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Post by malibou on Jan 29, 2024 16:50:08 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 29, 2024 16:39:57 GMT
I was a straight A student who in my senior year of high school only made it to school on time 15 times. I didn't drive, nor was there a bus or a parent available. I walked, and clearly didn't leave on time. I can't for the life of me remember what was going on, but it wasn't over sleeping.
I too had it swept aside by my teachers because I was a really good student, whose grades were unaffected by my tardiness.
Up until that point I wasn't late for things, and I am always on time as an adult.
My guess is that as long as there are no consequences for his tardiness, it won't change. If I had been given detention, I bet I would have figured it out fast.
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Post by malibou on Jan 29, 2024 13:53:25 GMT
Hoping everything goes well today as the transplant process starts.
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Post by malibou on Jan 29, 2024 13:50:55 GMT
I am so sorry things are going a bit sideways in your life right now.
I agree that it does seem like there are a lot of health issues amongst the peas these days. It makes me sad, but I do get that we are aging, like or not.
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Post by malibou on Jan 29, 2024 6:41:28 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 28, 2024 16:13:27 GMT
Happea Birthday Peaps! Shout out to tomocus!
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Post by malibou on Jan 28, 2024 16:10:24 GMT
We had a party line in Oregon growing up in the mid 70s. There were three parties on our line. I've never liked talking on the phone, and the party line didn't help. I always assumed someone was listening in.
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Post by malibou on Jan 28, 2024 16:05:18 GMT
I'm so very sorry to read your update. May the happy memories of Josh help his loved ones thru their tough days ahead.
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Post by malibou on Jan 28, 2024 7:26:22 GMT
Not the update that was hoped for. Wish wishing him an easy and successful transplant.
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Post by malibou on Jan 27, 2024 23:41:50 GMT
Have they done an MRA? It's like an MRI, except it looks at arteries, like the ones in your brain that can develop into aneurysms that could be enlarging, or leaking. There is definitely symptom overlap.
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Post by malibou on Jan 27, 2024 17:06:41 GMT
I'll ask my German friends if they know of a way to find him.
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Post by malibou on Jan 27, 2024 16:09:40 GMT
Be well jeremysgirl, and know I am holding you gently in my thoughts.
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Post by malibou on Jan 27, 2024 16:03:26 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 27, 2024 15:56:48 GMT
Ouch, he is so young. Wish wishing for just the right miracle that will allow that baby to grow up with her father, and peace for G.
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 18:37:13 GMT
I love an under bite on a dog. She's a cutie patootie.
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 18:32:11 GMT
Looking at cheese as a whole, Europe is definitely out making us in that department. There are certainly some brilliant cheeses make here, but over there its hard to find a crappy one.
Advertisements are actually worth reading/paying attention to as they can be hilariously punny in ways that would have panties in a wad in the states.
I'm not a fancy tea drinker, I just like a cuppa. I cannot say any cup stands out anywhere unless you factor in location. 😉
Lamb and the fantastic array of cuts you have in Europe far outshine the US.
If we are comparing the crappy beer of the masses, I will vote European beers - especially German beer, as the better beer. However, where craft beer is concerned, this beer snob will tell you that the US beer is knocking it out of the park!
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 18:02:04 GMT
I cannot picture, with the long history of California car culture, how this has a chance in hell of passing.
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 11:26:41 GMT
Regarding the blood work, are they doing cultures? Those take several days.
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 9:53:48 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 2:09:26 GMT
I'm so sorry your family is going thru this scary situation. Wish wishing him a speedy recovery, and if necessary now, the transplant he needs.
