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the_rckFor some reason, when I try YouTube in Chrome, it doesn't care about not having Flash at all. I still can't play anything at all on YouTube in Firefox because I get a few seconds in and then the video gets replaced with a little you-must-have-Flash message. Is this Google's way of trying to make me use Chrome? I actually like not having Flash working (except for the part about YouTube).
Part of my motivation to go to curriculum night has disappeared. They're doing sign up for parent-teacher conferences online this year, so I don't have to go to curriculum night in order to get a spot. I'm still thinking that I'll query my doctor tomorrow about whether or not I can take Ativan with hydrocodone. There's simply no way I can face that sort of crowded space (especially not for an hour and a half!) without Ativan.
Grocery shopping went pretty well yesterday. I think there are a couple of things I forgot to put on the list, but I got everything on the list. The whole thing left me hurting more than I expected, but I think I'm past that this morning. I spent more money than on a usual grocery expedition, but I bought things like almonds and dried and frozen fruit that aren't at all normal purchases for us. I also bought a lot of sliced cheese because the brand we like was on sale for $1 a package.
I'm trying to find some sweatshirts to buy for Cordelia that she'll actually wear. I found some on Amazon that look really pretty, but the reviews are not encouraging-- The sizing is apparently such that Cordelia, who normally wears a small, would probably need a large, and the fabric is more like heavy weight, durable t-shirt fabric than sweatshirt fabric. I save the url, though, as I think Cordelia may need some long sleeved shirts of that sort. Of course, I haven't showed these to her; she may think they're ugly or ridiculous.
She thinks she only needs one sweatshirt. She also thinks that washing it once a month will be plenty. I have the impression that she thinks it's pretty warm at school during the winter so that the sweatshirt would be mainly for wearing at home. Maybe she could get away with washing it every two weeks? I think a month is excessive.
I did look at the school and PTO websites to see if I could find ordering information for the school sweatshirts. I think the one we bought last year was about $35, and Cordelia would be willing to wear those. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any mention of the stupid things at all.
They're doing Cross Country Kids again this year but only for K-5, so Cordelia and her friends can't do it. Cordelia tells me that this is supposed to encourage them to do cross country as a team sport instead, but I don't think the two are equivalent. The team sport is a much, much larger time commitment. It's competitive, too. It also only runs for four to six weeks. Cross Country Kids will run through November or December, depending on weather, and then start up again in March or April, again weather dependent, and run through the end of the school year.
There seem to be a lot of things the school does that don't include the older kids. Pretty much all of the Rec & Ed offerings are limited to the fifth grade and under crowd. I think chess is offered to sixth and seventh graders as well as to younger kids, but there are four or five other classes that aren't. I can understand it with the competitive sports related classes, but I don't understand it so much for computer related stuff, languages, art, or yoga that don't involve physical interaction between the kids. It may simply be that Rec & Ed doesn't normally do any classes at all for the 6-12 grade crowd. I'm pretty sure that the standard middle schools and high schools don't offer Rec & Ed stuff to their students. I don't know that Cordelia would be interested anyway, but it would be nice if she had the option.
Part of my motivation to go to curriculum night has disappeared. They're doing sign up for parent-teacher conferences online this year, so I don't have to go to curriculum night in order to get a spot. I'm still thinking that I'll query my doctor tomorrow about whether or not I can take Ativan with hydrocodone. There's simply no way I can face that sort of crowded space (especially not for an hour and a half!) without Ativan.
Grocery shopping went pretty well yesterday. I think there are a couple of things I forgot to put on the list, but I got everything on the list. The whole thing left me hurting more than I expected, but I think I'm past that this morning. I spent more money than on a usual grocery expedition, but I bought things like almonds and dried and frozen fruit that aren't at all normal purchases for us. I also bought a lot of sliced cheese because the brand we like was on sale for $1 a package.
I'm trying to find some sweatshirts to buy for Cordelia that she'll actually wear. I found some on Amazon that look really pretty, but the reviews are not encouraging-- The sizing is apparently such that Cordelia, who normally wears a small, would probably need a large, and the fabric is more like heavy weight, durable t-shirt fabric than sweatshirt fabric. I save the url, though, as I think Cordelia may need some long sleeved shirts of that sort. Of course, I haven't showed these to her; she may think they're ugly or ridiculous.
She thinks she only needs one sweatshirt. She also thinks that washing it once a month will be plenty. I have the impression that she thinks it's pretty warm at school during the winter so that the sweatshirt would be mainly for wearing at home. Maybe she could get away with washing it every two weeks? I think a month is excessive.
I did look at the school and PTO websites to see if I could find ordering information for the school sweatshirts. I think the one we bought last year was about $35, and Cordelia would be willing to wear those. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any mention of the stupid things at all.
They're doing Cross Country Kids again this year but only for K-5, so Cordelia and her friends can't do it. Cordelia tells me that this is supposed to encourage them to do cross country as a team sport instead, but I don't think the two are equivalent. The team sport is a much, much larger time commitment. It's competitive, too. It also only runs for four to six weeks. Cross Country Kids will run through November or December, depending on weather, and then start up again in March or April, again weather dependent, and run through the end of the school year.
There seem to be a lot of things the school does that don't include the older kids. Pretty much all of the Rec & Ed offerings are limited to the fifth grade and under crowd. I think chess is offered to sixth and seventh graders as well as to younger kids, but there are four or five other classes that aren't. I can understand it with the competitive sports related classes, but I don't understand it so much for computer related stuff, languages, art, or yoga that don't involve physical interaction between the kids. It may simply be that Rec & Ed doesn't normally do any classes at all for the 6-12 grade crowd. I'm pretty sure that the standard middle schools and high schools don't offer Rec & Ed stuff to their students. I don't know that Cordelia would be interested anyway, but it would be nice if she had the option.
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Date: 2015-09-20 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-20 05:28 pm (UTC)I was under the impression, though, that there weren't separate versions of Flash for each browser but that one downloaded it and it then worked with all of one's browsers. I'm pretty sure I've downloaded Flash via Chrome at least once and had it work in Firefox, but I could be entirely wrong.
I get confused about this sort of thing very, very easily.
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Date: 2015-09-20 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-09-20 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-20 05:17 pm (UTC)It can't hurt to take a look, though, so feel free to pass on some links.
She's actually not wearing children's sizes any more. She's a women's small now.
I tried to interest her in some sweaters, but she doesn't see why she should bother. One sweatshirt is totally enough.
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Date: 2015-09-20 09:01 pm (UTC)With Threadless you get a wider range of subjects, and they're having a giant sale right now.
I also really like Her Universe. Even though it's a little pricey, all the clothes I've bought from them have lasted and lasted, and they have some great pieces, like this one, which was my SDCC splurge. Just beware that some of their cardigans aren't actually that warm. But their sweatshirts look very warm and nice.
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Date: 2015-09-22 12:56 am (UTC)She didn't like anything from We Love Fine.
I gave her the url for Threadless because it would have taken us more time than she has before bedtime to go through them.
Chrome, Flash, Firefox
Date: 2015-09-21 03:19 pm (UTC)I run the same way you do, I think. I do most of my browsing in Firefox, with no Flash installed, and then I change to Chrome when I want to play music or YouTubes. (Though a few sites deliver streaming media in Firefox; maybe that's HTML 5? Not an area I have had time to explore.