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There is a women-only 5k run/walk that is held locally every year on Mother's Day, and for the past 3 years my mother and I have been participating in it together. We both have fun, she loves it, and it's neat to see everyone out with their mothers. (Sons and husbands can't run the race, but they make great event volunteers!)

Go MHK! This looks infinitely nicer than the photos they use to advertise these apartments. Nice job!

The Vegan Brunch cookbook gets pretty good reviews, you might see if your local library has a copy.

My first thought was: "Awesome, it's like the kitchen from Firefly." You need all those compartments in your kitchen if your house is a space ship. SPACE!

I can't remember when my mother started reading them to me, but Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books were a huge part of my childhood (especially Little House in the Big Woods.) I was slightly obsessed with them between the ages of 6 and 7, in a good way of course.

I see a LOT of kids books come through at work (public school district library office), and there's some really weird stuff out there that I'm not sure about. (Super Diaper Baby, anyone?) But there are also some really cute things, like all of Peter Brown's books ( http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/ ), and 'Piggy Bunny' by Rachel Vail, and Mo Willem's 'Knufflebunny' and 'Elephant and Piggy' books.

Oh, and one last thought. Not sure if it counts as a classic, but I'll always remember Robert Munsch's 'Love You Forever' as read by my mother. "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

Growing trend? People were doing this when I was in college 7 or 8 years ago. I can only imagine how painful it would be to try swallowing a tablespoon of straight cinnamon all at once, but I don't know that it's any worse than any of the other 'challenges' kids come up with. And I can bet that they won't be repeating it, unlike the beer bongs and keg-standing that seems to happen every weekend.

What always got me was a certain college roommate (who was renting a room FROM me, not with me) who would leave passive-aggressive notes around the house and sign them "The Management."
The house was in my name, as were the bills, and the dishes and furniture were all mine, and somehow she was "management?' I'm sure she just thought she was being cute, but please.

My only experience with subletting is through a friend who needed a place to stay for a couple of months between leases. The girl he was subletting from turned out to be a complete slob: we got there to move him in and there was literally a 6-inch layer of trash covering the floor, cat urine everywhere, dirty laundry (even underwear) thrown in random strange places, and 2 dead fish in a fishbowl. The only thing to indicate that she may have prepared for someone else to be staying in her space was that she had leaned her nasty mattress up against the wall, so there were a few clear feet of floor space in the bedroom.
I guess the point of this is, the whole thing can be a risk in either direction. It's a sad truth that most people don't care about much if they think they won't be held responsible for it. Personally, if this was something I had to do, I would clear out anything that I valued or that would be difficult to replace, and I would have very clear responsibilities and consequences for each involved party outlined in the rental agreement. Take pictures before they move in and after they leave, and make sure that any damage they cause is well-documented and dealt with before your landlord decides to hold you responsible for it.

Ours go off randomly with no provocation. And they're all wired together, so every single one in the house joins in. I can't think of a single time that cooking (smoke or heat) or shower steam has triggered them. Sometimes a big clap of thunder will set them off, but usually they just start sometime in the middle of the night and (once we get them stopped) restart every 30 to 60 minutes. If we aren't home to turn them off, they just keep going. Once we came home and our 3 cats were all hiding in a closet, terrified, because the alarms had most likely been going off for an hour or more.
They're wired into the house, so taking the batteries out just makes them beep ALL the time. It's a fairly new house, is this just what they do now? The last place we lived had alarms that went off during thunderstorms, but not all by themselves repeatedly.
Got any recommendations for THIS?

Really not liking this, if only because I do not have a widescreen monitor and now I have to scroll sideways to see the rest of the page. I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds this frustrating. I haven't even explored beyond this page, so for all I know the rest of the reorganization is fine. I just can't see all of it.
Also, without any graphics in the header or the side menu it makes the site look unfinished. It's reminding me of what happens when a page won't load all the way, which is usually a bad thing.