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Mulai dari permainan yang variatif hingga keuntungan deposit yang cukup melimpah.<br />Matah Hatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518702742233999690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-8505211904758409712018-06-21T11:07:06.508-04:002018-06-21T11:07:06.508-04:00Phụ nữ khi mang thai dù ở độ tuổi nào đều được bác...Phụ nữ khi <a href="https://mebauthongthai.vn/" rel="nofollow">mang thai</a> dù ở độ tuổi nào đều được bác sĩ sản khoa đề nghị các xét nghiệm sàng lọc và chẩn đoán ở 3 tháng đầu và giữa thai kỳ. Bác sĩ sẽ thảo luận với bạn về những ưu và khuyết điểm của các xét nghiệm, nhưng thực hiện chúng hay không là quyết định của bạn.Lan Phạmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367258296122754367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-67673953683768912452018-04-04T06:51:17.395-04:002018-04-04T06:51:17.395-04:00Nice Post.. Thank you for sharing But you know Ch...Nice Post.. 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I need to quit.Jessica Appelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02692581920838058714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-78352500310606061172013-06-11T07:05:35.659-04:002013-06-11T07:05:35.659-04:00My doctor, it seems, is awesome in that she provid...My doctor, it seems, is awesome in that she provides a bit of discuss treatment moreover to managing medication.I am currently seeing a psychiatrist and psychologist that share a suite of offices with other mental health professionals.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.psychiatristinsydney.com.au" rel="nofollow">Psychiatrist</a> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585815048765628559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-50366957604706922032013-01-02T09:10:40.413-05:002013-01-02T09:10:40.413-05:00Happy New Year! I still check in occasionally. I...Happy New Year! I still check in occasionally. I truly wish you joy, happiness, and peace this year.<br />I hope you are out living life in the real world, playing with your kiddos, and lovin' on that sweet man of yours.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-73009627489387361002012-08-04T21:30:23.966-04:002012-08-04T21:30:23.966-04:00I think Roxie Laybourne would appreciate if a gift...I think Roxie Laybourne would appreciate if a gift were made to her name in her scholarship at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C.Dan Tallmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11866930576252147015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-24557878858375391002012-07-02T13:13:40.127-04:002012-07-02T13:13:40.127-04:00Maybe it's less shit-storm staining and more l...Maybe it's less shit-storm staining and more like tye-dye making an interesting pattern of your life.<br />Feeling Powerless can be a great place to start making some changes.<br /><br />The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous<br />We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.<br /><br />THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS<br />1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become<br />unmanageable.<br /><br />Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps and Biblical Comparisons <br /> <br />1 We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.Recovery Chicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-90283703602901080292012-06-18T15:36:45.027-04:002012-06-18T15:36:45.027-04:00Stumbled across your blog from a blog from a blog ...Stumbled across your blog from a blog from a blog lol! I really like this post. I have slacked off a little from blogging because I often think about what my new husbands family will think of what I REALLY THINK! So I relate to that part. I also relate to post partem anxiety. For the first 2 months after my daughter was born, I was CERTAIN someone or something was going to steal her from me. Just absolutely over powered by those thoughts- so much so that I avoided leaving the house! Much better now :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-91531878192370683242012-06-13T23:12:54.687-04:002012-06-13T23:12:54.687-04:00Sorry, I only just saw that you'd responded ba...Sorry, I only just saw that you'd responded back now! I didn't mean to blow you off.<br /><br />So, do I think it was a coincidence? Yep. <br /><br />As of today I've had 3211 US viewers. It doesn't seem implausible to me that one of them is sincere enough in their faith to recognize my pain and want to save me, considering this is the most religiously active of the "Western" nations and that it is overwhelmingly Christian.<br /><br />Honestly, if I could believe in the Judeo-Christian God, especially with the Christian idea of a personal savior who, like a super-daddy loves us as is described and declared by the faithful, I SO would! Even given the fact of such horrific things as have occurred in the world. If that were true and He were as presented, He would have a justification that would be good enough whether I understood or agreed or not. I could live with that. <br /><br />But eventually I stopped banging my head on the brick wall and put my lot in with Thomas, and this was not as a 4th grader. I held on to the last vestiges of any faith until I was, oh... something like 30. I TRIED. I went to church and spoke with clergy and nuns and went to retreats with peers and read the Bible and prayed and contemplated. If anything, maybe I'm experiencing what I believe Mother Theresa believed she was, given her absence of feeling of belief in her latter years, that she was sharing Christ's most difficult hour, the time when he questioned God in the Garden. But, really, why would someone like me get that honor. I am in no way, shape, or form worthy of mention within the same library containing the book of her life. Seriously. So I don't buy that.