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Way to go! Just remember, the goal with young children is not to make them lose weight. It's to have them develop healthy eating habits and grow into their weight. (Cuties are healthy, but I like the darling clementines better, just for the name.)

Well, if they leave their car keys, you kind of have to let them.

Oh sweet Jebus, I don't have my glasses on, and I thought that that said urethra.

fuggs, please. You won't let the poor wage slave at Subway skimp on the onions without calling corporate. I don't believe that that is not exactly what you wanted done. It is kind of cute, though.

I've got chili cooking now, so it'll be ready tomorrow. Supper's at 6.

That's not zeni - he's too tall

Meh. Ghostie's channel is far more alpha, even without new content.

nice to see you.

My older daughter had good and bad - accelerated academics at her first elementary school, which was good, then "enrichment" (aka bullshit) at her second elementary school. Then accelerated academics in middle school.

Define AAP. When kids tell me they're taking AP courses, they're talking about courses for college credit. Madison is bright, but she's not taking AP courses.

There is no AP in 3rd grade. Does honor roll count when one's mom bullies one's teachers into raising one's grades?

Goddammit, I though I was done with assemblies when my kids graduated.

When my younger daughter and the grandkids were on Medicaid, their plan was administered by the same company that my husband's private insurance was through.

On an oddly coincidental note, my daughter texted me from work to tell me that there's a measles outbreak locally. But hey, who needs vaccines?

Kudasai the Konqueror

Ummhmmm. And I'll bet it's just amazing, since you're a loyal and stable employee (again, by the history you give). And medicaid, no matter what pretty name you give it, is NOT a healthcare plan.

Do you really have a retirement plan? Through an employer? The account you give of your work history doesn't generally lead one to believe that you're actually vested anywhere. And if you're going to be flinging all of your bipolar suffering around in here like a monkey flinging shit, you don't have the capacity to have a personal plan of your own; bipolars are notorious for their poor personal judgement, be it in romance or finance.

It's smarter than going to college now and selling her soul to pay for a degree in a field that she finds out she hates.

Too dumb for a retirement or medical plan? Damn, I wish I'd been dumb enough to go into the military.

For what it's worth: My older daughter had a friend in middle and high school who was an extremely bright kid (she was in the gifted program with my daughter, so she had a measured IQ of at least 130), extremely talented musician, singer, and actor. She was chased by colleges all through high school (she was on the radar because the gifted kids always took the SAT's in 7th grade), and got scholarship offers from quite a few really good schools. And it upset the hell out of her - she was mixed Pacific Islander, Native American, and African American, and she always questioned whether she was getting all these offers because of what she could do, or because of what she was. (Well on her way to being a career cynic at 14 or 15, she generally leaned toward the latter.)

And Jenny McCarthy, because somebody must be to blame for her son's autism.

Stick to what you know - bottom-shelf piss-water beer (and malt liquor on special occasions).

Yes. Do that. It'll be fun. Especially since the number she gave you probably has nothing in common with her real number.

No, because they'd grab their kids and their friendly neighborhood true believers' kids so they could have parties. Haven't you ever heard of pox parties, so kids can get the chicken pox? It's more natural to have the pox, and subsequently things like shingles and herpetic neuralgia, than the bad old vaccination...and screw any poor child who winds up dying from encephalitis or pneumonia or any other complication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party (There's stupid, and there's stupid...)

You can't talk sense to anti-vaxers. It's like a fucking religion to them. I'll get you some links, though, later - right now, the grandkids are riding my ass to let them play games.