Recent content by Songbird76

Just give her time and I'm sure she'll warm up to you again. Is there a thing with cats and coffee? I've never heard of a cat reacting to coffee that way. But there must be a reason.

I just started Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhoa. It's not something I would have picked for myself. It's a book club selection. I've only read the first chapter and it seems good so far, but it's a science fiction distopian and I'm not a fan of sci-fi, so we'll see. It's about a girl who decides...

You've got to be kidding! You are already handsomely covering all their fees and taxes with your rent. Whatever landlord has convinced his tenants to pay him a tip on top of that is laughing at their gullibility. Tipping culture really is out of hand. I think they need to just get rid of it...

And then you wake up to your husband saying "oh sh..!" and you have to evacuate because the neighbor's shed is on fire. It had died down a lot before I came in to get a picture... Police were banging on doors to get everyone out and I had to go get the kids up and go out and they no more got...

Wait....are you expecting them to toast to you? Or that you have had too much to drink and will be toasted? Or are you saying you are toast? So many definitions of the word "toast"....I need some clarification!

E has her PWS presentation today. I hope it goes well after all the issues they had. And one of the group members has been really lazy at the end, so E and Isabel had to basically do the last bits without him. They did the testing of the product without him, because he had made plans to go...

Wow! Great pictures! Thank you for sharing them with us!!

I'm so glad you did another report! I love reading them. Boy does yeeha Bob have a lot of energy. We went to his show last summer and I don't know how he does that!

Yeah, that's what I thought...and shouldn't the school be proud to have kids who win awards and bring trophies and honors in to make the school look good? Our sports teams weren't bringing in any trophies, and my brother and I brought in a bunch from speech and debate. We should have been...

Yeah, I saw there was an earthquake there! Are you OK? And @Figgy1 ?

It was the counselor and the principal together. My mother's theory was that they didn't like us because they were intimidated by us. My parents were divorced, we lived below the poverty line, and yet my brother and I were both high achievers, and they couldn't take credit for it. We did a...

Our counselor was a jerk, moron, etc...the word I chose got censored. He threatened to break my brother's nose and tried to keep me from getting scholarships, and I'm pretty sure he and the principal fixed the grades to keep me from getting salutatorian. Our administration was a joke. We were...

During the concert for All-State my freshman year, the whole thing was halted when someone in the Audience had a heart attack and we had to wait for the ambulance. Then someone in the orchestra broke a string and they stopped to let the person change it so she could finish the concert. But...

That's really interesting. My degree was k-12 music education and we got VERY little in the way of special education classes. We did a 2-day course I think, about doing IEPs and what fair modification in the classroom meant, and that was about it. Then I moved to the Netherlands, and they...

Happy Birthday, @King Racoon 77 !!! I hope you are having a fantastic day. Hope the house elf doesn't drop your birthday cake!!