The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[BAChicagoGal]

Beautiful donuts. I could eat one of those. No chocolate in sight.

 

[Figgy1]

I'm very happy to hear that you and your family arrived home safely. Now you can decompress and daydream about all the fun you had. Looking forward to hearing about more!

What she said X2

 

[Figgy1]

@StarWarsGirl yoga with Adrienne posted a yoga for migraines yesterday. You may want to check it out. I didn't have time to watch it but it looks like it has tips and then a practice.

 

[Cesar R M]

We are back home. Got back yesterday. My SIL will be with us until tomorrow so I won't be posting much about it until later this week or next. My schedule is full. My ?SIL did make my garden look real pretty and she even cleaned out our garage.

welcome back!

 

[Figgy1]

It's raining so the guys and I went to get mulch(something I should have gotten to 2 weeks ago). I also replaced my hand mixer(sale plus discount) my old one was a black Friday Walmart deal and preJames. I got my monies worth out of that sucker

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

It's a miracle! I have left overs

Is everyone okay?

 

[Figgy1]

Is everyone okay?

Yes, I just cooked extra

 

[Princess Leia]

Hello everyone, and happy Monday! Since I leave for Alaska on Wednesday (and I'm taking a half-day at work tomorrow), I chose to come into work today... and there are only 3 of us at the office. Bit of a slow day, so I'm going to start playing 'catch up' on the 397 messages that came before this

 

[Cesar R M]

Great trip overall. Did most things that were planned and ate most things that were planned. Disappointed with the food at Raglan Road but for the tomato soup and Garden Grill. And the price of Garden Grill was . I did it mainly for the character interaction and honestly that was awesome, but we don't eat a lot unlike the @figmentfan423, so with 2 kids that are considered adults and paying $45 each it was ridiculous. Yes, I knew that going in so I have myself to blame. At least we got a Passholder discount. But needless to say we won't be doing that one again. Our counter service meals were actually really good and the most we paid was maybe $60 at one. Most were in the upper $40/ lower $50 range for lunch or dinner. For 6 that was fantastic. If not for the Garden Grill meal I think we spent just $1000 on food because we had $1000 in gift cards and wiped out the last one with some extra to pay at GG. It was our last dinner so not too bad. I will start a trip report probably next week once my homeschool evaluation is done this week and some other obligations are done this week. Back to the daily grind.

That much? for that amount id get to California Grill

 

[Princess Leia]

Look! I bought a suit! I would have preferred to spend this obscene amount of money on a trip to WDW, but it couldn't be helped. View attachment 205520

Damn, Buddy, looking good!

 

[Cesar R M]

Yes, I just cooked extra

Doesnt that count as cheating?

 

[Princess Leia]

Oh, there were plenty of Jell-O dishes back in the day at all family functions, gatherings, etc., and I'm talkin' even at all extended family functions, gatherings, etc.

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I've never given any thought as to why it's nonexistent at my mom and pops anymore, and hasn't been for years.
Maybe it's because, for many years now, there have been so many new things as appetizers (crackers with hummus and spinach dip, chips and queso, crockpot Lil' Smokies and BBQ sauce, etc.) and on the table (3-bean salad, corn casserole, broccoli rice casserole, etc.).
Can't really say I miss it, though.

Growing up, I remember my paternal grandmother having an entire shelf of different gelatin powders she got from Amish country. She had a couple individual Jell-O boxes too, but I vividly remember bags and bags and bags of different flavors. Apricot was my favorite

Just a quick note. We all slept too late, so our plans had to change. We went to Epcot, did Spaceship Earth, living with the Land, Soarin' I liked Soarin' much better this time. It's a zoo with way too many people. We didn't take any pictures, except our lunch at San Angel. The beef taco's were horrible, beef was tough as shoe leather, and over done. The waiter made us wait for a long time to get our food. The server was pretty surly. We we finished, we asked for the check. It came fast, then ,the wait.....when the server came back, after a really long time...he said they were having computer troubles. We paid, with a Disney card, which the server didn't return. They looked through the restaurant and couldn't find it. We went to Guest Relations, to get the card straightened out. We had to call the bank, and cancel the card. And be issued a new card with the money put back on. Disney offered nothing for their mess up. 3 hours later we came back home. Disney need's to work with the employee's at San Angel. Lousy food and service. We won't be going back. On the positive side, many employees were friendly and went out of their to make our time, so far pleasant. Over all, it is going well, except for this one experience at San Angel.

