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I step away for a couple days and there are Christmas miracles happening all over the place! Decorations up, closets cleaned, back pain cured, tortoise eating (oops- another thread)Wonderful!

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.
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About those Christmas letters: When my mother received one from the daughter of one of her friends, she exclaimed "they never asked how I was!" I felt sad for her.
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Nacy: Those Christmas letters are a bit much. I send a lot less Christmas cards.
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Thanks Nacy, a lot more Thanksgiving action than I expected but nothing bad. One more day of having to keep clutter at bay for an out of town girlfriend just passing through, and then I can switch gears to Christmas. Hubby has been….quiet - falling asleep a lot. Better than agitation I guess.
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Canada Post is on strike. I’m off the hook for sending Christmas cards. I send about 10 to faraway friends and family. Uh-oh, what if people phone me instead! Gulp!
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I went to Arkansas with my Mom, brother, and sister-in-law to visit with my aunt and uncle. We stayed at an air b and B. It was very nice, multi-story updated log cabin. I was nervous because I boarded my dog with a sitter but they did great (Sky is still as calm as I've ever seen her!). We had a great dinner which I helped make. The house was in the woods on a lake even had a sauna!

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.
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Ho ❄️ Ho ❄️ NO❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️ 😖
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Ana, nice to have an excuse not to send cards. My family has taken to texting personalized gifs for holidays and birthdays. I used to think it was terrible but now I like it. I honestly don’t care if I never talk on a telephone again.

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.
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62 cm on my deck and more falling.... not quite as much on the car as I cleaned it off yesterday. Thankfully I have a kind neighbour with a snowblower.
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DoggieMom: If you’re in Cleveland and are into rock music, the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is very cool. (I was there late 1990s - fun road trip with my best friend)
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Ana, I will be about 20 minutes from Cleveland, so this is something I want to check out. Maybe on my second trip during Spring Break 🙂
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76 cm now....
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Not sure if this is simply ON MY MIND or if it is a WHINE for today, but I don't know what the words/acronym "&" means. I haven't a CLUE?
I am seeing this all the time in post questions now.
Who has the skivvy for me?
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I have no clue. IMO if you want to be understood then write properly, it's not like the days when we had to use shortcuts because we were typing on our flip phones using the number keys
(old woman shaking her fist at the sky) lol
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Is it possible that some autocorrect systems are changing the typed symbol into a word without removing the symbol? Seems weird as, to me, typing ‘and’ is easier than typing ‘&’.
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Sorry--it is this that confused me:
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.
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Oh, I get it. I believe “amp” appears when a symbol is used and the system does not recognize it in that setting. I have seen it in place of quotation marks or commas too. The person on the sending end does not see it, only the person on the receiving end.
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I looked it up. It’s a symbol conversion issue between the sending system and the receiving system. Which is a better way of saying it than I said before but why it happens and why someone hasn’t fixed it is a mystery.
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AMPERSAND (&)

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".
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There are movies,
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.
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OK, guys. We got the & down for sure. I did know that one. But what is amp. Is that meaning that & is the ampersand? In total. I guess I can get that. But why not just &.
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In texting and online communication, "amp" is an abbreviation for "amplified" and is used to emphasize or intensify the meaning of the preceding word or phrase. For example, "Players either get amped by the electricity of the event". 

"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.



 
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Nacy, see Send’s last email, halfway down where it says AMP for email, etc.
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!)
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I think I keep seeing & because, in HTML, the ampersand symbol may introduce special characters. So an actual ampersand becomes &. I am a tech troglodyte but I overhear a lot around here.

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 &.
&
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Yep, & followed (with no space) with ‘amp’ loses its amp. Learn something new every day.
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Psue - you got it It's a blip in the system.
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Kids are getting another snow day today, I'm praying that the expected snow squalls land on somebody else this time
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Hey all. :) Hope everyone's keeping well. The comment about effective writing is interesting to me. Writing, for me, is such a different animal than communicating in person. Writing things out, even simple things, is a chore and I wish that weren't true for me.

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.
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Nacy, thanks for being excited with me and for me! :)

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
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First week's readings, from An Introduction to Brain and Behavior: "In the United States and many other countries, caregivers are disproportionately female and are often relatives who give up their own careers and other pursuits (see Sharma et al., 2016, for more on gender disparities among caregivers and gender differences in the impact of caregiving; as the study indicates, more research is needed). Half of these caregivers develop emotional illness, primarily depression or anxiety, or both, after a year or so."

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.
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