Thank you again for explaining, interesting and inspiring..nm
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Thank you. You are inspiring. (nm)
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Thank you for explaining :)
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thanks for explaining that
I didn't know it was a family build - I really thought it was for the boys to design/draw/paint.
I guess I was wrong in ranting about it! :) It just seemed so crazy to me these little boys competing against grown men and the men getting so excited over beating them.
Truly an inspiring post. nm
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Thank you Retta B...very inspiring...sm.
and by the way, you look mahvelous dahling!
Ode to Joy with a twist...Joyful is the word of the day... Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_c_MHkba5c
Thanks for explaining that moderator
as I was wondering why it was brought up after the "discussion" was last week although I did not get to read the post.
An inspiring video
Turn up the volume and enjoy. This is inspiring.
http://www.finishstrongmovie.com/
Explaining AIDS
AIDS is a disease that is spread by blood contact. The particular act that male homosexuals frequently engage in makes them very susceptible to exchanging blood fluids with each other. The promiscuity issue increases the rate of spread exponentially.
There are plenty of other sexually and blood products transmitted diseases out there besides AIDS, and AIDS also is spread in the heterosexual communities too, along with all the other STDs.
That all being said, people with AIDS are still, 25 years after the discovery of AIDS primarily in the gay community, far more likely to be gay males than straight anything.
As far as I know, non-IV-drug-using lesbians still are in one of the lowest risk categories for AIDS. Kinda blows part of that theory while still proving the other part of the theory, doesn't it?
Thanks for the idea, and possibly inspiring another one...sm
Hmm, that just might work. One tree trunk is pretty wide, but good idea for the smaller ones and for my neighbor's. Your idea got my brain working (ow, ow) and maybe for the big tree, I will try tying a *necklace* of large garden containers--the black plastic ones. Thanks. 
Explaining a couple of things sm
I studied IQ as part of my Master's degree. Another poster mentioned that the higher one's IQ is the less likely they are to be happy. From my own research, this is quite true. It is also true that the higher one's IQ, the less likely they are to succeed in education, in a job, in relationships and in life. No one will "get" you because your sense of humor is probably well off the beaten track. You probably lack social skills from an early age. Your peers would play childhood games while you preferred to try to improve upon the toys they played with. In school, you didn't have to work very hard in most areas. It all came very easily. You didn't learn how to learn, which is a very valuable skill. You probably have a low frustration level and when something doesn't come very easily, you are prone to giving up. Because you see the world in completely different terms than people of more average intelligence, those same average people call you crazy or mentally ill and tell you that you should be locked up. You don't fit in and despite the higher intelligence, you are remiss to know how to accomplish the feat of being more ordinary.
I alluded to this in my previous post. I have the unusual combination of being very artistic, creatively gifted AND being rather intellectually gifted. Yes, I did fall at the 99.6% percentile on the Wechsler. I know what it means and I have a firm understanding that indeed, that score suggests that I possess more intelligence than 99.6% of the people who have taken that test, and only 0.4% are "smarter" than I am. It has been a life-long struggle to fit in. I am too cerebral for artistic people, and too artistic for intellectuals. I literally have no one I fit in with. I have learned to tone myself down to make it work. I didn't say dumb down, I said tone down. That means I don't intentionally talk over the heads of others and I won't cram what I know down anyone's throat.
I have had those people in my life who have been jealous of me. I learn quickly if it is artistic, musical, creative, the written word, history and philosophy. I struggle with math. I took piano lessons 10 years ago. I had 40 of them and had never played the piano before. In 40, 1-hour lessons I could play the Moonlight Sonata in piano solo (not a dumbed down easy version). Most people cannot do that. There many other things I have done in a similar fashion, but this is an example for you.
You ask why I am an MT if I am so smart. I make very good money as an MT and I enjoy the challenge. My photographic memory comes in very handy too. I often stop and read up on a disease process I am transcribing about, so that I know what it means. Show me a word once and I'll know it forever. It makes my job easier for me to accomplish.
