Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 12, 2018 12:55:49 GMT -5
What the ever-loving hell. Light her ass on fire. (Not literally, of course.) I would not only contact every licensing board for schools you can find, I would also figure out who licenses teachers in your state and file a complaint against all three of the teachers in that room and the director - bonus points if you find out they're not actually licensed! (Some states don't require private school teachers to have actual, you know, teaching credentials). I would also contact every parent you know that has a child in that school, every tv station in town, and every newspaper worth their salt. And a lawyer, while everything is still fresh in your mind.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 11, 2018 9:34:08 GMT -5
Other hotel chains that are pet friendly. Kimpton - entirely, 100% pet friendly. Some Comfort Inns are (and their pet policies vary wildly - I've had good luck calling their 1-800 number and working with a representative to find hotels along my route that aren't going to charge me $100+ a night extra). In a TRULY desperate pinch, all Motel 6s are pet friendly. That's what we had to do when we moved cross country because of the number of pets we had (2 cats and a dog). It suuuuuuuucked, but we didn't die or anything. You might also try airbnbs along your route, they're searchable for pet-friendly as well and sometimes get you moving-friendly amenities, like a garage to park your car packed full of stuff overnight.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 11, 2018 9:27:23 GMT -5
Look, I'm not a parent, so I don't have a right to speak here, but there is not a single step of this process that they have handled well. I would go back in today, in person, probably during drop off. And I would refuse to leave until a) I had assurance via a concrete action plan/steps that this will not happen again to my child OR any other and b) I had an actual apology, to my child, from the adults in question because they let her down. And then I'd look her in the face and ask her if she'd like to stay there or if she'd like to go somewhere else for the rest of the year.
I feel like shuffling this kid off to the 7-9 year old class is doing nothing beyond moving this issue to a different group of children. And I'm also concerned that they didn't attempt to evaluate the kid for a home abuse situation before they called his parents. "You have to" sounds like something one learns from a family member. I mean, he could just be a bully. But it sounds like there's something more icky at play here.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 11, 2018 8:55:15 GMT -5
wawa, good tip! I am great at taboo, hence liquid-holding-device. I'll just roll with my stupidity. Yesterday I had to void a check because I wrote it to my massage place as "monsters-af-monsters". This is not even remotely the name of my massage place. OMG, whoops.
hannahb, I'm sorry your kid is struggling. What does he say about it?
shauni27, I do feel relieved. Even though I have to eat my words and not do something I've been talking about for a year, I'm OK with that. I'm sorry things are so rough right now. Anything I can do to help?
wambam, I hate fruit and dairy together (b/c I'm a weirdo like that) and this sounds appealing, so it must be pretty tasty. I'll have R try it and report back. LOL
DUDE seeyalater52 when steam is almost rolling outta my ears after reading that (husband asked why the deep breaths), I have nothing but hugs (& ((air))fight punches to the enemy) to offer.
Ditto.
seeyalater52 - I don’t know why I didn’t think to ask you before, but do you know of any disability advocates or resources in Colorado? I have a friend (without spilling her business or being an expert) who clearly seems like a candidate for disability, but she struggles to qualify and then stay qualified. The decline in her physical and mental health, along with the stress of failing to qualify and ALLLLLL the shit that brings, has me very concerned for her but I don’t know how to help.
Look up Carrie Ann Lucas. She's a friend of a friend of mine. If she can't help, she'll know who will. (She's one of the protesters that got arrested at Cory Effing Gardner's office.)
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 10, 2018 18:03:13 GMT -5
First, HI, I haven't been around much. Things have been absolutely INSANE.
Here's the randoms, in order of inanity:
I bought a new car (urgently) back in January. I like it. I don't love it, but I've been ok with it. Until last week, when I noticed the paint was peeling on the bumper and took it in for warranty service and they gave me a loaner that has all the features I wish I had gotten. AND NOW I REALLY REGRET NOT JUST GETTING THE DAMN CAR I WANTED. DAMN IT. Do you think they'll let me trade a car with 3000 miles on it for a loaner with 10000+? LOL
I have decided I don't want to swim 36 miles. R keeps bitching about the training, my life is insane, I barely have time to sleep/eat/breathe, JUST NO. So I'm putting it on hold. Maybe next year. Maybe never. Who knows when I'll pick that dream back up?! Until then, I'm thinking I'll just grab a little swim here or there. I've got a 4 miler in June, maybe 6 miles in July (I still haven't done a 10k, just skipped right over it, lol). I am *remarkably* ok with this. In fact, I'm pretty dang happy about it.
