Old people voting down school budgets because they don't want their taxes going up is a tale as old as time.
Around here, people over a certain age are exempt from those assessments for just that reason. It sounds like it's an increase of $1,200 annually. That would definitely get push back around here. People get up in arms about a $100 annual assessment.
When our schools shut down in March 2020, my oldest was in 3rd, my middle was in K, and my youngest was in PK3. This year my middle is in 3rd and my youngest is in K and most of the curriculum is the same as their older sib’s. Whenever the teachers mention a project that is coming up for the third trimester, I definitely get triggered remembering trying to do that same assignment at home while also trying to work and entertain my youngest.
Yes! Same but only the two. Every day of 3rd grade since break last month has been me thinking "at least it isn't all shutting down again" and practically hyperventilating.
I have a good friend who did this and discovered her father was not her bio father. Her mother knew this- had been seeing more than one guy but when she was found out she was pregnant she picked the one with more money and they married (they since divorced many years ago). Friend met bio father, who had no idea, and now has a great relationship with him.
I have a dumb question: I thought when women do DNA tests the results are only on the maternal side because we’re XX, no Y chromosome, so how would the test have revealed that? 9th grade biology was a looooong time ago so maybe I have that completely wrong?
And I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that somewhere along the line you have heard about somebody tracing lineage through RNA testing - and that always come from the maternal line
I've tried this now for three nights and it's a game changer.
I was all set to try this, then realized that because I have aphantasia, I don't know how to do it.
lol.
Honestly, I don't even form a picture every time. I just go through words and hold each idea in my head for a half or whole second before moving to the next. Some nights that means visual picture but sometimes not.
Regular coat with a hood? If it's really rainy or we are going to be outside for an extended time, I'll dig out umbrellas. The main extended outdoor activity we do in the rain is swim, so neither. lol.
My kids sometimes take umbrellas to school when it rains. (They have cute umbrellas) but seem to use the umbrellas as often for catching rain or floating on puddles as they use them as actual protection. My oldest (like Gretchen) also thinks a cotton hoodie is enough. And then gets wet and cold.
Actually, it's entirely possible if not likely that the seizures, weight loss, and personality changes are caused by what the foreign object is doing to his system.
This is definitely something to ask the vet about then too, because he doesn’t have the typical blockage symptoms.
The converse may be true, too.
Whatever is causing all those problems may have led him to "self medicate" by eating something inedible (perhaps an instinct to trigger vomiting that failed?) Or interfered with his usual good judgment to not eat legos?
I am only involved in cookies as a consumer, but I am shocked that you get so little money! I thought you'd be getting at like 50% of box price. Cookies are $6/box here, and people have been set up in booths for the past couple weeks. Also as a consumer I hate the online sales. I always feel weird when everyone starts posting their kid on Facebook asking for cookie sales. Idk what specifically bothers me about it, but I'm bothered. And the shipping is crazy do they get very many online sales?
When I did girl scouts someone my dad worked with bought 200+ boxes and I thought they must be the richest person ever.
Girl scouts as an organization gets a lot of the 5$. But a big chunk is used for stuff like council programming and maintaining and subsidizing camp. Girl scouts overnight camp is crazy cheap.
Not around here. Not anymore. The cost almost doubled this year.
Do you remember the thread a few weeks ago of people saying where they want to retire? Plenty had Florida on that list.
Right? And I don’t hate the south or the people who live there, but it’s wild to me the amount of privilege someone has to have in Feb 2023 to think moving to Florida in a decade or 2 sounds great when the state is mid-genocide and also about to fall into the rising ocean. That is very different from already living there and working to make it better or being stuck without alternate options. And frankly it feels pretty shitty since I’m now wary of even visiting my ILs there because of fear that being in state could threaten my family’s safety.
This weekend's This American Life had me hyperventilating. Politically related @
One part about Idaho abortion laws one part LGBTQ people fleeing Russia.
A journalist was talking about leaving for the US years ago when Russia banned adoptions by same sex couples. The interviewer then said "Do you think you might need to immigrate again [from the US]?" and the adult journalist replied "Well, if they ban my affirming hormone treatment I'll have to move for health reasons."
Which practically made me pull over. Because it's a real risk. These bans are starting to involve adult healthcare as well.
Our council doesn't allow booth sales until two weeks after delivery so at least we don't have kitty's problem. Whether there will be cookies for booths is a different matter.
What? Like the parent helpers? We did not do this....
Yes! If we help our daughter's at a cookie booth we have to register as a volunteer on the GS website and pay $25.
Don't forget the $10 for the background check! This year CA has added a 2 hour mandated reporter training plus getting fingerprinted ($32 at the police station).
I'm very surprised some of you haven't gotten cookies yet. We got our first round of orders on Jan 27th and have had 3 cookie booths already.
It is very annoying that the troop only gets to keep .85 cents per box.
They pushed back our start date almost two months so we wouldn't have supply shortages. And now there are no cookies. And we only keep 80 cents of each box - even though they raised the cost to $6/box.
Digital Cookie a crappy platform that doesn't really have the funding it needs to be a smoother interface for families and with eBudde, and I think it's really detrimental to what cookie sales' theoretical goal is, i.e. building girls' interpersonal/entrepreneurial/money management skills.
Yes. Which is why my troops almost exclusively sell in person. I make a troop site so they have something they can send if they absolutely must, but it is awful to coordinate with eBudde.