This all sounds like I am blowing my own horn, but I am merely trying to explain. Being highly intelligent won't pay the bills because there is no automatic grant for people who test very high. Being highly intelligent doesn't mean you won't have to do the laundry, cook supper, wipe your own backside, make your own bed and take out your own stinky trash. It frankly doesn't mean that much on a day to day basis. Certainly, I have confidence in my ability to learn new things and that is a comfort to me as an MT. I can rely on myself in that way. Being highly intelligent didn't prevent me from having 3 autoimmune disorders. It has not helped with my household organizational skills, which are basically nil, and I find I am so distracted that being "really smart" is not only not helpful, I think it is the root of the housecleaning issues in my life.
In short, it is just great to have a good ol' high number and in the end it makes absolutely difference...if you don't count the fact that people with IQs over 150 are 3 times more likely to be depressed and commit suicide than the average population. People who are 125 to 140 are the most fortunate. They succeed in greater numbers in school, in a job, in life. They are very bright, and likely have learned how to learn. They are more likely to persevere in the face of frustration and challenge.
It really isn't all you think it is.
Thanks for explaining this. Do you kinow if this holds also true for Muslims? nm
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Trulyl inspiring. What you have both found your soul-mates for life. For most,
and I can tell you from experience and experience of friends and family, a lot of problems in marriage is caused by selfishness. I'm saying a lot, not all problems.
If you both give selflessly (thus, having to work at it), then you can have a great marriage.
Some marriages come naturally (like yours) and others not so natural. Two people brought together with different needs and wants and desires and we must let them "be" and give a lot of ourselves, and them to us, and then your marriage can be wonderful.
thanks for that info. it's inspiring to know about people's stories of weight loss. sm
a big majority of my problem is in my head, the way i think. i like to think of my self as being a positive person loving life, but i do have my days where i get down, especially about my weight. but i look at every day as a new day and i can always start over. i'll check out this website, thanks so much!
In MHO when they start asking its time to start explaining.
My daughter and I started discussing the basics in like second or third grade.
Good luck it was much harder for me with my son.
Well, sorry but it's been the most interesting
and humorous thread on this board in a long time! lol
That is interesting! (sm)
My son and his girlfriend (early 20s)wizzed through it in a day.
My daughter, who just turned 20, wants to savor it, just like you. She is so sentimental because having just turned 20 and with this being the end of the HP series, she feels it is the end of an era of sorts. I believe she began reading HP in her first teen year, so this book was with her throughout all her teen years.
The other 2 are chomping at the bit to talk to her about it, but she's just taking her time...
Hope you enjoy it! I don't read HP, but maybe when I retire, I'll take it up :-)
Very interesting!
I haven't had a solid night sleep in YEARS. I wind up taking Tylenol PM here and there when my insomnia gets really bad but I'd be curious to see if it would help--price seems right anyway! My problem is I can't get my head to turn off...the voices...all the damn voices.
Wow, that's interesting
and something I never knew. My husband works at a car dealership and we lease very three years. I love getting a new car every three years. I'm due another one in December. On the other hand he has an older car that I'm sure we'll keep for sometime so we don't have another car payment.
interesting you should say that
My sister did this also when she was younger and she has such guilt from it. Years later when she found out she was pregnant, she had a lot of emotional issues; all related to the abortion. I think she feels deep down she was not deserving because of the choice she made so many years before; very sad to watch someone you love go through.
That is SO interesting.
I was born/raised in Miami-Dade. I moved when my son was entering HS and my daugher the 4th grade, a little over 10 years ago.
I left because of the educational system and because I couldn't afford to buy a house there.
When I read in your post that your kids did FINE, I thought to myself, that's because you are probably an awesome parent and your kids are probably pretty good by nature as well.
I'm sure mine could have gotten through it, but I would have been a basket case (single parent).
I moved a couple hundred miles north of Miami, then about 4 years later to a small town in N FL when my daughter was to enter HS, again for educational reasons. Not because the educational system was great, but because of the small town atmosphere, etc.
