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Garlic, eggs and old bread for garlic soup. Sardines simmered in tomato sauce and maybe some chorizo are a good sandwich filler and a good pasta sauce. Sage (grow it, you can use it in pasta, mix it with honey for a cold remedy, as tea is good if you are low on iron (anemia) or to prevent that. Thyme is also good for colds and good with lentils. Milk and bread. Tortillas (high on iron, good carbs, low calories)...

I have lost my cellphone a couple of times, twice i have gotten it back because a person near by was so kind as to pick it, answer (or call a friend from my list) and tell me where i leaved it.
Other than that.... only if they ask me to, or i see them running to answer and i'm near-er (i'll tell whatever person on the line to wait a second)

To me that looks tidy....
why not use a jewelry chest (or cup/bowl) to hide away cellphone, glasess, lotion chapstic etc .Put it over the book and you have (at least visually) less stuff on you table.
Use a low basket (for books maybe) and slide it under the bed.

Add shelving along the roof, that way you get storage space that is out of the way. Add a folding table, when not in use, hook it to the wall. Or get only a sturdy piece of wood as a table top and use a low dresser or a pair of ottomans as base. Tuck it under the bed when not in use.

paint it a contrasting color and place a big piece or art. If you have many photos or postcards criscros a wire and hang them all around

Cool room¡ a little to "grown up" for a 5 year old in my opinion, but I want it¡

My parents would not let me open ANY present until cristhmas morning, but now they insist on opening them on cristhmas eve after dinner, so they can watch the huge smiles on my little cousins as the rip the paper. I, of course, play evil and dont actually let them open them until after 12 .... or as late as i can get away (11:35 last year, So Close¡)
Cristhmas day is spent with our cousins, aunts and uncles.... everyone brings the leftover from dinner (Just don't call them leftovers¡), meat is grilled(more food? Yes), there are like 5 desserts and we hit a piñata and skip the rope (the "adults", that is...) (my 60 something aunt still beat us all, ).
And of course, all 10 and under brag off their new toys and fight over turns in the Xbox. The "grown ups" fight over the karaoke.

Bring a cake¡¡, in my family most often than not the host will not prepare dessert (where we live, or maybe just my family, it is not common to take dessert into acount at meal time, not even at holidays.. and who has when you have to clean and cordinate 4 dishes) and usually its asumed someone will bring cake or the host will get the box of cookies and coffe pot out.
So¡, cake is always nice, there is never enough, and just not get offened if its not eaten, you bring it as a gift for the host, and maybe she/he would like to actually serve it, or maybe serve it for lunch tomorrow with his/her other group of friends/family.
And yes, i have taken cake to parties where the host alredy had bough one, and someone else also took a cake, and NEVER has the cake been not recieved with gratitud (of hilarity the one time there where 5, plus 3 dessets, all of them gifts for the host...we ended up cuting 3 and having a desset buffet) and hardly is ever cake left.
If there is, cut, wrap it and give people a slice for take home and have breakfast with....If they are your friends/family, they will smile and thank you and even ask for more, not take offence.

I grew with a great (bordering irrational) fear of dogs (any kind, any size) because the dog my family had was jealous of me (the dog was around 2 years old when i was born), and would growl, bark and make me trip (never actually bite me) everytime i got close to it. My family eventually got rid of it, and i could finally go to my back yard.
Training a dog for a baby is important, it may sound silly, and in some cases not necesary, but then you have cases like @happybirthday, or mine that show it can be dangerous not to do so.
Getting rid of a dog is hard, but all the theraphy the kid is gonna need because her/his own dog attacked it is harder.

For 3 years i walked by a house, and every day i would wonder about the color," is it blue?, purple, lilac, aqua...no, wait, blue, or maybe violet"
Everyday.... until they painted the house brown.... to this day i dont know what color it was, and have never seen something that shade again