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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 24, 2022 13:58:49 GMT
I just googled 38 billion. Wow but can you imagine being able to donate like she is. Right?!? Her net worth is actually considerably higher due to her stake in Amazon stock. Compared to her husband who is using his wealth to do things like build a half billion dollar "yacht," I'm pretty darned impressed with what she does with hers. I read in the Boston Globe this morning her net worth is $55.7 billion. She can barely keep up with donating it as she earns more and more.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 24, 2022 12:53:26 GMT
If you spot mold on the outside of something, it's already infiltrated the entire product. I trash the entire package if I spot mold.
That said, it looks like flour to me in the picture. Mold has a very distinctive smell. I'm sure it's fine based on your description.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 23, 2022 13:55:20 GMT
We're winding down on season 8 of The Vampire Diaries. LOL. I love supernatural and scifi shows, and DH likes to unwind with a puzzle and ridiculous teen drama. This one was perfect for us.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 23, 2022 9:19:45 GMT
I probably won't. I don't usually watch awards shows. I'll check the news in the morning to see the winners and the dresses. I think Wanda is really funny, so she wouldn't turn me off from it.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 22, 2022 11:11:48 GMT
I wouldn't, mostly because I know I wouldn't want Mexican food again in the next day or so. I can't ever remember taking food home from dinner at someone's house aside from baked goods like cookies. Sepsis wouldn't have occurred to me pjaye, and I didn't realize you could get it from bacterial food poisoning. DH had sepsis (from a medical procedure) and I wouldn't wish that on anybody. He was in the hospital for weeks, and recovered completely.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 22, 2022 11:03:35 GMT
The outside is so pretty. What the heck happened inside?
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 21, 2022 19:59:44 GMT
If something is aggravating my allergies or I have a cold coming on I sneeze a LOT -- I can't tell the difference between the two. In regular times, I only sneeze a couple times a week.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 21, 2022 12:30:16 GMT
Ok, I have a few more details. We talked about this in French class this morning. It’s a tradition that around 3-4am, people start marching in the street wearing sabots (a wooden clog) to make noise and gather friends and family up to journey to the towns center to celebrate. People line the streets to watch. That’s why it was so early. A car was speeding and smashed into the parade, killing six. What a sad event. How incredibly sad that a celebration like that turned into a nightmare.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 20, 2022 15:36:37 GMT
How about someplace like Asheville NC? What do you all like to do on vacation?
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 20, 2022 15:29:42 GMT
Lol. Cat camouflage! I also looked at the first pic and thought your cat had very unusual looking fur. She’s really pretty.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 20, 2022 11:39:48 GMT
I keep sending them to my mom - she loves them so much. I haven't done a subscription. The company was started by two Naval Architects -- which is my major in college, so I had to support them!
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 18, 2022 18:10:06 GMT
I've said this forever. It's not just the PAY, it's the SCHEDULE. Employers insist on these variable schedules that make it impossible to take one of these shitty jobs and take another job "on the side", or do school "on the side" or help co-parent "on the side" because you never know from week to week what the shitty job's hours are goign to be. If employers would stop insisting that everyone take these variable schedules and let the parents (say) work from 9-12 only or on MWF only, etc. and make it THEIR business to jigsaw employees schedules together for coverage, instead of making it the employees responsibility to jigsaw their lives' schedules together, I bet they'd find MANY MORE people willing to work for minimum wage. YES! That's one of the reasons I demanded that we define our hours up front for our workers! There is nothing that I can do about having sort of weird hours for the camp, but I can make sure those hours are defined up front. It's just like I tell the people we hire, it doesn't matter so much to me if you need to be off on June 22 and 23 and July 17, if I know that up front and can plan for it. It's when you tell me "oh, I'm going to be off this Thursday and Friday, tee hee!" that there's a problem. (And due to the nature of the job, we don't have other employees we can call in last minute, and it's seasonal so if we chose to fire them, we'd just shoot ourselves in the foot. I try to go at it from a mutual respect angle. It mostly works.) Yep. My son puts his orchestra rehearsals in the work calendar 6 weeks in advance (which is as far as you can.) Then on Saturday, they tell him he has to close on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and can't have those times off. He really doesn't understand why they bother to ask him to submit it if they don't even consider. He's a part time, low paid employee. He doesn't really need the job, but he loves the work, the products, and the customers. He's probably going to end up quitting soon, and corporate will complain that the young people have no work ethic. He's not giving up on his music career for that.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 18, 2022 11:18:20 GMT
My DS is working retail. Loves his job and the people he works with. He wants to work about 20 hrs/wk while he builds his side business. But his managers never schedule him for the same days or same hours. He never knows his schedule for the next week until Saturday morning. Sometimes they put him on for 10 hours and sometimes for 50. They ALWAYS schedule him for the times he says he can't work and don't schedule him when he's available.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 18, 2022 10:14:30 GMT
Ours just closed. It was always empty. The only time it was busy was the afternoon of music recitals when parents realized they didn't have black pants or white shirts. Now that you mention it, that's pretty much the only time I shopped there.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 17, 2022 12:18:48 GMT
I don’t think it’s any different than a tattoo 🤷🏻♀️ Both ways of permanently marking your body. In my mind, branding was for marking livestock or slaves as property. And although it's possible to remove a tattoo, brands can't be removed. YMMV, but that's where my mind went. I think he sounds very unstable, although I don't really know much about him.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 17, 2022 10:00:48 GMT
My daughter recently got one to work on her laptop from the couch. She likes to work with the dog in her lap. I think she got it from Target, and she'd happy with it.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 17, 2022 9:58:33 GMT
What a fun day! Congratulations to your DD. Like everyone else, I'd want to be close to the car at the end of the day. Take the subway or a cab between appointments.
