TOTALLY GEEKED!

Up and ready for the day, mentally anyway. Still need a shower. Hanging with the dog as I sip my coffee.

I have to go to a government office and show proof that my son's are American this morning. They have to be checked through Homeland Security in order to keep the medicaid for another year.

Gonna have to grab a bite too.

Got maybe 4 hours of sleep.

I'm Superwoman!

That has to feel better. They tend to get itchy.

How does it look? Is it healing well?

Trudy, I bet that is a relief! Now, take care of yourself!

I fell in the garden.. Old lady's should not be falling. :(

:( Are you ok?

TrudyML wrote:

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:( Are you ok?

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Yeah, stiff and sore, and very humiliated. The grand's thought it was very funny. I killed beans.

The popping and cracking of my old joints isn't so funny today though.. 

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TrudyML wrote:

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:( Are you ok?

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Yeah, stiff and sore, and very humiliated. The grand's thought it was very funny. I killed beans.

The popping and cracking of my old joints isn't so funny today though.. 

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Bean killer! 

Oh my goodness I see I am in great company. was fell UP the stairs last night coming into the house, had socks on and arms full and was not paying attention! One minute I am zipping up stairs, and next. laying at bottom with things all around me no one saw, but my puppies and they were all like "What are you doing laying there? Get UP!"
this morning I have bruises all over my legs sheesh

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Oh my goodness I see I am in great company. was fell UP the stairs last night coming into the house, had socks on and arms full and was not paying attention! One minute I am zipping up stairs, and next. laying at bottom with things all around me no one saw, but my puppies and they were all like "What are you doing laying there? Get UP!"
this morning I have bruises all over my legs sheesh

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Gosh, we must come from the same genetic stock.... klutzes.

Sorry you are so bruised. That must have really hurt.  

TrudyML wrote:

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We all need life alerts!

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Yup. Mine needs to say, "she's still alive!". 

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I need something....And I found some mooshed grapes by the stairs today, and IN my hair last night~

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I had mud and bean leaves in my hair, shoes and boobs. 

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Oh my goodness I see I am in great company. was fell UP the stairs last night coming into the house, had socks on and arms full and was not paying attention! One minute I am zipping up stairs, and next. laying at bottom with things all around me no one saw, but my puppies and they were all like "What are you doing laying there? Get UP!"
this morning I have bruises all over my legs sheesh

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 That same thing happened to me a week ago last Saturday.  Landed on my thigh and bump, bump, bump down until I could grab one of the steps to stop myself.  I was going up and my foot slipped.  The bruise is still huge and ugly, but starting to fade in the center where there's a huge knot.

I thought about that, czech. I had a huge knot in my calf last year around the same time, but when I stopped crossing my legs at my desk it eventually went away. Didn't know about the warm part. I'll keep an eye, or rather my hand on it.

I am so happy to see I am not the only clumsy one here.

Second day of school and I already got a call. The principal called to tell me they've changed the policy about lunch. Used to be when kids, and parents, let their accounts run dry they would let them eat until the parent refilled it. SS's mom took advantage of this many times. Apparently so did others. Principal said their new policy this year is the kids get one free lunch and then they get a peanut butter sandwich and milk. That's all. They called me because SS's mom gave them a bad number. So now I get to be the one who calls her. Who the hell doesn't send their kid a lunch the first day of school?

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I am so happy to see I am not the only clumsy one here.

Second day of school and I already got a call. The principal called to tell me they've changed the policy about lunch. Used to be when kids, and parents, let their accounts run dry they would let them eat until the parent refilled it. SS's mom took advantage of this many times. Apparently so did others. Principal said their new policy this year is the kids get one free lunch and then they get a peanut butter sandwich and milk. That's all. They called me because SS's mom gave them a bad number. So now I get to be the one who calls her. Who the hell doesn't send their kid a lunch the first day of school?

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Someone who is lazy. 

Happy Tuesday. Add me to the list of klutzes. I have fallen both up & down my stairs. And I tend to trip over the threshold of my front door about once a week. I don't fall just sort of stumble into the house.

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TrudyML wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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I am so happy to see I am not the only clumsy one here.

Second day of school and I already got a call. The principal called to tell me they've changed the policy about lunch. Used to be when kids, and parents, let their accounts run dry they would let them eat until the parent refilled it. SS's mom took advantage of this many times. Apparently so did others. Principal said their new policy this year is the kids get one free lunch and then they get a peanut butter sandwich and milk. That's all. They called me because SS's mom gave them a bad number. So now I get to be the one who calls her. Who the hell doesn't send their kid a lunch the first day of school?

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Someone who is lazy. 

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 Yeah, exactly.  He got a peanut butter sandwich and a milk for lunch.  He'll live.  But I get really aggravated at his mom.  This is why.  She's not a horrible mother.  She just does the absolute bare minimum.  It's so irritating.  And the school calls us because his mom purposefully gives them the wrong number.  When we give them her right number she never answers. 

