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Post by auntkelly on Jun 26, 2023 12:16:38 GMT
I read In Sickness: A Memoir by Barrett Rollins. This was a fascinating account of how the author’s wife, a world famous oncologist, dealt with her own diagnosis of breast cancer (You find out at the beginning of the story that she had kept it a secret from her husband and everyone else and self treated it for years).
The book is brutally honest not only about how the couple dealt with the wife’s illness, but also about their very complicated marriage. It is beautifully written. I can’t stop thinking about it, which is always the sign of a good book.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 25, 2023 16:04:14 GMT
I’m happy we have the board as well. I can’t believe admin has kept her identity a secret all these years (at least it’s a secret to me). I appreciate that she keeps the board going for all of us.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 24, 2023 18:24:42 GMT
I hang my out of season clothes in a guest room closet. It's a big closet, so there is still plenty of room for our guests to hang things.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 24, 2023 14:13:27 GMT
I'm so sorry you have had so many issues with your heart. I will say prayers.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 23, 2023 18:47:13 GMT
I consider myself to be an avid reader.
I raised my kids to be readers. I read to them every night and we spent a lot of time at the library.
My son is an avid reader. My daughter is not.
My daughter did fine in school and has a graduate degree. She just doesn't read for pleasure like my son and I do.
My MIL read to my husband every night when he was growing up. His sister read for pleasure when she was alive, but my husband does not read for pleasure. He was a lawyer, so his profession required a lot of reading, but he never read for pleasure.
Since our kids have been grown, I have started reading books (mostly biographies) aloud when we are on long car trips, which is often. My husband really enjoys listening to me read.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 22, 2023 15:49:07 GMT
You will most likely get in to Madrid very early in the morning so there should not be much of an issue with customs at that time from what I remember. I would go by the total amount of travel hours, including layovers. If the final destination is closer to France than to Spain then it seems a waste of time to go south and the head north again but your wait hours are longer in Oaris, so I would go by total travel hours. I think looking at the total travel time is great advice. I'm not a seasoned traveller, but I have been through customs at both of those airports and don't remember having any problems at either one. It seems like so much about getting through customs quickly is dependent upon factors you really can't predict such as who happens to be working that day, what time your flight comes in, other planes arriving just before your plane, computer malfunctions, heightened security alerts, etc.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 22, 2023 14:07:35 GMT
All of our trips to Europe have been self guided. We travel by train for the most part, but we have rented cars and hired private drivers as well.
We love the flexibility of planning our own trips. We generally pick out two or three areas we want to explore, and then book one lodging in each area to serve as our base for day trips. We stay three or four nights in each lodging. Then we hop on a train to our next lodging and stay there three or four nights while exploring the new area.
Those who rent cars and change lodgings every one or two nights, probably cover a lot more areas than we do, but I think it would be exhausting.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 22, 2023 12:34:39 GMT
Yes.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 21, 2023 19:12:41 GMT
Last week I read: Uncultured by Daniella M Young. Grew up in the Children of God cult. Left and found her way to the Army. It was good. Made me want to bang my head at points. However, I understand the struggle and give her a lot of latitude. I read a review of this book in the New York Times right before it was released for publication. I immediately put a hold on the Kindle edition at my library on the Libby App, because I've always been oddly fascinated by cults. I was excited when a few days later I got a notice that the book was ready for me to read. I opened up the Libby app and found that I had mistakenly put a book on hold entitled "Cultured" instead of "Uncultured." Cultured was about the health benefits of eating gut friendly foods. I could certainly benefit from reading about healthy foods, but I am much more interested in cults than gut health. I'm glad I now know the correct name of the book.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 21, 2023 18:58:24 GMT
I read a classic this week: Washington Square by Henry James. It was fairly short and very readable even though it was first published in 1821. The main character, Catherine was raised in New York by her father, a prominent physician and her widowed, childless aunt. Catherine was a plain girl and her father thought she was very dull. When a handsome, well-connected, but penniless man began to court Catherine, her dad became convinced that he was a fortune seeker and only wanted Catherine for her money. He did everything in his power to break up the relationship. The romantic-minded aunt saw an opportunity to create some drama in her life and she began to meddle in her niece's romantic life and became the advocate of her niece's suitor. No one seemed to have Catherine's best interest at heart, including Catherine.