She did so well and she didn't get lost in the shuffle, although I doubt she would anywhere (very headstrong, vivacious, outgoig and involved). Anyhow, she's about to enter her 3rd year of college with a 3.8. Needless to say, I'm pround. I feel I was a good parent, but I give her most of the credit for just being a hardworker and good kid by nature (God gets the credit for the good by nature part, me thinks!).
I guess I digressed.... Just wanted to say, way to hang in there and congrats on raising kids in Miami LOL. I know it is possible to succeed in the face of a poor educational system, but I do believe it is harder and a challenge. I really don't think all the blame should be put on the educational system, though, because from what I saw when my kids went to school there, there was a problem with parent involvement, participation, or even knowing their kids existed. It started to become the school's responsibility to do everything basically for some of the kids and discipline was more of a concern than education. Which is why I left. My son had a class where 10% was teaching and the rest was the teacher yelling at the students.
And no, there was no spanking there. It was the small-town school that did the whoopins.
Again kudos for getting through it!
I don't get what's interesting or different about that. nm
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Not at all interesting...
I am so sorry about Gloria but yes, it hurts when someone you love will not accept you. I am taking a chance here but I really do not care. I came out to my mom at 19 as she had gay friends. Her reaction was to drag me from psychiatrist to psychiatrist but in 1975 it was taken off the "mental, deviation" DSM. Even when I lived with someone for 13 years she did not acknowledge it - we were just roommates. She will never accept it and I respect that. We have a great relationship otherwise but its sad to think that she would rather see me alone and unhappy than to be gay. I am grateful though that all my other family members and friends accept me for who I am. It just saddens me that people cannot accept other people for who they love.
Very interesting
What a great way to think about our history. I wish I had your teachers. Mine made it so uninteresting. I struggled through both grammar and high school and barely passed. However my older sister had the same teachers I did and she excelled at it, so I have to admit that it probably wasn't the teachers but me. Just watching the series really makes you thankful for all our founding fathers did and all they risked. Your so lucky to live in Philadelphia. I would love to live back in that area. I grew up in Connecticut so we learned a lot about colonial days and what it was like. Plus my mom taught us all the skills they used to do (quilting, candle making, canning, etc) in colonial days. She told us if we ever get to a point where we don't have the modern conveniences of electricity or heat or cooking on an electric stove we're going to have to know how to survive. I now live in Oregon and I sure do miss the east coast. I think as I'm reading about history now I will think about your comments about putting things in perspective. My DH says that too. I am definitely getting David McCullough's book now and looking forward to the read.
It will be interesting to see what the
investigation reveals. As of yet, they have not found the supposed girl who called in, so we have no idea what is true and what is not true. We have no idea if teenage girls are married to adult men. The point of the investigation is to discover whether that is true. Personally, I think it is best to wait before making a judgment about that. We all know the media is far from accurate these days.
Interesting...
I would like to know more about your gift. When did you discover you had this gift. How does it manifest itself exactly? Do you have dreams foreseeing future things.
I have a friend who has episodes far and between. And she has dreamed different friends of hers were pregnant and she would find out later that they were and she has had other dreams more real dreams of things that made no sense but then later something would happen that was from the dream. Very weird. She was totally freaked out. It happened a lot while she was pregnant. But then after she had her baby it hasn't happened anymore.
Wow, that's really interesting! sm
i have one bassett that is scared of fireworks and i have another bassett very scared of thunderstorms. he gets so scared and shakes, his teeth will actually chatter. i feel so bad for him. i'm going to try the peppermint oil. thanks for the information!!!
That's interesting
I've never heard that done. I'm happy it's on a Friday night. That means no rushing around trying to get my youngest home and ready for bed so she can go to school in the morning.
Interesting, thanks.....nm
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most interesting job
was working as a computer trainer. We were contracted to the National Park Service so I would travel around to various national parks and teach the staff. The best time was when I went to Ellis Island. It was under renovation at the time, but they put a hard hat on me and gave me a private tour. I got to go into the holding cells and see the messages written on the walls in all kinds of languages.
