Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been coughing for over a year. It’s very hard to get insurance pre-authorization to get CT scan in the US, according to my primary care doctor. She said if I am willing to self-pay, it’s not too expensive. So yesterday I took the plunge, I went to Metro Imaging directly, paid the fee
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was doing some soul searching on investment recently. And I came across this Allgiant ALGT. I traded it on its IPO at $25 12-08-2006. It’s trading at $158 as of today 01-13-2015 (about 8 years later). Why did not hold on this winner while trading the other losing stock named Heelys??? (click on the
Reading Time: < 1 minute Charmin and Bounty at Target $4.50 off regular price for 30 double rolls, $5 eGiftcard when one buy 2 (can mix and match). Here is the link to get to Charmin. Use Target Redcard to get 5% off and free shipping. Huggies Snug and Dry Plus at Costco $6 off large box (was $38.99 for
Reading Time: < 1 minute Baby Sophia is almost 5 months old, and she is on size 3 diaper (16 to 28 lbs). I recall she was born at 7 lbs and 3 oz, quickly reach 10 lbs which also outgrew new born size diaper. Similar thing happened to size 1 diaper, she reached 14 lbs at 2 month mark,
Reading Time: < 1 minute 2012 LE, basic radio. Set the language from Spanish to English (it says Corolla, but it works for Sienna as well, as they have very similar audio equipments). Setup bluetooth My tip: so I followed the instruction 1 and set up bluetooth audio for my iPhone 5s with the minivan, and later on I tried
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been in “austerity mode” since late Sept., and so far my main approach is “shop at Aldi, and global food market”. I found Aldi has most of the grocery and basic daily stuff, while global food market has the fresh veggies and sea food. Occasionally I shopped at Sam’s club, Target, Trader Joe’s
Reading Time: < 1 minute I signed up the BoA credit card 50,000 miles promotion last Dec. But I forgot to spend $1000 in the first 3 months, I spent $995 in the first two months and then stopped. The reason was I thought I had reached this limit. But I forgot one thing: to check my spending at both
Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this discussion at mittbbs.com (发信人: waluzz78 (哇鲁庄镇), 信区: Parenting). I think I agree. ====== 最近跟国内来的访问学者或旅游的家庭往，感觉国内的孩子很活泼自信，跟大人打交道 也很自然。跟他们相比，我们周围在美国长大的10岁左右的小孩，包括我们自己的孩子 ，显得更木讷，尤其不擅长跟大人打交道。我琢磨了一下，觉得原因是孩子在美国长大 ，只想用英文说话，而在家里父母用中文跟他们交流，他们虽然能听懂，但不愿用中文 回答，久而久之，跟大人的交流也变少了，而中国父母跟美国家庭的来往有限，孩子们 也缺乏跟美国大人的来往，结果既没学会中国人待人接物的方法，也没学会美国人的方 式，基本上只会跟同龄人打交道，在成人面前就显得很木讷。想起夏天一个孩子班上搞 得跟老师告别的party上，美国孩子即兴侃侃而谈表达对老师的感激之情，几个中国孩 子唯唯诺诺的回避发言，当时以为是性格所至，现在看应该是生长环境造成的。国内长 大的孩子普遍就大方多了。现在很想亡羊补牢，改善一下孩子的社交能力，我能想到的 就是多带孩子参加活动，尤其是美国人为主的活动，因为让孩子学中国人待人处事已经 不切合实际了，只好人他们学习美国人的方式，自己也只好step out of the comfort zone了.也许加入country club是个办法。以前觉得那里中国人太少了，加入是受罪.不 知大家有什么好建议。 ======
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lots of headache first few days. It’s getting better as time goes. The reason I am trying to do that is it (the coffee) appears to make me go to restroom much more often. I want to eliminate this one factor to see if things get better. A second reason, is I don’t want to
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we were expecting the second baby, we vaguely recall the baby quickly grew out of the “new born” size diaper, so we did not stock up this time. When the baby came home with us, we already had a box of 88 pieces of Huggies natural, and being a person like to stock up
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