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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 27, 2014 3:11:58 GMT
If the "Hot Donuts" sign is lit when I pass our KK, my car switches to autopilot and heads for the drive-through. And nothing beat plain glazed donuts at 2 AM after the bars closed--used to be part of our Saturday night ritual until we settled down and decided we had to pretend to be adults.
We have DD too, but blech!
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 27, 2014 2:53:16 GMT
A haiku:
One deleted post; Epic threads delight again. Witty Refupeas.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 26, 2014 12:26:16 GMT
DH teaches high school and uses it all the time. Sure, he could probably come up with similar stuff, but why reinvent the wheel? His time is more valuable than the small charge.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 26, 2014 0:44:55 GMT
I'm torn. I agree with what MsLiz said about informing the other two places that you've accepted another offer . . . IF those two interviews are with companies that are in the same or very closely related industry that might have dealings with your new company. It would seem somewhat dangerous for the new company to find out that you're still interviewing, especially since you haven't started your trial period yet.
If there is no crossover among the companies, though, it would about kill me not to go to at least the first interview, hoping that my dream job might appear.
No matter what you decide, CONGRATULATIONS!
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 26, 2014 0:34:46 GMT
Seriously? Who gets that bent over not being able to recline a seat for three or four hours? It wasn't an international flight! They were both being asshats, but the woman throwing water on the man--- that was seriously over the line.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 13:01:05 GMT
This is a slight hijack but I have a question. When did they change the rules about contact between the school and parents? I know when DS was in college his grades were addressed to him. When I was in college ~ in the dark ages ~ all communication/grades were addressed to the parents. Just curious. Well, in my college dark ages, my other had no problem contacting the college president to complain about how her special snowflake (I.e. ME) was being treated by an evil professor. How dare he give me an F? So what if she turned in the paper after he'd already posted grades? I have never been so embarrassed in all my life. I had to walk into a class with the same professor after she did that-- without my knowledge until after the fact. As far as when I remember the college making a point of forbidding us from talking to parents, it feels like about 10 years ago. Before that, we might have a dual enrollment parent talk to us, but not the parent of a legal adult. I started teaching in '88, so I'm guessing the switch was somewhere in the early to mid '80s.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 12:38:15 GMT
Pahina722, did your DH graduate from FSU?? So cool that he is going to the game. My DH and I usually don't miss the big games, but this year, we just couldn't make this one work. We are going to make it to Tallahassee for the ND game and the florida game. Oh, definitely: undergrad 94; grad 97. He bleeds garnet and gold. I'm a fan by default as my alma mater doesn't have a football team. We had season tickets for several years until our son entered high school. At that point, we decided to skip a couple of years; it just figures that those couple would include a national championship!
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 2:57:32 GMT
FSU is playing Oklahoma State in Arlington, TX on Saturday, where College Game Day will be broadcasting. DH and several of his old frat buddies are all flying over for the weekend to watch. His phone has been blowing up for the last two weeks as they finalize all their plans.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 2:52:35 GMT
I could see how his black underwear might make YOU hot, but I'm not understanding how it is going to absorb the sun through his outer clothing!
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 1:50:02 GMT
I would just ignore the email. If you ever choose to go back, then you might have reason to update your review. Until then though, why would you change it?
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 1:46:19 GMT
Daytime running lights are always on. Also keep the headlights on the auto setting so that I don't have to worry about forgetting to turn them on or off.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 25, 2014 1:14:41 GMT
I am sick that your son left a message about his classmate and nothing happened. Are you certain about that? In the meantime, I'm not sure that your DH is mandated to report something he didn't hear/see himself. All that is beside the point, of course. I am really surprised you don't know the parents' numbers and have no way of getting them. You know where they live, right? If they're not in the white pages and only have cells, then I'd ask your son who his XGF's friends were. You must know some of them. I'd call and find the parents' numbers. Cutting is bad, but it's not a suicide threat. You should find a way to contact the girl's parents or at the very minimum the counselor. Sounds like your son is a really good kid worried about his classmates. Yes, we are sure that the boy who committed suicide never was contacted. His parents had no idea, had never heard from a counselor. Yes, we know where the girl lives (on the other side of town), but there is no listing for them in the phone book. Unfortunately, because DS's school is a magnet school, kids come from all over the county. He will try to get their number from one of her friends, but her friends aren't his friends, so it isn't like he's close to them. Thanks for the advice, everyone.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 17:18:48 GMT
If it's hot outside, a hard cider. If not, Makers Mark and Coke.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 17:15:33 GMT
Since dh heard the news second hand, and no one knows for a fact she IS cutting can't he just give the school counselor a heads up? Then the counselor can follow up with the girl and her parents. Yes, that is their plan. DS has the text on his phone, so DH is planning to go with DS to the counselor to bring it up. What concerns them both is that the school has anonymous "concern" boxes all over for students to report issues like this. Last year DS reported that he was afraid one of his friends was suicidal. The kid was never contacted by a counselor or administrator and hanged himself a few weeks later.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 17:03:07 GMT
DH teaches at the same school that DS attends. Over the weekend, DS broke up with his girlfriend. In talking to us about his decision, DS said that it really bothered him that his ex was telling him (before the breakup) that he stressed her out so badly that she was "going to have to do something to relieve the stress." Then he let us know that she has been a cutter in the past, most recently during finals last May. Although she didn't say that she was going to cut again, he knows that is what she means.
