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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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MinnieM123 said:
That's actually quite a distinction -- just means that you rock, buddy!!! :joyfull:
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I am the oldest in the group of “cheer moms” I hang out with. They are all in their early 40’s, late 30’s. They all thought I was their age. I look, and have always looked young for my age. Well a few weeks ago some found out I was 50, and they were flabbergasted. I never say how old I am unless pressed. Age is unimportant to me. (Currently).
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
So here's something strangely interesting. We've all received spam, etc., calls. (If I don't know the phone #, I never answer.) So I noticed a "missed call" notification and went to look at the number, and it started with the letter, v and then a string of letters/numbers. Googled the v thing, and the first thing that came up was that it was probably a spam exchange. So just a heads up, if anyone else sees a strange string starting with v, for a "missed call".
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Interesting...I don't think I have ever seen the v thing before. Funny story though, my husband was working from home because it was safe, and because the kids were doing remote learning and Aneeds help sometimes, especially with foreign languages, which I don't speak French or German so I can't help and my husband had both in school. Since he was at home, he made all his phone calls on his cell because he didn't have access to his landline at the office. So clients were using his private cell number, but some would call outside of office hours, like calling at 7 am on a weekend, or 9pm on a week day. So he set his number to private. One day, he had to actually go to a site to do energy labels, because you have to take various measurements and look at the way certain things are constructed in order to do the calculations correctly. He always calls me when he's on his way home so that I can time dinner, but he had his number set to private, so I just didn't pick up the phone because I couldn't tell who was calling and it was my own husband! :hilarious:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
I am the oldest in the group of “cheer moms” I hang out with. They are all in their early 40’s, late 30’s. They all thought I was their age. I look, and have always looked young for my age. Well a few weeks ago some found out I was 50, and they were flabbergasted. I never say how old I am unless pressed. Age is unimportant to me. (Currently).
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It used to drive me nuts that I looked younger than my age. Now I really appreciate it. When I was 24, I was commuting to my teaching job in the next town over and someone at a gas station asked me if I should be there alone, filling my tank, and I said "Why not?" and he said "Are you old enough to drive?" He thought I was 14. Now, I am almost 45 and I was training someone new at work and they were surprised I had teenage kids. When I said I was 44, they were shocked because they had thought I was in my early 30s. Someone else at work commented on the music being the music we grew up to, and it was stuff that came out when I was in college. She thought I was her age, about 10 years younger.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
I didn’t order anything either except for vitamins that I was running low on. I was given a $10 coupon to use by Amazon for prime day, so I took advantage of that.
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I only ordered the Kindle Paperwhite....which they dropped through the mail slot in a non-padded envelope. :banghead: I haven't opened the packaging yet...I'm hoping it survived unscathed.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Today is E's last day of actual classes. Tomorrow is the beginning of exam week, so she'll have 2 tests each day through next Thursday (except for the weekend, of course) instead of regular classes. Then they have "broom days", which are days for make up assignments or tests that you missed or didn't complete, to "sweep up" the rest of the work and get it turned in, but she has nothing incomplete, so those are basically days off for her. So she's introducing her best friend to Mac N Cheese today for lunch. For some reason, they were only scheduled for 4 hours today and one of their lessons had been canceled earlier, so they had a "between hour" before their last class. They checked that teacher's schedule and he had the hour before free, too, so they went and asked if they could just move that class up an hour and he said yes, so she got out at noon today! She does have to go back for a presentation later, but that was not mandatory. They did their O&O presentation already a couple of days ago, but this project didn't have a business expert to give feedback because they got to choose their own project this time. (Projects are set by actual businesses and they give the kids feedback about how well they met the criteria, etc. But next year, only a few students are going to take the class and it gets much more serious starting in the 4th year, so the teacher put all the kids who are taking it next year into one group and set it up more like it will be next year, when they get to make their own projects and such.) But they happened to choose a project idea for which there was already a business who set a similar project to another class, to the teacher asked if that business would mind also looking at E's team's project and giving them feedback, and they said sure, and they are there to see presentations for the other class today, so E's team is giving their presentation to them today, just for extra experience. It's not part of their grade or anything, since none of the other groups had a professional to look at their projects. She's really excited about it, though, so she doesn't mind going back to school to do that.

A's school doesn't do test week, so he just still has several weeks left of classes and he has tests on some of those days.
 
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Lilofan

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SteveBrickNJ said:
It was 10:45am. Some stores were open but others had 11am as their opening time.
Hopefully by noon ( long after I was back at the dealership) they had more people.
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I was a mall rat when I was young. My two favorite stores were Sharper Image and Brookstone. Those stores had full body massage chairs which I enjoyed and sampled without ever buying one. At least in Planet Fitness gyms with the black card membership it comes with unlimited use of massage chairs nationwide. At the upscale mall in Orlando called the Mall of Millenia which is in actually a dangerous part of Orlando to live in ( a few minutes from touristy International Drive ) there are mall policies posted on dress code ( offensive attire worn is not allowed etc ). It has been a while since I was at a mall.
 
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SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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Lilofan said:
I was a mall rat when I was young. My two favorite stores were Sharper Image and Brookstone. Those stores had full body massage chairs which I enjoyed and sampled without ever buying one. At least in Planet Fitness gyms with the black card membership it comes with unlimited use of massage chairs nationwide. At the upscale mall in Orlando called the Mall of Millenia which is in actually a dangerous part of Orlando to live in ( a few minutes from touristy International Drive ) there are mall policies posted on dress code ( offensive attire worn is not allowed etc ). It has been a while since I was at a mall.
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I seldom purchase anything at malls...but I like to go now and then to "experience" them.
Additionally, sometimes throughout the year I want to go for a lengthy walk, but depending on the month, it might be too cold...or rainy...or whatever. The mall is a good place to get some exercise without the weather being a factor. ;)
 
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