PRgal

Maybe it's just my Canadianness but this is what I think when I hear The Famous Five. One of the women was an alumna of my high school.

Do you mean the Fabulous Five? It was a spin-off of the Taffy Sinclair books, right? The girls lived in Connecticut?

Maybe we should call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Crazy Childless Cat Ladies.

What did British girls (BSC was mostly, no, OVERWHELMINGLY read by girls. Boys may or may not have read it on the down low) read in the 80s and 90s? As for Ramona, I SOOOO wanted to squeeze an entire tube of toothpaste into the sink. Didn't, of course, because I, too, would have gotten in SO MUCH TROUBLE! I've heard of the show, but it was well after my Judy Blume years. I think they updated it to the (then) present time (so circa 2000s?)? There was a Fudge book published after my time too.

Schools around here are closed today due to the storm. And many have PA Days tomorrow too. So combined with being the Family Day long weekend, many kids are getting an EXTRA LONG WEEKEND!!! A lot of parents are working from home today, but that doesn't mean that last minute childcare isn't needed.....I feel badly for them. My son is with his grandparents for the day while I'm doing virtual parent teacher conferences with his teachers. He has a one day long camp tomorrow!!!! :)

I think my son will like Fudge/Peter more than Henry!

Kid in the late 80s, huh? Then you must have read Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley as well! Did you read Sleepover Friends? I think kids today would look at the Beverly Cleary books like how we saw, I dunno, Little House. Period pieces.

Yes. I thought starting with the Henry books would get him hooked easier than Ramona.

If You Know Who was my six year old, he'd be grounded for the rest of the school year. No birthday parties (not that he'd be invited, anyway. Well, maybe by the frienemies like Putin or Xi), no play dates, nothing after school save for piano and swimming. Must set the table for dinner every night. And must read three pages of a chapter book with me (PRkid HATES reading aloud but we do it to help him with pronunciation. We are currently going through Henry Huggins. It's above grade level, but I know he can handle it. It's also a lesson on how things were 70+ years ago when the book was first published. Like how $7 was A LOT of money!!!). I let him get away with not reading a couple of days a week.

Would he consider going to trade school? Does he like using his hands?

I will never forgive the CBC for not giving the show enough seasons to see them graduate from high school. Before Degrassi Jr. High, there was a show called The Kids of Degrassi Street.

Some of these are so regional that I didn't even pass that quiz!

Early Degrassi NEXT GENERATION shows. Early Degrassi would mean The Kids of Degrassi Street, which dates back to the early 80s. Fun fact: After grad school, I spent a fews months studying towards a post graduate diploma in "Corporate Communications" (aka public relations). The campus? A building that was used for the set of Degrassi High in the early 90s!

Any chance of people in the US pulling a South Korea?

And I was today years old when I found out that Newfoundlanders drove like the British until a couple of years before they became part of Canada! https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/

I thought it was an old timey thing. I recall reading a book when I was little that referenced a Guide camp in the late 1910s/early 20s where lunch was referred to as "dinner." I don't remember if it was a Canadian or a British book.

I (Toronto, born and bred with Hong Kong immigrant parents) say dinner (or "sik fan" (eat rice) in Cantonese. That was dinner. We called breakfast, "joe chaan" (early meal) and lunch was "ahn jow" (not sure how that would translate...ahn means "late" and maybe noon?). My husband (Ottawa, with roots from Montreal's Yiddish/English speaking Jewish community) uses supper and dinner interchangeably.

Since this entire forum is technically one for TV: regarding multigender bathrooms - have we forgotten about Ally McBeal?

I was told by my high risk nurse navigator that I might not even have to have breast MRIs and ultrasounds and they'd go directly to the contrast mammo instead. I'm seriously considering a mastectomy/reconstruction (and would FINALLY have even breasts!) in a year or two.

They're still unsure, so I now have to do a contrast mammo, scheduled for next month. If FURTHER testing is needed, then they'll have to do a biopsy THAT DAY.

I had to call the medical imaging department at the hospital that takes care of my neurofibromatosis (NF) after they called to let me know that I needed chest X-rays to check whether the area I had taken out had seen some "trauma." The guy who left me the note did not say that I could just walk in and get it done. I didn't see an appointment set up nor did I see a requisition on myChart, so I called the NF clinic and the receptionist (not the guy who left me the voice mail) said I could show up any time. I had hoped I could get an appointment there or a requisition I could print out, but the guy said it was first come, first serve. I still don't understand why I couldn't get it done anywhere. I guess they preferred keeping things in-house. Everything's "charged" to my provincial health card anyway, so why would it have been an issue?

I was reminded this morning that I've been blogging in some form for 21 years. My first blog was a LiveJournal, which was a blogging network, similar to Substack, I guess. I wrote on that on and off for six years, with my final post being some time in 2010. Back then, I was some weird girl who was OBSESSED with being "proper" and talking about being petite!

Well, Canada hasn't minted pennies for a few years and we're doing fine. If you pay cash, you're charged to the closest nickel. If you're on card, then yes, you'll be charged as is (so if something costs $5.74, you'll pay that if you pay by card. Cash? $5.75).

I cannot tolerate spicy food. Not surprising considering my ancestry is mostly southeastern Chinese/Cantonese (well, recent ancestry, anyway). Cantonese cuisine has flavour but not much heat.

I guess asparagus is kind of like cilantro? But different? I love asparagus as well. I use minimal amounts of cilantro in my cooking (often in fish since it’s commonly added to steamed fish in Cantonese cooking (along with green onions/scallions and ginger).