Jynnan tonnix
-
Posts
4.3k -
Joined
Content Type
Blogs
Gallery
Downloads
Discussion
Posts posted by Jynnan tonnix
-
-
On 5/2/2023 at 7:45 PM, Leeds said:
Another recommendation for someone looking for a museum that's a bit unusual is Sir John Soane's. Accessible by The Tube and free to enter. He was a little wacky, to say the least. https://www.soane.org/
Nobody visiting London should take any kind of transport from the airport other than public.
It always seems to take me most of any visit to England to get re-acquainted and comfortable with public transportation, then I always vow not to be so hesitant about it next time around. Then again, there is almost always someone there willing to pick me up from the airport. This last trip I had out there, back in September, i didn't actually have a ride, and had figured out my best route, but at the last minute, veered off and grabbed a mini-cab instead. It did cost me something like 60 pounds, but got me to my cousin's (in Thames Ditton) in less than half an hour, which, after a red-eye flight, seemed well worth the money.
-
8
-
-
13 hours ago, Notabug said:
I don't recall what she said, but it can happen. A kid can have a growth spurt and end up at the high end of the scale and then settle down and come back to the median. Also, ultrasound is terrible at predicting fetal weight, particularly in kids that are larger or smaller than average. Even the best third trimester ultrasound has a 10-15% range of error when predicting fetal weight and is most inaccurate at either end of the spectrum. When it says a kid is too large, the error in the algorithm is more likely to overestimate than underestimate the weight.
So, if a kid is said to be 10 lbs at term by ultrasound; anything from 9-11 lbs is considered accurate. And, at birth, if the weight is not accurate, the baby is more likely to be in the 9 lb end of the scale rather than the 11 lb.
There've been studies on predicting fetal weight at term in normal weight women, Experienced OB's were asked to predict a fetal weight based on examining the mother's belly. Then, an ultrasound was done. At delivery, the experienced doctor's prediction was at least as accurate as the ultrasound and the doctor was less likely to overestimate the weight of large babies than the ultrasound. Problem is, most residencies do not have time to teach their residents to do a proper exam and predict the weight. I was taught to do it and place my estimate in the chart at every visit starting at 36 weeks and I must say, I am pretty darned good at it.
Yup. As I mentioned at some point before, my daughter's second baby measured enormous by ultrasound a few weeks before she had him. They were actually thinking of not letting her go all the way to term, but then seemed to settle down and start measuring closer to target. He was a perfect 7.5 lb at birth.
-
5
-
-
3 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:
I did not see the video but I do find it disturbing that he is communicating by barking. We aren't seeing that much of him so hopefully he is saying mama etc....
Not to defend them at all, and I haven't seen the video yet, but my grandson, who is just a few weeks younger than Nemo, seems to be interested more in making sounds than in talking. He will bark, meow, imitate the smoke alarm, and such, but, at least up until the last month or so, has not had any real words in his repertoire. He is saying three or four words now, which is still a bit behind, but my daughter has an appointment to have him tested. He has also been babbling all along, so there's that. He actually reminds me a lot of my younger son, who didn't talk until he was two, and also liked barking and meowing. He turned out to be very intelligent, and very musical, and, at 33, still delights in mimicking things, and finding different ways to produce sound. Maybe Nemo just has his own way of interacting with the world at the moment. Then again, he may be getting little in the way of interaction and nurturing. I do hope its not that. Trying to be positive...
-
21
-
-
On 3/12/2023 at 12:19 PM, Notabug said:
Yes, Evelyn was a VBAC and Joy seemed to do pretty well with the labor. Looking at a pregnant woman is no way to determine the size of the child. Joy is somewhat short and short-waisted; she will always look bigger than most at the end of a pregnancy, she doesn't have anywhere for her belly to go but out. An experienced practitioner laying hands on her can predict the baby's size about as well as an ultrasound; both have a 10-15% range of error.
I presume she will try to deliver vaginally and her doctor will monitor her labor carefully and be ready to change plans if she has any difficulty.
My daughter is just a hair taller than 5'4", and very short waisted as well. She carried her first child (daughter) quite small for most of the pregnancy, and popped out at the very end. She went about a week and a half past her due date, and went into labor the morning they were going to induce her. Baby turned out to be about eight and a half pounds. Her second pregnancy, she carried all out in front from the beginning, and they were projecting a really large baby. Around seven months, they started talking about C-sections because they thought the baby was already upwards of eight pounds, but as her due date got closer, the estimated size kept getting smaller. She went into labor a day before her due date, and the baby (boy) was just a hair under seven and a half pounds.
