Posted by Albert Einstein on 2006-01-27 16:58:19
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I read the post and the replies, and even though I'm completely inexperienced in the field of education, I'm wondering if it would not be possible to incorporate a more non-academic section into your tutoring, which you seem to be doing to already, even more so. Perhaps you can talk to his parents about taking him Christmas shopping. Or you could have him do challenging puzzles that may not be related to his studies but will teach him that there is not always a shortcut. I don't know, just my two cents.
Posted by Sewlittletime on 2005-12-04 07:15:51
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You all are just a wealth of information!! If I can finish my Christmas shopping, decorating, and wrapping soon, I'm going to get started on this ASAP!!
The young lady's b-day is on Jan. 5th, so after christmas I would only have a week and a half to work on it.
I'm feeling very ambitious this year! LOL!
Posted by zbann on 2005-11-27 01:37:19
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I also love the holidays, and try to have the entire month of December is Christmas to me. I love to see how mny other of us Christmas lovers there are.
I put up my decorations yesterday and today. Set up my tree, made two wreaths. My husband helped by staying out of my way and turning to say wow that looks great when I asked what he thinks :)
A tradition that my husband and I both like is the advent calendar. Basically I set it up and my husband opens a box for each day --starting december 1st. This year I bought a playmobile one. I keep thinking of making one--but so many other projects to do!
Another tradition that we have is we see one professional show--whether the ballet, musical or theater. This year it's the Christmas Carol--which if you're in Seattle see it at the ACT--it's terrific. This is our third time seeing their production.
Let's see on that idea we also go to the Botanical Gardens and look at the lights, we go to our city's tree lighting ceremony and other communty events.
Though I already starting my Christmas Shopping and except for baking all my Christmas crafting is done--I try to wrap presents slowly. Only one or two a day. Mainly to make sure the present is complete. Plus I love wrapping presents.
Speaking of shopping; my mom and I (and sometimes my sisters as well) do a shopping day and go out to a tea house for lunch.
My girlfriends and I do a cookie swap. I host it and serve tea, fruit, cheese, etc. This is a No husbands/boyfriends event. Doesn't have to be of course, but for us it's just a good time to get with all my women friends during the season--plus it's very practical as well.
My husband and I adopted a family from the Salvation Army. We always try to do some good during the season.
Chelsea, we have a tradition like your yelling at the cats--but it is scolding the dogs. Two dogs who love to shred paper and ribbons. Our doggy son already ate a little plastic "berry" from the wreath I was making.
Posted by sarabell on 2005-06-02 15:13:22
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i guess because it's a week before christmas and people are always too busy. and i am pretty socially retarded so i don't really have any friends. so instead of setting myself up for disappointment, i really just prefer not to bother with it. so no parties, no cake, nothin. but i get a couple calls, a couple presents. my favorite thing the past several years to do is get the day to myself and finish christmas shopping all by myself.
Posted by PamTheQueen on 2004-12-30 15:31:02
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When I was in Europe, I always had canvas bags with me to use at stores (even non-grocery). This was normal there. Or at least the cities I visited.
Here in the US of A, I know some friends in the big cities (NYC and San Francisco) who use canvas bags for groceries and shopping, but out here in the midwest suburban jungle it's just not done. I've tried to do the canvas bag thing myself here, but I never have stuck with it -- mostly because I feel like the odd duck!
Well...I just returned from doing post-vacation grocery shopping at one of the mainstream grocery stores (Meijer for all my Midwest friends..) and fought with the cashier who was using the idiotic carousel bagging thing they all use now. He was putting one or two items in the PLASTIC bags and then turning it to fill the next. He told me he was done with the ones coming towards me. I told him he wasn't, as there was still a lot of room in the bags! It's not like the items were things that should be seperated from the rest of the groceries because they were messy, chemicals, or heavy. It was just regular items. I was pulling the bags off the carousel bag hooks and placing the bags on top and telling him what item coming down the belt could go in there. He wasn't too happy with me, but I didn't give a flying plastic monkey's tale!
It's not like this idiot was an exception either. We have way too many plastic bags from pre-Christmas shopping and previous grocery trips stored up. There isn't a good recycling option for them around here and while reusing the bags would be smart, I think even smarter would be to just not worry about being an odd duck and use canvas bags.
I have tons of canvas bags in stock, plus canvas I can sew together for my own designs. I was using those big canvas Ikea bags for trips to the beach and dirty clothes while camping in our camper this summer, but those would be perfect to have on hand too!
I personally would like to start a local movement to encourage others to do the same. I'm just so sick of all the waste from plastic grocery bags! If you look on the sides of highways, it is easy to see tons of them stuck in fence posts and in ditches(along with all the other wasteful crap like fastfood trash and Starbucks cups here lately...). I am also sure that the manufacturing process involved in making these plastic bags isn't good for the environment either. Idiots like the wasteful cashiers don't help.
Sorry for my rant, but I really am moved by it -- in a angry, but in the end hopefully productive way!
