Trying to figure out how to be a good adult stepdaughter...
LindaLou22
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Comments (18)Helen I think you're right about my mystery flowers being Spring Beauty. Thank you! If I planted that, I've forgotten. I planted Jane five years ago and I'd guess that it's 6 to 8 feet tall now and still not blooming heavy enough to call it showy. It gets some competition from a Tulip tree so it might be doing better by now if it was planted in a better spot. I'm ashamed - I finally broke down and bought the Canon that has a 50x zoom lol. I got a good deal on it. Best Buy matches some dot com prices now. Amazon is one and they had the lowest price so I showed them that price at the register at Best Buy and they matched it. I also had reward zone bucks to take off of the price plus another 20 for applying for a BB charge card back before Christmas so it got the price down to 340. That's more than I intended to spend but I still had some Santa cash and I "needed" a good camera. : ) It seems to be working great for macro or zooming either one, but if the camera is zoomed all the way out, it's difficult to keep the subject centered. If you move the camera even a little, you've lost sight of it. I haven't messed around with macro much yet but this one is of buds on my Mohawk viburnum and the lens was very close. I need to try it out on some bugs or butterflies....See MoreTrying to figure out how to do equal portions for freezing
Comments (2)Most things I eyeball but when it comes to soup, stew and chili I often measure a bowl for each of us and one to spare. Good for a guest or seconds. I just poured water from a tea cup into my usual serving bowls to measure. 2 corel tea cups = 1 lg corel bowl....See MoreSupport for Adult Stepdaughter
Comments (6)Didn't I say, "Non-stop"? My husband will be back home tonight, so I still do not know how the meeting went. However, here are new findings about SD's life style, just learnt this morning. The SD has obtained another credit card since her old debt was paid off by her ex a year ago, and made several payments on two cards this month, which sums up to $9,000. All the payments were solid figures like, "$2,000, $4,000", ball park. Now I don't know how much she owes. However, it is way over her monthly income. (Don't even ask me why I got this info. Long story.) In the mean time, she tans herself regularly and gets her French nails perfectly done. Oh, yes. I am venting now. During her college years, the SD spent out support money to get breast augmentation to look like Pamela A. (her idle) and hired a personal trainer to participate in a body building competition. No wonder she could not finish the schooling. Even though she came home with enormous breasts, my husband and her older brother (SS) were both in big time denial, saying, "She always had the figure." The SD comes home and stays with us w/baby on holidays or in summer. At first, my husband warned me not to give the SD hard time with rules and discipline, as she should relax and take good rest from her single-mom life. Then, she took off to downtown all day to party and hang around with friends, and came home like 4:00 a.m. She slept in until 2:00 p.m. only to get ready for another partying. Wife of my SS (visiting then) got very mad about SS and my husband's defensive attitude for SD, as we were taking care of SD's baby all the time. We confronted the boys and gradually made SD to stay w/her baby. SD totally believed that she was giving us an opportunity to have a quality time with her baby??? Whatever that is, I cannot have her back here to be a full time student. She will leave the baby to us (me) and either study, sleep, party, etc, like normal STUDENTS do. I am not sure about this "upgrading her education for her future career opportunity" idea. The lost income and cost of living for two years is very expensive. Landing on any better paycheck to pay off all the lost money and keep up with her life style will never happen. Anyhow, I am not looking forward to seeing my husband tonight, only to have another friction about the SD's plan... BIG SIGH....See MoreTrying to figure out a good soil mix! HELP!
Comments (24)Noah You don't need to ask me for 'forgivness', rather you forgive me for sticking my nose in - I really don't want to preach but at the same time I know that you are very enthusiastic (THAT IS GOOD!!!) and you do rush to post. So I hope you take it as an advice. And I realize that you post from the phone - if you could re-read what you type, you'll find out that sometimes your sentences don't make sense because of lack of punctuation. (Spelling is another thing - but I know all about autoCorrect...) We all know you love your cacti and looks like you are growing them successfully. And it is great to have young ppl here too! I am sure that soil/potting mix dries up much faster for you than for me in 'cold' Canada. That's why there are recommendations for different ratios of materials in mixes. Rina...See Moresylviatexas1
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