I don't have any first hand experience with this but a friend of mine went through something similar with her son recently. They were able to get him into an outpatient program and he seems to be doing very well. I think he did two weeks of daily therapy and then I'm not sure what the follow-up has been since that time.
I don't like the kid videos and that goes from 2-4 on up. DS1 watches "challenge" videos and they're performative nonsense and then he starts talking like these teenage girls and just no. Not on my watch young man.
DS2 is 4 and loves some kid who does toy reviews - his name might be Evan. I really need to give them less screen time.
Also, like others have said, my kids are adorable until I start filming. And then they're annoying and not cute at all.
Ditto pom. Also, I had to sit in something similar to this recently for my dad's hearing test and the deadening of sound in there is so annoying. It hurt my ears a bit. What shady shit are you up to Pruitt that you'll subject yourself to this?
I'm annoyed with IKEA. I loved my couch but they discontinued it - and the slipcovers that caused me to love it so much - so I gave that couch to my sister and bought another one. The new couch is also slipcovered but you have to completely take apart the couch to change the base slipcover. So I never change the base slipcover. I was checking out the new IKEA app yesterday and they brought back my old couch. Argh.
I'm finally going to my doctor about my migraines next week. They're impacting my life too much and I'm tired of dealing with them. Not sure what can be done as the last med I was on was worse than the migraine (Imitrix) but we'll see. At least I'll have looked into it.
Thanks for posting. I caught a brief report on NPR yesterday but they didn't identify the other parties forming the coalition, just that SD we're going into opposition.
I think the kneeling yesterday got conflated for some and became about protesting Trump and not in protest of police brutality. I think this was expressed earlier in the thread. I'd love for there to be an anti-Tump symbol but kneeling isn't it - or at least isn't it during sports events. That needs to remain in protest of police killings and brutality.
IDK...I'm glad this got attention yesterday but worry the act is being Columbus'd. I had to be purposely mindful of it yesterday and I didn't get the sense from twitter that the same mindfulness prevailed. I saw POC I follow on twitter call attention to it several times but white Twitter seemed to be overlooking it and taking it as anti-Trump/general free speech protest.
This death by 1000 cuts is the same crap they pull with abortion access. So I imagine they'll continue to roll this successful strategy out with everything they want to kill. "Oh look, enrollment is down in 2018. Americans no longer want Obamacare (ignore that we zeroed out all advertising funding and took the system offline for 1/14 of every week and shortened the enrollment period). Now we really must pass an Obamacare "replacement"."
I just want to say, he also said he was going pop them all out of her pack. So even though she knows that she's hasn't taken her pill, he didn't throw away an intact pack, which she can take out of the trash, he was going to take all the pills out of the package.
"But unbeknownst to poor Nikki, she didn't realize that I was gonna go in her purse and take out her birth control and pop them...by the way it was at the beginning of the pack so I had to pop all those suckers out, there was like 25 of them."
Every daytime soap villain knows the way to do this is the swap the real pills for placebos. Come on Ian!
Also, these two are so trying to get a reality show.
Neighbors allow their kids to play football and my husband is constantly amazed by it. These aren't even big kids, football is not in their future. I just...well I just don't get it.
Confoundingly, H wants the boys to play hockey which has me scratching my head. Those studies at more evidence in my corner for a hard pass. So thanks for that.
I hope football dies out and quickly but I doubt it will. The whole football system is broken and racist and exploitative.
If it is true, it's beyond gross. Those two are on my radar as desperate for any attention possible though so I question the veracity of this story. A bit too (dumbly) designed for attention.
I don't exactly live in a hot market for flipping. There are three I can think of that were done in an adjacent neighborhood but they make sense there. Very old, large houses in a high end neighborhood and at least one of the flips was done meticulously. Don't know if I'd touch the other one. So I don't know if it's driving us into another housing bubble here.
Someone mentioned their MIL wanting to update her kitchen before selling. We considered a house that was well under market value in the high end neighborhood but didn't bit because they'd just done a kitchen reno that wasn't to our tastes and I couldn't bear the guilt of ripping it out.
