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Post by auntkelly on Apr 7, 2022 20:12:20 GMT
I'm so sorry.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 7, 2022 13:43:46 GMT
When we lived in Houston, we traveled w/ our two dogs back and forth from our lake house frequently, which was an eight hour drive. We usually had our two kids with us as well. We made that drive in just about every type of vehicle. My GMC XL was the best vehicle for two adults, two teens and two dogs. However, my husband's BMW X5 worked pretty well too. The X5 had a roomy back seat and a decent amount of cargo space.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 5, 2022 16:45:48 GMT
I'm glad you spoke up. I would have asked for my money back and left.
You would think Chipotle, of all places, would be concerned about their public image regarding food safety.
I would definitely contact corporate.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 5, 2022 13:51:37 GMT
I'm not a Jim Carey fan. I know he is extremely talented, but I just don't like to watch him act. Maybe it's just the parts he plays.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 5, 2022 13:03:17 GMT
Final game tonight. It's been a fun tournament all around, but especially since my SIL and future DIL participated in our family bracket contest for the first time. Lots of trash talk! I picked Kansas to win it all! I picked Kansas too! I won our family bracket contest for the umpteenth time, but who am I to brag?
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 3, 2022 3:44:21 GMT
Great pics!
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 27, 2022 20:24:03 GMT
Just here to drum up some good vibes for the UCONN women in tomorrow's game I’m cheering for NC State since my future son in law is an alum. It should be a great game!
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 27, 2022 13:33:08 GMT
Last month, my husband and I watched two older seasons of Top Chef on Hulu. We’re too cheap to pay for the commercial free version. Every single episode we had to watch the “I’m a woman and I’m pooping on national tv commercial.” I’m still not sure what product these ladies who were sitting on the toilet were promoting and why they seemed to think that they were promoting gender equality by sitting on a toilet with their pants wrapped around their ankles on national tv.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 27, 2022 13:23:20 GMT
I’m so sorry! That must have been so frightening. I’ll say prayers for a full recovery.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 27, 2022 13:19:12 GMT
Well, I'm out. Duke beat our team, Arkansas. Arkansas sure did have a good run though. Coach K just always manages to have his team peak at tournament time. I still think it will be Duke and Kansas in the final game and Kansas will win.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 18:54:28 GMT
I was reading an article in The Daily Oklahoman yesterday about how dangerous that corner is where the girls were killed. Hopefully, it will be fixed, but of course it won't bring back the girls. I can't imagine how badly the community is suffering.
I'm sorry you've had such a bad week.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 14:16:13 GMT
I'm sorry.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 13:45:37 GMT
It’s not for me, but I can see how others would treasure cremation jewelry.
One thing I’d be worried about is how awful I’d feel if I lost it. My husband had a beautiful cross necklace made from several pieces of jewelry my mother left me. I lost it and I still feel terrible about it to this day. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if it had her remains in it.
The other issue I would worry about is how future generations might feel about it. Are they going to treasure having a necklace with the ashes of their great great grandma that they never met, or is it just going to become a burden that they feel they can’t get rid of.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 11:17:47 GMT
I hope they figure out what is going on soon.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 3:42:43 GMT
I’m sorry.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 3:38:34 GMT
I think there is room For respectful disagreement on this case. I don’t take it personally. I certainly have an understanding of how this happened-the scanner she was supposed to use was broken, which her employers knew. She was being told by her supervisor and the doctor the med was needed now and to go ahead and override before the order was in. In my opinion (opinion only, not meant to belittle anyone else’s differing opinion) justice is not served for the nurse or the family by a criminal charge. It won’t bring the deceased back and as I said, it won’t do anything to prevent this kind of error from happening again. Some crimes are ugly and terrible and fueled by malice and they deserve retribution. Some crimes, like a parent leaving their child in a hot car, are ugly and terrible and regrettable and sad and no malice was intended. The nurse didn’t want to harm her patient. She was trying her best and her best wasn’t good enough for the situation. Suspend or revoke her license, sure. But criminally charged her? I think that’s just cruel and I think she’s definitely being scapegoated because Vanderbilt is protected by a non disclosure agreement. And they made motions to keep lots of information out of the trial, information that was certainly suspicious of their past pattern of behavior. They made zero changes to their processes after this incident, until they were forced to. They declared the death related to the patients brain bleed and not the medication error. I agree 100% that there is room for respectful disagreement. If this were a simple case of the nurse overriding the system and accidentally pulling the wrong medication, then I would agree she shouldn’t have been prosecuted. However, according to an article I read she made so many mistakes after she pulled the wrong medicine that it is understandable to me why she was prosecuted and why the jury found her guilty. I acknowledge it’s a tough case and reasonable people can disagree.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 26, 2022 1:39:06 GMT
Not to single you out but what does a criminal charge do? Prevent her from making this mistake again? Loss of her nursing license does that. Make Vanderbilt and organizations like that fix the systemic system flaws that allow for these mistakes? Nope. They are free to continue working nurses short staffed, with inadequate training, faulty equipment, and policies and management designed to benefit and protect the organization instead of the patients or nurses. This poor woman does not need or deserve a criminal conviction. And the healthcare industry is going to continue allowing these systemic issues and blaming nurses until there are no nurses left. As I said in my original post I think this is an extreme case. This nurse, from what I read, made several grossly negligent mistakes which resulted in the death of the patient. I don’t think criminal charges are appropriate in most negligence cases, but I think they were appropriate in this case, from what I have read. I think nursing is a very admirable profession but I don’t think nurses should be exempt from all criminal liability. I think the victim and her family deserved justice in this case and I think justice was served. I don’t mean any disrespect to the nursing community. I just think this particular nurse acted with a complete and total disregard for the safety of this patient.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 25, 2022 21:43:36 GMT
I think this is an extreme case. The nurse made a series of extremely careless mistakes which caused a patient's death. From what I've read about this case, the jury's verdict sounds reasonable.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 25, 2022 13:45:51 GMT
Really great basketball last night!
