The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

Unfortunately no.

Darn. I'm fascinated by architecture. The buildings on the bridge intrigue me.

 

[catmom46]

I always loved spirit days at school...one of our favorites was "dress like your teacher" day. So we had one teacher who always had her hair a certain way and she carried a yard stick, and wore long skirts or dresses with a blazer. So someone would do her hair that way and carry a yard stick, etc. Our other favorite was "come as you're not" day. A lot of boys would come as girls, a lot of girls came as pregnant women. Always fun.

Pregnant women?

 

[catmom46]

Yep...that's what it's like here, too. The Dutch don't like too many choices, because it becomes overwhelming. I miss the variety in the U.S. Here, I find I have to settle for things or go without, because there's just nothing like what I want. When I needed a new food processor type thing, I had my choice of 3 different styles. One was way too small, one had a bunch of attachments I didn't need, but was twice what I wanted to spend, and the other was small, but not as small as the first one, and it didn't have all the bells and whistles, so that's the one I bought, but it wasn't what I was really looking for. And things like food...in the US, there's a whole aisle just for cereal. Here, the selection fits on 2 or 3 shelves. In the US, there's TONS of alternatives for vegans, diabetics, people with celiac...here, I can't get sugar free anything except cola, you have to go to a specialty store for gluten free things or alternative types of flour, like rice flour, and there are only a couple "meat" products for vegans (tofu) and no vegan cheese. I think it would be very difficult to eat here if you had any sort of medical condition that limited your menu. And wine coolers don't exist here, which I miss. Rant over.

Oh gosh, wine coolers. Now that takes me back to high school!

 

[Andrew C]

Oh gosh, wine coolers. Now that takes me back to high school!

Not 7th grade?

 

[catmom46]

You might have to remind me to pack them closer to my trip. If they get on the list, they will be packed, but sometimes I forget to put things on the list.

I'll probably forget too. I'll set a reminder on my phone for July then.

 

[catmom46]

Not 7th grade?

Hey now...don't be starting rumors about me!

 

[Songbird76]

Oy. It seems to be tougher on real smart guys than girls from what I have observed. It balances out more in high school, here anyhow. For some reason the 7 gifted kids in my DD class in elementary school 4 boys, 3 girls. It was the boys as they got older and especially in middle school started playing stupid to fit in.

My DD tried to play and still does 'invisible.' She doesn't like any attention drawn to her, she'd be a friend and nice to everyone but actually by her choice had a small inner circle of friends. She also had enough kids through elementary and high school that tried to use her in lieu of doing their own work. The upside to all that is now that she has graduated college which aside from group projects never had issues about all that there and at her new career, almost a year now she has bounced to the top of the pack of her department at the University where she works and they happily have repeatedly conveyed this to her. So the road was long and spooky at times but as they find ways to 'deal' during childhood there is usually a good outcome. The seven she started out with all survived, most graduated college, 2 taking a bit longer but those 2 guys finally got a grip on it. My DD strength is all related areas to math and love statistics, you can see it in her eyes as she is working everything out in her head, you can tell still that she is in that 'other' world.

That's interesting...DD is one of 4 kids in her grade that are in all the "plus" groups. 3 girls and one boy. There are 2 other boys who are in plus for math, but not the other subjects. They change their seating arrangement after every break/vacation and now she's with the 2 other plus kids in her class (the 4th is in the other class) and one other friend and she said it's her "dream group". But she and one of her best friends are the top kids in the class and both very well liked by pretty much everyone. The boy is a bit of an outcast because he has some anger issues, but he's actually such a sweetheart...I have a soft spot for him because I think a lot of times, kids push his buttons to get him in trouble and I've had to go in and report other kids bullying him more than once. I feel so bad for him, because he's obviously intelligent, and he really has a good heart, but I think his home life is not the greatest and he gets bullied at school because the other kids don't see those wonderful qualities.
DS is in all the plus groups as well, but he's the only one in more than one, I think, and there are no girls in the plus groups. The girl who WAS in the plus groups moved up a grade and is now in DD's grade. She's the one in the other class that's in the plus groups. SMART girl..skipped a grade and is still in the advanced groups in the higher grade. A real sweetheart, too...my son was in love her in first grade. But she's also really well liked, and DS is not. So maybe there's something to that. Perhaps it's not seen as "manly" to be bookish...like, you have to be athletic as a boy, not smart? But good to know that eventually, they seem to be fine. I worry about DS with his emotional/social delay. He has so much potential, but I don't want him to be mislead by kids who make fun of him.

