The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

The point is, what "formal" are you talking about? Disney Cruise? Princess cruises? Carnival? Royal Caribbean?

I have noticed very lax rules of "formal" during formal night in both Disney and RCCL.
Unless its their "upcharge" restaurants, which are a must.
Unsure how it is in other cruises.. but I know others must be way fancier and enforced.

Of course, I havent seen something weird like having a wifebeater shirt or something that bad in formal night

My son has done Carnival Breeze for a couple years. He has been able to go in a dress shirt and slacks, his girlfriend in a simple sundress to formal nights. I think you are right, some lines ideas of formal differ greatly.

 

[Gabe1]

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Awe. Pup looks so happy.

 

[Gabe1]

On a bad news day it warmed my heart that when I got home and put on the tv to check the weather they were showing people on line for hours waiting to give blood. Locals and tourists alike.

Yep. It has been on my mind. Not sure what 'social' issues we are allowed to speak of anymore here and it is being spoken to on those political/threads so I'll leave it at that.

 

[Figgy1]

My poor brother has bronchitis. Illness going around here. Thank goodness I'm already on an antibiotic so I'm less likely to catch it from him.

I hope you both get better soon and you mom is getting sleep. Prayers to all xoxo

 

[Figgy1]

No 44 is cool . . . not stifling like 80.

Obviously you still don't get it 44
80

 

[Figgy1]

@figmentfan423 how did your almond milk cottage cheese turn out?

It's still on my to do list for this week. I wound up making 2 batches of yogurt instead. Of course on the day I wanted to try something new both my dh and one of the boys both asked if I could make some for lunches this week. Note to self, learn a new word NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Obviously you still don't get it 44 View attachment 235319
80View attachment 235320

44 = Shorts weather
80 =Shorts weather

 

[Figgy1]

So then I can post Puppy pictures again?

 

[Figgy1]

Really??? Begs the question, how? where?

Turkeys love ticks. We have almost no tick problem in my neck of the woods.

 

[Figgy1]

So, this little guy was perfectly fine yesterday morning, until he went out for his early morning yard patrol, and he came back an hour later with a limp in one leg.

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We can't figure out what happened because he doesn't seem to have tenderness when we rub the leg. Phil thinks he got stung by a bee. We're gonna wait one more day, and then Limpy is going to the vet. In the meantime, he is getting spoiled like never before.

Poor kitty GWS

 

[Figgy1]

My era of high school was comfy casual, shortly there after that all changed and the dawning of Preppy. I generally went to high school in jeans and my Adidas and a sweater. Where my DD wore jeans in high school her era was pajama pants and sweats.
But I did wear heels in middle school on occasion and for other stuff beyond classes in high school. I didn't have rules for when I could have certain things at a specific age and I didn't for my kids either. My DS pulled his Drivers License on his Birthday and my DD pulled hers about a month after 'cause the laws were going to change on January 1st for first timers. Still we both agreed she wasn't ready to go solo yet, she waited another 6 months, she just wasn't 'there' yet. DS was more comfy behind the wheel and did fine.

But these teen young women just flat out didn't know how to walk in heels. They missed the memo that it takes practice.

Color me curious, what did heels have to do with Confirmation?

Where I grew up it was when the girls got their first grown up dressy outfit. Not so much a rule as tradition. Thinking back the mother of a rather short girls took her daughter for her first dress in the juniors department and then proceeded to spend a small fortune to have it altered and had to go into the city for a pair of dress shoes. After confirmation most of the girls got taken out for dinner at a fancy restaurant sans siblings.

 

[Figgy1]

Reaches through the screen and pinches @MinnieM123 really hard.

Get @Mr Ferret 88 while you're at it

 

[Figgy1]

44 = Shorts weather
80 =Shorts weather

 

[Figgy1]

Good morning. It is and is going to be warmer than yesterday and yet the pool is closed There may or not have been some wine and whine involved yesterday

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

So, this little guy was perfectly fine yesterday morning, until he went out for his early morning yard patrol, and he came back an hour later with a limp in one leg.

View attachment 235312

We can't figure out what happened because he doesn't seem to have tenderness when we rub the leg. Phil thinks he got stung by a bee. We're gonna wait one more day, and then Limpy is going to the vet. In the meantime, he is getting spoiled like never before.

What a pretty kitty. Hope he is better today.

 

[MinnieM123]

I've done both. If I'm going to be out all day I like the real sunglasses better. But when I'm in or out like at Disney changing from Sunglasses to regular is a pain. Last month at WDW I wore mainly my non script sunglasses at the parks and just kept a pair of cheap cheaters in my string backpack in case I needed to read something. I have bifocals but the only correction is for reading which is really off, I need that correction to function and the on and off with cheaters was nutso.

I have distance eyeglasses. For a few years, I've been using (non-prescription) sunglasses that fit over regular eyeglasses. (These are not clip-ons--they're regular sunglasses, but cut longer to fit over regular eyeglasses.) They're called Solar Shield and come in different sizes. I buy them at Walgreens, and they're about $20. Here's a link: https://www.walgreens.com/q/solar+shield+sunglasses

Now, if I lived in Florida with so much bright sunlight all year round, I'd probably get prescription sunglasses. Up here, I mostly use them for summer months only, and occasionally throughout the rest of the year.

 

[MinnieM123]

So, this little guy was perfectly fine yesterday morning, until he went out for his early morning yard patrol, and he came back an hour later with a limp in one leg.

View attachment 235312

We can't figure out what happened because he doesn't seem to have tenderness when we rub the leg. Phil thinks he got stung by a bee. We're gonna wait one more day, and then Limpy is going to the vet. In the meantime, he is getting spoiled like never before.

I'm half wondering if he was running around and jumped off something, and maybe twisted his ankle. Odd to see a cat limp. The only other thing would be if he somehow scraped it, or if some tiny thing got lodged in his paw pad.

 

[MinnieM123]

It is amazing what creeps out of deck boards at this hour.

Spiders?

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Spiders?

Spoiler: Not for the faint of heart

Spoiler: Are you really sure

Spoiler: Don't say i didn't warn you

 

[Songbird76]

So, so glad to hear this. We never put my brother in a special school because we wanted him to have exposure to kids who were neurotypical, but there's no benefit for that if your DS is just getting bullied every day! I still cannot believe the school's lack of reaction. Just horrible. I'm glad he's going to be in a better environment.

We're still looking at other schools, tool, just to be sure, but so far it seems like the special one is the best for him, just because of the bullying. Most of the regular schools here have classes too big...33 kids in one class. And there's one that's only got 20/21 kids per class for his grade level, but they don't have a class of JUST his grade level...it's combination classes of 4th/5th, or 5th/6th. Plus that one is ALMOST as far away as the special one. If I'm going to have to take him 30 mins by bike each day, I'd want it to be a perfect fit. We'll look at all of them though, and see what we come up with. There are bullies in pretty much every school...I don't think we can handle more bullying at this point.