<br /><br />As for identifying myself with the words of others, Carl Sagan was a lot smarter than I'll ever be and I'd buy his words over mine any day. :) If you haven't read his Varieties of Scientific Experience, I think it might be a very interesting read for you (...If you don't believe it's a work of Satan, in which case I wouldn't blame you for not touching it, and I'm not mocking anyone here---when I believed in such things there were things I avoided out of fear of evil.).Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-52656337212249719582012-06-13T20:22:01.852-04:002012-06-13T20:22:01.852-04:00@Sasha's parent: Interesting question. I'v...@Sasha's parent: Interesting question. I've no idea of course. I believe that "Sunday School" or whatever they call it in Unitarian Universalist churches are something like courses in comparative religion. Although I suppose many Unitarians consider themselves Christian, I don't imagine their churches are considered Christian "enough" to count as not being hell-bound by most "Christian" churches in the US. My daughter has announced that she wants to be Catholic. I think she likes the statues of Mary. She says she doesn't know why she wants to be Catholic but insists that she wants to get ashes on her forehead!Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-10584112895981826152012-06-13T20:14:44.834-04:002012-06-13T20:14:44.834-04:00@Rebecca, Awwww too bad---it's so nice to not ...@Rebecca, Awwww too bad---it's so nice to not be the only long winded one! Thanks for telling me anyway. My husband's reaction to most of my posts and especially to this whole thing is "TLDD"---"Too Long Didn't Read." I try to assure him that women often DO read longer posts, but it's so nice to see it's true. Thanks for the support. I love being right. (Ha ha)Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-52371227672855501612012-06-13T07:00:14.818-04:002012-06-13T07:00:14.818-04:00So the long winded comment I tried to write someho...So the long winded comment I tried to write somehow disappeared...suffice it to say that you should be totally confident on this one...you are 100% RIGHT!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505738616373810757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-58363972815511089652012-06-12T21:04:43.913-04:002012-06-12T21:04:43.913-04:00Well, we plan to introduce Sasha to a number of re...Well, we plan to introduce Sasha to a number of religions as well, but I don't think that we'll take the church route, probably something more academic. <br />But part of the problem is: how many Christians do you know who introduce their kids to a religion other than their own? It's that tricky question of "can (and should) you be tolerant towards the intolerant"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-40943949756263129662012-06-12T10:29:58.445-04:002012-06-12T10:29:58.445-04:00As far as I'm concerned, our kids can decide f...As far as I'm concerned, our kids can decide for themselves what to do about the pledge. Six year olds (and certainly three year olds) generally don't have any political or sophisticated religious ideals they feel duty-bound to uphold, nor should they. But they do want to fit in, so they will play along without thinking to hard about what it means. When I was a kid, the older I got the more I felt that making us say the pledge was both silly and a little creepy. I guess I am assuming my kids will feel the same way, but if they eventually want to make a stand one way or the other, I will support them whether I agree with them or not. I just don't expect it to be an issue, I guess.<br /><br />I do, however, agree that the "under God" part of the pledge seems obviously in defiance of the 1st Amendment. The Supreme Court has a freaky odd idea about all that they call <a rel="nofollow">ceremonial deism</a> that makes no sense to me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15259791585108177467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-67889387459797415542012-06-12T10:27:45.251-04:002012-06-12T10:27:45.251-04:00I don't like to see kids used as pawns in a fi...I don't like to see kids used as pawns in a fight they can't possibly fully grasp. At the moment, my daughter believes in God as I attended a Christian Mom's group and she was indoctrinated. We maintain that she can believe whatever she wants, that we are going to expose the kids to as much as possible and let them make up their own minds. (Although my husband is not happy about the indoctrination, it was free childcare for 2 hours and I wasn't in the mental state to live without it and the social support that came with it.) So she it wasn't an issue for her this year. <br /><br />I generally don't say the "under God" part and hadn't really given it a lot of thought until this exchange. Now I'm really angry about it. I remember being in the majority, and thinking it should be no big deal to simply not say those words and stand anyway. Now I feel oppressed and rejected. No one notices if you don't say those words. No one can really tell that you have a problem with the separation of church and state issue. You know the quote about the man who didn't speak up when they came for the Jews, then the Catholics, then the gays, and so there was no one left to speak up when they came for him? This feels like the beginning of that and it scares me to be one FB friend away from it.Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-24276223123852640872012-06-12T08:46:26.773-04:002012-06-12T08:46:26.773-04:00It really frustrates and baffles me, too, because ...It really frustrates and baffles me, too, because I think that it's CLEAR AS A DAY that the inclusion of the words in question is anti-constitutional, and yet, I've yet to see a Christian acknowledge it. Which, to me, is very telling, and I think it very much stems from the problem that some people cannot entertain the idea that they *may* be if not wrong, at least missing the entire picture. <br />What are you planning on doing about the pledge with your kids? Ej is very militant about it and wanted to tell Sasha to stay seated (and very much like you said, it would NOT be out of disrespect). I think it's unfair to put a 6-year-old in that adversarial a situation, especially since she can't possibly know yet what it's all about, so it's like sending her to fight out battles. But again, I totally agree with you when you say that no student in a public school should ever be put in this kind of predicament to begin with. If you're going to make it a mandatory part of school life, you cannot include religion in it. Honoring the military and showing respect for the flag has nothing to do with religion (what about the atheists who died protecting this country, surely there were some, aren't we disrespecting them, too, by lumping together religion and service to this country?). Religious devotion has plenty of forums in this country to choose from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-55578049270453133312012-05-31T18:56:08.380-04:002012-05-31T18:56:08.380-04:00I'm glad to hear you are making progress on th...I'm glad to hear you are making progress on the book. I like the idea of celebrating victories. Maybe you could celebrate with something your children love, too.Annie Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-91247722918500046352012-05-30T15:05:00.167-04:002012-05-30T15:05:00.167-04:00It's been a few days are you making progress?
...It's been a few days are you making progress?<br /><br />Thanks for the frozen raspberries tip, although I ended up eating mine with sugar and vanilla ice cream.Annie Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-13164098434311806212012-05-12T00:33:07.419-04:002012-05-12T00:33:07.419-04:00Julie, I'm so happy we had a chance to sit and...Julie, I'm so happy we had a chance to sit and talk today. I think as a person who tries to find the positive side to everything, I was taken a back by the things you were writing. I now understand completely where you were coming from and I hope you understand me as well. In a perfect life the School would have everything it needed and yes, fundraising would be unnecessary but we don't So it is what it is and we make the most of it. <br /><br />I'm sorry you misunderstood the info for Teacher's week and I again Thank you for your input. I can only make it better if I know it didn't read well with some people. I hope you know as your upcoming PTO president I will do my best to make you happy ;) <br /><br />Don't be silly about our friendship. If anything you should know now with out a doubt how much I care about you. I don't care what our age difference is, you are a great person and I value our friendship. What kind of friendship would it be if we can't be honest with each other. I miss you all very much. Between the move and watching another child and being too busy for the playground lately I feel we are frozen. Just need to break through and get back out there together. <br /><br />I thank Dan for responding...Thank you Dan. <br /><br />Now lets get back to our play dates!!Jess Bartlett Awadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01236794400704041810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-12595016091247179202012-05-11T13:32:59.158-04:002012-05-11T13:32:59.158-04:00PART III
I hope we can still be friends. We had...PART III<br /><br /><br />I hope we can still be friends. We had started to be closer friends a while back but then I guess we both got busy. That made me sad. I could've/should've tried harder but I know I'm older and don't probably really fit in with your real friends. I hope that taking the time to try to explain that I wasn't trying to disrespect everyone and their work and how I felt and why shows enough that I care about you and what you think. I was just angry at feeling pushed around and judged or thrown into situations where I'd be judged. (Note: FEELING not BEING) I resented that the work needs to be done at all, not that you DO it. <br /><br />I meant it when I complimented you on FB about being so others-oriented. Laura was right, above, my first reaction to everything new is negative. *I* am too SELF-oriented (see the part where I suck). I can make big contributions to things but I guess I'm one of the ones I learned about in my nonprofit course who has to be tricked into thinking it was their idea. Invited, not ordered.<br /><br />P.S. Dan called to let me know you'd FBed me and made this comment. Then later, as I was writing this he said he'd commented back. I don't know yet what he said and just wanted to clarify that this reply was without having seen that.Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-32495238398635963482012-05-11T13:32:29.617-04:002012-05-11T13:32:29.617-04:00Part II (I was character-limited to 4096 character...Part II (I was character-limited to 4096 characters. ??)<br /><br />5- About teacher appreciation week: I was hoping you wouldn't take this all personally but I knew that was kind of crazy to expect since your name was on the bottom of the slip--but I really honestly didn't intend to single you out.<br /><br />The slip sent home did not say bringing the items in was required, that's true. But it did not say anything about it being voluntary either. It did not give that impression at all. The way we read it was: this is what we're doing, this is what your student should bring. End of discussion. Everyone will be doing this, so unless you want you or your child to feel singled out as an ungrateful person, you will provide the following. Yes, I felt it was assumed that anyone that didn't want to participate would be a bad person. What kind of person doesn't want to scrounge up 7 of some item each day for 5 days in addition to whatever else they're handling? See: "I would hope if you had any sort of heart of compassion that as a parent who can see a positive change in their child, you would WANT to participate." <br /><br />That's not the point. I could and did come up with the items. <br /><br />The point is that there was no WAY my daughter was going to show up at school without each day's thing! Even the idea was mortifying. The assignment WAS mandatory even if it wasn't intended to be and I just don't respond well to being ordered to be grateful in a predetermined way... or really to be ordered to do anything....