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DryerLintFan

DryerLintFan

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MinnieM123 said:
Not to change the daily subjects here, but does anyone have any fun plans for the long Labor Day weekend? We'll do at least one cookout--a steak, and Jack gets the bone, which he loves! (Jack loves summer for all the steak bones he gets. :joyfull: ) We'll hang out, do the usual errands, etc. Plan to get in some walking the woods and some bike riding, too. :)
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I had no plans and was looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend, but this week we made a plan here and there and now I feel like it's going to be a really busy weekend!

Tomorrow my toddler and I are going to lunch with some friends and then getting the last of her baby stuff ready to be dropped off at the donation point. There's this great organization here that works directly with families who cannot afford baby things so we prefer to donate to them instead of GoodWill. Once that's done,.... there's no more denying that my teeny tiny baby is a little girl now :cry::cry:

Saturday we're going to a festival and eating Amish fry pies until we feel sick. If you've never had an Amish fry pie, you NEED to try them!

Sunday we're going to this annual gigantic flea market type deal that we go to every year.

Monday, I don't know. Maybe the zoo? We need to weed our garden beds again, so maybe Monday will be a work around the house day.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
That's where you're wrong, actually...because that's exactly what's been happening. Girls are singled out quite often just for wearing normal clothes and told to go home and change because they are distracting to boys. I can't even count the news articles I've seen...not just schools, but workplaces, too. A woman who worked at a bank...she was attractive and dressed in a skirt and blouse...but she was somewhat well-endowed, and even though her clothes covered everything, her male colleagues were sexually harassing her. She went to management and was told she was too attractive...she should try less flattering clothing. Though the company dress code dictated that she MUST wear a skirt and heels...she was wearing what she was supposed to be wearing, but it was distracting to her male colleagues and rather than telling the men to behave themselves, SHE was at fault for being too attractive. I believe she lost her job.
A 15 year old girl was sent home because her bra strap fell off her shoulder and she was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and you could see the bra strap hanging on her arm...the boys were going crazy at the sight of said strap and couldn't concentrate.
A girl was sent home from senior prom because her dress was too promiscuous...yet 2 other girls had the same exact dress and it was fine because they were not as tall or voluptuous as this girl was...she checked to make sure the dress came down past her fingertips, which was the school rule, and it did. But because she was taller, it showed a bit more leg. Nothing was showing on her body except her legs, and the dress met the length requirements....the 2 other girls were allowed to stay, but she was sent home because it was too attractive and would incite the boys' hormones.
Perhaps when you were in school, and even when your kids were in school, this did not happen, but in the last decade or 2, there has been a huge increase in the number of lawsuits against schools for discrimination against girls for exactly this type of thing, and it's always because "males were distracted" or "couldn't control themselves" because of the girls' attire. When I was a freshman in high school, I clearly remember overhearing a group of boys in science class, comparing my chest size with every other girl in school. I wore baggy sweatshirts and loose-fitting cotton pants, which I safety pinned my waistband to my sweatshirt because boys in my school had a habit of "pantsing" any girl who wore pants with an elastic waistband and if I pinned the waistband to my shirt, the pants wouldn't come down when they pulled. I was ultra conservative in what I wore...I tried to hide the fact that I had any curves whatsoever under my clothes...and yet, the boys still noticed and still discussed my body and compared it to other girls' bodies...it has NOTHING to do with what clothes a girl wears.
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The problem is that we cannot control the degree of stupid we run into on a daily basis. The influence of religion in certain areas is usually the driving force. People that haven't read scripture, but, are sure they know what it says, have determined that it is their place to judge others in some type of faux moral stand that points fingers and creates problems that really shouldn't exist. It's not the dress code that is at fault here it is PEOPLE. You are correct that it was the men that should have been hauled in, if she was within the boundaries of their own dress codes, and be told to pull their minds out of primitive gutter mode and into intellectual. However, like the bra strap, these really are isolated incidents and not the norm in todays world and usually the blame goes to one over zealous individual and not society. Get rid of the individual that is over-reacting and the problem can be solved.
 
BAChicagoGal

BAChicagoGal

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Songbird76 said:
When is Labor Day? Is that this weekend? (We obviously don't have the US celebrations here, so we have no special plans...unless you count returning the Harry Potter sweatpants I bought for my son because they are HUGEMUNGOUS.) We do have Stadsfeest this weekend. (City party) There's always a carnival, and some live bands, and usually some activities, but we are not even telling the kids because they will want to go to the carnival and we have a trip to Dublin in a few weeks, and a trip to Disney Paris in October...we don't need to waste money on carni games. Enjoy an extra steak for me!!
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Labor Day is Monday, and this year, it just happens to be my birthday. I leave for Disneyland in three days.

I remember all the years growing up when my birthday was always a sign that Summer was over, and school was about to begin. We always went the Wednesday after Labor Day.

Sounds like you have a lot of fun stuff planned for your family.
 
StarWarsGirl

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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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FutureCEO said:
Too much mayo :cautious:

Add a little sauerkraut and thousand island dressing. (as I'm eating cereal right now)
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Not a drop of mayo on either of those sandwiches, actually. Condiments were provided on the side in pouches, and I didn't use any.
Not only that, I chucked the bread :cautious: and ate everything on the plate with a fork.
But, yes, I woulda' taken a Jason's Reuben The Great sandwich over those 2 any day...!!! :hungry: :)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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DisneyBound2017 said:
I had no plans and was looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend, but this week we made a plan here and there and now I feel like it's going to be a really busy weekend!

Tomorrow my toddler and I are going to lunch with some friends and then getting the last of her baby stuff ready to be dropped off at the donation point. There's this great organization here that works directly with families who cannot afford baby things so we prefer to donate to them instead of GoodWill. Once that's done,.... there's no more denying that my teeny tiny baby is a little girl now :cry::cry:

Saturday we're going to a festival and eating Amish fry pies until we feel sick. If you've never had an Amish fry pie, you NEED to try them!

Sunday we're going to this annual gigantic flea market type deal that we go to every year.

Monday, I don't know. Maybe the zoo? We need to weed our garden beds again, so maybe Monday will be a work around the house day.
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Sounds like a fun weekend, though, even if a bit busy. It is so hard getting rid of the baby stuff! We gave most of our stuff to a cousin of DH's who was pregnant...well, to her mother, actually, who was going to be the babysitter and needed a crib and play pen and such in her house, too. So we gave it all to them. But it was hard to admit we weren't going to be having any more babies. Now, as much as I would love another baby, I'm so glad to be out of the diaper and nap stage, and so glad that my kids are so much more self-sufficient. They can be left at home alone for short periods so my husband can drop me off at work, or like today, my son wasn't feeling great but I had to get DD to school, so I had to leave him home alone. And I want to take an anniversary trip to WDW for our 25th anniversary in 9 years. DD will be 20 and DS will be 18, so they will be adults and we can leave them here safely while we do a sort of 2nd honeymoon. I wouldn't be able to do that if we had another baby now...so I can't see us having any more.
 

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