I talked to my trusted dentist about toothpaste and mouthwash. Which products would keep germs away the best in order to stop caries. His smiling answer? "Any of them. Take your pick. There's no such thing as completely removing all the germs. Don't believe what they tell you." And, he added that we need germs to fight bad germs.
Hand washing is important as long as you don't become obsessed with it. There's some theories that all of this is increasing asthma and allergy problems.
Dianne
He drove by, saw her by herself and nabbed. Could have been my kid... It was near enough.
I let DD roam, but with some limits; tell me where she's headed, etc....
His social worker claims he's exercising his civil rights to be at the library and frankly would sue if given the least provocation. Claims he wouldn't hurt a flea, he's simple, etc....we're discriminating because he's homeless, mentally ill. She's already got a gag order so his arrests and court dates aren't published.
Horrible to say, but she needs a wake up call. Maybe if her kid used this library, her tune would be different.
C
She does indeed. Have the Librarians ask her if it is okay to bring him over to meet her kids !
As if she'd be seen in this little hole of "red necks".
C
HERE HERE!!!!!
Joan, standing and applauding
I am sure the local newspaper, radio or TV station would be quite happy to run an item on this
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AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! That sounds like pure torture to me! :-) I can't imagine much worse than spending an entire day cooking and bagging and then spending the whole night doing dishes! I never imagined I'd be
18 years without a dishwasher but, here we are having moved here 18 years ago and still haven't re-done the kitchen.That said, DH was pleasantly amazed shortly after meeting me, that I could cook "Hamburger Helper" from scratch! Mom always said that we could feed people if we had pasta, meat and a can of "cream of anything" soup in the cupboard. We've changed the way we eat in the past 6 years anyway. With DH working swing shift, I got into the habit of eating soup or a sandwich for dinner and only cooking on weekends. Now that both of us have been laid off and DH is going to take early retirement in July, we are both eating soup or a sandwich for dinner and only eat "real food" on weekends. It makes shopping and meal planning (what little planning I do) much more simple. It also has the added benefit of keeping us from getting too fat to fit through the doors. :-)
When we do eat, I tend to use meat from the freezer and frozen veggies, supplemented by canned soup and bagged pasta. During the summer I may add zucchini from the garden and we have broccoli and cauliflower growing in the garden right now. One of the reasons I married DH was because he loves veggies like I do! When it gets hot, we might only have salad for dinner. Even there, I have to admit that I buy the bag (Very Veggie) of salad and augment it with tomatoes and cucumbers. If the broccoli and cauliflower do well, we'll probably throw some of that into the salad too.
When I do brownies for my hikes, though, I do it from scratch, from the recipe on the dirty page in my Joy of Cooking. :-) Some things I'm willing to spend time on, some things I'm not. I HATE chopping veggies!!!!! Who knows why we hate some chores and don't even think about others. I don't have separate cutting boards but I do wash them after using them for meat as soon as I'm done using it. It's no where near sterilized, but clean enough that I feel comfortable cutting bread or "eaten raw" veggies on it. Liz from Humbug P.S. DH loves instant mashed potatoes and tells me not to wast "real" potatoes by mashing them. :-))) He's a keeper! He'll even make them himself!
Liz from Humbug (the road was named after a mining dispute in the
1850s)
Cheryl, you raise another interesting point in this post. What *about* people who are not always capable of observing 'normal' behaviour because of a mental disorder or illness? I dunno about the US, but here in Oz, there's virtually no safety net for such people: we don't even institutional care for them, let alone decent, safe, supervised accommodation.
Mental illness isn't a choice, it happens to you; it's an affliction. The adorable little 'special' toddlers you see in the 'please help' ads on telly grow up. Their parents die and not all of them have relatives left to care for them and/or supervise medications. If, in a confused state, such a person exposes himself; if he molests someone; if he harms or kills, then who's to blame?
Lots and lots of mentally ill or developmentally 'different' people are capable of living virtually 'normal' lives, but when their problem kicks in, it can kick in with disastrous consequences. Why isn't there a better way of helping these people take their place in society with dignity and assistance, rather than leaving them alone to, as you've pointed out, incriminate themselves?
She's asked for a all inclusive gag on this guy - the media won't touch it.
Oddly, there were two different reports of indecent exposure at WMUR.com this AM.
C
So I take it that if your two kids were in the library and this man exposed himself to them you would have been totally understanding and said "That's okay" ?
The circumstances do not justify the social worker (who as Cheryl said doesn't live in the area herself) insisting on maintaining his right to do just that.
Sigh Trish - having lived it with my cousin (bipolar with drug OD induced paranoia and brain damage), I know where you are coming from. He was lucky that the state still had some hospital beds open for the mentally ill, those are all but gone now. Some one in the family would have seen him cared for, but his long term girlfriend wasn't so lucky. We don't know what happened to her after he died, but I suspect she's on the streets someplace. And we facing it with a friend whose son has a very low IQ and something called intermittent rage syndrome. She won't live forever and his Dad isn't really in the picture. What the heck is going to happen to him. How long can the trust monies last to keep him in a protected environment?