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Post by malibou on Jan 25, 2024 4:44:43 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 25, 2024 1:56:37 GMT
Sky Garden in the walkie talkie bldg - tickets are free a week in advance, or you can reserve a bar reservation for a cocktail, or even dinner in one of the 3 restaurants and have access to the Sky Garden. I recommend going while it is still light out and staying thru sunset into darkness. You won't regret the views from up there. Two things nearby are The Monument to the Great Fire, which you can climb the 100+ steps to the top of, and the smallest statue in London - I'll leave you to discover it. Madison - it is on the top (6th, I think) floor of a shopping center right near St Paul's Cathedral. On your way up to the rooftop bar on the elevator, you have a full glass elevator with the most gorgeous view of St Paul's Cathedral. Definitely a dusk into night thing. We did the Queen's Walk along the southbank, it ends at St Paul's Cathedral. Columbia Road Flower Market - if you are there on a Sunday 8am - 2pm. Its truly a delight. A pleasant walk from Old Street station will get you there in about 20 min. There are other stations that are also about a 20 min walk. Bethnal Green is one and maybe Liverpool Street. You can also take the overground to Hoxton and have a 7 min walk. If you are looking for an outstanding fish dinner, I cannot recommend strongly enough Fish Central! I love fish, all fish, I've lived near the ocean for most of my life, BEST FISH DINNER EVER. Closest underground is Old Street. Covent Garden is a fancier market, and has a bunch of high end stores and nice restaurants. Old Spitalfields has all kinds of vendors and a lot of food carts with loads of yummy food choices. Borough Market is a classic, but I strongly recommend you avoid Saturday. It's just crazy packed. If you do go to the market, it's worth standing in line inside for the paella and outside, by the seating bleachers, for the pork sandwiches. Chez Abir Restaurant is a Lebanese restaurant that is outstanding, and we've eaten a lot of Lebanese food in London. It is on the far west side of Kensington/Earl Court area. Can't remember nearest underground, but it is a 10 min walk from it. Somerset House has an incredibly amazing collection of art, in a former estate, that is magnificently set up so that you see each piece with informative descriptions of the art and the house. Nearest underground is Holborn. John Soane's Museum is a treat! The guy was an architect that gives us that very broad arch you will see in the bridges crossing the Thames as well as at the top of the red telephone boxes. His house is full of curiosities, I mean every surface full, but the guy had money, so it's massively cool stuff. If you go, ask the docents you come across for their favourite thing in the house. They are very knowledgeable. If you go out Portobello Road way, stop in at Biscuiteers. They have the cutest biscuits ever! A biscuit for my Peaps! Hope this helps!
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Post by malibou on Jan 24, 2024 6:12:52 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 23:28:50 GMT
DS can rhyme on a dime and we make up songs about people and pets around us to fit the scene. We used to have so much fun at the mall or in traffic doing that. Everyone has a name, backstory, and vibe we like to invent on the fly just to amuse ourselves. Handy time-waster at the airport or in the DMV, etc. That's how I know he's mine. Dh and I can rhyme about anything. And we make up new lyrics to old tv shows for various scenarios. It was fun as ds was growing to see when, where and how he would try to join in. He is very good now.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:58:37 GMT
I so wish I had an answer that would fix everything. I am sorry you are going thru this. I think that what jeremysgirl and pantsonfire said makes a load of sense.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:48:04 GMT
Ds is an incredible blend of dh and I in every way. I know he is mine because of his love of fun facts and peanut butter banana sandwiches, the way he pops awake in the morning, his artist way with swearing, his inability to walk around in socks on hard flooring without trying to slide, and the fact that though he is 23, I still have kids ask me if I'm Mrs HCL's mom - a name I got when ds was in kindergarten - when I'm out shopping, because he looks so much like me.
Since he arrived on the planet, if he is with just me or just dh, people will ask, "Does he even have another parent?" Because he looks so much like both of us, and dh and I look nothing alike.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:28:02 GMT
Damn, that is quite a blow. Wish wishing it turns out to be something benign.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 8:05:04 GMT
Like cats aren't sneaky enough, let's give them pockets!
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 8:02:37 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 23:05:03 GMT
Homemade blueberry muffins. I have never made them and I don’t even own a muffin pan but I want some. 🤣 OMG, I have a story about this as well. 😂 I was visiting my parents and soothing my soul from a miscarriage. My first morning my mom presented me with a cup of tea, a blanket and a stack of Nancy Drew Mysteries next to the recliner. It was raining, and she had a candle burning, and I could smell that she was making me blueberry muffins. Half way thru my first Nancy Drew, she comes to check on me and I ask when the blueberry muffins were going to be ready. She looked at me like I had 7 heads and asked, "What muffins?" 😖 Turned out the candle burning nearby was blueberry muffin scented. The happy ending: my mom saw how stricken I looked when blueberry muffins turned into a candle, and ran out and bought muffin mix and a muffin tin, because she didn't have one. And that muffin tin acquisition turned me into my dad's favourite because she went onto regularly make muffins for him.
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