carrying a gun or a man acting in a menacing way.
When I first heard this, I pictured myself on a. Hiking trail in the woods, and when I’m there I regularly pass people - men and women - and generally feel fine. There aren’t bears around here so one would freak me out.
But then I saw it posed the way it probably plays out in plenty of the country where men regularly walk around with guns and hunt and all the rest and I quickly switched to bear.
Open carry states freak me out much more than bears.
As long as they aren’t in a sparkleprincess costume complete with tiara and loud plastic dress up shoes, they’ll be fine (and maybe even in something like that if grandma liked to see them dress up). Young kids at a funeral are a promise of the future and the legacy your grandmother leaves so I wouldn’t worry if their clothes reflect that.
I find black is for the people between 20 and 60 who have the clothes and aren’t going to many funerals. The older adults often are more likely to wear something else.
I realized after I got dressed this morning that my shirt was on backwards. So I jokingly asked my kids "do you notice anything wrong with my outfit?" and my daughter responded "yeah, you don't match". Gee, thanks kid. Nothing like a teenager to knock you down a few pegs.
We were just talking about this at work lol. Apparently teenage girls are brutally honest.
I was joking that it’s good thing I have a boy who gives compliments....for now. This mama can't handle the criticism. 🤦🏼♀️
yesterday my teen daughter told a group of adults she doesn’t know that I’m depressed. So that’s great. (She was with DH picking up take out on the way home from practice yesterday and they ran into parents of my little one’s peers.)
The pta rumor mill around here is wild so this will be fun. I’ve already been told so many times by acquaintances that I’m pregnant or getting a divorce. So now I get to be depressed, too. Blarg.
Your limits sound reasonable to me. My 13 and 1o kids will push on any and all limits, all the time. I wouldn’t change it just because they want more or your ex allows more.
Our school district is split into one school K-2, one 3-5, one 6-8. There are no car lines after second grade. The 3-5 has multiple possible approaches. Tthey block off the roads to cars (except school buses) to force kids to walk in.
If you travel for one kid (and it sounds like you do so pretty regularly) then travel for this one thing for your other kid.
I grew up on a dynamic where I was the older sibling whose activities weren’t interesting enough to show up for. And you feel it. I didn’t have as many events, but my mom regularly missed them for my brother’s events or for other things. I can remember accepting awards alone and standing there awkwardly at events while they thanked the parents for their ‘support.’