A New Record
 

Where do you meet these people, the psychiatric ward?

Wind Speeds
 

Ah yes. I skip a few weeks and such FB subtleties escape me.

BTW, that whole Darwin/stop-sign-head-cutting-off comment was pretty darn vicious. Brava!

An old complaint
 

Thurgreed will be happy to know that I do love air, especially when it is whizzing around in a storm.

I was living on the North Shore (Mass.) during the Perfect Storm. Took me hours to get home from Boston, but when I got there I promptly put on my foul weather gear, put a couple of beers in the pockets and headed out to see the sights. I wasn't the only one. Sure, it was not the safest thing to do. Power lines, trees, boats, anything could have come flying through the air at us, but nothing did.

During college a hurricane passed right over our campus (again in New England). Spent a fun filled day, drinking beer, trying to play frisbee (difficult to catch when it flies over the hill), drinking beer, sledding down the hills in the wet grass, getting high, drinking beer, etc. The eye passed directly overhead. For about 15 minutes if was 80 degrees, calm and sunny. Then the backside of the storm hit.

I usually venture out if I have the proper attire, there is daylight, or I can be fairly sure that their will be nobody on the roads. Also depends on where I am (city, woods, beach) and what time of year it is. 50 mph winds through trees in winter won't generate as much airborne debris as 50 mph winds through trees with their leaves still on them (like now). If the weather gurus report flying debris then I generally stay inside.

Anne
This winter in NE was a great one for wandering the city streets during blizzards.

Nuts
 

Apparently, peanut consumption of any kind during pregnancy or breast feeding correlates to severe peanut allergies. No peanut butter (or satay) for mom until weaning, and no peanut butter for Jr. until after the 3rd BD. If there is any history of dairy or other allergies in either family, they are supposed to avoid that, too. So nuts join alcohol, organ meants, raw vegetables and salads, cheese, caffinated drinks, shell fish and fin fish on the lists of things pregnant women aren't supposed to consume.

Of course, the way things are going, before long pregnant & nursing women will be permitted to eat nothing at all but a healthful, prescribed gruel. They're no longer human beings, you know they are vessels for the MIRACLE OF LIFE!!

Actually, in some good news, research appears to be showing that non-pasteurized cheeses are no more risky than pasteurized cheeses. Though whether that means the pregnancy Nazis will permit all cheese or ban pasteurized cheese, too, remains a mystery.

BR(whoops, I said Nazi, I loose)C

Wind Speeds
 

Thank you. It's what I do. Uh, I mean, it's all PMS and people I ridicule on here are just innocent victims of my raging hormones. Poor things. Maybe they can sue me for intentional infliction of emotional distress, or something.

How To Tell Office Morale Is Poor
 

So I mentioned in passing to a co-worker that I could not meet with her this afternoon b/c I have a meeting with GP in Charge of Things, and I got the pitying look I usually reserve for those wearing cheap shoes, coupled with a sympathetic arm pat.

I went on to say that meeting had to do with planning an upcoming event, and was told, "Whew. I thought maybe you were getting fired."

:wtf??:

How To Tell Office Morale Is Poor
 

Is there something you want to tell us about your place of employ?

JLo -- Piling on
 

I may have read this on here, so apologies if that is the case, but one astute observer noted that the automatic tuner should get a credit on her records.


(That's pretty low -- but, of course, I laughed.)

Nuts
 

The key is the family history bit. If you don't have a family history of food allergies, you can be a little more relaxed about some of this stuff.

As for breastfeeding, I nursed Magnus until 15 1/2 months and never had any feel-me-up embarrassing moments. At 12 months, he was only nursing morning, nap and evening and once or twice at night. We eliminated one at a time, and voila! he was weaned, relatively painlessly.

I do think that if I'd waited much longer, it would have been harder. And I never nursed exclusively for comfort ("oh, you fell down, here, this will make you feel better"--do not fall into this habit!!), so he wasn't expecting to nurse at any other than our regular times.

Oh, and Atticus, the weight loss thing doesn't work if (like me) you crave ice cream and other sources of butterfat 24/7. I lost fat while pregnant (craved fruits, veggies and lean meat, and lost my sweet tooth), but gained it all back while nursing. Dammit.

tm

A New Record
 

I read this to say "no allergies at all (well, except to my mother)"

and I thought I was the only one allergic to their own mother...

Bn'(my mother lists her hobbies as "yoga, shopping, fat-free eating")B

A New Record
 

I know about not feeding it directly to young children (same goes for honey), but had never heard about the mother not eating it. It may have some basis in scientific fact, but I would have thought I'd have heard that if it were so commonly known (because I am omniscient when it comes to these sorts of topics, as I think everyone on this board would mostly agree.)

A New Record
 

My sister had to stop using any and all dairy products while she was nursing her son, because he was breaking out in rashes and they realized this was the cause.

Missockgyny
 

Am I missing something, or is this a missocking?

College Advice (long question)
 

Apologies for bringing in boring family stuff. Feel free to skip to the next sex question.

I need your thoughts on how to advise the oldest Fugee niece on college strategies. She is a senior and has an "interesting" high school transcript.

It seems she has inherited her Aunt Fugee's tendency to procrastinate. Apparently during her sophomore year she failed 3 classes but got all As in the rest and thus had a GPA high enough to make National Honor Society. She also failed a class her junior year but that was an Incomplete that turned into a fail because she didn't turn in her final project that was most of the grade. Her teacher in that class is going to let her turn in the project and, because all her other work in that class was A or B, her grade for the class will be the grade she gets on the project, without any deduction for the lateness.

My SIL has no schooling beyond high school and my brother got his degree by going part-time so neither of them really "get" the importance of college. The Fugee niece wants to be a pediatrician so she'll need a decent pre-med program.

My brother thinks she should stay at home and go to the local community college for 2 years then transfer to a 4 year school. I think that particular community college would not prepare her for a 4 year college, much less give her a good start on a pre-med program. I've offered to let her live with me while she goes to school and there are a number of college options in the Twin Cities.

Now for the question, how can she explain to an admissions committee that she is a lot smarter than her GPA would indicate? High ACT or SAT scores would help but, speaking of procrastination, she hasn't taken them yet and hasn't cracked the prep books I gave her. Does it make sense for her to go to a junior college (one more academically challenging than their community college) for a year or two so she'll presumably have a better track record than she has right now?

Missockgyny
 

Name change. Debt paid off.