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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 16, 2024 11:09:07 GMT
I’ve been playing for over two years. I got it in 2 guesses today, ( well, yesterday, Friday), but my average is 4. I share my score with 5 different group threads of family or friends, and have been playing with my 7 year old granddaughter the whole time I’ve played. We started playing Connections at least a year ago, and she got me started on Tiles, we love that one! My sister started us sharing the crossword mini, and now my granddaughter likes the spelling bee and letter boxed, too. She just got her own account and the app on her tablet, so instead of my partner she’s going to be another rival.
I can’t believe how fast they grow!!
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 15, 2024 8:34:47 GMT
We spent a week in Tamarindo, and it’s a lovely, relaxed beach town. We were doing it on the cheap, found a small, inexpensive hotel with a little patio that looked straight out on the beach. It was just what I wanted. Surrounded by all kinds of wildlife, howler monkeys crocodiles , colorful birds.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 15, 2024 8:20:54 GMT
When I used to limit carbs I found a big salad every day, and lots of cooked mushrooms helped.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 15, 2024 7:55:43 GMT
You have been so patient. Something wonderful is being prepared for you
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 13, 2024 9:38:56 GMT
My children’s father had fraternal twin siblings. One of those twins went on to have fraternal twins. My youngest daughter has fraternal twins.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 11, 2024 6:30:44 GMT
I went back after hearing all the fuss, and yes, there are numerous PS flaws and they are amateur hour. The image was good enough for me on a small screen with my aging eyes at night. But anytime I do photo editing I use my huge IMAC and zoom way in to make sure nothing is noticeable.
Could you imagine the care I would take for work on the Royal Family being released out into the whole world???
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 10, 2024 11:21:38 GMT
I notice the careful arrangement leaves her midsection completely in shadow. That keeps all the speculated maladies and surgeries still in the running. Whatever the problem was, it does appear that her health is improving, her color looks genuinely perky.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 3, 2024 12:48:07 GMT
Knew about Ralph
Surprised by Beaulieu.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 3, 2024 12:20:19 GMT
I’m surprised an academic wouldn’t know that you can live for quite a long time as long as you have water. In my teens in the 70’s, fasting was all the rage, and my friends and I would go for a week at a time. Not that being locked in a bathroom for 4-5 days would be a pleasant experience. So good for her for managing to get herself out. 7 hours was still plenty!!
Side note. What a cool fellowship to have, and to be boarded in that historic beautiful building.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 3, 2024 12:11:25 GMT
I was friends with a woman in my mom and toddler group (so a good 25 years ago) in that situation where it certainly seemed it was a very calculated move on her husband's part. He got her and the kids moved for his dream job, then popped a surprise divorce, and she was stuck unable to move back to either her former city where she had college friends or her country of origin due to the terms of their custody agreement. He remarried pretty quickly and the new wife was able to be a stay at home parent to her own new baby as well as my friend's kids, while friend was pretty much forced to find work to keep afloat as a single parent. She was originally from another country, so that added another dimension to the isolation for her. It was a really sad and tough situation. My blood is boiling here at the unfairness for your friend😡. OP, I have known of similar cases. In both, the families lived close by, and it was only after moving the wife and kids away from both his and her family that they divorced them. I think they were too chicken to do it with their family and in laws nearby.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 22, 2024 13:17:25 GMT
I used to make my own soy yogurt. It was super easy. I loved it so much. Then I figured out that the yogurt was a migraine trigger for me. I was so sad. I had been having it every day!
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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 14, 2024 9:23:37 GMT
My Dad and Stepmom paid for LTC insurance for a very long time. This fall they actually needed to use it when my Dad broke his hip, and spent time in a rehab center and then a residential care facility. We are talking two months here.
My Stepmom spent whole days on the phone with the insurance company, relentlessly and persistently insisting that they honor their contract. They fought her for months, while she and I were taking turns keeping Dad company in the facilities and encouraging him.
If she had not had all her documents at the ready, a mind as sharp as a tack, and the willingness to fight like mad and not give up, that company would not have paid anything. As it was, they acted like they were doing her a favor to cover half of the cost of the two months costs.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 14, 2024 8:46:48 GMT
I’m not embarrassed to say that I spend a lot of time in my robes. I alternate generally between 3 different fluffy or fleece type warm ones. In the morning while I drink my coffee, read my emails, Do my word puzzles, and catch up on social media.
I also have some thinner and shorter robes that I’ll pack when I travel, because I don’t want one of those fluffy robes taking all that room in the suitcase.
If I’m having a dizzy, migraine aura day, I can’t drive anywhere, and I might not see any point to getting dressed. TBH, sometimes I’ll go up and get dressed when it’s time for my DIL to come home from work. Because she worries about me less if she thinks I’m functioning better.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 13, 2024 7:43:13 GMT
Great game, loved the tension right to the end. I thought zusher and friends were great,especially Alicia, she’s one of my faves.
As to past favorites, yeah, Prince for sure, 2022, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were fantastic.
