An assisted living facility for people with dementia or Alzheimer's is being planned for a Minneapolis suburb. Some neighbors are protesting because they think that the patients might either harm their children or expose them to "inappropriate" behavior. [link]
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is it worth having a tailor/seamstress alter it?
Oh no. It's a costco dress. Altering it would probably cost more than the dress. I figure I can get away with it for another 5 pounds or so, and then goodwill or play here have a thing.
Okay, I'm a Gemini, so what should I be like? Or what two people should I be like?
You are: the person who happily pays to have it done. And the person who makes you realize that this is more than okay.
This has been me. I like that me.
Wow. A family in Quebec was killed when a sinkhole swallowed their house. [link]
If I have a bunch of tights that are still in the packages, giving them to Goodwill would be okay, right?
Still in packages, yes, I think so. I'm pretty sure that's something women's shelters ask for.
I would love (and yet hate) someone to pick up after me.
So exactly how I feel.
Speaking from my experience in women's shelters, donations usually desperately needed are diapers, formula, plus-sized professional women's clothes, African-American hair care and beauty products (seriously, some of the most affecting self-esteem issues I saw at shelters were brought about through women getting their hair cut and styled) and transportation (bus/taxi vouchers, gas cards.)
Also beds, for women going into an assisted living type of program. If you ever have a decent bed that needs donating, I highly suggest you call women's shelters or homeless shelters in the area -- often women and children get housing, but sleep on the floor.
Erin, what about mattresses?
Anybody hear from the Tom & Nora Southward migration yet?