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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Tony the Tigger said:
Hi, all. Just touching base since the WDWMAGIC app is no longer working on my phone, and I'm not in the habit of using it so much on the laptop anymore (plus I just have too much work to do!)

Steve was working on it, but I haven't heard from him in a few days. He says the issue is on their end. I'm just thinking maybe I should uninstall/reinstall(?)

Kylie is on the upswing, she had a skin infection for a few weeks. (The allergies turn into a skin infection sometimes.) When her food runs out, we're going to try a no-chicken diet, but I'm fairly certain her allergies are mostly from the environment outdoors more so than food. She's on antibiotics and anti-fungal meds, but her coat is much better and the licking/scratching have greatly decreased.

I am going to collect over 8,000 CDs from a local house in a little while (from a gay guy named Ken, after getting 4,000 CDs on Friday from a different gay guy named Ken LOL.)

Brian is in nursing school heck. Technically, classes are over. The school is a freaking mess. Over half the class failed the final, there was all kinds of drama about them switching out the format of the test - and even the folks in the other classes were all having issues. One student is suing (and got suspended.)

He's in two classes. One of them, he went into the final with a high B average. On the first try, he failed it with a score in the 50's. It takes a 65 to pass. The following week, he took a different version of it and passed with an 80. But - they said the test was broken into 15 sections, and if you failed any one section, you failed. So there was one section (6 questions) where he got 3 wrong and that was considered failing.

Since that was not prearranged, they threw that rule out "for this semester" and he passed the class with an 87. (They were actually going to fail someone with an 87 average for the entire semester over 3 questions on a passing final, I don't get it.) OK so that part is resolved.

The second class: he failed a test that isn't even required by the State. There is so much more to this story but I don't have time at the moment. All he does is study around the clock. He was passing that class as well, but has to retake two failed tests in order to pass. Again, class is over, so it's too late to enroll in the next class which is starting in a week. So if he doesn't pass, there will be a long break before he can try again. He'll have to find a job, etc. and this is definitely stressing the household. (We're not fighting or anything, it's just been a tough 18 months in this regard with him not working full-time for most of it. Fortunately the stores are doing well!)
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Glad Kylie is doing better. :) (Dogs are just like people -- the older they get, the more odd medical stuff sneaks up.)

Congratulations on the CD haul !! Really happy to hear that your business is still on an upward trajectory. Kudos to you for being such a successful businessman/business owner. :happy:

As for Brian's school, the mgmt. there sounds really disorganized, and sorry to hear that it's affecting the students. Wishing him the best to get through the various obstacles. I have no doubt that he would make an excellent nurse, and goodness knows that medical people are in very high demand.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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Tomorrow is:
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wdwfan4ver

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Figgy1 said:
It's a Polish jelly filled donut served on Mardi Gras
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Yep. I know about this due to how I was brought up. I grew up seeing my parents making Paczki the night before Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras as way to eat them on Fat Tuesday. My dad is Polish and he was taught to make them by his grandma.

Paczki Day is a big deal in the area in Wisconsin I live in to the point that the local media goes to the bakeries that serves Paczki on Paczki Day.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
What I'm trying to figure out is what his attorney (yes, he had one) has in mind. (They return to Court in April.) I'm probably over simplifying the situation, but if it was me, I'd just pay the fines for the 2 misdemeanor charges, and call it a day. 🤷‍♀️
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Yea, not sure what the angle is there. Looks to me like the evidence against him is pretty irrefutable, just pay the fines and move along.
Is his attorney angling for “tiger obsession”, so it’s not his clients fault…???!!!!! 🤪:hilarious:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Figgy1 said:
I'm hiding inside as well. We got about 2 inches of sleet pellets, it's cold and the wind is still blowing. Tonight's dinner groundhog hash.
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That was a sympathy like...nothing to like about sleet and a bunch of wind.

