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That's why I watch House Hunters International, although I do enjoy hearing their surprise that Parisian bathrooms and kitchens are so small and that there is a washing machine in the kitchen.Insert other media

That's what I mean. Apparently people are choosing to call themselves "space holders," and based on what my first impression of the term was, I didn't know why they would want to be that.

I was originally thinking that "space holder" was someone you hung out with when your actual friends weren't available, and I didn't know why anyone would want to be that.

I googled "space holder" after starting to read one of those links and deciding I was never going to make it through the essay/blog post. I read a definition and still don't understand what it is.

You beat me to it. I was going to see if there was a video.

I know it's not technically a Christmas song, but it mentions Christmas, and that's the only time I ever really hear it. Anyway, I like it. (I also consider "My Favorite Things" a sort-of Christmas song because it was on one of our Christmas albums when I was growing up. I don't know why, but it was, so to me, it's a Christmas song.)

That's another one that I probably shouldn't get into on a snow day (it feels like everything should be relaxed and easy on a snow day), but why are girls expected to read books about boys, but boys are not expected to read books about girls? I mean I read the Hardy Boys with no comment, but if my brother (if he had bothered to sit down and read, which he didn't, what with being more interested in taking apart the lawn mower) had checked out the Nancy Drew books, the librarian would have at least looked askance at him. And it's not like there's more romance or anything in Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys had plenty with Iola and that other one whose name I can't remember.

I will agree that toys marketed toward boys are much cooler than those marketed toward girls, which brings to mind another peeve, but it's a snow day here and I don't want to get started on that one.

We had kindergarten graduation back in the early 1970s. There was no party, but it was a special graduation ceremony in the gym/cafeteria/auditorium (the room with the stage that served all purposes for that school). Most of us were probably going to first grade in that school, but we were graduation from half-day to full-day school. (That was back when kindergarten was only a half-day program in our state. I think it's full-day in most places now. Even pre-K is full-day in most places, I think.) I don't remember robes of any kind, but we did have caps. They were made of construction paper. We also probably sang some songs or something. I think kindergarten was still relatively new in our town then because I went, and my brother who is two years older went, but my brother who is six years older than me started school in first grade. We did not have a big party that I remember, and I doubt anyone else did either. I doubt we even had cake at home, although I'm always up for cake. I also wanted a boy because I was afraid that if I had a girl, she would be a girly girl, and I would not know what to do (fixing hair, cosmetics, etc.). Sometimes I wish I also had a girl, though, because the selection of girls' clothes is always so much larger than that of boys' clothes, even when they are babies. But I've had a lot of fun being a Scout leader and learning to carve wood with a knife and shoot a bow and arrow and BB gun and do other outdoor Scout things.

Middle school and junior high kids have proms? Huh. I think most gender reveal stuff is dumb, but I do have a friend who had gender reveal cupcakes about her yet-to-be-born baby for her older son and daughters. It was just a family thing, though.

Sirens. Every time I hear a radio commercial with sirens, I start looking around for the ambulance or police car. Then I have to turn the radio off and back on again to determine if it's the radio.

That's why I can't watch season 2. I didn't like some of the changes in season 1, but I could live with them, but I started episode 1 of season 2 and read what other people said about it and didn't think I could handle those changes. Everyone's character has been assassinated, even Charmaine. She was disappointed, but OK with Jack's decision in the book, and she wasn't pregnant. She didn't consider herself Jack's girlfriend, and wasn't clingy -- and she didn't even live in Virgin River. Paige didn't have her own business, and in fact probably shouldn't have even shown up until season 2. Hope and Doc were never married. Hope was a crank and a busybody, but not as bad as in the series. She did a lot of good for the town through the years, too. And the Lizzie/Rick trouble made more sense in the books because she was around 15 years old. I really wanted to like this series because I loved the actor who plays Jack when he was in Grey's Anatomy, but I just can't handle the changes. They're stupid. There was so much drama already in the books that I don't know why they had to make these changes.

Coconut. I hate the flavor and the texture, and I can always taste it.

Has he been on any online mom sites? They are not good for people who worry about people criticizing them for the way they do things. Heck, they're not good for people who don't have any social anxieties.

I think the plot about Ricky and Lizzie made much more sense in the books -- as apparently with everything else in Virgin River.

Lizzie is 19 in the show? Wow. That is a huge change from the books.

Thanks. I don't think I need to see that. I don't understand why they had to create all this extra stuff and change everyone's storylines so much. There was plenty of drama in the books, I thought.

I'm sure I clicked on this link in your post, and it worked for me. At any rate, here it is again: https://news.sky.com/story/david-prowse-darth-vader-actor-and-green-cross-code-man-dies-aged-85-12145735

I haven't watched that far (and may not ever do so). What friend is it? I want to know if another character is being ruined that will make me really not want to watch.

I started the first episode, but from what everyone is saying here, I don't think I want to continue. It sounds like the show is assassinating everyone's character. All of them were better and smarter and nicer in the books, even Charmaine, who was not at all clingy. Perhaps I'll just read the books again.

My son was very upset earlier this week because he was marked wrong on some quiz (I think it was extra, so not really a grade) when he listed apple as a kind of pie people eat at Thanksgiving. Pumpkin was apparently the only correct answer. Needless to say, it was not graded by a human.

"Bless your heart" often means something akin to "you poor deluded thing" or something more unpleasant, but not always. Sometimes it simply means the person speaking feels bad for you. It depends on how nice the person speaking is.

That's why I always buy black gloves and hats.

I am having the same moment. I always thought maybe I was just eating Chinese food wrong by taking it out of the carton and mixing it with rice (and sharing it with others).