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    Do you like to stay with family when you travel out of town?

    I hate it. The only place we stay is the ILs - they used to live in a smaller house and we'd stay in a hotel then, but they disliked it so much that they purchased a gigantic (5000+ square feet for two people) house so that "everyone could stay with them when they visited". They have 13 indoor...
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    slo’s MONDAY poll - Piercings

    Four total, three in my right ear and one in my left. I only own the earrings that are currently in my ear; I never change them out.
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    Romantic Beliefs

    I don't know. But I do know that the first time I saw my DH, I turned to my best friend after he left and said "I think that is the person I am supposed to marry". He'd come into our office looking for his friend and I had never seen him before in my life, and our conversation consisted of...
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    What did you pay in interest when you bought your home, was it 30 fixed and what year?

    I think we got around 4% about 12 years ago. We just paid our primary home off (had a 15 year mortgage and paid it off early). We bought our vacation home in 2019 and our interest rate is 3.25 on a 30 year mortgage.
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    How do you feel about teens locking bedroom doors?

    Some of the responses on this thread have shocked me. I have three teenagers and of course they're allowed to lock their doors. They might be changing, they might be doing something personal, or they might just want to be alone, and we respect that. The lines of communication are open, and we...
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    What news have you had recently?

    I had COVID and never realized it - tested for antibodies (not the ones generated from the vaccine) and the results show that I must have had an asymptomatic case. That came as a complete surprise because I've not had as much as a sniffle since 2019.
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    Still going to restaurants?

    You might suggest the BFF or the roommates to get an antibody test in about a month just to check, even if they've had negative tests. My best friend had COVID at some point in the last 8 weeks and neither her nor anyone in her family were symptomatic - she only found out by getting a blood...
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    Weekend Plans?

    We're at our ski house this weekend. DH, DS 14, and DD 12 are skiing, DS 16 stayed home. I am staying inside, listing things on Ebay, and drinking some IPA!
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    Still going to restaurants?

    No, no restaurants for us. We also stopped going to grocery store as of last week. We do still get takeout occasionally, but we won't be going into restaurants until numbers in our state go WAY down. We have yet to get COVID, and I'm going to do everything in my power to keep us from...
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    Going Remote

    Private schools in my area don't have bus drivers, so no issues there. They have the same issues with quarantines, sickness, and teachers being out. Percent positive rates in my state are around 30% right now. Sickness isn't confined to the public schools. At my private college we were...
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    Is This Still Being Done?

    When my kids were in public school (we took them out at the beginning of the pandemic) they were in grades 5, 7, and 8 and none had ever had textbooks. The schools couldn't afford them. The teachers just lectured and used powerpoint and notes packets.
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    Kid with Covid, need advice

    One suggestion that I don't think anyone else had made yet is to order a pulse oximeter from Amazon. They're normally available with 2-day shipping, and can give you info about when it's a good idea to head to the ER if necessary.
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    Going Remote

    I don't think this is true. We don't know anything at this point about the long-haul effects of omicron. They could be as devastating as the other variants.
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    Trying to plan a trip for February, would you get refundable airfare?

    I would. We have a trip planned for January 31st and I'm betting that'll get cancelled, as well as cruise in Europe for April that I think will probably be cancelled as well.
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    Which version of “Baby it’s cold outside” do you like better (not political)?

    None for me as well. I turn it off if it comes on the holiday station in the car - and it comes on ALL the time.
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    slo’s THURSDAY poll - Booster Shot

    Yes - I got mine quite a while ago. I'm an Officer of Elections and I REALLY wanted to be fully vaccinated prior to the election this year (I'm in a conservative district in a conservative state, and we weren't allowed to require masks at the polls). So it was some time in mid-October, I think.
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    What really small thing influenced your life in a big way when you look back on it, good or bad

    When I was in high school my parents told my sister she couldn't go to Homecoming with a boy who was a different race from us. That one action led me to ultimately question everything they had taught me and reject their beliefs entirely, and I've had a very different (and much better) life...
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    When are you "celebrating" Christmas with family this year?

    We will see my family on Christmas Eve, we'll see DH"s family on the 28th of December.
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    What did you do for your last birthday?

    Got to hug my best friend for the first time in a year, because we were both fully vaccinated three days before my birthday :) . We went shopping at IKEA together and ate lunch in her car. It was heaven!
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    What is the loudest thing you have slept through?

    A hurricane that decimated a lot of our neighborhood, every really bad thunderstorm that ever happens at night, my husband's very loud snoring - you name it. But oddly enough, about 12 years ago someone got hit by a car on our road, drug himself onto our front porch (he had broken both of his...
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