I went on Sunday around noon to get a few things I needed. Stores don't open until afternoon on Sundays, and only on the last Sunday of the month, which it was. But I went right as things were opening, before all the party-goers from the night before were up and going ready for round 2. I noticed it was dead when I first got there, but half an hour later as I was heading out, more people were arriving, so I timed it well. My in-laws have been married for 50 years in May and I made the invitations for their party. I needed some stick-on pearls and gold heart stickers for decoration, so I NEEDED to go into town, but when I got to the store, there was one other guy there with his two little kids. I went to the store next door to pick up a gift for a friend, and when I went in there was only one other person, maybe two. When I came out, there were 5 or 6. Then as I was riding my bike back to the main street, I saw a handful of people in Carnaval clothing walking toward the Centrum, so I decided not to go anywhere else but the grocery store. That was the extent of my going out in the weekend.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Lilofan said:
Good to know. Never knew that, at Mardi Gras, drinking too many hurricanes and mint juleps but I remember the king cake with the prize ( plastic baby ) somewhere inside.
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I love King Cake! At a previous job, one of the women was from New Orleans, and she'd get a King Cake Fedex'd up here to the office. We all devoured it -- that frosting -- yum! :hungry:

Oh, never had the slice with the plastic baby (and my excuse for having another piece, was to "find" the baby -- but in truth, I just wanted a second piece of that sweet concoction)! ;)

Two years ago, someone mentioned that Whole Foods in our area was selling the cakes in their bakery. I never go to Whole Foods, but made an exception to go buy the cake. So get this -- they put the little plastic baby in a separate plastic baggie thing. They did NOT put it inside the cake? What the heck??!! (They actually had some disclaimer on the box that they didn't want it to be a choking hazard. 🤦‍♀️ That killed the experience. :cautious:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Yep, we definitely have choices comin’ outta’ our choices here in the states.
My folks are both in their 80’s and remember when the only thing on the shelf at the town store was corn flakes.
And, even then, most everything else they ate came from animals and crops they raised on their farms.
Different times, for sure.
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Here are the pictures I took of our grocery store.

This is our soda section...it also includes iced tea drinks.
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And here's the entire drink aisle, including juices and soda, etc.
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Chips. You can see that it's cut off there is no longer chips. That's crackers and nuts.
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And cereal....the one picture is one shelving unit, the other is the one next to it. One contains pretty much exclusively oat varieties that people eat with their yoghurt. The other contains more oats/granola, and then the bottom 4 shelves are our cereal selection: Corn flakes, cornflakes, and more cornflakes, tresor, cheerios, and coco crispies. And Smacks. That's it.
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Lilofan

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MinnieM123 said:
I love King Cake! At a previous job, one of the women was from New Orleans, and she'd get a King Cake Fedex'd up here to the office. We all devoured it -- that frosting -- yum! :hungry:

Oh, never had the slice with the plastic baby (and my excuse for having another piece, was to "find" the baby -- but in truth, I just wanted a second piece of that sweet concoction)! ;)

Two years ago, someone mentioned that Whole Foods in our area was selling the cakes in their bakery. I never go to Whole Foods, but made an exception to go buy the cake. So get this -- they put the little plastic baby in a separate plastic baggie thing. They did NOT put it inside the cake? What the heck??!! (They actually had some disclaimer on the box that they didn't want it to be a choking hazard. 🤦‍♀️ That killed the experience. :cautious:
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That was the unique thing about king cake. When the cake is split in pieces, one person may be chewing a piece of cake with the plastic baby inside, then as he/she removing the plastic baby out of their mouth we all know who found the prize!
 
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Lilofan

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donaldtoo said:
We’ve never done the Disney water parks. We always got enough of that here…!!! :)
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Very early select mornings pre covid there was a surfing school option at Typhoon Lagoon. Pay one price to surf the waves, instructors present and can teach you, that are bigger waves are specifically generated to the surfer crowd. Never tried it but looked like fun. Approx 100 waves to ride, $165 per person 3-4 hours. What's nice is the surfing school is limited to no more than 30 guests. Perhaps need to wake up at 4-5am, catch the Disney bus to make it there by 6am. In Honolulu when I was there, surfers were already surfing when many were still asleep.
 
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