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 Yes. She should make sure he has lunch money.

What I am about to say is in general about lunchrooms, no one else.

Have any of you ever paid attention to how much food is wasted in school lunchrooms? It's completely out of hand.

Kids on free or reduced lunch are encouraged to take a school lunch even if they don't eat it. They are told to just throw it away. 

If a child without money in their account goes through the line and gets a meal, it's taken from them and thrown in the trash.

There has to be a reasonable proportion of lunches to children in the school. So meals will be tallied and thrown away.

And then there is the food that is just not eaten because it tastes bad or is thrown away cause none of the kids like it.

It's really crazy, the amount of waste in school lunchrooms.

That's not how they do it in his school Lily. I'm sure that you know a lot more than I do but we've eaten many many a meals with him at school. If the kids on reduced lunches, which is what my SS is, don't have money, they just don't get a lunch. They don't take it away from him and throw it in the trash. I even spoke to the principal today so I know exactly what the policy is. He said absolutely NO lunch will be issued except for a sandwich and milk.

Yesterday morning I gave DD11 a check for her lunch account and she put it in her bag. She comes home and tells me she needs more lunch money b/c they only let her get one piece of pizza for lunch (she can go 3 lunches in the hole, but no extras). I was like, how does $20 not let you buy an extra slice of pizza?????

She forgot I gave her the money. How could she not remember when she got there and they wouldn't let her charge extra?

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Yesterday morning I gave DD11 a check for her lunch account and she put it in her bag. She comes home and tells me she needs more lunch money b/c they only let her get one piece of pizza for lunch (she can go 3 lunches in the hole, but no extras). I was like, how does $20 not let you buy an extra slice of pizza?????

She forgot I gave her the money. How could she not remember when she got there and they wouldn't let her charge extra?

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 SS's mom has a bad habit of "forgetting" to fill his account.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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Yesterday morning I gave DD11 a check for her lunch account and she put it in her bag. She comes home and tells me she needs more lunch money b/c they only let her get one piece of pizza for lunch (she can go 3 lunches in the hole, but no extras). I was like, how does $20 not let you buy an extra slice of pizza?????

She forgot I gave her the money. How could she not remember when she got there and they wouldn't let her charge extra?

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 Cause she is 11. Baby just wanted some more pizza. 

Think she will remember today?

Hey, can't you add to her account online? 

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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That's not how they do it in his school Lily. I'm sure that you know a lot more than I do but we've eaten many many a meals with him at school. If the kids on reduced lunches, which is what my SS is, don't have money, they just don't get a lunch. They don't take it away from him and throw it in the trash. I even spoke to the principal today so I know exactly what the policy is. He said absolutely NO lunch will be issued except for a sandwich and milk.

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 I guess that first sentence was meant as a slam of some kind. 

What I am saying is, if the child goes through the line, picks up a regular meal, gets to the cashier and has no money, the tray is taken from them.

 

Unless the cashier is at the beginning of the line, how would any one know the kid didn't have money in his account?

Mom worked in the school lunchroom for years. We have friends who work in them now. It happens daily.

All I am saying is there is a lot of waste in school lunchroom.

That is in no way directed at anyone. It is about the school, not the individual. 

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 He goes to a really small school.  The lunch lady lives on his street.  When we go up there the lunch lady tells us we have a well behaved child.  What I'm saying is that it doesn't happen in his school.  I am not doubting that you know about every other school.  I will concede that you have a vast amount more knowledge of this than I do.  I'm just saying HIS school doesn't work like that.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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That's not how they do it in his school Lily. I'm sure that you know a lot more than I do but we've eaten many many a meals with him at school. If the kids on reduced lunches, which is what my SS is, don't have money, they just don't get a lunch. They don't take it away from him and throw it in the trash. I even spoke to the principal today so I know exactly what the policy is. He said absolutely NO lunch will be issued except for a sandwich and milk.

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 I guess that first sentence was meant as a slam of some kind. 

What I am saying is, if the child goes through the line, picks up a regular meal, gets to the cashier and has no money, the tray is taken from them.

 

Unless the cashier is at the beginning of the line, how would any one know the kid didn't have money in his account?

Mom worked in the school lunchroom for years. We have friends who work in them now. It happens daily.

All I am saying is there is a lot of waste in school lunchroom.

That is in no way directed at anyone. It is about the school, not the individual. 

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 There were two different articles about this last school year.  I remember because they took the lunch away from the kid & threw it directly into the trash can.  I remember it because it was so shocking.

Our school district gives the kids a variety of choices each day so hopefully there isn't as much waste since they get to choose what they want. Then again offering so much variety may lead to a different kind of waste with extra food being tossed at the end of every day. It would be nice if the poor children got to take the leftovers home for dinner or it went to a local shelter but I'm sure it goes in the garbage.