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    Obesity/special event

    I got fat after 40. I am having gastric bypass surgery in a couple of months and can't wait to hopefully no longer be a huge fat pig. Perhaps your D can have weight loss surgery? You do have to commit to eating better and less, but all of the people I know who have had the surgery say you...
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    B’s obsession

    My oldest son, now 28, was diagnosed with PANDAS by Dr. Susan Swedos at NIMH when he was 7. He was one of the first confirmed diagnoses of the syndrome. He had come down with strep and his entire personality changed in K. We had no idea what was going on with him but his K teacher found an...
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    How did you meet your dear husband?

    We met in the school library.
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    Stay-at-home mom or not?

    I also felt judged for being a working mom. In my community, many of the husbands are high earners (think Wall Street) and the wives stay at home, lunch and do the PTA. Meetings were during the day and even some of the fundraisers, etc. were brunch or lunch activities. My mom worked, too...
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    Stay-at-home mom or not?

    I know mid-way through my first maternity leave that I was going back to work. I loved my son, but I worked SO hard for my career and to make money to support myself and my family that I was not going to give that up. As he got older and as I had more kids, I came to the realization that being...
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    Funny names our kids gave things...

    My oldest son called the pacifier he saw his older neighbor using when he was 2 a "schpooklie." He also called candy "geeky" and cookies "nonnies." Of course, this led to much "hilarity" the Easter Eve he was not quite 2 and H was sponsoring a friend who was converting to Catholicism. We were...
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    New upcoming names for baby boys and girls? Other new Names?

    Willow Brooke - The name of a horrible psychiatric facility in NYC. It's the one that Geraldo Rivera made his reputation on exposing, back when he was an actual journalist. The name I originally chose for my D was co-opted by H's cousin, who has the same name. It was after her and H's mutual...
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    The names we give things...

    Do you call it a couch, sofa, settee, chesterfield, or Davenport? Couch or sofa. - Is it dinner or supper in your home? We usually say, "What's for supper?" or "Are we going out for dinner?" - Is it a refrigerator or fridge? Either - Is it a deepfreeze or a freezer? Freezer - Do you...
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    Three things we would change about ourselves

    Being fat Not being interested in domestic chores Lying to people about how great my marriage is.
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    Decribe yourself in five words. Fun thread.

    Intelligent Tenacious Sarcastic Loyal Undomesticated
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    Toilet lid (down or up)?

    Closed, always, or actually ever since the day I caught our now dead border collie drinking from the toilet. That was so nauseating to me that I now keep the toilet lid down AND the bathroom door closed.
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    Baby Care Experience (before becoming a mom)

    Before I had my first child at 31, I had held an infant twice for about one minute each time, had never changed a diaper, fed or burped a baby. I had one sibling, 2 years younger, and never babysat for kids that weren't potty trained. I was very nervous with my first. He was a few weeks...
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    What do you do with your plastic bags?

    I use them to collect lint from the dryer. When H and the boys used to camp regularly, I would give them bags of lint to use a fire starters. I also give some to mother in law for her garbage. One of my sons has a small garbage can in his room and he uses some. Other than that, we use 50 gallon...
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    Smoking, while doing other things...

    I had a boyfriend whose mother never did anything without a cig in her mouth. She would be cooking and she could flick her face a couple of degrees and the ash would fly into the ashtray she had nearby. She never missed and her ash chain would be half the cigarette or more. When she got sick...
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    Friends with debatable manners

    I will preface this by saying that I HATE and am phobic about having my picture taken. I am currently investigating whether or not I would be on safe legal grounds if I told my employer that I don't want to give them a picture for their online company directory. They did let me refuse to be...
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    Do you remember when...?

    I just found this thread - what fun. We didn't have names for the groups in my HS. I was in HS in the mid 70's and when Fonzie named "nerds," my friend group adopted it for ourselves. I lived in a housing project growing up but we had a washing machine in the apartment. Then, the wet...
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    New upcoming names for baby boys and girls? Other new Names?

    There are many Jakes, Harrys (and I anticipate more with what is going on across the pond) and Maxes, but to me they are old men names. My grandfathers, my dad, my uncles, all have names like that. Only one of my sons has an Old Testament name and that is after my only uncle who had a name I...
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    What makes you peaceful and grounded?

    My kids, reading a good book. It is interesting how one person's calming influence is another one's stressor. Being in the presence of dogs and even the mere anticipation of snow make me so anxious. I literally cry when I have to go out and there is snow or ice on the ground.
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    New upcoming names for baby boys and girls? Other new Names?

    I had such a hard time picking names for some of my kids. The one kind of name I really hate is the old people names, like Harry, Max, Jacob and Sam (all belonged to older male relatives of mine and I used updated names for my kids) or for girls, names like Molly and Charlotte, which I know...
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    Just when I thought it was getting better

    I'm almost 60 and I have to work a lot more than four years before I can retire... Vent aside, maybe you can ask your co-worker to alternate the alphabetical list every week.
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