The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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betty rose said:
So did ours, missed out that is. A home baked cake was good enough for us. We did get candles on the cake, and that was the big fun...blowing them out! It was nice to be "special" for that dinner and dessert. :happy:
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Ours were pretty much like @MinnieM123's, which was plenty fun for us.
Most of our kiddos were a notch up, but, nothin' crazy...neighborhood pool party, Chuck E. Cheese's :rolleyes:, Discovery Zone, an iconic park in the downtown area with a small train. Stuff like that. :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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betty rose said:
I understand our next door neighbor was in a submarine for 30 years. He would never want to be on a boat again. It was the close quarters , and hardly ever getting to see sunlight. That sounds so miserable. I'm sorry for your hubby. I'm glad he is on dry land.
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We have a nephew that was honorably discharged from the Navy because of claustrophobia issues (although, I always thought there were also plenty of dry land positions in uncramped quarters in the Navy that he could have transferred to...?).
We also have a niece that was in the Navy on a ship that did her full stint with no problems.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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BAChicagoGal said:
The day has arrived. I'm talking about my appointment with the eye doctor who is going to perform my double cataract surgery. Lots of people have told me how "it isn't that bad". I am sure that is probably true. However, I am dreading it all the same. Perhaps it wouldn't seem quite so dreadful if the surgeon/clinic wasn't an hour's drive from our house. I'll have to grin and bear it, since it really must be done. I should have exact dates by the end of the day. At least today's appointment is in an office closer to my house. He has a city office where he only see patient's one day a week, and then his suburban office/clinic where he does his surgery.
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I hope the appointment went well. My father had that done this past spring and he said it was not bad at all. His vision is nice and clear now.:)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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betty rose said:
I think air lines don't want anymore customers. They do everything in their power to make going on a plane a horrible choice. I want a bullet train.
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Fortunately, we've never had any major problems with airlines (we mostly fly Southwest).

There was big talk about building bullet trains here in Texas (about 25-ish years ago, I think...?). The thinking was that people would have another choice besides flying to travel great distances between the major cities quickly...Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, with a link to Houston.
Can't remember all the details of why it was eventually shelved, but, if I remember correctly, a large part of it had to do with the sheer cost of building the system over those distances.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
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Little story, I'll try and make it brief. There is a little town about 6 miles from the Canadian border in NY State. A man whose last name was Minor, was raised there by an adopted family. When he grew he went to Detroit to make his fortune. While there he met a down on his luck drunk that had created the plans for the, as of yet unheard of, Pullman Coupler used to secure train cars together easily. The inventor was unable to be taken seriously and was unable to patent his creation. Mr. Minor bought the plans from him and proceeded to have it patented. He became a multi-millionaire. He moved back to the town of Chazy, NY and created what was known later as the Minor Foundation. It was a school to train farmers and study agricultural innovations.

I told you that to tell you this, at the time the Buffalo/Bison herds had been almost completely wiped out. He salvaged a small herd and moved them to the Minor Farm where they bred them and along with a few other places in the states rejuvenated the herds. My Grandparents owned a piece of land overlooking the pasture where they were kept. Close enough so that, as a child, I could see them from their front yard. What majestic creatures they are.