This stupid raspberry cookie and it's online/direct shipping only sales are the only marketing GS has done around here so I keep getting pushback from the families. And now they won't even be able to buy/sell it online.
And troops can absolutely take cash or check donations directly at any time, it doesn't need to be linked to official fundraisers
This is actually not allowed in our council. It's in those one million training videos I had to watch. We have to get prior approval to receive or give any donations.
I love that all those rapists/murderers who never got caught are now hopefully living in fear. Not fair they got to be free as long as they did, but I hope they all are suffering.
I've been thinking the opposite - I hate that all these women are having rapes from their past dragged up and are faced with either telling everyone the truth or choosing to hide it to protect the child via rape. Even if they tell the truth, the statute of limitations has likely run.
I had heard the low return to troop for many of GS fundraising efforts & asked if I could just give a direct donation to the troop (bc I do not need cookies or magazines or whatever). I was told there wasn't a way to do that but does anyone know for sure?
It sounds like a lot of effort is put into this hustle & the girls aren't really benefitting from it.
Nope. The only donations option is "Care to share" which means you give money which subsidizes what ever left over inventory the council dumps at local foodbanks and military bases. I don't anticipate much excess inventory this year. Troops get a few pennies for every excess box you subsidize.
I posted a similar vent in the Randoms! Kid is super close to her goal and the bakery just decided they are done baking so all we have access to is what is at troop leaders house and what is already at local cookie cupboard. They already shifted her website to shipping only which is ridiculous!
Our digital cookie starts for the year at 10pm and then might shut down completely for the year by about 11pm (or maybe they'll allow shipping for a few more days on three varieties). Shipping isn't even going to be an option after that.
The bakery is done and we haven't even gotten our initial delivery to the cupboard/troops (Scheduled for this weekend). Booths can't even start before March 20th.
I wish they'd stop pouring money into new cookies, marketing and poorly integrated websites and just focus on sourcing maybe 4-6 cookie varieties that they can actually produce and get to the kids to sell. Is that too much to ask?
Stop doing so many things so very very badly. And stop bullshitting us that your failures some how benefit our kids. (The defensiveness in the spin just makes it worse).
These girl scout cookie sales are on my last nerve! First - kid had folks waiting for the raspberry ones but they sold out in a hot minute. Then today we got word that the bakery that supplies our council is just "done baking" for the season even though sales are supposed to go for at least another month. So all we have is what is at troop leaders house and what leader can get from cookie cupboard or people can opt for shipping. Kid is only about 50 boxes from her goal so I'm hoping she can meet her goal given the new wrinkles. For an organization that has been around for approximately eleventybillion years you would think they'd have a better handle on this stuff!
Ha! I just started a "GS is a mess" thread. Every year it gets worse. We haven't even gotten our cookies and are already told everything is going to be out.
Again it's cookie season. Again they are messing things up and making them so much less fun and more complicated than needed. We haven't even gotten cookies yet - delivery is sometime this weekend. WTF knows when. We got an email last night saying they anticipate running out of cookies online less than an hour after they start the online sales this evening. Not just running out of the new cookie they hyped and put all that stupid marketing into that is online only, but after that goes either it all shuts down immediately or we may get a few more days with only three, dwindling cookie options - the awful s'mores one, adventurefuls and thin mints.
I feel like the purpose of GS is to teach kids to never, ever, ever get involved with network marketing because you will spend more money than you take in (cookie proceeds are so low in our council they don't even cover the cost of GS uniforms, let alone GS dues. And you can forget about them actually funding a fun activity. When people ask where the money from the sale go, we just honestly answer to the Girl Scouts organization itself. Because every penny does. Even the pittance that comes back to the troop just goes back to the organization to pay for the "privilege" of being a Girl Scout. Even donations barely go to troops.
That headline is ridiculous. Basal cell is the most common skin cancer - it’s very rare for it to be dangerous. I believe a 0.05% rate. I had a basal cell removed this year. My 75 year old dad has had like 8 removed. Jill Biden had the same thing a few months ago and the headlines certainly weren’t “OMG CANCER”.
It’s good to be transparent. I hope this brings awareness to the importance of yearly skin checks (good reminder to all of us to schedule!) But that’s it.
did they change the headline after getting blowback or something? Bc I see nothing wrong with the article headline, but this thread title is inflammatory, imho. It may technically accurate to call it a mass in that it was a mass of cancer cells, but most of us I think would have said he had a mole removed.
Yes - the linked article and the concurrent NY Times article both had inflammatory initial headlines similar to the thread title when I first saw them. Both were later edited.
My grandmother claims she was told the baby had died during the birth and that's why she never spoke about it
Women had so few rights at that time and she was a minor, so I can see this happening. At that time, plenty of medical decisions and medical information would only be shared with the husband/father/parents. Those were the days when you could die of breast cancer that your husband and doctor knew about without anyone telling you. I can easily imagine parents of a teen giving up a grandchild without telling the birth mom.
My own grandmother (who was a married 30 year old) was told my mom was stillborn because the doctors didn't expect her to live and my grandfather wanted to "spare her the pain" of meeting, then losing the baby. Days later, they come back to her hospital room (bad labor and old fashioned higher care practices so grandma was still there) and said "Surprise!" the baby lived! She's baptized and all because your husband brought in a priest right away to save her little soul!" If she had only survived days, my grandmother would have gone through life thinking she was stillborn, never having met her, while her doctors, husband and parish priest all knew otherwise.