<br /><br />If it wasn't a mandatory gratitude assignment, then we misunderstood it and I would've felt a lot better last week, but that wasn't clear to the students or parents (at least in our case). I'm still not sure it would've helped though. Any grade school student wouldn't want to be left out. If I chose not to or to do something different, I'd have to explain all that to my student and still risk embarrassing her in front of her class and the school. Maybe next year we could be "invited" to express our gratitude in some way to each of a student's teachers, by, for example, doing x, y, z. That would've felt so much better to me.<br /><br />6- Don't you see that this turned into: "If you had any sort of heart or compassion that as a parent who can see a positive change in their child you would WANT to participate" and if you don't behave as we think you should then that means you are a terrible person and have no heart or compassion and cannot want instead to do things in your own way and time?! It's our way or the highway, the highway being devastating your child who just wants to fit in, so you better not disagree! And if you DO disagree, you must bring your heartless teacher-hating self to a big group of people you don't know and work with them to wreak your change because even raising the issue is blasphemous without the follow-through.<br /><br />I'm entitled to not want to do things without deserving the judgement of anybody. Though I realize I can't gripe about something without expecting some misunderstanding and pushback.<br /><br />7- I know the role the PTO has played for you and I am so glad it did. I care about you too, though I suppose you may doubt that now. I agree with everything you said in your last paragraph and I am very glad our kids get to go to CMES. I wouldn't dream of trying to or wanting to try to prove otherwise.Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170416303750119762.post-27578717951179294242012-05-11T13:22:25.649-04:002012-05-11T13:22:25.649-04:00Hi Jess. I appreciate you reading the entire post...Hi Jess. I appreciate you reading the entire post (I think you said you did). Because I respect you and everything you've said on this I want to respond to each part of your comment, which might make this a little long.<br /><br />The premise of this post was that I am not a good person for feeling those feelings, that I suck. I know this. I have been using posts to speak honestly about my experience as a mom with chronic major depression and anxiety and I had all these feelings about this, so I posted about it and the other stuff on my mind last Saturday morning. <br /><br />1- Thank you for making the effort to read the entire post and not just shoot off a personal attack email/comment. That took considerable restraint I am sure.<br /><br />2- I do not think the PTO are greedy rotten people. I really meant the part where I said that you all are really good at fundraising and that everyone appreciates all that you do. I also meant the part where I said that without you the kids would suffer and who would want that. And the part that since my kid is benefiting from your work that resenting things while participating makes me a hypocrite. I am sure the PTO is a significant part of why CMES is an award-winning school.<br /><br />3- I know there is no actual obligation for parents to participate, but when the kids compete individually and as classes to raise the most money for things or to get prizes, there is social pressure for them to do so regardless of their parents' take on things. If they're the only ones not to bring item X to school for teacher appreciation that day it singles them out in a negative way or then the parents are the bad guys for not being enthusiastic. We do the pizza nights and some Skate Zone nights but are on trial with our daughter (I'm trying not to use names) whenever we don't feel like it.<br /><br />4- Yes, I realize the PTO has everyone's best interest at heart and tries to make events fun. As for participating more and being more involved, that's exactly what I don't want. I want the PTO to be UNnecessary because it is wrong that the school doesn't have enough paper. That's just ridiculous. Why is it OK to the taxpayers or the state for that matter that there aren't enough basic materials? There should be an uproar about this, not a bandaid. As for the technology, I went to grade school in the '70s and things have obviously changed. I concede to others' judgement on that. My point, however unrealistic and idealistic, was that requirements should be funded. Raise my taxes to do it. Or if there has to be fundraising, give me an amount at the beginning of school, let me pay it and be off the hook, like a user fee. If everyone did that then the fundraisers would be unnecessary.<br /><br />4- Regarding the volunteer breakfast, which WAS very nice: I felt wrong being there but I'd helped with a field trip and my daughter REALLY REALLY wanted me to be there (i.e. pressure) so I went even though I felt I didn't deserve to be there and didn't really belong. I took a graduate course on starting and managing a nonprofit org and you all are doing exactly the right thing by recognizing volunteers as much as possible. That is the kind of thing the PTO should do. So thank you.Julia K Burzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440379389897118745noreply@blogger.com