Mr. Minor also kept the town from ever feeling the affect of the great depression. He hired the locals to work for him at make work projects like putting up a line of fences and then taking them down and then rebuilding them, just to give the locals employment through the time. Of course there were other projects as well, I just remember that fence one as being very impressive. Also he also provided a huge house, and income and provided for his every need for the actual inventor for his entire life. Not a bad guy all in all.
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Cool story!
I've had bison/buffalo meat many times before, and it's very tasty. :hungry: They used to have a bison meatloaf on the menu at Whipering Canyon Cafe that I've had before, that was very good...! :hungry:
Thanks for sharing...! :)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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figmentfan423 said:
First, RELAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and enjoy your mini holiday! as for the rest been there done that and even have the T-shirt(have quite a few from fundraisers) I know relaxing during this stressful is next to impossible but you do yourself and your ds no favors by being worn out. You should maybe look into yoga for relaxation(Yoga with Adrienne is good and free on youtube).
Maybe being out of a regular classroom is what he needs, I don't know how it works over there but getting my son into the proper setting has helped more than you can know. Vent away Prayers and pixie dust
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Yes, I was thinking about the yoga...thinking that might be the way to go, at least on nights when I am not working. On my work nights, I don't get home until 11:30, so then it's a bit late to do Yoga...although, if I can't sleep, that might be helpful. It's just really sad to me that you have to jump through so many hoops to get help for your child. It should be easy...my child needs this, and they say "Ok, sure! Let's try that" not "Well...lets first try these 7 things that probably won't work, but will only take 6 years to rule out, and THEN we'll see about this other thing, which is probably exactly right, but lets try all the wrong things first." Like...you end up having to earn the help by years of needless suffering. I talked to DS's teacher yesterday and she said she was awake half the night worrying about him, too, and thought maybe a smaller school would be good for him. But she said he feels threatened by everyone. Well...yeah...because they all bully him. If you were getting spit on, tripped, pushed, called names, EVERY day for 5 years, and no one ever DID anything about it, you'd learn to be scared, too. The other day, they were walking to PE, and one kid kept stepping on DS's feet....like, 5 or 6 times...and tried to pretend he just didn't see him. Sure, you can accidentally step on someone's foot...but 6 times in one hallway? Sorry...I don't buy that. And DS was at recess, walked past another boy and accidentally touched the kid's jacket...the kid starts running at him, his two friends hold him back and tell DS to RUN! DS ran...he was allowed to go inside to play where he felt safer, BUT, the teacher didn't do anything to the boys, because she saw the whole thing and they were just PRETENDING to hold the kid back, who was PRETENDING to be raging...he wasn't really going to hit DS. Ok....BUT, intimidation is still bullying, and their intent was to scare DS into thinking he was going to get the carp beat out of him. So, you can package it up nice and pretty and say the boys were just joking, but everyone knows DS can't tell when people are serious or pretending...they are COUNTING on him not being able to tell. It's only a joke to THEM. That's not just good natured ribbing...that's bullying, and you just taught the bullies that that is fine, as long as they don't REALLY hit him. I'm just...flabbergasted. DD said she saw one boy with a kid in a headlock, while a 3rd boy was hitting the headlocked child in the rear with a ping pong paddle...the teacher saw it and walked right past because she was walking her class to PE and figured the on duty teacher would handle it. The whole school environment is toxic and then you can't understand why my son feels threatened by everyone and everything?? But then you insist that HE'S the one who needs to change his behavior, which he may or may not be able to control. I just...I'm so frustrated, and I'm tired of jumping through hoops and try to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it while things that could be fixed are allowed to continue.
Your oldest goes to a special school, correct? How long has he been in that program? My biggest concern about sending him to a special school is that he won't get the challenge...that it will be geared more toward the kids who have a cognitive disability and he will be bored. He's in all the plus groups and he's a year or 2, sometimes 3 years younger than the kids in his class. I don't want him to trade one problem for another. I still want him to get the advanced work, just in a safe environment. We've only been in this school for 4 weeks and I really don't think it's a safe place for him, but we have no other schools in our neighborhood. If we can get a diagnosis for a special school, we could probably have him bused to that school, but if not, there is really no other option I can think of for him.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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figmentfan423 said:
I don't have a "job" per se, I'm just a fill in for a few people I know that when they get caught short at their companies. So in short I can go months with nothing but this Friday is the one that will tire me out just a bit. I'm covering fitness classes at a gym. One of the classes is a HIIT class where I get to yell at spoiled 20 somethings, hey if they can't keep up with me they deserve to get yelled at:D
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Agreed!! And hey, not a whole lot different than yelling at your own kids, except you get paid to do it, so...win win.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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BAChicagoGal said:
I jumped the gun. I really thought that today was my consultation for my surgery. Instead that is two weeks off. I just wanted it to finally be scheduled, so it would soon be behind me. Instead test results showed today that I absolutely should have surgery for my Macular Pucker on my right eye, as well as letting a plastic surgeon fix my droopy eyelid on the same eye. That means they are now recommending four separate surgeries. A lot to digest, but I have time to get use to these new facts, before anything is actually done.
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Yikes that sounds like a lot but as least it's all "easy" surgeries, not that you're looking at any of them as easy Prayers and pixie dust
 

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