My intro
Michelle Billett
Hey, everybody! I just wanted to say "hi" and introduce myself. My name is Michelle, and I am unschooling in Texas with my three kiddos. They are 9, 5, and 3. The two older ones are girls, and the youngest is my boy. (That last part is said like "my bo-eh" with a Texas accent.) Anyway, I've been on the list for a couple of weeks, lurking. Thought it was time to speak up.
Also, I have to tell ya'll what just happened to me. (I get distracted sometimes, you see.) Well, I went to look at the pictures of Holly in England, and read the notes attached to them. I forgot that my 5 year old and I had just put a pot of corn on the stove. :/ Pretty soon my 9 year old yelled out, "I smell something burning!", so I ran to the kitchen. Yeah, you guessed it. Burned corn. YUK! So my house smells disgusting now. Plus, I think I just ruined a pot. I'm thinking I need a timer to actually carry around with me, on my person, so I don't forget these important things.
Michelle, The Distracted
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Also, I have to tell ya'll what just happened to me. (I get distracted sometimes, you see.) Well, I went to look at the pictures of Holly in England, and read the notes attached to them. I forgot that my 5 year old and I had just put a pot of corn on the stove. :/ Pretty soon my 9 year old yelled out, "I smell something burning!", so I ran to the kitchen. Yeah, you guessed it. Burned corn. YUK! So my house smells disgusting now. Plus, I think I just ruined a pot. I'm thinking I need a timer to actually carry around with me, on my person, so I don't forget these important things.
Michelle, The Distracted
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In a message dated 6/2/05 9:29:28 AM, mbillett@... writes:
<< Burned corn. YUK! So my house smells disgusting now. Plus, I think I just
ruined a pot. I'm thinking I need a timer to actually carry around with me, on
my person, so I don't forget these important things.
move the water in the yard, nor know when a casserole still existed. (Yes, I
can totally forget I made something.)
I'm sorry a page I made might've ruined your pot.
If it's steel, soak it and then use scouring powder like Ajax and then soak
it again. Repeat when you think of it. I've recovered some really burned pans
that way, when I liked them and they were steel.
If it's aluminum, put it under a nice potted plant to catch the excess water!
Oh, and welcome. <g> And I was just finishing packing up tapes and sticks
and seeds to mail you (thanks!) when I saw your intro pop up and recognized your
name from the box in my lap. <bwg>
Sandra
<< Burned corn. YUK! So my house smells disgusting now. Plus, I think I just
ruined a pot. I'm thinking I need a timer to actually carry around with me, on
my person, so I don't forget these important things.
>>I have one of those timers. Without it I might never take teabags out, nor
move the water in the yard, nor know when a casserole still existed. (Yes, I
can totally forget I made something.)
I'm sorry a page I made might've ruined your pot.
If it's steel, soak it and then use scouring powder like Ajax and then soak
it again. Repeat when you think of it. I've recovered some really burned pans
that way, when I liked them and they were steel.
If it's aluminum, put it under a nice potted plant to catch the excess water!
Oh, and welcome. <g> And I was just finishing packing up tapes and sticks
and seeds to mail you (thanks!) when I saw your intro pop up and recognized your
name from the box in my lap. <bwg>
Sandra
Julie W
SandraDodd@... wrote:
up in the morning to the water still going.
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Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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>I have one of those timers. Without it I might never take teabags out, norWithout my timer, which I can forget to use, I have been known to wake
>move the water in the yard,
>
up in the morning to the water still going.
--
Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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Michelle Billett
I forgot to post that I did scrub the black stuff off the pan. I washed it about 3 - 4 times with dish soap, then scraped it with a spoon a little bit. (I know I probably shouldn't have done that. It's a non-stick pan.) Then I got the bright idea that a green scrubby might take the rest of it off. It did. I didn't even think of Ajax. That probably would have worked the first time. Oh well. I did get it all off. And it only has one scratch, which I believe was already there before this episode.
It wasn't your page's fault at all. It was my distractability. (Is that a word?) I'm glad you posted those pics of Holly. My oldest seems a lot like your Holly. I could totally see her doing something like that. I told her about the pictures. I'll show her some other time. She's been interested in other things besides the Internet, lately. Anyway, she said, "Mom, I do that sometimes." And then I remembered times she actually has done that same thing with mud. But it was Texas mud. We have that clumpy black stuff. The English mud looked better for full coverage. <g>
Thanks for sending my stuff so fast. I can't wait to see those sticks. They sound cool.
Michelle
It wasn't your page's fault at all. It was my distractability. (Is that a word?) I'm glad you posted those pics of Holly. My oldest seems a lot like your Holly. I could totally see her doing something like that. I told her about the pictures. I'll show her some other time. She's been interested in other things besides the Internet, lately. Anyway, she said, "Mom, I do that sometimes." And then I remembered times she actually has done that same thing with mud. But it was Texas mud. We have that clumpy black stuff. The English mud looked better for full coverage. <g>
Thanks for sending my stuff so fast. I can't wait to see those sticks. They sound cool.
Michelle
----- Original Message -----
From: SandraDodd@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] My intro
I'm sorry a page I made might've ruined your pot. If it's steel, soak it and then use scouring powder like Ajax and then soak it again. Repeat when you think of it. I've recovered some really burned pans that way, when I liked them and they were steel.
If it's aluminum, put it under a nice potted plant to catch the excess water!
