They've been getting steadily worse the last decade or so, and they're especially bad this year due to a mild winter and wet spring.

Permethrin is your best bet. I also use a sticky lint roller after each hike to pick up any that are on my clothing. (Works great in April when the babies come out.)

My vote is 4, 3, 2, 1, in that order.

4 ties in well with both the wall color and the reddish accents. 3 works too but is less good with the wall color connection. 2 is pretty bland, but not overtly jarring the way I found 1 to be.

Though honestly, my first vote is to just live without one for a while until your decision fatigue resets and you have a sense of what you really want in the space.

Go insane, probably.

...To prevent that, I'd either travel (to get away from my home office and the temptation to invent a project for myself to stave off insanity) or I'd start a home project like installing a sun room for my cats.

I'm wearing jeans right now that I bought in 2017. They fit, they're comfortable, they have no scandalous holes, and I like them.

If it's working for you, keep it. If not, don't.

Having lived (and gardened) here my whole life, I have learned that the best possible hose brand to own in Michigan is called Taking Your Hose Indoors in the Winter.

There is no hose on the market that will last if you leave it outdoors to freeze/thaw over an entire fall/winter/spring. 

Also, replace your hose gaskets every year or every other year, and take your external pipe fittings off as well.

YTA. If you'd bought a Future Cube, you could have predicted this.

What does it really teach that aren't better taught through other sports?

In marching band, everyone giving less than 100% isn't enough. If 10% of you make just one mistake each, it's a bad show and the audience knows it.

In marching band, no one rides the bench. No matter where your teammates' skills are, you MUST help them improve, because you will rely on them for EVERY SECOND of performance.

In marching band, the "stars" (soloists) do not carry the team. In fact, they are always the most easily replaced.

And we do it with a profoundly lower risk of head injury.

I grew up homesteading in Michigan. 

The weather is a lot more unpredictable now than when I was a kid, so every year feels like a bigger gamble than the one before. I have issues with deer we never had 30 years ago, due to our massive current deer overpopulation. Last year's mild winter meant a bunch of my "annuals" overwintered, but it's also made the ticks nigh unmanageable.

...Which is basically every year of my life homesteading in Michigan. Weather did weird things, this or that crop suffering for it, this or that other crop doing great, animals gonna animal, wow it's a boom year for [insert bug here].

As for laws, I grew up in a part of MI that didn't even have touch tone telephones still 1998 or any non-dialup Internet option until 2012. We didn't have laws or care if we did, haha. (I now live in a township that loves my garden but does expect me to cut grass...so I keep expanding the garden. My neighbors have two horses and another neighbor has two goats. I'm ten minutes from downtown.)

Tl;dr Michigan gonna Michigan, I'm used to it, I love it, I will always complain (from love).

I'm in the process of getting rid of a lot of my husband's stuff. He died three years ago.

When I started, I had a rule I called my "widow's prerogative," which was: If I am not ready to get rid of a thing, it stays. No matter how weird or pointless it is.

I kept a empty Pepto bottle on his nightstand for six months. I kept the box his work shoes came in for over year. But gradually I've been able to let go of more and more. 

He left a wardrobe of good business clothes, which I have kept stored for a while, but I'm planning to donate shortly to the local public defender office for their clients to wear in court when needed. I know he'd have preferred that over my just dropping them at a thrift store, and I prefer it as well.

Our love for them will always be larger and more enduring than their things.

For some perspective: Taking a year off won't mess up anything in the future, unless the thing is something with an age limit.

That said, if you do take a gap year, be prepared to explain what you did and how it will enrich your teaching. "I ate a lot of Fritos and watched Netflix" will be much harder to spin than "I took a year off to volunteer building houses in Mexico" or "I worked with the library reading program" or "I tried a bunch of part-time jobs so I'd have a better understanding of the work world my students are graduating into."

Part of having an allowance is learning to make your own purchasing choices.

Since she has one and can make money around the house, I'd recommend telling her that she's now responsible for most of her own spending. School book fair coming up? She needs to budget for that; you're not giving her extra money for it. You'll still cover her needs (food, clothes etc) but not her wants.

Then, show her how to make a budget, look up and compare prices online, and plan for saving and spending.

I have a pocket tape measure that my mom got in the 70s and I still use. I also still use my jackknife from Girl Scouts, same era.

Oh, and my dressers are also mid-70s. My parents bought them at a garage sale in 1982, and I've used them ever since. I replaced the pulls recently, and they could do with a repainting but not badly enough for me to want to do the work.

