I skip most of the personal anecdote @ content but will read stuff that is actually CEP in nature. It's not painful for me, it's just not something I have any interest in. I like having a place where that isn't a focus and can get frustrated when we end up with threads that get derailed with (often unnecessary) @ content.
Same here. I'm not quite sure how to vote because I do skip altogether the @randoms and @covid threads, but will read kid-related CEP threads until they turn into personal anecdote time.
I had intended the third choice to cover that - but with some flexibility. Instead I guess I was just vague. lol.
I would also think about how that space is going to feel from inside the office and how it will affect the light/look in the office.
However you use it, will be a tertiary space in your home while the office (assuming you do some WFH) is a primary space. One of the purposes it will serve is being decoration/wall art/lighting for the office. Design it with that angle in mind and pay attention to aesthetics. I'd avoid anything really big (except possibly something like a low chaise or low coffee table).
I'd love a flex space that we could use anytime we were doing something that needed some elbow room. DD was practicing her choreography yesterday and I was wishing we had 6' x 6' of open floor for her. Alas, with 4 people in a poorly laid out 1200 sqft house, we need to rearrange things if the kids want to do anything more than jumping jacks. (And even those have to be carefully aligned).
I completely understand and support why we do it and agree about personal triggers. I was just curious about numbers.
I was in an argument with a fragile white cis straight man (friend of a friend) who thinks any kind of self regulating for offensive content is "against freedom of speech" - so a stereotypical asshole who I don't personally know and should have known better than to engage with on Facebook.
It got me thinking about how our community has managed to incorporate and use a very valuable, novel courtesy symbol. Hence the poll.
This is going to sound very simplistic, but I think we're able to do it by (largely) not being assholes. For the most part I think most posters on this board ae nice, caring people who respect others and that's what we're doing by using the symbol. I think it also helps that people often know one another's stores and why certain topics can be triggering. And then there are people who are assholes and either don't care who they offend or get a kick out of it. I think because we are largely a group of the former, rather than the latter is why I've felt comfortable being a member of this community for such a long time.
True. I did put in that last option for any lurker who really wanted to be heard. No one has taken me up on it yet.
topic avoidance is probably very common on this board and every board, and the @ or TW tag is a small gesture that can offer immense kindness to someone who’s been in a dark place.
I completely understand and support why we do it and agree about personal triggers. I was just curious about numbers.
I was in an argument with a fragile white cis straight man (friend of a friend) who thinks any kind of self regulating for offensive content is "against freedom of speech" - so a stereotypical asshole who I don't personally know and should have known better than to engage with on Facebook.
It got me thinking about how our community has managed to incorporate and use a very valuable, novel courtesy symbol. Hence the poll.
Just curious. Even if no one says "yes" (perhaps because they skipped the post completely because of the symbol) We know it has value for a number of our posters. Low percentages in the poll wouldn't reflect its importance.
(This post is brought to you by my frustration arguing with someone elsewhere on the internet who is being deliberately obtuse and offensive. I should know better. So instead of arguing with idiots, I thought I would come here where people aren't trying to be assholes and ask a question about our own courtesy symbol.)
So everyone who doesn't support hormone blockers or affirming surgery is going to get right on this and lobby to have states ban it, right? Need to protect the children.
There were surprisingly few boats washed up along the shore this week. Big storms usually knock anchor out boats off their moorings and they get blown around the bay until they hit rocks somewhere. Often right along the shore we pass driving in the mornings.
We went to four stores today looking for invitations for DS’ birthday party. The first store had one pack that was “ok” but we decided to keep looking and never found any others, even at party stores where they had all the other party paraphernalia. Are printed invites not a thing anymore?
If you haven't given up, try target. They had some (not a big selection, but a few) the last time I was there. Look in all the assorted party sections (you know how there is a kid area, and then a generic area, and then that other part that is sort of party, sort of little gifts, sort of little office toys for adults? That is where I saw a few.). It might be easiest to search online and have them get them ready for you at pick up if you like them.
I wonder about tone. When I first read the article, my thought was that the professor gave notice multiple times, opportunity to object and time to leave.
But as I thought about it, tone of those warnings really matter. She said she announced it was coming up. However, it doesn't sound like she specifically set aside time for anyone to leave the room or invited people to do so if they wished. Then I imagine sitting in the middle of one of those college lecture halls, with everything out taking notes, suddenly looking at everything I have to pack up, twenty people I would have to disturb and climb over between me and the end of the row, to then walk up or down the flight of steps out of the room. And suddenly a few minutes warning doesn't sound like an invitation to leave but more like an incoming threat.
It might be good, bad, or just different, but parenting is a state of flux. So lean into the good moments. Those memories and the good will they create help carry you through the rocky moments.