Oh, and welcome. <g> And I was just finishing packing up tapes and sticks
and seeds to mail you (thanks!) when I saw your intro pop up and recognized your
name from the box in my lap. <bwg>
Sandra
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Gold Standard
>>I have one of those timers. Without it I might never take teabags out,nor
>>move the water in the yard, nor know when a casserole still existed.(Yes, I
>>can totally forget I made something.)<<My problem is "hearing" the beep...it's pretty easy to tune out after a
while. <G>
Jacki, who needs a personal assistant to nudge her and say, "the timer's
going off"...wouldn't THAT be nice?!
Barbara Chase
>My problem is "hearing" the beep...it's pretty easy to tune out after ajust recently my dh and i were talking about how we need a beeper that
>while. <G>
>
>Jacki, who needs a personal assistant to nudge her and say, "the timer's
>going off"...wouldn't THAT be nice?!
continues to beep until it's turned off, then i said that what i really
need is a beeper that gets louder and louder until it was turned off. but
having one that would nudge you... that might actually work!!
mahalo,
barbara
Nancy Wooton
Maybe someone could do for the pager what an MIT student did for the
alarm clock <g>
http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/20/4265f434ed6fa
It rolls off your dresser to some new location when you hit the snooze;
you have to wake up enough to find it to turn it off.
Nancy
alarm clock <g>
http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/20/4265f434ed6fa
It rolls off your dresser to some new location when you hit the snooze;
you have to wake up enough to find it to turn it off.
Nancy
On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Barbara Chase wrote:
> >My problem is "hearing" the beep...it's pretty easy to tune out after
> a
> >while. <G>
> >
> >Jacki, who needs a personal assistant to nudge her and say, "the
> timer's
> >going off"...wouldn't THAT be nice?!
>
> just recently my dh and i were talking about how we need a beeper that
> continues to beep until it's turned off, then i said that what i
> really
> need is a beeper that gets louder and louder until it was turned
> off. but
> having one that would nudge you... that might actually work!!
>
>
> mahalo,
> barbara
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Barbara Chase
>Maybe someone could do for the pager what an MIT student did for theThis is so cool! When I was in college I had 3 alarm clocks, 2 clear
>alarm clock <g>
>http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/20/4265f434ed6fa
>
across the room that wouldn't stop. My friend had one that got louder and
louder until it sounded like a fog horn in your room -- it had no snooze
button.
Interesting how college students have trouble getting up in the morning. I
wonder if it's because for the first time in their life they're able to go
to bed when they want to, but they overdue it.
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I love my radio alarm clock. I wake to Steve Inskeep and Morning Edition, and the volume is low enough that I generally wake over a minute or two (rather than abruptly, from the awful Beepy Buzz). It's not quiet, but not real loud, either. I set the alarm for 5 or 10 minutes before I really have to get up, and by them I'm usually ready.
For the summer, I get to work at 6, after a twenty minute drive. Two am is my usual bedtime. Something clearly needs to change here...
Rain is watching Young Frankenstein again, but she just looked up and said, "Did you know there's a such thing as a Testicle Festival?"
Dar
-- Barbara Chase <barb@...> wrote:
continues to beep until it's turned off, then i said that what i really
need is a beeper that gets louder and louder until it was turned off. but
having one that would nudge you... that might actually work!!
mahalo,
barbara
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For the summer, I get to work at 6, after a twenty minute drive. Two am is my usual bedtime. Something clearly needs to change here...
Rain is watching Young Frankenstein again, but she just looked up and said, "Did you know there's a such thing as a Testicle Festival?"
Dar
-- Barbara Chase <barb@...> wrote:
>My problem is "hearing" the beep...it's pretty easy to tune out after ajust recently my dh and i were talking about how we need a beeper that
>while. <G>
>
>Jacki, who needs a personal assistant to nudge her and say, "the timer's
>going off"...wouldn't THAT be nice?!
continues to beep until it's turned off, then i said that what i really
need is a beeper that gets louder and louder until it was turned off. but
having one that would nudge you... that might actually work!!
mahalo,
barbara
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S.Waynforth
--- In [email protected], "freeform@j..." <freeform@j...>
wrote:
for the Testicle Festival line. We drive through a village called
Blucher on the way to playgroup and I always think of neighing horses.
Schuyler
wrote:
>and said, "Did you know there's a such thing as a Testicle Festival?"
>
> Rain is watching Young Frankenstein again, but she just looked up
>We just got Young Frankenstein from Screenselect, I'll have to listen
> Dar
>
for the Testicle Festival line. We drive through a village called
Blucher on the way to playgroup and I always think of neighing horses.
Schuyler
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I don't actually remember there being anything in Young Frankenstein about a Testicle Festival, so perhaps the juxtaposition of those two things was misleading... perhaps the Testicle Festival just happened to come into her head at that moment, because something in the movie reminded her or just out of the blue...
Dar
-- "S.Waynforth" <s.waynforth@...> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "freeform@j..." <freeform@j...>
wrote:
for the Testicle Festival line. We drive through a village called
Blucher on the way to playgroup and I always think of neighing horses.
Schuyler
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Dar
-- "S.Waynforth" <s.waynforth@...> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "freeform@j..." <freeform@j...>
wrote:
>and said, "Did you know there's a such thing as a Testicle Festival?"
>
> Rain is watching Young Frankenstein again, but she just looked up
>We just got Young Frankenstein from Screenselect, I'll have to listen
> Dar
>
for the Testicle Festival line. We drive through a village called
Blucher on the way to playgroup and I always think of neighing horses.
Schuyler
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