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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 548193" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>I just had to comment... I have a huge smile on my face. Your difficult child really paid attention!</p><p></p><p>I've never seen Froot Loops with Marshmallows - YUCK! That would be like putting sugar on your sugar, to me. I do like cereals such as Rice Chex (little rice squares, minimal sugar) and Shredded Wheat (not the frosted kind) for snacks, though. No milk. The serving is 3/4 cup because it's supposed to be "<strong>part</strong> of this nutritious breakfast" including, say, eggs, a meat, fruit or juice...</p><p></p><p>New York City is just too big for me. Too big, too busy. Cincinnati and Columbus hurt my head, and they're SMALL comparatively speaking.</p><p></p><p>We do have lots of great ethnic food. I just wish we could get true chorizo in Ohio. Food in restaurants... Depends on the restaurant! Waffle House is cheap. Red Lobster, medium price... And specialty places like Flemings - OMG!!</p><p></p><p>We don't have a VAT (yet) on our vehicles, we do have more room for them, and again comparatively, gas here is REALLY inexpensive.</p><p></p><p>Our minimum wage is like $7.25 an hour... I believe that is about 5.86 Euros?? But even so, it is not required that they have any kind of "benefits" such as medical insurance or anything else unless they work more than about 30 hours a week on average. For instance Onyxx gets nothing like that. Me? Well, we've unionized. I think this is something else you don't have? Grocery baggers are there because it was a way to get younger people into the work force, and now we are used to it. I love going to the stores where I bag my own stuff. I don't end up with 40 lbs. of canned goods in one flimsy plastic bag that way. And, yes, difficult children seem to get jobs more easily than the rest of us!!!</p><p></p><p>There <em>are</em> a lot of teensy or huge people. Technically if I plug my weight into a BMI calculator right now I am morbidly obese for my height. But then those calculators don't take into account that right now I'm two people! Even so - BFF and her hubby, my other BFF, are very much overweight. Your difficult child would have loved my immediate family - all of us are pretty normal weight - husband is 170 lbs at 72", Jett 155 at 63", Onyxx 135 at 63", me AND Bean 185 at 63", Raven is the skinny one at 140 at 72". My Mom thinks she is HUGE and she is 170 at 63". (Yeah, we're all about the same height, LOL!) Once I deliver Bean, I will be about 20 lbs overweight. I'll be happy to go to 140-145.</p><p></p><p>It's not just packaging, though that is bad; we also waste huge amounts of usable resources. Like food. Drives me NUTS when the kids do this. I eat the crusts on my sandwiches. The kids do, too, now, to avoid my wrath.</p><p></p><p>My commute is 10-15 minutes. I hate being cooped up any longer. I cannot imagine having to commute more than 30 one way.</p><p></p><p>...I drive a 5-speed manual... By choice. The salesman could not believe I wanted one. I like the control and the fun quotient!</p><p></p><p>I wish we did not have to work so much. We have little time for vacation. I think this could make a huge difference in our health... And as for busy, I like to be busy but I like to have time to relax, too. I hate the overscheduling that goes on with our kids.</p><p></p><p>I have specific charities I support, though not always monetarily. I have my beliefs, too, but rarely attend church...</p><p></p><p>Homework is a pet peeve of mine. It's busywork. I can see finishing classwork, but mostly the repetition of the subjects is pointless and more stressful than it should be. I always thought term papers were busywork, too. Now I lived on the USA/Mexico border so we took Spanish every year, so in 9th grade I took half a year of German. Then in 10th grade I moved to Ohio and it wasn't required, in fact Jett isn't taking anything and Onyxx dropped out of Spanish after 3 weeks because it was "too hard"... They haven't made either of them take anything like that. I think it would be useful for them. AP classes have college credit, so some of them are very difficult.</p><p></p><p>When I was a kid - we had 30 minutes of recess in the morning, AND afternoon, AND at lunch. Now? HAHAHAHAHA. 15 minutes if they're lucky in the morning, and a few minutes after lunch... That's it.</p><p></p><p>I prefer a small amount of candy to that much sugar on my cereal... LOL! And we eat a LOT of candy. That's my opinion though.