Although he doesn't want to date her any more, he is concerned about her possibly turning to cutting again. And DH can't figure out what HE should do since he would be a mandatory reporter if the girl had told him. She is one of DH's former students. And we don't know her parents' phone numbers to contact them.
What say the Refupeas?
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 16:53:56 GMT
We're transitioning to Lock and Lock for anything that is going to be taken to work or school for lunch. For leftovers that aren't leaving the house, I live the Pyrex containers with the red or blue lids.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 14:45:26 GMT
If the affair had been a one-time thing, I would be the shoulder to cry on. She would need the support. However, if she is continuing the affair and asking you to lie for her, the friendship would be ended. Anyone who would expect me to compromise my principles to cover up her lack of integrity isn't someone that should be in my life.
That the children are friends is irrelevant. The children can be friends without the parents being friends. Heck, my parents barely knew the parents of most of my friends!
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 24, 2014 14:18:36 GMT
Like Volt and anxiousmom, my college expressly forbids us from discussing students with parents unless the student has a notarized waiver on file. In addition, because of FERPA, we can only discuss grades with the student face-to-face since we can't verify identity online or over the phone.
While I can understand the teacher's impulse, I would be wondering why a college instructor felt it necessary to contact me. If I thought my child wasn't ready to deal with college level work and topics, I wouldn't allow him to enroll in college classes.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 23, 2014 13:36:56 GMT
There is only one secret to cube steak; it's cheap, but it's not fast. After browning it, it has to simmer for a LONG time in some kind of sauce or gravy to tenderize. Or, if you want to make cube steak sandwiches, pound the heck out of it until it almost rips when you bread it. So, how long is a long time? I'm sure this is my problem. Patience is not my virtue An hour and a half to two hours. It's somewhat like making a good Bolognese sauce: simmer low and slow to let the meat tenderize and the flavors blend.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 22, 2014 13:59:02 GMT
Mine happened four years ago and is what caused the rift in my family.
My nephew (brother's adult son) has been an addict since middle school, but that Christmas he appeared to be really on the wagon and working to stay sober. DH, DS, and I were going out of town for a week after Christmas and simultaneously having some tile work done in our house. Trying to help out my nephew, I convinced our contractor to use nephew as a paid helper in our house. We also had nephew housesit and take care of our animals, for which we were paying him $300: more than it would have cost to board the dog.
When we returned, the tile work was done, but the house was a wreck. Nephew hadn't done the cleanup which contractor left for him. He had, however, helped himself to our PS3, gift cards and cash of about $150 (Christmas gifts to my son) and my white gold charm bracelet. Now, he told my mother that he'd broken the PS3 by spilling coffee on it, so she replaced it for him. It would have been impossible to spill coffee on the PS3 as he would have had to be lying on the floor and throw it into the cabinet holding the unit. When we realized the other thefts, he tried to blame those on his mother, another addict. And we'd already paid him for the housesitting. So, by trying to help hi out, we pissed off our contractor, lost valuables worth about $1,000, and ended up killing our family relationship because my family refuses to have anything to do with nephew, but my parents are adamant that he must be at every family gathering.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 22, 2014 13:31:50 GMT
I've tried over the years to cook cube steak and it always comes out tough as shoe leather. I finally gave up and cried uncle. There is only one secret to cube steak; it's cheap, but it's not fast. After browning it, it has to simmer for a LONG time in some kind of sauce or gravy to tenderize. Or, if you want to make cube steak sandwiches, pound the heck out of it until it almost rips when you bread it.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 22, 2014 13:26:08 GMT
I'm sure that MIL must have cooked at some point, but I've yet to see much evidence (and we've been married 13 years). We eat at his parents fairly frequently, but the main dish is always some form of grilled protein that FIL Has done on the grill. Don't get me started on what it has taken to get him to understand that when I say "rare," I actually mean red in the middle, not barely grayish pink. MIL's contribution is a salad, microwaved corn on the cob, plain green beans cooked until mush, baked potatoes . . . Nothing that requires skill.