That sounds like the meal from Hell.

I'm tired, so a few pictures today. Note the beef taco plate. Yummy?
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Everything outside of the beef tacos looks delicious. There's just something that looks really wrong with the beef plate.

 

[betty rose]

Growing up, I remember my paternal grandmother having an entire shelf of different gelatin powders she got from Amish country. She had a couple individual Jell-O boxes too, but I vividly remember bags and bags and bags of different flavors. Apricot was my favorite


That sounds like the meal from Hell.


Everything outside of the beef tacos looks delicious. There's just something that looks really wrong with the beef plate.

I agree. We did a sit down meal at Mama Melrose. The food was okay, not bad, but more in the middle range. We had another problem, with the food....came with cheese, and had to send back. The check arrived and one to many meals charged. It was taken off the bill, we did get an apology this time. But, I'm wondering how many people check the bills before paying them...The restaurants seem to have a lack of caring. Out table was not clean. We did clean it though. We bring wet wipes for that reason. So many customer's and very little front of house people. These cuts don't make me want to ever have another sit down, premium price meal!

 

[betty rose]

More pictures from today, just a little later!

 

[Songbird76]

That is impressive! I love stories like that, flushes all the theories of why can't do this or that until age....whatever.

But I hate stuff like put the kid in the hall. Don't like it for discipline and hate it for a make shift learning environment.

Yeah, that's what I don't understand. Every kid is different...how can you put an age on something like that? There's no magic age at which it is now possible for a child to learn to read. And there is no age at which you can say "OK, now it's too late." You're ready when you're ready and for some kids that could be 3 and for others it could be 7. You meet the kid where they are. And really, they didn't keep her from learning to read until they were ready to teach it...she learned on her own anyway. So what good did it do to deny her the support and help? How did that make a difference? With DS, it was kind of funny, because his sister had already paved the way. He got into first grade and the first day, the teacher put up words on the board and asked the kids to find a particular sound....like "where is the ahhhh sound? Beginning, middle, or end of the word" and DS raised his hand and read the whole word. So then, for the next section, she asked him to read the instructions and he did. So they immediately put him into the advanced group. They were expecting it because of DD...he had the same teachers. So it worked out well for him.
I didn't like the hall thing either, but they told me she's the one who asked to go to the hall because it was too noisy in the classroom and she got distracted. Ok...but couldn't another option be found? Now she goes to the hall for Spanish while the other kids have their English lesson. They wanted her to have something to do while the other kids learn English, but she has no teacher and doesn't get to bring anything home. She has a CD and a book to follow along in...she doesn't get grades, there's no one to correct her if she makes a mistake...it's basically busy work, because she already speaks fluent English and they didn't know what to do with her. If she could bring it home, I could help her. I had Spanish for a year in junior high, and while I don't remember much, I at least know how to pronounce things and I still know some of the basics, plus I have 2 friends here from Mexico for anything I DON'T know. But she doesn't get anything to bring home...it's JUST so she has something to do for that block of time. So they send her to the hallway with a cd player.

 

[Cesar R M]

Hello everyone, and happy Monday! Since I leave for Alaska on Wednesday (and I'm taking a half-day at work tomorrow), I chose to come into work today... and there are only 3 of us at the office. Bit of a slow day, so I'm going to start playing 'catch up' on the 397 messages that came before this

have a great trip!

 

[Songbird76]

Yeah, my hearing turned out just fine. My last ear infection as a kid was probably in 1st grade. They wanted to do tubes in my ears but my Mom said no, she wasn't convinced it would help at all. And really once I was in the lower elementary grades, the ear infections just stopped. I did have an ear infection as an adult, but that was about 12 years ago. The kids sometimes put those ultra sonic ring tones on their phones at school because they think their old geezer teachers can't hear them go off, but I am still able to hear the tone. The kids are amazed I can hear it.

