
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Remember when people used to include those awful braggy letters in Christmas cards? ‘Daughter got her phD; grandchild graduated top of his class in Montessori school; whole family traveling together to save the rain forest for vacation’ etc. Put me off Christmas cards forever. Way, your small acts of thoughtfulness are so much more precious.
Alva, it’s been such a rough year for you. I can certainly understand you being eager to move on. I’m hoping for smoother sailing in 2025 for everyone.
I'm going to Ohio at the end of December to visit with my boyfriend. I have never been to Ohio so should be interesting.
Nacy, how much snow you usually get up (and over) there? And when it falls, does it stick around for weeks and cause havoc? I don’t miss the snow at our old place except seeing the morning sun on it before anyone had driven down the hill. And I loved studying individual snowflakes on the windows; such magical things. That doesn’t happen here.
Doggiemom, I can count on 1 hand the number of times a vacation has been absolutely perfect and my heart was in a place to receive it as such. Your Thanksgiving sounds like one of those times. I hope the Ohio trip is the same.
I am seeing this all the time in post questions now.
Who has the skivvy for me?
(old woman shaking her fist at the sky) lol
it says "&".
I got the "&" meaning and. But the "amp"? What the heck are they talking? And it is very very common on AC right now. Which kind of makes me question what's up.
The ampersand, also known as the "and sign", is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and").[1]
Why is it called ampersand?
Ampersand, term used to refer to the symbol &, which stems from the ligature of the Latin word et, meaning “and.” The term ampersand is derived from “and per se and.” The symbol has also been used as part of &c in lieu of etc. (et cetera).Oct 28, 2024
You & Me against the world.
et al = and all of us against the world.
I so very much agree with Cwillie, and she is not such an old lady!
When she wrote:
"if you want to be understood then write properly".
some of us have seen.
Marley & Me 2008
The Prince & Me 2004
Roger & Me
You & Me 2018
All of these movie titles (and more) use the ampersand (&) instead of
the actual word "AND".
It would be unconsciously understood.
"Amp" can also refer to:
Ampere: A unit of electric current that measures the amount of electrons flowing through a conductor per second
Amplifier: A device that increases the amplitude of a signal
Accelerated Mobile Pages: A mobile-friendly website page format that speeds up page display on mobile devices
AMP for email: A feature that transforms traditional emails into interactive platforms
LOL Alva, You need to enter search for "What does amp mean in Filipino".
Traveling further down the rabbit-hole, we have this explained in the Urban Dictionary:
AMP
Urban Dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=AMP
Noun: Acronym for the three things every woman should look for in a man. Ambition, Money, and Power.
It isn’t intended to show up but sometimes it does which I assume is a coding issue. (Does that sound like I actually know what I’m talking about? - I don’t, I read it on a geek chat!)
EDIT: Above, in my comment, I actually typed & with amp (no spaces) and it dropped the amp. So let’s see if my lone ampersand symbol gets ‘amp’ after it. Funky!
2nd EDIT: Nope, just getting &.
&
I started two more MS classes today. One is about behavior change procedures, which is a pretty familiar topic to me. The other class is my single MS elective, and I picked the one that other students (in the Facebook group for my major) say is the hardest: neuropsychology.
But it sure seems like a neat topic, doesn't it? And since I'm paying the tuition, I'm getting my money's worth. 😄
I'm excited but a little nervous about taking this class. However, tonight, the professor promised a "neuropsychology without tears" class experience—right before he launched into 30 slides covering nervous system anatomy terms I've rarely heard or read about.
If I learn anything really cool or relevant to dementia care and/or stressed-out caregivers, I'll discuss it here. I'm wondering if dementia, specifically, will be addressed in the class. There was some discussion about TBIs tonight in the first class.
It's a little daunting but exciting to dive into this class. 😅
*And perhaps I finally figure out the "secret" to activating the parasympathetic nervous system. Lord knows I could use more tips on this.
I prefer "woman." lol Trying to be a self-made, achieving what I can, doing the work day in and day out, woman. lol
I can thank my seven years of caregiving for lighting a fire under me to work hard to reclaim a life for myself and also not be the "available" daughter/sister. My immediate family has lifelong issues, and I can't help but want to help them. But if I'm busy with my own life, too busy to be involved in theirs, it's better for me. So, keeping busy with school and work has been good for the past few years.
And I'm right about 7 years out of caregiving life, too. I consider it "ended" when I moved my dad into an IL building closer to other family members in a different state. It's crazy to think it's almost 14 years now: The sudden, unexpected thrust into the middle of intense caregiving life in 2011, and then the very slow healing and finding my way back to a new normal.
AC is a special place to me and saw me through tough times. I like coming back to share here and hope others enjoy hearing from me occasionally. lol
This paragraph was included in a discussion about stroke, stroke victims, and the extending effects of the subsequent necessary care.
This is not news to anyone here. I just thought it was an interesting paragraph.