OT - NO POLITICS August edition - The summer wind came blowin' in……
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Bruinaura
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Just bought this thing on Amazon. Never thought I'd spend $80 on a dustbuster but boy, does it work as advertised on pet hair. And anyway, i used a gift card from our health insurance wellness plan so i didn't actually pay anything for it lol. Added bonus, now I have something I can use in my car instead of having to go to a car wash place.
You remind me of my daughter, she bought a new vacuum/steam cleaner and was excited. She said, "I can't believe I'm excited over a vacuum, I feel so old".....lol she is 31.
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Juan ‘Chi Chi’ Rodriguez, popular Hall of Fame golfer, dead at 88
A Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, he died Thursday.
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Bruinaura
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I come by it honest.... my mom got excited when she bought a push mower in her 70s
Well, my work shutdown week has been a bust. Crappiest weather of the summer. I guess I’m glad I didn’t plan an actual vacation this week.
Trying to decide whether to retire at the end of the year. What do retired people do? (I already vacuumed behind the couch.)
Trying to decide whether to retire at the end of the year. What do retired people do? (I already vacuumed behind the couch.)
Well, my work shutdown week has been a bust. Crappiest weather of the summer. I guess I’m glad I didn’t plan an actual vacation this week.
Trying to decide whether to retire at the end of the year. What do retired people do? (I already vacuumed behind the couch.)
Whatever the hell we want to do.
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Get a hip replacement!Well, my work shutdown week has been a bust. Crappiest weather of the summer. I guess I’m glad I didn’t plan an actual vacation this week.
Trying to decide whether to retire at the end of the year. What do retired people do? (I already vacuumed behind the couch.)
Sleep in the morning after Bruins games!
Those with daughters:
Just hit age 12 this summer. When will she be nice to me again lol
Just hit age 12 this summer. When will she be nice to me again lol
Mine is 15, still waiting for the niceness to return, so you've some time to go. lol
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When I had daughters and was raising girls it depends on the girl. The youngest and I were inseparable when she was 10-12 she followed me and her mom everywhere. Now shes 16 gonna be 17 on the 20th and we hardly talk all that much. Oldest girl and I met when she was 14/15 and we always been close. Much closer now since shes 21/22. Second oldest we are closer now at 19 than we were in her teens.
Just depends on the child
Bruinaura
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It depends. Do you make her take a picture with the SOTB gorilla?
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@TD Charlie as someone who was a preteen/teen girl, a lot of that depends on her friends. If her friends are close with/like/tolerant of their parents, you'll have a much easier time. If her friends think parents are a drag then you, too, shall be a drag.
Middle school was the worst for my relationship with my mom, because being in middle school and that age is pure hell. Things turned around significantly when I went to high school and we were super close (no real relationship with my dad so can't speak to that)
Middle school was the worst for my relationship with my mom, because being in middle school and that age is pure hell. Things turned around significantly when I went to high school and we were super close (no real relationship with my dad so can't speak to that)
Mine is miserable and indifferent 99% of the time.
However, she does perk up when I make her perogies for dinner. lol
Mine (she is 44 now) was tough at 12 but when she turned 13 all was cool. We are close.
Chicken and cheese quesadillas here!
Her best friends parents are also divorced, and I think she also has a much more cordial relationship with mom. I assume the two of them rub off on one another and hate on Dad in solidarity.
I think there is something to be said about middle school, social media, and all of the changes that take place in girls that age. The other day she complained of back pain and I was like oh shit it's happening! False alarm
Such optimism!
10 years, I don't know if I can survive whatever this arrangement is for another 10.
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Notable for being part of the most notorious event in wrestling history. His wife left him for Chris Benoit (after Sullivan wrote a storyline where she would leave him for Benoit, life imitated art), and she died in those murders.
I didn't watch a lot of WCW prior to like 1998, so I don't have much exposure to Sullivan's work, but he was well regarded as a booker. The impression I get watching his stuff from the 80s is that it was trendy (if not groundbreaking) for its time but looks very dated now.
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Proud that my kid's future high school is the first in VT ban cell phones 8-3pm. They will all have a lockable pouch to put them in that gets unlocked when they leave. Excited to be done with this failed experiment. What astonished me about parents is they can't remember how they all went to school without phones. What if plans change? Call the office or email your kid on their school supplied lap top.
And dont tell me they need to use phones to be "digitally literate". I have supervised a ton of interns who grew up on phones who are 100% digitally illitterate when it comes to using an actual computer.
We got our oldest a dumb phone to use as our home phone. It has navigation, voice to text, hot spotting, and wifi calling. I only have one phone (work) but if I ever change jobs I want one too!
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And dont tell me they need to use phones to be "digitally literate". I have supervised a ton of interns who grew up on phones who are 100% digitally illitterate when it comes to using an actual computer.
We got our oldest a dumb phone to use as our home phone. It has navigation, voice to text, hot spotting, and wifi calling. I only have one phone (work) but if I ever change jobs I want one too!
The F1 Pro Rugged Dumbphone - Sunbeam Wireless - Durable simple mobile phones
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I been rewatching WCW 96/97 Horsemen vs DOD feud was good.
I dont believe he had anything to do with Nancy Benoits death.
She was also from Boston
Jesus Christ on a bicycle, she's 12 already???? Holy shit.
Being a girl she'll always be easier on you than her mother. Book it.