Funny...I had an English teacher my sophomore year who was the WORST teacher. She told us the first day "I'm always right, you are always wrong. Do not dispute me." I was in speech and debate and I asked for my assignment for the Friday we left for a speech meet. She wrote it down herself on a sticky note and gave it to me...I did the assignment, turned it in on Monday with everyone else. She gave me a zero because I "did the wrong assignment." I showed her the sticky note IN HER HANDWRITING with the assignment I did. She told me "I wouldn't make that mistake." She agreed it was her handwriting, and she remembered writing an assignment out for me, but she couldn't have possibly forgotten which numbers she assigned and given different ones to the rest of the class. My mom went in to talk to her...nope, she wouldn't budge. It was my mistake, because she would never have done that...no, she didn't know HOW I got those numbers on that sticky note, but I must have changed them. So I had to take the zero. We were studying symbolism and she asked if everyone understood or if there were questions. A kid raises his hand and says he doesn't understand...so she sends him to the principal's office for insubordination. She was just a hopeless wreck, but she had been a drill sergeant in the military and her hearing was damaged from all the shooting, so she couldn't hear high pitched tones like watch alarms. We would all set our alarms to go off at the same time and see if she could hear it...she never could, and she couldn't figure out why we were all stifling laughter.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Funny...I had an English teacher my sophomore year who was the WORST teacher. She told us the first day "I'm always right, you are always wrong. Do not dispute me." I was in speech and debate and I asked for my assignment for the Friday we left for a speech meet. She wrote it down herself on a sticky note and gave it to me...I did the assignment, turned it in on Monday with everyone else. She gave me a zero because I "did the wrong assignment." I showed her the sticky note IN HER HANDWRITING with the assignment I did. She told me "I wouldn't make that mistake." She agreed it was her handwriting, and she remembered writing an assignment out for me, but she couldn't have possibly forgotten which numbers she assigned and given different ones to the rest of the class. My mom went in to talk to her...nope, she wouldn't budge. It was my mistake, because she would never have done that...no, she didn't know HOW I got those numbers on that sticky note, but I must have changed them. So I had to take the zero. We were studying symbolism and she asked if everyone understood or if there were questions. A kid raises his hand and says he doesn't understand...so she sends him to the principal's office for insubordination. She was just a hopeless wreck, but she had been a drill sergeant in the military and her hearing was damaged from all the shooting, so she couldn't hear high pitched tones like watch alarms. We would all set our alarms to go off at the same time and see if she could hear it...she never could, and she couldn't figure out why we were all stifling laughter.

She sounds a little crazy. I think if my mom had gone in like yours did and talked to the teacher and the teacher still lied about it my mom would have been marching down to the principals office super quick. From reading your description it was pretty obvious she was wrong and then to lie about the evidence....crazy!

 

[Songbird76]

Great trip overall. Did most things that were planned and ate most things that were planned. Disappointed with the food at Raglan Road but for the tomato soup and Garden Grill. And the price of Garden Grill was . I did it mainly for the character interaction and honestly that was awesome, but we don't eat a lot unlike the @figmentfan423, so with 2 kids that are considered adults and paying $45 each it was ridiculous. Yes, I knew that going in so I have myself to blame. At least we got a Passholder discount. But needless to say we won't be doing that one again. Our counter service meals were actually really good and the most we paid was maybe $60 at one. Most were in the upper $40/ lower $50 range for lunch or dinner. For 6 that was fantastic. If not for the Garden Grill meal I think we spent just $1000 on food because we had $1000 in gift cards and wiped out the last one with some extra to pay at GG. It was our last dinner so not too bad. I will start a trip report probably next week once my homeschool evaluation is done this week and some other obligations are done this week. Back to the daily grind.

Welcome back!! I'm looking forward to the TR!

 

[Songbird76]

She sounds a little crazy. I think if my mom had gone in like yours did and talked to the teacher and the teacher still lied about it my mom would have been marching down to the principals office super quick. From reading your description it was pretty obvious she was wrong and then to lie about the evidence....crazy!

She really was nuts. She didn't last long in our school. My grade (but the other sophomore section...we had a big class at that time and couldn't all fit in one class) gave her a nervous breakdown. Someone who had been a drill sergeant, and had worked supposedly in an inner city school somewhere in Florida where they had metal detectors, a fence with razor wire, and guard dogs that were let out after school...and she couldn't handle a class of kids in podunk nowhere where there were none of those things? She had no business being a teacher. My mom would have gone to the principal, but she knew he wouldn't do anything....he was just as incompetent as the teacher, and he tended to hide from her when she came in. So since it was just one assignment and I had perfect grades on all my other assignments and tests in that class, she just decided to let it go. It wasn't going to affect my grade and it was obvious the teacher was just insane, so there was really no point in challenging her further.