</p><p></p><p>Also, our bottles of soft drinks are 2.5 servings - HAHAHAHAHA. 0.6 liters = 2.5 servings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 548193, member: 6705"] I just had to comment... I have a huge smile on my face. Your difficult child really paid attention! I've never seen Froot Loops with Marshmallows - YUCK! That would be like putting sugar on your sugar, to me. I do like cereals such as Rice Chex (little rice squares, minimal sugar) and Shredded Wheat (not the frosted kind) for snacks, though. No milk. The serving is 3/4 cup because it's supposed to be "[B]part[/B] of this nutritious breakfast" including, say, eggs, a meat, fruit or juice... New York City is just too big for me. Too big, too busy. Cincinnati and Columbus hurt my head, and they're SMALL comparatively speaking. We do have lots of great ethnic food. I just wish we could get true chorizo in Ohio. Food in restaurants... Depends on the restaurant! Waffle House is cheap. Red Lobster, medium price... And specialty places like Flemings - OMG!! We don't have a VAT (yet) on our vehicles, we do have more room for them, and again comparatively, gas here is REALLY inexpensive. Our minimum wage is like $7.25 an hour... I believe that is about 5.86 Euros?? But even so, it is not required that they have any kind of "benefits" such as medical insurance or anything else unless they work more than about 30 hours a week on average. For instance Onyxx gets nothing like that. Me? Well, we've unionized. I think this is something else you don't have? Grocery baggers are there because it was a way to get younger people into the work force, and now we are used to it. I love going to the stores where I bag my own stuff. I don't end up with 40 lbs. of canned goods in one flimsy plastic bag that way. And, yes, difficult children seem to get jobs more easily than the rest of us!!! There [I]are[/I] a lot of teensy or huge people. Technically if I plug my weight into a BMI calculator right now I am morbidly obese for my height. But then those calculators don't take into account that right now I'm two people! Even so - BFF and her hubby, my other BFF, are very much overweight. Your difficult child would have loved my immediate family - all of us are pretty normal weight - husband is 170 lbs at 72", Jett 155 at 63", Onyxx 135 at 63", me AND Bean 185 at 63", Raven is the skinny one at 140 at 72". My Mom thinks she is HUGE and she is 170 at 63". (Yeah, we're all about the same height, LOL!) Once I deliver Bean, I will be about 20 lbs overweight. I'll be happy to go to 140-145. It's not just packaging, though that is bad; we also waste huge amounts of usable resources. Like food. Drives me NUTS when the kids do this. I eat the crusts on my sandwiches. The kids do, too, now, to avoid my wrath. My commute is 10-15 minutes. I hate being cooped up any longer. I cannot imagine having to commute more than 30 one way. ...I drive a 5-speed manual... By choice. The salesman could not believe I wanted one. I like the control and the fun quotient! I wish we did not have to work so much. We have little time for vacation. I think this could make a huge difference in our health... And as for busy, I like to be busy but I like to have time to relax, too. I hate the overscheduling that goes on with our kids. I have specific charities I support, though not always monetarily. I have my beliefs, too, but rarely attend church... Homework is a pet peeve of mine. It's busywork. I can see finishing classwork, but mostly the repetition of the subjects is pointless and more stressful than it should be. I always thought term papers were busywork, too. Now I lived on the USA/Mexico border so we took Spanish every year, so in 9th grade I took half a year of German. Then in 10th grade I moved to Ohio and it wasn't required, in fact Jett isn't taking anything and Onyxx dropped out of Spanish after 3 weeks because it was "too hard"... They haven't made either of them take anything like that. I think it would be useful for them. AP classes have college credit, so some of them are very difficult. When I was a kid - we had 30 minutes of recess in the morning, AND afternoon, AND at lunch. Now? HAHAHAHAHA. 15 minutes if they're lucky in the morning, and a few minutes after lunch... That's it. I prefer a small amount of candy to that much sugar on my cereal... LOL! And we eat a LOT of candy. That's my opinion though. Also, our bottles of soft drinks are 2.5 servings - HAHAHAHAHA. 0.6 liters = 2.5 servings. [/QUOTE]
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