I guess sometimes it's just hard to say.
-
7
-
-
11 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:
I can’t write and barely can read cursive. Not good.
At least I can tell time on analog watch!
I tend to have problems telling time whether it's analog or digital. I think it's got something to do with my difficulty in telling left from right. I get it correct about 80% of the time, but, even if I am paying attention, there are times that I think carefully about which is which and still manage to get it wrong. And the same things happen with time, especially when it's quarter to, or quarter past the hour. I'll look at it, and whether it's a matter of geometry or numerals, I'll just interpret it backwards. I have no hint of dyslexia, and can read with good speed and accuracy, but shapes, numbers and directions tend to thwart me. Weird. I'd guess probably most of us have our own little glitches in the way our minds work, though.
-
5
-
1
-
-
brought over from Jill & Derick thread:
I worked in a pharmacy for about four years back in the early 80's. We did everything by hand, from typing out the labels (on a big ol', black typewriter of the sort which was completely obsolete even back then) to having all the prescriptions in filing cabinets, and recording all the new prescriptions and refills by hand in log books. I got really good at deciphering doctor's handwriting, and could almost always figure out the medication and dosage correctly, even sometimes better than the pharmacist. Of course, we would call the office to verify if there was any question at all, but, as I said, it would far more often than not turn out that I was right. I actually loved doing everything that way, and when, a few years later I got a job at another pharmacy where everything was computerized, I just couldn't seem to get the hang of it.
As far as the issue of kids being taught cursive, my three were still taught that at school, but I have seen all their "signatures", and they are all just a squiggle with no real resemblance to letters. My youngest is 33, and I was just visiting him in the past few days. He was showing me a note of appreciation written by one of his superiors in the Marine Corps. Mostly he has kept it because while the guy who wrote it had good things to say he also called him by a completely different name 😄
Anyway, we were talking about it because it's written in cursive, and my son was saying that anyone even a couple of years younger than he is seems to have no clue as to how to read cursive. Seems kind of odd to me, as most of the individual letters are close enough to their printed counterparts that one should be able to make out enough of it to at least get the basic gist, but apparently they really cannot read it.
My handwriting has always been pretty bad, which also seems weird to me, as I have excellent eye-hand coordination when it comes to drawing things in great detail, yet I scrawl when I write. Must go through some completely different part of the brain.
-
7
-
1
-
-
42 minutes ago, Notabug said:
Electronic medical records, required by law, have made the traditional written prescription almost obsolete. I don't think I even have a paper prescription pad in my office anymore. I presume the office manager has one or two locked up someplace in case the power goes out.
I mut say, being able to bring up a drug's name and typical dosage with just a click or two and then whisk it away to the pharmacy in just a couple of seconds all the while sitting in the room with the patient is an incredible time saver for everyone. I am sure it also decreases the chance for errors or misreading.
We used to have to write prescriptions for controlled substances on paper by hand, but that is also no longer needed. My employer uses a 3 point verification system using the computer and my employer issued iphone to verify all narcotics and it seems to be working very well and probably helps prevent fraudulent precribing, to boot.
I do have nice handwriting, especially for a doctor and a lefty, too. I was all those nuns making me draw ovals between the lines in grade school.
Taking to small talk
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
3 hours ago, oliviabenson said:
Is it just me, or was anyone else's first impression that a thin stream of bilge was squirting/spewing from his mouth...?
Could almost serve as an analogy for whatever the sermon might have been
-
1
-
2
-
25
-
On 3/2/2023 at 3:12 PM, libgirl2 said:
Brain bleach!!
I used the "fire" response to this in the sense of "kill it with...!", Because brain bleach alone might not be enough!
-
10
-
-
17 hours ago, BetyBee said:
I just love this comment because it is absolute truth!
Yup, perfect description. I saw the comment before I actually saw a photo of the shoes, and that's exactly how I pictured them!
-
4
-
-
11 hours ago, MrsKravitz said:
I’m thinking he memorized the one on his spelling list. No thinking required.
And all anyone really needs is one of them anyway... If you stick to a single spelling, everyone will still know what you mean, and at least it will be spelled correctly a third of the time.
I swear it seems as though way too many people seem to use that logic.