I also love Sarah Richardson and Candace something or other - can't remember her last name. I don't think we have HGTV right now but it's not usually something I care to watch because it's all the same (and I'm totally a Becky with my white/gray color scheme) and so poorly done.
This Old House episodes where they'd meticulously repair/scrape the old paint off old moulding - those shows I could watch forever as it's real craftsmanship.
I ordered the Dyson Animal 2 (ball) last week. I received the Dyson C8 stick. I think that may work better for us (we have two cats and dog and I should pick up the pet hair daily or so). We have hardwood floors with rugs in half our rooms.
My dad served in the navy during Vietnam for four years (he was drafted for the army but has a snake phobia so joined the navy instead which I'm sure had some logic for a city kid but doesn't really hold up). It was a topic of conversation throughout my childhood. He's very lucky to not suffer from PTSD - although I bet he did early in - now that I'm typing this I remember my mom alluding to it back in the 89's before such thing was in the common parlance.
My dad always told his funny stories - one of them was a near death experience so very gallows humor.
I took a course in the history of modern Vietnam in vill he and it blew my mind. Everything I thought I knew was wrong and I really struggled with setting aside my preconceived notions and absorbing the class material.
I haven't watched the series yet but plan to start shortly (I have the PBS app so no rush).
The Newseum had an exhibit in Spring 2016 on media and Vietnam.
Pixy - all.the.time. And yes the higher up they go, the less capable they are to handle simply tasks. Except my CIO - but he's fairly young and his Admin is awful so he'd be screwed if he relied on her for anything. One of my managers called someone in from WFH to collect a badge and set of keys from someone he RIFd. She's not even his anything - she's a COS for one of his peers. I was aghast.
The kicker - we're in HR Technology so many of these simple tasks run on our systems.
My random: I bought a splitter so I can charge my phone and use my headphones at the same time. Loving that I'm not at zero battery by the end of the day.
(I'm amazed this gif came up right away in my search, as it's the exact scene that ran through my head when I read this tweet.)
Ha! I just got the slew of Trump tweet notifications and said pretty much the same thing. Someone needs to cut his data plan/change the WiFi password and forget to give it to him.
Our recently adopted dog, Molly chilling with Oliver. I love black cats too but Ollie and his sister Gracie O are spitting images of our beloved Oscar (hence the screen name) he was a tough adoptee too due to age and a medical condition. When it's time to adopt again, we'll look for black cats.
Came home from the night away to find that the fridge had been mysteriously set to off (which WTF. Why is that even a setting?). Had to ditch everything in the fridge and freezer. But at least the fridge isn't dead which was our first guess. Napping now and then grocery shopping.
I'm at a resort hotel and loving the outdoor pools but sad that I can't be enjoying them with an adult beverage due to the remnants of a migraine. I think it's time for me to give in and go back to the doctor to deal with these suckers.
also - I highly recommend Eden Resort to anyone going to Lancaster.
He'll be in until January at a minimum? Good start. Wish it were longer. Hoping this precludes future employment opportunities for him and he shuffles off into obscurity.
I was surprised to see this at the top of the board still. This was an avoid year for me too.
I don't know when kids start learning about the events of that day. DS1 is in first grade and I was wondering if they'd touch on it. He didn't say anything and I poked around to feel him out a bit but nothing. So...maybe I'll tackle this next year. I really don't know when it becomes age appropriate but I also don't want him hearing about it from anyone else.
I also have mixed feelings about the war 16 years on. I thought it was the right action at the time, now I'm conflicted. IDK. Tough choices in fraught times.
I'm sorry Harpy. I had two easy C/s (ignoring the mag sulfate for pre-e with DS1) and then pushed way too hard two weeks out with DS2 and ended up in a lot of pain.
Update: confirmed that both kids have ear infections so I'm sure my cold is something more too. Can't get in to see my doc until a week from today. I'm going to be seen at their walk in clinic tomorrow.