Sometimes the good and the bad can happen within the space of an hour and be about the same thing when they are tweens (Mom you are the worst! Mom you are the best!)
On Twitter someone said they would swear in tonight but they do not have the votes for the rules package so that would be at a later time. Can’t remember who said it though.
. I dont know about Twitter, but MSNBC just said the same thing. I feel bad for the people who initially had their kids with them on Tuesday to witness being sworn in. Now that it’s 1 AM I presume the families aren’t there.
I see a number of yawning kids. I'm sure many others already left.
Can we now place our bets on how long he lasts? I’m going with 230 days.
I think it will be strategic. Anytime something important really needs to happen, one of these asshats will use the opportunity to call for a new speaker and derail everything.
Honestly, as time goes by, you will see more and more people jockeying to have their kid be the oldest in the room because of all the advantages it confers. "academics" really don't matter at this age. Your kid will not be missing out.
The 30 kids my eldest went to school with at age 2 are still with her in 6th grade (along with 100 other kids) so I have seen how these things progress and what mattered. These sort of differences really won't matter. I promise.
One thing it sounds like you haven't considered is that the move was entirely about that specific other family and other kid and not your kid at all.
If the school prefers to move kids at the break between years but moved that kid anyway, there might be something very specific going on.
Maybe he's a really physical, rough kid and they didn't feel the younger kids were safe with him in the room. Maybe he has something else going on that needs specific interventions that match better with the 3 year old class. Maybe his parents are really pushy and the school was tired of dealing with them.
All of these posts have made me decide my youngest has hazel eyes. I've always though of them as amber (they are a distinctly amber color) but on close inspection they have a fine ring of green on the outside. So hazel it is.
The previous storms brought more rain but this storm brought more wind and downed trees - between the wind and saturated soil. We’ve been lucky but a local preschool was destroyed by a falling tree (luckily nay night so no one was injured. I’m expecting g more trees down with the continued saturated soil. Our reservoirs are still below last year this time but I hope that changes as runoff accumulates.
I need to send in a dozen cookies tomorrow for a daycare cookie exchange that got postponed after the holidays. I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy some and put them in a Tupperware. I just....can't.
I fully support this. I almost did it in December but just skipped the cookie exchange completely.
Fwiw it’s likely they did/continue to change color. My mom was born with dark brown eyes that turned hazel in her earlier adult years and are now light green at age 60. Mine used to be more hazel but are now more green.
About 10-15 percent of adults will lose melanin in their irises as well as skin/hair as they age.
This is so interesting. My MIL says she had brown eyes as a kid but they are definitely a blue/green/grey now. She's had all grey hair as long as I've known her so it tracks.
Honestly, self esteem isn't something in my wheelhouse. Insecurity (if we want to call it that - sometimes it just feels like the ambient air) doesn't really matter, though. Whether I feel good or bad about myself life is still going to happen with all it's responsibilities. I need to put one foot in front of the other, deal with it, and try to do better each minute of the day. What's the alternative? Do even worse? So I guess I don't really fight it. lol.
There was definitely nothing dirty about it. I keep thinking of Tee. I didn't hear he was getting death threats. That is awful. Nobody did anything wrong; there is no need to blame anyone for anything. This whole incident is unfortunate and was very scary.
I was crying watching the whole thing. I am heartbroken for everyone involved.
Disagree with the bolded. The entire NFL industry is build upon putting these players in danger. Everyone who watches it and supports the NFL is complicit. I will never understand how these young men keep getting injured and with all the knowledge we have now on CTE that people keep supporting the NFL.
Why would we want short term limits that would essentially force us to have an entire House of Representatives that has no idea what they're doing?
In this case, it's like the (misogynistic stereotype of a) bride who dresses the bridesmaids in something ugly so she looks better. These buffoons know nothing now, and expect to be booted within 6 years anyway. They want to take it all down with them.
So is the $10K (1) the amount you are paying for the new car beyond the value of the trade in? (ie. they will be keeping that and the old car long term in payment for your new car) or (2) the value they are giving you for the old car that they are buying from you?
I understand it as the latter (#2). If so, they either get to physically have the old car and wait for title, or have the uncashed check and wait for you to bring in the old car and title, at which time they need to return the uncashed $10K check to you. Given that checks are now deposited electronically, right before handing over the car, I would verify with the bank that they did not deposit or cash the check - perhaps even going so far as to cancel it. The paper check itself is no longer evidence it wasn't cashed.
If it is the former, (#1), then I would give them the car and wait for title to arrive and then hand that over.
Your kid’s eyes are water colored (I’m trying to make it a thing). A lot like mine but she has a touch of amber flecks while mine are a little more teal. I list them as grey on my license.