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Hi guys! A bit late to the thread but checking in anyway. I recovered from the jab so I went and visited my family! It was so awesome to see them and hug them and spend time with them. 💛 I love them all so much.
Now I'm on day 2 of recovering from that, but the worst is probably over so I'm hopeful I'll be back to normal within the week.
It's never too late! Conversations sometimes happen on previous day's threads.
Hopefully your recovery will be swift 🙂
Thanks! I'm feeling pretty uplifted so spending the day in bed isn't as bad as usual. 😀
Your comments in here today got me reminiscing about playing in the mud as a kid. It's like we're magnetised to dirt and mud when we're little.
When I was little, my cousins and siblings would play in a creek, digging out "clay" and I'm sure we used to try to sell it (I'm not sure who to, each other?).
I also have a 6 year old who loves to get naked and colour themselves in from head to toe. Just whenever they get bored. They have a lot of baths.
Probably actually was clay! Reminds me of when I was a kid and "Slime" was being sold in shops and we didn't have any but we got actual slime from this pond and wanted to sell it (not sure who to either, but mum said no).
Your 6 year old sounds super creative.
It may have been actual clay! I only have loose memories but it was this grex colour and definitely had clay-like qualities. Pretty squishy and hard to form into something, but it was probably clay in some form.
Probably squishy because of the river?
Clay's malleability depends on its water content. If a ceramicist wanted to use your river clay they'd probably add more water so they could strain out impurities (sticks etc) then leave it to dry until it got to the right consistency.
I wish you were there at the time, we could have sold it as real usable clay!
Probably be clay millionaires by now!
Missed opportunity, I could have been Elon Musk if I'd had your advice back then!
This morning's problem was the pants weren't holey enough. The three year old wanted the ones with the hole in the knee, but they wore them yesterday and they haven't been washed yet.
How filthy can a three year old get a pair of pants in one day?
Is that a challenge? We don't even get them dressed until after breakfast to try to get them to daycare in clean clothes.
Daycare does all sorts of messy or wet activities, and sometimes it's just plain old pee or poo. It's pretty rare to have a kid returned in the same pants you sent them away in.
Children are filthy. Noted.
Yep. They are pretty gross all around, I've definitely changed my views on what counts as dirty.
Wow....there is so much that can happen.
We try to keep it to only one extra set of clothes in the middle of the day. We have had 4 sets of pants in one day.....paint, playdoh, mud, water, food, food, food, food, brothers, boogers......the list can keep going on and on......
Kids are just pure filth interposed with brief periods of cleanliness.
Oh man the boogers! I knew I'd missed an important one. With ours, it's notable when we go a week without a snotty nose. This kid has been worse than our others, at 2 we had a stretch of nearly 6 months with a drippingly snotty nose every day.
Beautiful sunny day today.
Just rode down to the local NZ Post to ship another TradeMe purchase. I think at this rate I may be able to run an online retail business focused on delivering wholesale Chinese goods to kiwis who are willing to pay a couple of bucks extra to not have to wait months for shipping, or to pick it up at my front door.
If I become a massive hit - I should be able to earn.............................. half the minimum wage, I guess.
I'm guilty of ordering off trademe when I don't want to wait for aliexpress shipping. I've often thought it hardly seems worth your time to make like $1 or $2 profit on a cheap item.
Went back to reddit for the first time because I had an itch to see more people arguing over Palestine Israel. So many locked threads removed comments. First 50 comments I read are crying over some headline that wasn't true. Man that site is such a mess.
I went back to YouTube comments where the real juicy arguments are. Found a video of xqc trying to learn about the conflict and then watched his roomtemp iq fans battle it out in the comments.