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so whats everyone up to today ? any snow days?

wiki has your daughter taken her exam yet

We got quite a bit of snow but I think it stopped in the overnight hours. I think nearly every school in the tri state area is closed but I have to go to work. Next nanny job, I want to work for school teachers not doctors. It's also brutally cold with wind chills below 0.

Hello All. Just checking in to send everyone positive vibes & hope you're all having a good Wednesday?! It's wet and grey where I am today. Very depressing! But I hear the US is faced with more snow so I guess we're lucky in some ways....
I'm feeling a bit better today although still feel upset about the way I am being treated at work re redundancy - its all very personal and very hurtful. I am too sensitive at the moment. Friends have hurt me and my family have let me down. Trying to keep positive though!
Thinking of you all.

I just woke up but I have to go to work today too...my weather is same as Jersey's. My kids do not have school... But before I can leave..My son and H have to shovel about 10 inches of snow off the 100 ft driveway....they shoveled during the snow yesterday but it drifted over during the night.

right I was in NY until Monday and omg so old .we just got out before all the lake effect snow hit again

Hi all...
we got about 12" overnight, but it's still snowing very hard, and it isn't going to stop until around 1pm. In short, we are getting our butts burried.

Granite, D takes the boards on Saturday, thanks for asking. She has spent the week prepping, cramming and practicing on anyone who will let her.

H and Son are home today, as is D...so family snow day. We still have power though.

YT offered the twice a week again last session so I said yes... So will be adding thursdays to Mondays... i asked twice if he was sure when he offered day and time... It feels like I'm being too much...

That's good RTS. Remember, you can always stop if it's too much (for you, don't worry about it being too much for him).

I'm glad to hear that, RTS... going twice a week is really helpful for me, I hope you will think it is, too. You won't be too much for him.

Mast....
I have been reading a lot about your area of the globe....Finland, Norway, Sweden...and the high osteoporosis and heart disease rates.... I always thought us westerners had the worst health issues.
(we do for almost everything...lol)

And congrats to CE...your area has the largest consumption of animal protein.
(you beat the US by 5.8 grams per day)

she will do awesome .

There's a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis, isn't there? That's common when we don't get much sunlight, October - March or so. (I tried to add a photo taken from my office window showing the building opposite mine with some sunlight on the roof, but something went weird with the upload....)

do you guys have vitamin d added to your milk ?they do that here

Yes, there's actually a law saying that semi-skimmed and skimmed milk, margarine, sour milk and yoghurt has to have vitamin d added. I guess full milk and butter already have enough.

yes, definitely. They are also finding too much calcium in one go isn't great. I guess with all the small bony fish, you get a lot of calcium at once, which actually has a negative effect because your body eliminates more than it saves. You also need D to absorb the calcium correctly. BUT...I was thinking with your cold icy weather, people probably fall more frequently leading to more hip fractures.

I am very interested in how different diets effect health issues. It's quite amazing.
Like CE's area has one of the lower rates of OP, even though it's a high rate of animal protein consumption. I was thinking that it's warmer there, more vit D and less falling?

I don't know...but the studies are on spread sheets, and cool spreadsheets with lots of data give me a high.

(and when I see these countries listed, I picture you and CE instead of the actual continents!)

I have a new soymilk maker to play around with. I like almond milk milk a lot and want to try making rice milk.

My cat is restless and cranky because it is bitterly cold here.

my kitties are hanging out on the pillow in front of the pellet stove and the love seat next to it .

OMG ... I want one! (soymilk maker, not cat)

Right now my outdoor thermo is reading 5˚ F. I brushed the snow off of it and flicked it a few time because I thought it was frozen. The news just reported that with the windchill we were actually closer to -12˚ F.

And Sadie was more interested in leaping around in the snow than relieving herself this morning. As usual, Lex was giving her the "omg, you're nuts" look. Sometimes Lex actually shakes her head at her. I had to let her back inside and continue with Sadie's silliness for another 20 min out there.

He is wandering around, checking all the doors to see if it is cold outside of all of them, and then he goes and whaps a dog.

I have never had an actual machine before, I always made the milks (which is really not a good term for the liquid in my opinion) in the blender and with pans and such. This is supposed to be a lot easier.

wiki that is so strange because we hardly have no snow at all but it is 5 F out

the stove is right next to the love seat lol he is quite warm and will stay there all day lol

RTS...I agree with everyone else. Twice a week will be fine. The T can be responsible for his own boundaries and checking in with himself when he feels overloaded.