 

[Cesar R M]

Darn. I'm fascinated by architecture. The buildings on the bridge intrigue me.

the buildings reminds me of that movie about a kid who ends murdering a lot of people to make the perfect perfum.
one of these buildings crash and kill Dustin Hoffman's character.

 

[Songbird76]

Sorry I'm not sure, but it seemed south of Denver, got hit harder,in our area. There was freezing rain north in Colorado. We started with freezing rain that turned to snow.

I'd have probably read it on Facebook if it had been bad in Laramie. So I'm guessing it didn't make it that far north.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Thanks for making my bed.

 

[Songbird76]

Our wreath cookies this year are Sugar Twists (sugar dough tinted red/green twined with Sixlet "berries") and Coconut Shortbread (green tinted coconut on shortbread with RedVine bows).

We always did the cornflake/marshmallow ones with green food coloring. Basically rice crispy treats with corn flakes instead of rice crispies, and then instead of putting them in a pan and cutting them in squares, you drop spoonfuls onto waxed paper and put red hots in the center as the berries. Some people do red instead of green and call them poinsettias. I always brought them for my birthday treat in elementary school since I have a December birthday.

 

[Songbird76]

Wow we never had spirit days. We were brought up after WW 2, and everything in school was military like.

Sympathy like. Yep, my mom grew up during WWII and she talked about stuff like teachers coming up and driving a knuckle in your back if you weren't sitting up straight. And THAT was elementary school! Yikes.

 

[Songbird76]

So sorry. What is Tresor?

It's a chocolate thing. Google "Tresor Cereal". THere are a couple different flavors. Chocolate hazlenut, plain chocolate, and a mix with a few different kinds. I think it's only a European thing.

 

[Songbird76]

Do you have crackers? Like round kinds or saltines, you can pretty much break up anything like a cracker and replace for chex and add the seasonings. I do the little oyster crackers for DD she can't have chex...

We do have saltines, and something kind of like ritz or club. That's it. We have melba toast, though.

 

[donaldtoo]

Looks like hydraulics from what I found here. Scroll down to "Ride system".
That's what I'd heard years ago, but, I wasn't sure anymore either, as the tech could have changed over the years.

Also, that bottom paragraph under "Ride system" is probably why some of you are now having issues with the newer version of the attraction...the old version used 3 degrees of (movement) freedom, the newer version is capable of up to 6.

Good grief!
I just now noticed I forgot to post the link...!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Tours_(real-world)

 

[Songbird76]

Pregnant women?

Yep...they weren't pregnant, so it worked. We had a joke though, that you shouldn't dress as being pregnant for come as you're not day, because a couple of girls did and then ended up pregnant the next year.

 

[Songbird76]

I'll probably forget too. I'll set a reminder on my phone for July then.

Set it for June...we're leaving the 2nd week of July if all goes well, so I'll need to make a packing list before then.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Well, it's been five long months, recovery, surgery, and more recovery, but I am finally done with my injury to my left thumb. Thumb is completely healed and usable, metacarpal was cracked but has healed. Irritated with my doc tor's office because I had an appointment at 2 pm and was not seen until 4:15, but at least it was good news and I don't have to go back. Now it is time to relearn violin and teach myself viola.

 

[MinnieM123]

I feel like I'm really on vacation riding the monorail, I remember thinking how forward this was the first time I rode it.

Yes, indeed, Bets--you just brought me back to 1985, when my mother and I were thrilled to ride it. I still love it, but I'll never forget how my jaw dropped when I saw it moving for the first time, and then we got to ride on it. I was so mesmerized by that whole space age "feel" about it.

 

[MinnieM123]

This looks like our street right now!

I think you mentioned that your temperatures were going up this weekend. Colorado is dry, and usually the snow melts a bit quicker out there, than back here in the Northeast. At least that's what my mother-in-law tells me (she's up in the Rockies).