I've been having more and more migraines lately, and my Dr. put me back on Topamax. OMG, I feel so much better, but I can't remember words half the time. Like, at all. I couldn't remember the word for "glass" yesterday. I ended up saying "bring me a liquid-holding device". I feel like a dope. Anybody have any tips or tricks for this?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 10, 2018 17:40:14 GMT -5
What about a rose? I worked in a *very* high end restaurant and Beringer White Zin was one of the most popular bottles on our wine list. It's pretty cheap and very popular. My favorite rose is by a company called Unruly. They can pretty much do no wrong in my win-o book - I've never had a bad bottle from them.
Cohen made his money on taxis & this is ESSENTIALLY about money...opening up fake bank accounts- either to launder money or pay people like Stormy or pay people who go out and threaten anybody opposed to Trump....
I'm still seeing conflicting news about how this may be related to Mueller, if he did this to protect the integrity of other parts of his investigation or to take some of the "pressure" of personally raiding COhen's office of himself and put it on an AUSA or if this was off topic for his mandate to investigate or if he just needed somebody in NYC to execute it.
This thing is taken time because following the money takes a lot of time. A lot of time. It appears Mueller found something with Cohen that goes beyond Russia. He tipped off the local team who then followed up with court-orders and warrants.
Listen, to get a court-orders and warrant for confidential attorney-client information is huge and difficult. Knowing the significance and importance of this case they will make sure their i's are dotted and t's crossed. I can't WAIT to see this.
Cohen will flip easily.He is probably looking at life. Mueller is a fucking genius.
As a not-attorney, may I ask the attorneys here to go a little more in-depth on this? I've been googling because it seems like breaking privilege is just well-nigh impossible in most cases. And to do this for the attorney of a sitting president, no less. Am I right to assume that in order for a judge to sign the warrant: A) there is already *significant* evidence of extremely high-level crime and B) the evidence sought is merely confirmatory, not speculative?
Is the actual process to get a judge to sign off on a warrant for attorney-client documentation different from a standard warrant? What additional steps are involved?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 6, 2018 22:36:35 GMT -5
I got sent to the Dean's office in college because a male professor/staff member complained I had visible nips through a bra, dress, and sweater on a cold day. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 5, 2018 19:01:04 GMT -5
It depends for me. If it's a one-time thing during normal waking hours, eh, kids are jerks. If it's the little miscreants who used to ring my parents' doorbell at 11:00 at night, wait for my elderly parents to answer, see no one, shut the lights back off and go back to bed, then do it AGAIN (and FREAKING AGAIN and AGAIN, at least 4x per night, at least one night EVERY weekend), those little asshats deserve to have their photos posted on the front page of the NY Times because they are clearly sociopaths who deserve every ounce of shaming they get.
I'm not still angry about this or anything.
(FTR, the last time it happened ever was the time I was there at mom and dad's and waited behind the door, then jerked it open and screamed like a crazy person at this shocked-looking teenager who was old enough to know better. I can't remember what I said, but I'm pretty confident it was something about the police, and pressing charges, and a lawsuit, and who-the-hell-knows what else. I was ANGRY.)
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 5, 2018 18:12:46 GMT -5
My office has done bowling, whitewater rafting, river floats (yes, it involved bathing suits, but most people just wore t-shirts and shorts over), Top Golf, and a charity walk/fundraiser. All of these were well-attended, but people still talk about bowling and Top Golf regularly.
A drive-through laundry service sounds like a goldmine!!! I’m opening this!