I was cheering for Texas Tech even though I have Duke making it to the final game on my bracket (although I have Kansas beating them in the final game). I think the crowd being overwhelmingly for Duke really made the difference last night. Every game is going to be like a home game for Duke. The fans are really showing their love for Coach K. It would be a story book ending to his career if they go all the way.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 24, 2022 15:03:17 GMT
I visited my friend in Healdsburg last spring. Her husband has a wine touring company. They took us to visit six wineries in all. If I could only choose two to revisit, I would go to Silver Oak and Red Car. Silver Oak has beautiful vineyards and a wine tasting room just outside Healdsburg. (Don't confuse it w/ their Napa location). Red Car's wine tasting room is located in Sebastopol. We just visited their wine tasting room, but I think you can tour the vineyards as well. Be sure to make reservations in advance.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 24, 2022 14:48:03 GMT
I haven't followed this story closely, but I'm not at all surprised the book was pulled, based on what little I know about the story.
On the original thread about this story I think I asked if there was any evidence against this man other than the unsigned note. No one answered, so I assumed no one knew of any other evidence. I assumed when the book was released it would contain a "smoking gun" linking the man to the betrayal of the Frank family. I guess that didn't happen.
It's pretty awful to think that this man's name will be forever linked to Ann Frank's betrayal. One hundred years' from now some anti-Semitic will be telling his kids that it was a Jew who betrayed Ann Frank's family and that story will be passed from generation to generation. Very few of the people who hear this incorrect retelling of history will bother to check out the true facts.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 23, 2022 13:33:28 GMT
I have flown many times in the last two years and it seems that all the airlines are doing that--discount and non-discount airlines. One of ours changed and we had just made the reservations two weeks ago. I expect more changes. And recently their prices have skyrocketed (get it? ha) I have a one way flight in June for $ 203 pp and now the same exact one is 571 pp. On the flight back from a different city we paid $160 pp and now it is $480 pp. Oil + inflation + demand is really increasing the prices. I agree with everything you have said. Everyone I know has a nightmare story to tell about flight delays and cancellations. From my own experience and that of my friends and family, AA and Southwest are getting almost as bad about delays and cancelling flights as the budget airlines. Delta still seems to be pretty reliable in my experience. Flying is just a miserable experience in today’s world, in my opinion. My husband and I have decided if we can drive one way in ten hours or less we don’t fly. I still love to travel, but I hate flying, which wasn’t the case in the past.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 23, 2022 13:14:04 GMT
I barely made it through the first revival. I won’t watch the second.
I think it’s best to leave some things to the imagination. I decided that after I watched the revival series, I should have just let Carrie and her friends ride into the sunset after Carrie married Big. I would have thought of them from time to time and wondered how their lives turned out. It would have been a lot more interesting than what I saw in season one of the revival.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 21, 2022 14:24:27 GMT
We took three trips to Disney when our kids were young. We used the Fastpass system and I thought it worked great.
The new system just seems like a backhanded way of raising ticket prices. It seems like just about every guest will be forced to purchase the Genie + or spend all of their day standing in line to ride one or two rides.
If I had young kids now, I probably wouldn’t go to Disney. It’s just gotten too expensive.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 18, 2022 12:34:53 GMT
Sadly, my team (Oklahoma) didn’t make it to the Big Dance this year.
I still love March Madness though. I have Kansas winning the whole thing on my bracket. I’ll be cheering for all the Big 12 teams. I think Baylor could win the whole thing or even Texas Tech.
I’m not a Duke fan but it would be a storybook ending for Coach K if the Blue Devils win the tourney this year.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 16, 2022 16:53:22 GMT
We subscribe to both the local paper and the New York Times digitally. I don't miss having a hard copy of the paper. I can't think of one reason why I might prefer a hard copy of the paper over a digital version. I understand it's a matter of preference though.
I do worry that people aren't staying very well informed about local news. It's easy to find in depth news about world and national events, but it's a lot harder to find quality in depth news stories about local events. I think a lot of people are getting their local news from their local stations' nightly news broadcasts which are full of fluff stories. I don't feel like the local news stations value good investigative journalism like the local newspapers used to do twenty years' ago.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 16, 2022 16:19:25 GMT
I thought for that price it was going to be right on the beach.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 11, 2022 16:32:49 GMT
I think a $100 gift card and a thank you note is perfect. The $100 gift card is a very generous thank you gift, but it's not even close to the value of the ring, so the finder can still feel good about doing the right thing.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 10, 2022 23:32:23 GMT
I stood in line for about 2 1/2 hours in freezing cold weather at Christmastime to eat a Sacher Torte at the Hotel Sacher.
I thought the torte and the coffee were both delicious. I definitely thought the torte had a slightly bitter taste, but in a good way. The hotel was lovely and the service was excellent. Next time I will definitely make a reservation.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 9, 2022 19:24:52 GMT
I think To Kill A Mockingbird is a great book and should be taught in school.
Like every book, it has to be considered in the context of the time it was written.
I think the fact that the book was written by a White woman is a topic certainly worthy of discussion. The fact that the author was White doesn't diminish the greatness of the book (in my opinion), but certainly effects her perspective of racism in the South. A Black author might have written the story differently, and I think that would be an important discussion to have.
I don't think classic books should be banned from school simply because they don't comply w/ our modern view of the world. Most of the books we consider classics contain some degrading stereotypes about women.
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