-
2
-
1
-
14
-
-
41 minutes ago, Westiepeach said:
Nah, I recognized the raccoon eyes and stubby sausage fingers right away.
I honestly thought -at first and second glance- that it was some 18 year old cosplaying Jill, because it looks almost nothing like her outside of the makeup and the earrings front and center that way. That is one industrial strength filter!
The sausage fingers didn't really register.
-
13
-
-
2 minutes ago, Zella said:
That's really sad.
I wonder whether he made a Stepford wife sound like a bad thing? I could imagine certain stripes of fundie finding that to be the ideal (well, as long as it was steeped in the Je-sauce).
-
8
-
-
Just now, Turquoise said:
You know, the driving wasn't as hard as we thought it might be. The steering wheel on the right does help, it's the same concept as here, driver is to the inside of the road. Occasionally I had to remind Mr. Turquoise "Wide right!" LOL. I enjoyed how many out-of-the-way things we saw, in every country. I have terrible lifelong motion sickness so the worst for me was the ferry from Wales to Ireland, we traveled through a storm. Miserable. Will make sure I have extra behind the ear patches for our next adventure.
Yeah, I know the driving itself isn't that difficult - we were actually stationed in Scotland for a couple of years back around 1990-91, and had our American car over there with us, which made it even trickier, but I never really drove anywhere except in the immediate vicinity, where I knew everything well. If we ventured any further, Mr. Jyn always drove. I get nervous driving in unfamiliar places at the best of times, so the thought of driving in England doesn't thrill me.
-
5
-
-
41 minutes ago, Turquoise said:
We road tripped around the UK & Ireland for our honeymoon 3 1/2 years ago. While I enjoyed what I saw in London, my preference was for the smaller cities & villages we went through. Probably just me. We stayed in a BnB in Vauxhall, and I did enjoy the ease of being able to walk to Westminster, etc. We do need to make a trip back because we covered a lot of area, but didn't get to spend a large amount of time in any one place. Would like to pick a smaller radius and soak it in a bit more.
Yes, I really love the English countryside more than anything. London is a nice city, as cities go, but since I have a few cousins in the London suburbs, I feel as though I've seen it enough. To be honest, I'm sure there is a vast amount there that I've never seen at all, which is probably fascinating, but I'm just not a city person. I also have a cousin out in the countryside around Sheffield, and I could meander around there forever and not get bored. My childhood, up until the age of 10, when we moved to the USA, was mostly spent in a small village in the Mendips, between Bristol and Bath, and that's my happy place. Pity it's kind of hard to get to places out in that neck of the woods without a car these days, but I'm totally not brave enough to tackle that!
-
5
-
-
I was in London this past September, and though I had the holder for an Oyster card, I hadn't actually found the card since I got back from the previous trip (about 7 years before). It always seems I go there rarely enough to get really nervous about managing to navigate the train and underground system in between, and the contactless system was certainly new and different from the previous time I was there. I actually had a little bit of money left over from that older trip, and found, to my chagrin, that I was unable to use it when I tried to pay for a pub meal (I had gone for an evening out with my cousin and a few of her friends) because they had changed all the paper bills in the interim. They told me a bank would still be able to change them, but since it was only about 20 pounds, I left them as a donation to a BA charity on the way home. They were going to be worth significantly less in dollars by then than they had been when I arrived LOL. Bad timing.
I really feel as though I need to go back there sooner rather than later now that I have gotten a bit more comfortable with the transit system once again, though. Maybe I'll try to go again in another year or so.
-
6
-
-
4 hours ago, SMama said:
Men can’t buy godly earrings for themselves? So silly Jill had to add that. It’s obvious it’s Jill’s show by the use of the waifs in the advertisement.
I also took the "to the men" as a reminder that the man is the only one who could, would or should ever have a female spouse.
-
9
-
4
-
1
-
-
On 1/27/2023 at 7:05 PM, Scarlett45 said:
I’m 37 years old and my Mom still reminds me to wear enough clothes in the winter time. ME! 🤣
I'm 64, and get the same thing from my mom. She cannot come to grips with the fact that I don't tend to feel the cold, and hate the feeling of layers of clothing, so I almost never wear a coat just to go to the store or something where my actual time outside will be pretty minimal. For me, if it's not too windy, I'm fine in a long-sleeved blouse or light sweater until it's getting well below 40, and a heavier sweater until it gets below 20. I wore my coat for the first time this winter last weekend when we were seeing below 0 temps with major wind chill
-
6
-
1
-
2
-
-
1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:
I’m feeling like my old self. I’m glad I didn’t do the COVID booster at the same time!
