Posted on 03/02/2012 9:17:36 AM PST by Short Bus
Since they weren’t delivering cheezburgers, the call wasn’t important.
Teach a cat to fish, and you will ... aw, never mind. Just keep giving it the fish.
Catz ...
Off to my prayer group, at the house where they have catz on the dinner table, just like at my house!
Uhhhh...I had fish on my dinner table last night.
Congrats to Tom and his team!
So did you fix it?
It’s good to have a little decor sometimes ...
There were three teams of homeschooled students, out of 15, and they won first, second, and fifth place.
Our team’s forestry expert, Forrest, won’t be able to go to the state competition, so they’ll have to pull in the alternate member and then have everyone learn forestry for the next month. Forrest did really well in forestry at the Science Olympiad, but not so well this time. Different material.
Wow. It’s a little late for me to say “good morning,” so I’ll just say, “Hello dere!”
I went with busdaddy to his doctor appointment. He has to have a physical every year in order to race, so this was it. It was ugly. He had an 11:00 apppointment, and while he got there before ten, it was after 11:30 before he was seen.
He was not a happy guy.
And since I opted to meet him there, I got nothing done but taking the garbage out...*sigh*
Do they have prepared study guides? Do they get sample questions? I really needed that sort of material when I prepped for certification exams.
They had a set of materials to learn for each subject. Tom’s file for Aquatics was about 100 printed pages. Some of the others had more. They also had some sample questions from previous years’ competitions. The wildlife test asked more questions about state law than our team could answer, so they’ll study more about that. In forestry, they needed more knowledge about types of leaves, types of bark, and so on - technical vocabulary.
Afternoon! Back from Kathleen’s checkup. She officially weighs 13 lbs. 14 oz. She got two shots. I think Sally needs to go next - booster shots for some things at 12, or there used to be.
Odd. When I divorced my first husband, I took a battery of tests to find out what I was best suited for in the working world. It came back as “forest ranger,” but because I was a woman, they wouldn’t even consider me.
My next stop was the post office, and they said I would never qualify because I would have to lift “up to 100 pounds,” and I only weighed 147 at the time.
I ended up going to work for Greyhound, and I was lifting packages “up to 100 pounds” above my head.
Maybe I should have gone back to the Post Office...;o]
I didn’t mind shots when I was a kid. It was only after my car accident that I would faint when needles were present. Now, I’m not too bad as long as I don’t look at the needle.
Thank you for K update! How does she do after the shots?
Some young women don’t realize how advantaged they are with respect to career choices. What’s concerning is the economy. It’s difficult to survive on one salary for many couples. *sigh*
I struggled because I had a baby to care for. There was no “welfare” then, so I had to work or we would go hungry. About the time he turned nine, welfare became available, but it was shameful to me that I had to depend on it.
I wasn’t able to rent a house or take out a loan and even got denied a job because I was divorced. I’m so glad those day are over! My son never knew how many meals I went without so he could eat. He still doesn’t.
But I wouldn’t trade a day of it, as it helped me remember that I was worth something more than a label.
I’m having trouble tearing myself away from new library book: “Culinary Reactions.” The author wrote a blurb describing how he brought a 160-liter Dewar flask of liquid nitrogen and made ice cream for a bunch of Nobel Prize winners at a science convention. He sounds like a good addition to our birthday celebrations....
Thirteen pounds???
You will be needing a crane to lift her, soon!
Eh?
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