This is cute! We give ours a pin shaped like their instrument.

I personally am a fan of the first photo, wouldn't do the second in my own house but would enjoy it in someone else's, and still have sufficient PTSD from the 80s Mauve Era not to trust the third. (I'm only half joking.)

...seriously, there is nothing wrong with the third one color-wise, and if YOU like it, it doesn't matter if I do.

My only question would be if the spaces the second and third sets are intended for are large enough to handle that many colors. I wouldn't do more than three in any space 12x16 or smaller - it gets busy FAST, especially when you start adding furniture, knobs and drawer pulls, etc. But an open kitchen/dining area could probably handle the second one, and the sage/dark blue continuity between that and the living room could work well.

Her response was that a lot of her friends make 200-300k. 

 "Cool. Date one of your friends, then." 

 Personally, I've never understood why I should have expectations for what some guy makes when I can make my own money just fine. I want a partner, not a parent.

I've been gluten free for decades. It's tough getting to actually gluten free, but once you do, it can be as simple as any other lifestyle.

Some tips:

• Find a good gluten free flour blend you like and stick with it. I like Pamela's because it cooks like flour in pretty much everything. Do the same with noodles, if you like pasta.

• Learn to bake. It's a LOT safer, cheaper, and tastier than buying pre-made gluten free baked goods. If it exists in pre-made form, you can find a recipe for it. (I even make my own crackers.)

• Join gluten free communities online. "Gluten free" on packaging means nothing. There is no standard, so companies can put it wherever they want. (I got glutened once by a bag of dried apple slices that said "naturally gluten free!" on the front and "processed on shared equipment with wheat" on the back.) Communities know what is and isn't actually safe.

• For me, the easiest thing was to start cooking things from cultures that don't use much or any wheat. I make a lot of Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern/North African dishes. 

I have similar windows in my bedroom, and when I moved in they had short curtains that only covered the trim.

I replaced them with floor-length curtains and it made a HUGE difference. It made the room look a lot more spacious - probably because the eye now takes in the full length of the wall instead of focusing on this odd rectangle in the center. It does not make the windows look weird, imo.

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I wouldn't, just because one little thing you never knew you had or one other person's random negligence can bankrupt you.

Things like a congenital brain artery issue that suddenly causes a brain bleed, a blood clot because why would you ever even know you're heterozygous factor 5 Leyden until it actually happens, or an insurance-less driver who looks at their texts at the wrong moment and plows into you. Those are $200k to $2M easy, depending on how bad the damage is, and you cannot possibly prepare for or prevent them.

I had a chemistry teacher once who would make the top grade the total points on which all other grades were calculated.

So, for example, if your top scorer earned 90/100 points, they earned 90/90. Everyone else's score is now calculated out of 90, instead of out of 100.

I ran a consulting service for many years. Minimal startup costs (for the cost of a laptop and a domain name I was in business), no inventory, very little office clutter. 

How deep is the nook? I wouldn't do shelves unless it's at least 12 inches (30 cm). Otherwise you risk having shelves too narrow to hold much.

...Though, if it is narrower than 12 inches, a picture rail through the center plus the bottom lip of the nook gives you two sets of picture rails, so you can lean art and other nifty objects there and swap them out whenever you get bored. (I get bored frequently so I am a sucker for picture rails.)

Either way, if it were me, I'd paint or wallpaper the nook interior a different color than the shelves and surrounding wall. Accent colors on shelf backs are an instant and cheap space uplift, imo.

You've done the work part of learning, but not the rest part. Your brain needs rest to consolidate what it has learned.

I lost count of how many times I couldn't do some choreo to save my life, ate dinner, slept, and the next morning my body could do it like I'd been born doing it.

The human brain REQUIRES the rest phase to learn.

I clicked on the title expecting a nuanced discussion about how to handle family heirlooms and other items when people you don't want to hurt have invested significant emotion in those items.

The item did not meet my expectations.

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Start by subbing. It'll tell you fast if you want to be in the classroom.

GVSU's Graduate Teacher Certification program was my pick, because it can be done remotely. They'll review your degree/transcript and let you know exactly what additional coursework you'll need and how long it will take.

I also talked to WMU, but they wanted me to just do their English ed degree - which would have taken me seven more semesters despite the fact that I have my MA in English FROM WMU. No thanks.

You might also check into Talent Together. It's a program that helps people get certified in in-demand areas (elementary, SPED, etc). In exchange for them paying for your schooling, you agree to work in your assigned district for five years. Applications are in fall or winter IIRC.