There are no easy answers. The family should be the first line of defense, but that can't be the whole thing. Nor can the state. I do believe in forced hospitalization; some people are a danger to themselves and others. Both they and society need to be protected.
Can we talk about something less depressing; it's been 10+ years since Stephen's body died - he actually died the day he OD'd 30 years ago.
C
He is doing wonderfully. He was clearly a much loved, indulged boy--witness his pleasure in walking by the stove when something is cooking, lifting his snuffle towards the pot and sniffing rapturously. He now has a cushion at the top of the stairs so he can sleep watching the door, and has adopted his role as guardian. He has a great loud bark too. He did give me a scare the other night. About 2 am he stood up, looked down the stairs, and started to wag his tail happily. I never lock my doors, so the first thought was someone has come in, but he wasn't barking. My house does have a ghost, so maybe that was who Sparky saw!! More importantly, the cats have decided the dog now rates a big "so what" and have resumed life more or less as normal. I think Alice even takes a perverse pleasure in jumping on his ribcage while he is sprawled out sleeping. (He leaps up and barks crazily). Off this morning to get a cat license for Buster, my "foster cat", who has been meowling desperately because I won't let him go outside with Alice until he is official, and had to wait for his former owner to get me medical records to prove Buster is neutered. (it snowed again Tuesday, so he wasn't quite as keen then) They certainly do fill up our lives, don't they!!
Dawne
You say it in jest but animals are supposedly very physic (sp?)
Foster Cat ??
Yes, some would say that makes us fools though !
People think it is funny that I talk about my ghost, since my house isn't an old rambling Victorian or anything, but there is one, a little boy who died here, and he seems to be fond of pets. It was the tailwagging that made me think it was Jimmy the ghost Sparky saw.
In November a coworker asked me if I could take in his cat. His ex spouse, who lives in a small town, became a cat hoarder, the neighbours trapped many of them, but not this one. He convinced her to give up the cat, but lives in an apartment. So Buster, a two year old orange tabby male, joined my household. I honestly think he is more or less permanent. He is a lovely cat, but only semi tame when I got him. It took about a month before I could touch him, but now he is very affectionate.
It is genetic, you know. My grandmother once famously took in a stray horse, and she lived in town!
Dawne
I stayed with a school friend, she lived in one of those large, rambling English homes. During the war it was requisitioned by the Canadian air force for their men.
When it was returned to the family after the war, things happened that never previously happened. They had a medium come in who said there were 'troubled spirits' there who had suffered sudden deaths.
When I stayed with her one evening we were all in the livingroom and suddenly their little dog got up, snarling with hair on end, looking at the door. The handle on the door turned, the door swung open and the room was suddenly filled with really cold air. Everyone in the house was inside that room and it was quite an experience. They were very casual because it 'happened all the time'.
Since then I believe there are more things...
Dawne, stay away from horses - you don't need one lol
Not at all! I'm just pointing out that, at least in Oz society, there are no safety nets to help such people avoid making a public nuisance of themselves. I never said the *behaviour* was 'okay'. And I never commented on Cheryl's social worker either, now I come to think of it.
I do know that appropriate social skills can be taught to those with reduced mental capacity and isn't it a pity that no-one ever taught this man? It would've saved a lot of angst in the library, that's all...
Yeah, sorry. As you know, I live with it too. My kid doesn't do sexually objectionable things (thank goodness!!!) but his disorder is all about the inability to know what's appropriate and what's not. We've been lucky, DS and I, in that he's been able to learn what I've taught him
*and* that I've been able to devote the time needed. Not everyone's that lucky, however, and my heart really does bleed for other families where a syndrome rules their lives.
No - my kitchen doesn't self clean - wish it did! :)
However I'm one of those people who cleans as I go so I often reuse a bowl several times in a recipe by washing it while something is simmering or mixing or whatever so not a lot to do when I'm done. I have a big wood cutting board next to the sink and I just wash it with soap and hot water - no issues with germs. I have a nice big chef's knife that I wash when I switch from veggies to meat or vice-versa.
As I said - everyone is different - what works for me might not work for someone else. I just think we should all try to eat a little less processed food from a box if we can....and that is just my opinion. doesn't mean it has to apply to anyone reading this. :)
MelissaD
We're fortunate to live in a semi-rural area (town is getting very close!) and many of us grow our own veggies.
The past few years the Food Bank has actively solicited fresh produce donations from us and it's great. I can get rid of all those extra zucchini that grow at night when I'm not watching and the families that need the help get some fresh food too besides just the canned and boxed regular donations.
MelissaD
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