I got the clue that I was the better cook our first Thanksgiving when my contribution to the meal was to be a side vegetable. I decided on broccoli, rice, and cheese. You would have thought that it was four-star fare based on the family's reaction. And I'm always asked to make the dessert since I actually MAKE the dessert instead of picking it up frozen at the grocery store. Since I grew up with a mother and grandmother who are/were fantastic, made from scratch cooks and bakers, his mom's cooking took some getting used to. Luckily, DH taught himself to cook, perhaps in reaction against his mother's cooking, and we both love to experiment with new recipes.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 19, 2014 0:15:52 GMT
A swarm of butterflies congregating on a mound of steaming horse poop. I have no idea what the attraction was, but three different varieties of butterflies were fighting for dominance on every pile of poop we saw as we were hiking near a horse trail in NC.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 18, 2014 21:53:11 GMT
I think if I were the support CPA staffer who was screaming at a partner, I would be distribution resumes ASAP. I can't imagine that kind of behavior being overlooked. And it doesn't matter who was at fault, screaming at an owner isn't the way to stay employed.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 18, 2014 20:08:30 GMT
Definitely, but she worked at it. I can be, but I just don't care that much. I'd rather be comfortable than fashionable. I don't look like a hobo, but I'm all about cargo crops and cute tops. That I wore a dress today on the first day of classes is a minor miracle.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 18, 2014 20:05:20 GMT
Without more information about the person who suffered it, that would be hard to tell, but I would lean toward hereditary disposition not drug use.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 18, 2014 2:15:01 GMT
I love ours. We buy meat in bulk at Sam's and then portion it out into meal-sized servings. I also do a lot of prepping meatballs, burgers, cooked shredded chicken, cooked seasoned taco meat and the like so that meal prep is quicker on school nights. The canisters are great as well. DH stores his coffee in one. I keep grits, brown sugar, and powdered sugar in others.
A word of warning. When we first got ours, we bought a big bag of rolls from Sam's. Thinking that the bag they came in was pretty flimsy, I decided to transfer them into a food saver bag before freezing them. Do you know what happens to rolls when all the air is vacuumed from their container? Pancake rolls.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 18, 2014 2:04:54 GMT
DH gets paid once a month from September through June, on the 15th of each. Then on June 30, he gets two full pay checks for July and August because of the fiscal year ending.
At my college, we get paid bi-weekly from mid-August through mid-May (our base contract). Until recently, the only way we could get paid during the summer is if we taught summer classes; however, we managed to bargain in an option for year round pay checks, which many are moving to.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 17, 2014 13:47:29 GMT
The situation could have erupted because of resentment over the father's new marriage, it could be related to difference in doctrinal beliefs, or it could be some combination of the two. While I'm not Catholic, I have had to deal with grandparents taking DS to churches which I found objectionable, Southern Baptist being one of them. I can only imagine how pissed I would have been as a Catholic if someone tried to take my son to a church which taught, as my parents' SB one does, that the Pope is the "whore of Babylon" and that Catholics worship idols. If it were my child's stepmother trying to expose him to those beliefs, I'd be even MORE livid.
No matter what, it is the child's two parents who should be making this decision, not the stepmother. If that means Dad and family attend a Catholic Church when the child is with them, so be it.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 17, 2014 13:29:41 GMT
Yes, we ordered a giant flat screen TV as well with absolutely no problems. The only damaged delivery I've ever gotten from Amazon was a hardback book whose box looked like UPS had driven over it repeatedly. Amazon immediately sent out a replacement and just asked that I send the damaged book back in the second carton with the prepaid shipping label. Easy-Peasy.
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