The worst job because it was so boring was when I worked for the Wall Street Journal as an advertising secretary and there was nothing to do but answer the phone a couple times a day and type a letter or two a week. I started going to night school and would do my homework all day at work. Boy, would I love a job like that now!
This is all very interesting...
I just moved from near Seattle--across the sound, and I thought that I hated it there. Went to Mississippi and was very very hot for a couple of months and now I am in Nebraska where it is very very very very cold!!! Tell you what--Seattle looks better and better every day!!!
You have said something interesting
I had not heard of the cleaning situation at all and probably my DH has not either. Like backwards typist said, the convenience thing is something I desire. I hate to waste water and from 1 end of the house to where the water heater is some distance. I will certainly tell hubs about this and thanks for the information as something had not heard.
Thanks, that's interesting
I didn't know about the yogurt. I'll have to pass that information on to him. Well...there are sometimes maybe when I might want to give him a pop in the nose. LOL. No bashing here.
An interesting example of AI
See link below.
Interesting
Isn't it interesting they say it may fizzle out and emerge stronger in the fall...when they've said the vaccine they're developing should be ready in September?
I think it's just going to fizzle out PERIOD but the pharmaceutical companies want to get their big money windfall from people's fears.
Interesting!
I will have to put Alka-Seltzer in my list of tricks for this. How did you think (or hear) of that?
I know the acid thing is not supposed to cure it (but only help prevent it), but I swear lemonade cured mine once.
Yes, he IS quite interesting...
... that photo shows up as greater than life-sized, at least on my monitor... In real life, he's... oh, maybe 5 inches long without his tail. And you might not guess by looking at the picture... but everything on him, head crests and all, is SOFT. The only hard things are the claws (which are too tiny to dig in) and his teeth (he's gotten sassy and tried to take a chunk out of my finger a couple of times).
Interesting article...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15769975/site/newsweek/
is it art? sounds interesting, what is it? nm
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Very interesting article........
Here is the link........
http://www.newstarget.com/022096.html
I find it very interesting that
one small comment about something can offend people so quickly!
VERY interesting! I had an older get get the same - sm
symptoms you describe after a minor procedure under anesthesia (teeth-cleaning). She wobbled around for 2 days, then I took her back. She was very dehydrated, so they gave her a shot of water under the skin. Don't know if that's what helped her, but by the next day she was better, and the day after that she was fine.
This is very interesting on this topic
http://www.jugglezine.com/CDA/juggle/0,1516,30,00.html
It's interesting how some presume to know
everything about soneone and their family just by heresay (the media).
Maybe she is a terrible person and her husband is Father Of The Year and it's your right to state you opinion, but you don't know her or her husband at all. The media, especially the entertainment media, is not always a reliable source of correct information.
SIL, not so strange but interesting.
His name is Craig and his twin is Cliff. Creative mom, huh!
Wow, it's interesting to see the different prices sm
Thanks for sharing your info on the hair cuts. I'm from Missouri and they are running on an average of $20 for wash, cut and dry. I never really knew if I was tipping enough or not.
I don't think Ryan is an interesting
host at all. The show spends too much time on babble. I don't know what I'd do without DVR to speed through all the drivel.
They should have gotten Tom Bergeron.
Interesting question!
I have really lightened up over the years. My political views are way more liberal than say 5-10 years ago. Home decorating has made a complete turn from that cutsie country stuff to a bit more upscale bohemian look.
And my clothing styles have made a big change. I guess along with my political views, my wardrobe has become less stuffy too. My clothing style is more fun than it was when I was younger and I regret missing out on the "fun stuff" when my body was in better shape!!
Here is an interesting site
Click link below.
My DD loves hers. Interesting. nm
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Sounds interesting..but I would ask your SIL since she already has one for her son..
she probably knows more details about it
Sounds interesting
Would you like to share your recipe?
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