Loved the mullet commercial, the Arnold “ neighba” one, and of course the T-Mobile with my boyfriend Jason Momoa. I’m sure I’m forgetting some that made me laugh out loud, I did a lot of that, and I don’t even drink anymore.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jan 6, 2024 9:14:50 GMT
Boom Chicka Pop popcorn in the purple bag
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jan 4, 2024 10:33:13 GMT
I get vestibular migraine, vertigo and dizziness are some of the symptoms.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 11, 2023 10:43:30 GMT
I'm gobsmacked at the items people give away on Facebook's Buy Nothing group for my town. Stuff they could sell for hundreds of dollars but don't want to go to the bother. I have scored some lovely items and I'm getting ready to put a bag of size small clothing together to gift. These bags get taken by someone who keeps what they want, add things to the bag and pass it on to another person. Your score sounds awesome! My DD tells me all about her buy nothing group and its culture. The unwritten rules, like don’t turn around and sell something you got for free. Do pick stuff up and bring it to someone in need. It amazes me what she can get, and how this group looks out for each other. When my friend started falling frequently due to Parkinson’s, DD asked about a walker, and had one in great shape at my friend’s house within hours.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 9, 2023 11:07:25 GMT
I find Patrick very handsome. Those smile wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and that twinkle in those eyes…uuuummmm, yeah.
My first pick would be Jason Momoa, though.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 3, 2023 7:40:57 GMT
I’m so glad no one was hurt. Two years ago a car crashed into my brother’s house in Ogden , and pushed a wash into my brother, hurting his shoulder badly. Extensive repairs were made to the house, and my brother went through a lot of pain.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 29, 2023 9:47:51 GMT
Every person is free to care for their body and looks in the way that makes them happy or fits their values. For myself, as I age, I dress and groom myself more for me, and less for what others may think. I’ve embraced my grey hair. I’m more interested in comfort than fashion. And usually makeup seems more trouble than it’s worth.
I agree with OP in the sense that presumably the procedures these actors are doing are in the hope of looking more attractive and youthful. Sadly, in many cases, IMO, the results are the opposite, jarring, unnatural looks that are distracting and draw attention to the subject of aging. I’m guessing that at first they were able to stay youthful looking with minimal work. Botox, mini lifts, a little filler. But as the years go by, they try to keep their face the same age, and things get drastic.
Maybe there should be psychologists specializing in helping those who live in large part from their looks to accept what decade they can pull off, and improve their self esteem in that youth obsessed world.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 29, 2023 8:59:42 GMT
Sorry Guys, but I have to:
Could I BE any sadder??😢😢😢
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 13, 2023 21:52:59 GMT
I’m another one who’s had to step back from many things I feel strongly about. It’s hard, but the physical symptoms, ( including migraine), just disable me. I even tell those close to me to please not discuss certain topics when I’m with them. Not because I disagree with them, simply because I find the subject distressing.
I think the word I would use for myself is spent. So if there are situations I cannot do anything about, I need to avoid thinking about them.
There is still plenty distressing things I’m still dealing with. After frequent out of state trips to help with medical emergencies of my elderly father, this time he fell and broke his hip and back. I’m here helping my 90 year old stepmother deal with all of it. He’s in a rehab center, and last night he fell trying to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, and had to be taken to the hospital for a cat scan. Amazingly, he didn’t break anymore bones this time, just bruised and sore.
So like you, OP, there are things you MUST do. And you preserve your mental and emotional reserves for those.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 23, 2023 9:59:08 GMT
THE NAMES! I agree with the previous poster. I’m constantly saying who thinks up these names?
I’m completely mind boggled by the ads for chemotherapy drugs. With the very specific type of cancer it’s good for. I truly do think that’s the sort of thing for doctors to know. Imagine if someone missed out on the right chemo drug because they did not watch TV with commercials?
I’m disgusted by the distribution of the American medical dollar. How much goes for prescription medicine, ( including research and development, paying shareholders, actual production, and advertising). Same thing for hospitals, clinics, dentists, ambulances, everything is owned by big corporations, with shareholders. There’s a reason we spend almost three times as much per capita as other developed nations, yet receive sub quality care. We are behind in so many crucial areas, like maternal death rate.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 22, 2023 8:29:41 GMT
I had that LP referenced in the Snopes article as an obsessed young teen. I remember reading both Paul’s words about his song, and Art’s written on that album cover. I didn’t know what to say when I read this thread originally, so I’m glad things were cleared up.
This is my favorite song. And I love the cover by Disturbed very much, also.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 13, 2023 9:56:16 GMT
I’m so sorry. A lot of life’s big stressors recently. Treat yourself accordingly.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 8, 2023 7:53:02 GMT
The photos of his work on the website are just thrilling. Thank you for the thread and the link.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 8, 2023 7:38:14 GMT
I just came from 3 weeks of hospitalization and doctors visits with my near 90 YO father in California, he is in late stage COPD, his wife is closer to 90 and is very limited due to arthritis. He uses oxygen and a wheelchair, she has her own placard, also.
when Dad was in the hospital, my Stepmom and I took turns staying with him while the other went to their home for a break. I would park in the disabled spots, ( when one was available, if not the best I could get ), as my stepmother would be the one hobbling on her poor crippled joints to that spot to drive home for some much needed rest.
When dad got discharged , but had to go to many appointments, I’d drop them both off at the entrance, and then hope like crazy that a disabled or at least close parking spot was available, as I needed to get back to help them as soon as humanly possible. I would’ve run if I could. Also, when the appointment was over, then we could push the chair to the car.
I felt totally comfortable using the spots if I could find one in those circumstances.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 21, 2023 1:58:24 GMT
I totally missed this story first time around. Heard about it on the dinner thread today. So I went google-hunting and found this link (among many others). (1) I wish I’d saved my old SU catalogs so I could go back and look at the family photos they used to include. (2) I see a Dateline in the future. I read the linked article in Keith Morrison’s voice 😀. But that DM first article was a really sort example of “journalism”. Ugh
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 8, 2023 3:33:24 GMT
OP, all of that sounds very interesting. I’m definitely a TR nerd. I’ve read so many biographies of him, and watched every documentary I could find. Fascinating man.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 8, 2023 2:43:26 GMT
These are just lovely.
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