My problem with Adele is her lack of enunciation. It's one of my three pet peeves that will turn me off, the other two being note scooping and not dropping one's jaw enough. Although I agree; she doesn't back off on the power enough. You listen to her verses, say, Barbra Streisand, and Barbra varies her voice much more. And you can understand Barbra. Adele, er, no.
One thing I have an issue with many "singers" today is so many seem to whine when they sing or shout. The music seems so digitized and sometimes you cannot understand what they are saying. I cannot stand most music today. I constantly switch radio stations in the car. Usually it's 70's or 80's. 90's are hit or miss. Usually miss. Streisand is okay. I like her singing voice but cannot stand when she talks. Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Elton John are some of my favorite singers.
Yes. Obviously it is an experience I have never forgotten. That must be close to a decade or more ago.You were very fortunate to have a tour by one of the animators. I would love that.
Yet, now, I question just how much of a studio DHS will continue to be in the future. All those things like the backlot tour, the drawing classes, and an impromptu tour by an animator have probably all gone the way of the dodo bird. Anyway, I'm really happy for you that you had such a nice experience.
I guess it is likely because when I was growing up there wasn't a great deal of fast food franchises around. We as a family had our favorite restaurants and pizza places some a lot more casual than others but growing up with fast food meals was not part of our life.
When maybe I was middle school age a burger king moved to town but it was cross-town. Maybe ate lunch there a few times a year as it was a drive not a walk. About the same time we also had a Yankee Doodle Dandy move to our side of town. There in my early teens we'd sometimes meet friends for lunch.
What I always remember being around and going to fairly regularly was Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors and Dairy Queen, earlier in life in the City it was a
Tastee-Freeze, there was also a House of Pies. Guess my town was more into
dessert. DQ stays open March till October. Boards go over the windows for the winter.
The weird part of my McDonald-less childhood is the Original McDs was the very next town west of ours.
1955
As teens we'd go to that town but we never went to McDs. Just wasn't on our radar in the late 70's early 80's but in the 80s they franchised the heck out of McDs Not a big fan of most of their food but they certainly have the best french fries. Slurp.
Would you like some more shipped your way? There's a bucket loaded at the end of my street making all sorts of noise
I have great respect for teachers who like that age group. Y'all must have a ton of patience.Of course....
Although maybe that was a good thing? The originals were SO much better!
Our last sans kids trip to Disney was in 1996. That was before we were married.
Excellent! Cannot wait to read the tr for this one!
Yeah, spoiled gets spoken about a lot around here. Yep, it's me
Well this at a distance looks creepity familiar.
Oh that's so great your son's school was on top of the bullying! Ours has not been. DS has been bullied for YEARS. We thought it was going better last year...he had a teacher that I had actually been warned about that she was not nice and only yelled at the kids and it turned out she was the BEST teacher he had. She was so supportive of him and could really reach him before he had a meltdown and she made sure to come talk to me whenever there was any sort of incident so I would know what happened when DS talked about it. No other teacher ever did that...DS would tell me something and I would have to make an appointment with the teacher to find out what happened. So we LOVED this teacher and she was great with him and he had a great year last year. This year, we weren't even through the first week before I was called in because there were problems, and we tried an after-school program that did not help, and several of the kids who DS THOUGHT were his friends suddenly said they weren't, and he was sitting alone at recess because if he tried to play with the other kids, they ganged up on him and decided to play new games that generally involved kicking a soccer ball as hard as they could at him. And then the new girl arrived and they completely clicked, but she was warned off and when she didn't comply, the kids drew on her gym clothes, took stuff from her desk, pushed her off of playground equipment...it took 6 weeks for them to drive her off and her mom apped me and told me she was so sorry her daughter was not going to be able to play with DS anymore because she was too scared. The school has basically pushed it onto DS...if he acted "normal", the other kids wouldn't target him. So we have to get HIM help so that HE doesn't get bullied instead of ensuring the bullies stop bullying. There was a period towards the end of last year that I was in the school 3 times a week for meetings with teachers and support staff to set up the testing, filling out behavioral questionnaires, writing up step plans for DS's safety at recess, etc. I'm sure you understand all about that and how emotionally exhausting it all is. But you have got it mostly worked out now, correct? So I'm hopeful that once we get the diagnosis, we can get a plan in place and get things moving in the right direction.
Let's not kid ourselves...you are not going to take up napping!