I've always thought a combo full-service laundry and movie theater sounded like a great idea. Drop your laundry off before your movie, pick it up after, all done and folded. I think it would be a hit in the middle of the day, especially if there was a bar/food at the theater.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 5, 2018 13:44:50 GMT -5
We spent a week in Glennallen, Alaska about 10 years ago and the stars were absolutely amazing. There was an open field near the home where we stayed and we spent a great deal of time there after the sun went down. (This was in February, so plenty of time after the sunset but before dinner, lol.) The stars were HUGE. And bonus: northern lights!
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 5, 2018 13:04:59 GMT -5
I did very little in March. I got like, a whole inch done (so 2" down, 2" to go before I have to decide whether to short row or afterthought the heels) on R's socks. I think I might have done about 2" on my scarf project. Other than that, I've done nothing. Things have gone absolutely crazy and I can't bring myself to make the time. Halp.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Apr 5, 2018 13:00:34 GMT -5
You know, I'd probably call one of those mobile car dent places and see if they'd be willing to give it a shot (even if it doesn't come out perfectly) for sake of "better".
When Abby was 2, she got a baby doll for Christmas and kind of ignored it for a couple of months, but then started talking one day about her "emma"--"where's my Emma?" and such. It took us a while to realize she was asking for her new baby doll.
We did not know anyone by the name of Emma. No one at her daycare had that name or anything close to that name. We still don't know where the name Emma came from, but that doll has been Emma for 9 years.
My kids have two animals with name-names, because my husband and I named them when they were infants. ALL of their other animals are named for what they are: Ducky the duck, BearBear the bear, Raccoon the raccoon and so on. Literally every animal and it's BOTH of them.
The lack of creativity mystifies me. They're not otherwise boring people but they're so boring when it comes to names.
My favorite childhood animals were stuffed bear named Ted and a rabbit named Bunner. So, perhaps it's just a childhood thing?
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 28, 2018 8:21:59 GMT -5
My family watched the show religiously when I was a kid, although my dad had his reservations about her, he loved John Goodman.
R and I watched it last night. It was ... not great. The surrogacy plot line makes me super uncomfortable (as an IF-er). The kid who plays Mark (the cross-dressing/TG child) is very talented, but the rest were almost robotic in their delivery (perhaps they were before and I didn't notice because I was a kid?) and the Trump-normalization attempts made me ragey, especially with the comebacks from Laurie Metcalf being rote/stereotypical instead of well-thought-out, well-delivered responses.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 21, 2018 8:38:37 GMT -5
I prefer the Contigo Glacier for water. It's a flip-top bottle. Keeps water icy cold all day, easy to open/close one-handed. The only challenge would be walking and drinking at the same time, as I have a bit of a problem with pouring water down myself. But if I stop moving first (and I should, because I tend to choke if I am drinking and walking) it's great. Also PERFECT for summer daytime lap swim, when the bottle is sitting in direct hot sun. My water is still cold through the workout.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 14, 2018 18:51:35 GMT -5
My broker requires us to have sellers disclose the presence of cameras and has a disclosure form for buyers indicating that they may be watched live or recorded. The concern is discrimination and losing a negotiating edge.
I try not to talk in houses during a showing, if I can, unless it's to answer a question.
Can you point me to the law? I'm only able to find regulations on the build/design requirements (which I am already familiar with). I see guidelines stating they should be in urban areas, non-interstate highway right-of-ways, commercial areas, and between commercial transportation stops. For the record, I do not disagree with you, I'm just trying to educate myself on the requirements so that I can speak intelligently instead of with anecdotal evidence.
I can't, but I can tell you that our City attorneys identified that the rural portions of our city needed to be brought up to ADA standards based upon what they were seeing with the direction of the lawsuits brought upon other municipalities.
Huh. Maybe the difference is incorporated versus unincorporated? My mom lives a good way from the nearest municipality and they *do* have sidewalks everywhere. I mean, this is Ohio I'm talking about, so I wouldn't be surprised if the local officials were just hurr-de-durr on this issue in general, but it seems like if sidewalks were required, they'd at least be starting to install them somewhere.
Look, I'm all for ADA access. One of my friends is a complicated medical patient and documents a lot of the violations she finds on Facebook. It's ridiculous what she goes through, especially living in a major city. If it is walkable, it should be accessible. Period.