The ending seemed very modern. James didn't neatly tie up all the loose ends at the end of the story and you were left wondering who was right and who was wrong in the end.
I think this book would make for a great discussion at book club. I'm going to suggest it next year when my book club picks a classic to read in January.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 20, 2023 13:58:21 GMT
They are all nice, but my favorites are the two vintage flowers. Good luck w/ your business!
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 20, 2023 13:16:30 GMT
It sounds like there is very little chance of a successful rescue.
One source said the submersible is bolted shut from the outside. It cannot be unbolted from the inside. Therefore, even if they made it to the surface of the ocean, those aboard the submersible could not open the submersible’s hatch. They would have to be spotted and and the hatch would have to be unbolted by rescuers before the oxygen supply was depleted.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 19, 2023 14:32:20 GMT
I don't mind showing my receipt at Walmart If it deters a few shop lifters here and there and I pay a few pennies less per year for my groceries because of it, I'm all for it.
The old mom and pop stores I grew up with never would have treated their customers that way, but we all decided that we cared more about the convenience of buying everything we needed in one place and paying lower prices to do so. One of the tradeoffs is that we're not going to be treated as a valued customer and family friend at big stores like Walmart.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 18, 2023 13:39:20 GMT
I’m glad your birthday trip was so much fun!
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 16, 2023 17:27:31 GMT
Those kids are fortunate to have an experienced sub get them through the rest of school. That is such a great idea to do the videos for the teachers!
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 15, 2023 13:13:32 GMT
If you live near a major airport, it’s easier to stick with one airline and go for status than if you live near a smaller airport. When we lived in Houston, we could hop on a United flight and fly direct to just about any place in the world for a reasonable price. We were very loyal to United and really racked up the points and status.
Now that we live in Oklahoma City, our flight options are much more limited. It might be several hundred dollars cheaper per ticket to fly to New York on United rather than Delta, but much cheaper to fly to Raleigh, North Carolina on Delta than United.
The layovers are often the determining factor as to which airline we fly. I can fly direct to Phoenix, for example on Southwest, while if I take Delta or United, I’ll have to change planes along the way and probably have a long layover. I recently flew to Boston for a girls’ trip. I flew on Delta and had one short layover in Atlanta. My friend flew American on points and had to change planes two times. She left OKC 15 minutes after I did, but arrived in Boston almost five hours after I did.
My preferred airline is Delta. I have a Delta credit card and I try to fly Delta as often as possible, but it doesn’t always make sense to fly Delta out of OKC.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 14, 2023 14:14:20 GMT
I don't think a business should offer expedited service if they are not able to maintain a reasonable turn around time for regular orders.
Also, I think it's terrible that they originally told you the quilt would take six weeks to finish and now, ten weeks later, they are suggesting that you pay additional fees for expedited services. I think that's a really crummy way to treat customers.
Growing up, both my mom and my grandparents had stores in the little town I lived in. They would move heaven and earth to keep a promise made to a customer.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 13, 2023 22:23:31 GMT
How wonderful! ❤️
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 13, 2023 16:40:40 GMT
Thank you so much for asking, but unfortunately no. 😢. I did get one man who thought he had her but it wasn’t her. He was so sweet and planned to keep the one he found. That made me happy. I’m keeping hope though! I was hoping you’d say you found her. I’m so sorry she’s still missing.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 13, 2023 16:37:21 GMT
I thought he was terrific in Prince of the City. He did such a good job of playing a decent person who made bad decisions and dug a deep hole for himself.