You're very brave to do three shops in one day -- I'd be bug-eyed after one.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 15:35:23 GMT
I saw that! It was sold just a few years ago for half that price. The lot isn't even that nice. And the water trough "pool"? Yikes!
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 15:33:52 GMT
Years ago, the Boston Globe changed their delivery service and made a huge mess of it. We weren't getting our papers, so we switched to digital. We got so used to it, that all our subscriptions are digital now.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 10:40:47 GMT
I’ve no idea who he is (beyond what you wrote) but 🤔🤫🙄 Sorry, I forgot I'm up early with the late night British crowd. He's the leading Republican candidate for the US Senate from Georgia. He was one of the greatest college football players of all time, who went to University of Georgia.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 10:31:37 GMT
Vinegar and water in a spray bottle. I use this a lot, but don't use it on stone surfaces (granite and marble.) It's too acidic and can dull the surface.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 10:28:28 GMT
Lol. Anyone who has foxes living by them knows about the "omg someone's being murdered right outside!" noises. In the spring with our windows opened... Yes! And the fisher cats, too.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 16, 2022 10:26:14 GMT
From the Washington Post: "Herschel Walker, the leading candidate for the Republican Senate nomination in Georgia, questioned evolution at an event over the weekend, asking why apes still exist if humans have evolved from them."
That football doesn't run up and down the field on brain power.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 15, 2022 21:51:52 GMT
Another big fan of the National Parks system Science research that has changed the world: the Human Genome Project, NASA, GPS and Doppler radar, vaccines (the list goes on and on) The Human Genome Project was actually an international research effort, not just an American one. Absolutely. It’s something that I’m very proud the US participated in. I’m glad to see my federal tax money supporting scientific and technical research.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 15, 2022 18:48:19 GMT
So funny and smart.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 15, 2022 18:15:40 GMT
Another big fan of the National Parks system Science research that has changed the world: the Human Genome Project, NASA, GPS and Doppler radar, vaccines (the list goes on and on)
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 15, 2022 13:20:49 GMT
I think as you note that kids now just rely on their phones or GPS, which is why they can't give directions. It is weird, but, then, I realize I now do not know exit numbers from highways because I, too, rely on my phone. In the last year or so, Massachusetts changed the exit numbers on the major highways to match up with distances. LOL, it messed up so many people. I always relied on names, so it didn't bother me. One of my kids has a great sense of direction and how to get places, and one doesn't. They both used technology pretty similarly, so I'm not going to blame that.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 14, 2022 20:33:37 GMT
I use the Method pink grapefruit. I hate overpowering scents. That one is light and citrusy.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 14, 2022 19:58:14 GMT
Out of your list, I've been wanting to see Heathers. I'm another one who really enjoyed SIX and Hadestown.
I'm going with DD and her friend and mom to see Funny Girl in June. Her friend's mom is a crazy fan of Barbra Streisand and wants to see the musical version. Plus Beanie Feldstein <3
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 14, 2022 19:12:30 GMT
Ugh. I totally sympathize. My parents were living in FL and NY when my dad's dementia started developing. They chose to hide it from us (my sisters and I lived in different states 10-20 hours away). It turned into an emergency with my dad leaving the house and getting lost on the beaches multiple times. They kept getting into car accidents with my dad forgetting how to drive and my mom's almost blindness. My mom needed two knee replacements and kept falling, and couldn't keep up with my antsy dad and kept threatening to kill herself.
We had to fly down and collect them, praying that my dad would make it on a plane ride without causing a commotion, and move them up here near me.
So I had to get all their medical care in order, and move them into an assisted living, while my sisters emptied out two houses. It was an excruciatingly stressful time to help two people who insisted they didn't need any help and didn't want to be a burden. That attitude turned it into one of the biggest burdens ever. All my mom's relatives were calling me and yelling at me for forcing her into a home. I took each one of them on a tour of the assisted living so they could ask questions, while I explained it over and over and over again. All while working full time. It was horrible.
My dad passed away after a few months of that. My mom has had her surgeries, and now lives in an independent-living apartment with meals included. She's in a much better place now, but could have saved some awful years if she'd stopped burying her head in the sand.
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