However, the difference between a city neighborhood and my mom's semi-rural subdivision is night and day as regards traffic. The street is wide, traffic is extremely light (1-2 cars per hour, maybe), and no one is parking on the street, so visibility is high. The neighborhood is not walkable to anywhere, except around the block for exercise on a nice evening. There are no through streets, and the only people who enter/exit the neighborhood live there (they don't even get pizza delivery). A wheelchair user or walker user (like my dad, back when he was alive) can just stay in the street without concern for their safety if they're out taking a walk. Moving to the grass is only precautionary and I've never felt unsafe choosing either option.
There really isn't a difference, especially when it comes to ADA laws, but ok.
Can you point me to the law? I'm only able to find regulations on the build/design requirements (which I am already familiar with). I see guidelines stating they should be in urban areas, non-interstate highway right-of-ways, commercial areas, and between commercial transportation stops. For the record, I do not disagree with you, I'm just trying to educate myself on the requirements so that I can speak intelligently instead of with anecdotal evidence.
For me, it depends. If the neighborhood is isolated from through traffic, I'm ok with no sidewalks, as they're a liability/hazard for homeowners. I grew up in a neighborhood without (and my mom still lives there) and people just walk in the street/step into someone's lawn when the rare car is coming. It is an extremely quiet neighborhood, though (three total blocks). If the neighborhood has through traffic or is larger, I'd prefer sidewalks (and, more specifically, sidewalks with curb grass/landscaping) for sake of safety.
Which is ok as long as you don't have any mobility issues. Try doing that in a wheelchair or a walker.
Look, I'm all for ADA access. One of my friends is a complicated medical patient and documents a lot of the violations she finds on Facebook. It's ridiculous what she goes through, especially living in a major city. If it is walkable, it should be accessible. Period.
However, the difference between a city neighborhood and my mom's semi-rural subdivision is night and day as regards traffic. The street is wide, traffic is extremely light (1-2 cars per hour, maybe), and no one is parking on the street, so visibility is high. The neighborhood is not walkable to anywhere, except around the block for exercise on a nice evening. There are no through streets, and the only people who enter/exit the neighborhood live there (they don't even get pizza delivery). A wheelchair user or walker user (like my dad, back when he was alive) can just stay in the street without concern for their safety if they're out taking a walk. Moving to the grass is only precautionary and I've never felt unsafe choosing either option.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 13, 2018 10:53:38 GMT -5
For me, it depends. If the neighborhood is isolated from through traffic, I'm ok with no sidewalks, as they're a liability/hazard for homeowners. I grew up in a neighborhood without (and my mom still lives there) and people just walk in the street/step into someone's lawn when the rare car is coming. It is an extremely quiet neighborhood, though (three total blocks). If the neighborhood has through traffic or is larger, I'd prefer sidewalks (and, more specifically, sidewalks with curb grass/landscaping) for sake of safety.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 9, 2018 12:02:45 GMT -5
Domestic: I love living here in NorCal. I wouldn't leave here for the world. I'm 2 hours from the ocean, less than an hour from the mountains/Tahoe, and sitting in the middle of a fantastic, lesser-known wine country. Our quality of life is so much better since we've moved here. It'd be perfect if we could turn the county blue, but that's highly unlikely.
International: I think I'd like to do either New Zealand or perhaps one of the coastal cities in Chile - Concepcion or Algarrobo maybe.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 8, 2018 9:25:14 GMT -5
I have been to both, and while the initial visit with the male GYN was more awkward, he was definitely more gentle when rooting around than any female doctor I've had before or since. I think that NOT having the same parts made him more careful. Women are more likely to be like "well, it was fine for me, so I'm sure it's fine for her."
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Mar 5, 2018 10:56:41 GMT -5
Ok, so with that knowledge, and given the experience I have with our (very) dark bedroom, I'd say to either consider a lighter color OR look into a lighted vanity mirror. Dark walls just suck up light and without some direct light on your face, it will be very difficult to do your makeup. However, I really love the color, so if you can find a lighted mirror you like (and that fits the budget), I'd go that route first.