Now you see those types of movie plots all the time, but it was the first time I remember thinking “under the right circumstances, almost anyone is capable of doing something they know is morally wrong.”
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 10, 2023 15:55:02 GMT
I don’t think a graduation is a good time for a surprise visit. A reasonable person would understand a surprise visit is not feasible once the logistics were explained to them.
However, I’m guessing that your MIL might not be a reasonable person. Will your husband support you if you tell your MIL you won’t keep her secret and she gets mad? Will your graduating son be upset if his grandmother is upset?
I would weigh the possible consequences of making MIL mad and then decide whether I would tell MIL that a surprise visit out of the question. In the future, I’d work on establishing boundaries with your MIL, but your son’s graduation might not be the time to do that. I’m sorry she is causing additional stress in your life.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 8, 2023 11:53:31 GMT
I’m so sorry.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 4, 2023 6:07:20 GMT
We have a pole which we use all the time to fish things out of the water that have flown out of the boat such as baseball caps and towels. We also use it to push off of the dock or to avoid hitting another boat when we are docking in a tight spot. Ours is similar to the one linked below. Boat Pole
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 3, 2023 14:36:23 GMT
My husband is out of town, so I binged watched the whole thing. Here are my impressions (spoiler warning):
The home schooling curriculum (or lack thereof) was what I found most shocking.
I also thought it was pretty appalling when they played the old clip of Michelle saying something to the effect of “I’m my child’s buddy while they are breast feeding and then I pass them off to the child who is next in line to receive a buddy.”
And then there was the couple whose daughter was courting Josh when the story broke about Josh molesting his sisters. When they asked Jim Bob why he didn’t tell their daughter, Jim Bob said “I was going to have Josh tell her after they were married.”
And the clip of Jim Bob referring to Josh’s molestation of his sisters as Josh being “curious about girls” was truly sickening.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 2, 2023 12:00:15 GMT
I’m thinking of you. I will say prayers for you and your father.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 1, 2023 13:55:53 GMT
I hope you get your case resolved soon. I still can’t believe that your uncle had the gall to move your mother’s body from one cemetery to another without your permission.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 1, 2023 13:44:02 GMT
I think the neighbor should have told you before he replaced your mailbox. However, when you had the initial conversation about the mailbox I think it was reasonable for him to assume that you would be replacing the old rickety mailbox within a couple of weeks, especially since the pole and mailbox would look really wonky after the neighbor removed his mailbox from it.
From the neighbor’s perspective, he’s probably thinking “I just moved into this new house that I am really proud of and I talked to the neighbor and we both agreed that we would replace our mailboxes. It’s been weeks and they haven’t done anything. It’s driving me crazy to look at that wonky mailbox in front of my house everyday. I guess I’ll just quietly do it myself and if they offer to pay for it, fine. If they don’t offer to pay for it at least I won’t have to look at that eyesore any more.”
Honestly, I’m more like you than your neighbor. My husband and I are pretty chill about most things and we get around to home improvement projects when we have time to do them. I think life is so much easier though, when you get along with the neighbors. i’d just chalk the whole experience up to a different outlook on life.
It sounds like you’ve already decided to let it go, but you were just curious what the Peas think about the situation. Thanks for posting this. I just love a thread where I can step up on my soap box and tell you how my perfect self would have handled the situation. 😂😂😂
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 1, 2023 12:42:42 GMT
The interview w/ the brother was very bizarre. He talked about the crypto currency company (which sounded like a third world MLM for crypto sales) for about twelve minutes before he mentioned that his brother was a father.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 1, 2023 3:15:27 GMT
I hope you both return to the board when the time is right.
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Post by auntkelly on May 30, 2023 19:22:24 GMT
For casual wear, I mix my metals-yellow gold, white gold, platinum, sterling and even stainless (my watch).
When I get really dressed up, I generally wear just one color and it's usually yellow gold.
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