From now one 1 vaccine at a time for me.
Yeah, me too. I have never felt bad after any of the vaccines I've had in the past few years, except when I got both a Covid booster and my first shingles shot together last year. I still didn't feel horrible or anything, but was so tired the next day that every time I tried getting out of bed, I just ended up crawling right back in and slept most of the day. Which made for a very long night.
-
6
-
-
On 1/8/2023 at 3:59 PM, GeeGolly said:
We don't need to exploit Janessa. Maybe the picture should be behind a spoiler tag. It really is very, very wrong.
In one way, I am glad I saw it, because I don't think I would have conjured up just how disturbing that image is just off a description. But, that being said, I vote for deleting it, because although obviously it is out there, and that ship has sailed, the less places it shows up, the better.
Just now, Jynnan tonnix said:In one way, I am glad I saw it, because I don't think I would have conjured up just how disturbing that image is just off a description. But, that being said, I vote for deleting it, because although obviously it is out there, and that ship has sailed, the less places it shows up, the better.
Jill is truly not right in the head. At all. And she clearly has no concept of what the God she claims to revere would approve of.
-
6
-
-
4 minutes ago, Lady Whistleup said:
I think it's because Izzy going to school is work ... for Jill. She has to wake up early to drop him off at school, she has to help him with homework, school projects and the like.
It's easier just to keep him at home drawing on windows.
Could be a number of things, and not all of them necessarily negative. I don't follow all their circumstances as closely as some here, so I may be off track, but wasn't there talk of the area they were in not having great school systems? Maybe the house they are in now is something they hope to upgrade from in another couple of years, and thought that the homeschooling in the interim would be less disruptive? I don't know that that would be true, for the record...We were a military family, and moved around every couple of years as a matter of course. When our kids were just a year or so older than theirs, we were stationed in Guam, whose public school system (at the time, anyway) was abysmal, but private school would have been a huge stretch for us, so we chose to send them to the public schools anyway, as they were young enough and bright enough that we figured any holes in their education could easily be made up for by simply paying attention to what they were being taught, and supplementing. Also, knowing myself, I just didn't think I had the necessarily discipline to home-school effectively for the longer term. They are all fully functioning adults now, all having gotten into their first choice of colleges, and all homeowners with good jobs and rich social lives, so I guess it worked out.
I hope that jill and Derick do eventually choose to put their kids back in school, and that they are also still both young and bright enough that the disruption will not have a long term effect.
Of course, if the SOTDRT is it for the long haul, I'm less optimistic.
-
12
-
1
-
-
Quick story about how sometimes you never realize that certain words sound alike until a toddler's input. Anyway, grandson, at 14 months, is not really saying words yet (as opposed to his sister, who was starting to put together sentences at the same age - they are all so different from one another), but he does have a range of gestures and other responses to certain things, like throwing his arms up in the air at the mention of a touchdown when football is being watched or discussed. Daughter and son-in-law were over with the kids today, and I was making stewed chicken. We were talking about it, and son-in-law was blanking out on what the big pot was called that I was cooking in, so I said, "Dutch oven", and Milo immediately raised his hands over his head in triumph!
-
15
-
2
-
-
2 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
It sounds as if Jill put turkey on the swab to try and get it in Fenna's mouth. What they showed wasn't pretty, I can only imagine how awful what they didn't show us was.
Wouldn't doing that risk the results come back showing turkey ancestry 😆?
-
15
-
-
12 hours ago, Iguessnot said:
You sure about that? Bob is the diminutive of Robert.
Names can have multiple diminutives. Just look at all the possibilities in Elizabeth...Liza, Lisa, Eliza, Beth, Betsy, etc...William can spawn Will, Bill, and Liam. Many other examples.
-
9
-
1
-
Joy and Austin: This One Time At Family Camp
in Counting On
I was always really squeamish about losing my baby teeth, and though I played with them with my tongue for what seemed like weeks, they never seemed to come out without help. Except one time, I remember having snuck a piece of toffee, and eating it behind the couch, when my loose tooth got stuck on the candy and came out. Then I had to 'fess up about taking it, because I couldn't think of a good lie to explain how my tooth came out.