My 13-month old daughter likes to shriek, too, for no apparent reason. We just tell her "No screaming" very firmly & try to distract her. It's a normal thing for kids to do. (Her "something's wrong" cries are distinctly different.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 12:22 PM on July 1, 2008

An explanation of the picture's meaning.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 7:52 PM on June 30, 2008 marked best answer

Rosemary
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:50 AM on June 25, 2008

Call a temp agency. They specialize in short-term jobs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:44 AM on June 18, 2008

Wacky cake!
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:10 AM on June 15, 2008

Oatmeal cookies for my morning & afternoon snacks really helped increase my supply, but fenugreek just made my thyroid levels go crazy (in a very bad way).

As someone said, replacing those white flaps can make a huge difference. And I've been told that after about a year of regular use, the PIS pump loses some of its power.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:44 PM on June 10, 2008

I'd suggest they contact the registrar (using official church letter head, etc.) with a copy of the death announcement and a plea for help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:53 PM on April 27, 2008

You could donate a book to a library. They often have special "This book was donated in memory of ____" bookplates in the things I check out. You might even get to pick an appropriate title/subject from a list of books they're hoping to acquire.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:07 AM on April 26, 2008

It sounds like you're just looking for retro/vintage clip art. A google search for "retro +clipart +50" gave some of the following links. Another idea would be to search for vintage ad art.

flames, woman in costume w/ a martinie

starbursts & more

Woman with a martini

free retro... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:15 AM on April 25, 2008

Did you use the same type of test all three times? Different tests have different sensitivity levels, so that could be a factor if they weren't all the same brand. Also, first morning pee vs. later pee really can make a difference in results if you're very early in the pregnancy.

Mild cramping is normal in early pregnancy, so don't let that freak you out too much. (That first month or so I was constantly convinced that my period was about to start... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:21 PM on April 20, 2008

It gave me crazy dreams, but I don't remember any other side-effects.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:23 PM on April 18, 2008

If I were you, I'd post an ad on Craigslist (if it's available in your area). This is the sort of thing that a woodworker hobbyist could make for you in no time. Heck, if you're in MN, mefi mail me; we're about to make a couple replacements for ourselves.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:46 AM on April 16, 2008

No specific recipes, because we generally just wing it as we go along, but these would be my suggestions:

stir fry (everything but sweet potato)

curry (everything but bok choy & celery)

roasted veggies (everything but bok choy & celery - just toss w/ olive oil, add salt, pepper & rosemary or your favorite herbs and roast at around 400 until tender)
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:20 PM on April 12, 2008

Harmony Park is a great place to hang out for the weekend! (We'll probably be there selling our djembes.)

Things to bring:

a flashlight warm clothes (the wind blows across the lake & it can get pretty chilly)aspirin, bandaids, toilet paper & wet wipes (the portapotties usually run out of paper & water on Saturday night & then Sunday morning when you're packing to leave is pretty unpleasant)food, beverages (no glass bottles), a way... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:06 AM on April 3, 2008 marked best answer

PS - feel free to mefi mail me if you have any questions about Harmony Park. I designed their website & spend quite a bit of time there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:27 AM on April 3, 2008

What you want is an accordion script. There are lots of free ones on that page. They'll all have instructions, I think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:18 PM on March 29, 2008 marked best answer

Like one of these? one | two

I'm not sure how those compare to the script yogajournal is using. You could compare them if you want. (Look for "/* show and hide elements on poses page */" to find the relevant part.) I don't recommend just copying their code, but you can certainly learn from it. :)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:47 PM on March 29, 2008

"Under the Tuscan Sun" & "Bella Tuscany" by Frances Mayes
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 7:17 PM on March 19, 2008

Are you using a FTP program or some web-based upload system provided by GoDaddy? Why are you trying to zip the file? (In my 9+ years of web design, I've never zipped a file in order to upload it.)

FTP is very easy to use. Download something like Filezilla. Type in your server info, username & password. Then you just select the folder you want the files to go into, select the files, and drag them over.

Uploading Files to Your (GoDaddy) Web... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 7:32 AM on March 15, 2008

If I'm in Filezilla or on the godaddy.com file manager, is there a place I can see all my files and then click on one to see how it's working live on the site?

No, I don't think so.

Maybe I'm not understanding, but you can bookmark your main site & then type in the folder name at the end of it when you want to see the stuff you just uploaded.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 10:53 AM on March 15, 2008

Good luck!
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 1:10 PM on March 15, 2008

Another option would be asking on the forums at altdotlife.com
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:57 PM on March 7, 2008

Interestingly, German has something very similar, though it's slightly easier to parse since nouns are capitalized.
"Wenn Fliegen fliegen hinter Fliegen, fliegen fliegen Fliegen fliegen Fliegen hinterher."

The literal translation is "when flies fly behind flies, fly flying flies flying flies behind."
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:10 AM on March 6, 2008

If you can figure out who *his* host was, you could try sending them an email. (I successfully retrieved files that way once when my (reseller) host stopped paying the bills & my site went down.)

Who Is Hosting This.com says that bonnieplants.com (listed above as being on the same IP & still online) is hosted by Mobile Now. Clicking on their link for Mobile Now takes you to CeraNet, who I'd guess is the true host.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:47 AM on February 22, 2008

What about several of your favorite books from when you were a kid?
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:28 PM on February 19, 2008

You could call the World Market stores & see if they still have any left from Christmas. Pier One would also be worth trying. They're probably all clearanced out by now, but there might be some stuck in the back warehouse.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:14 AM on February 15, 2008

I went to several festivals while I was quite pregnant, though they were only 1.5 hours from our home. In fact, I went into labor at one (10 days overdue - we decided we might as well go & have fun, rather than sitting at home wondering when the kid would appear). I've seen many (very) pregnant women at them, too.

My thoughts: Yes, portapotties are yucky, but if she can deal with them when she's not pregnant, she can deal with them pregnant, too. I found skirts were... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 10:21 AM on January 19, 2008

I used to have my living room lights on a timer. When they went off, it was bedtime. If I wanted to stay up, I had to get up & turn them back on, which made staying up later a very conscious decision.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:51 AM on January 15, 2008

Despite the recommendations above, I'd suggest you avoid Babe. It opens with him losing his mother (she's taken to be slaughtered), which still makes me anxious & teary-eyed, even though I'm 35 and have seen it a dozen times. If you can skip that opening part, the rest of the movie might be appropriate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:31 AM on January 5, 2008

This happened to me about a week ago. UPS claims to have left the package on our porch, but it was nowhere to be found. I called Amazon & they shipped a replacement, no questions asked. They even upgraded to next-day shipping, so it arrived on Christmas eve.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:28 PM on January 3, 2008 marked best answer

Pearson's Nut Goodies (from Minnesota)
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:50 PM on December 28, 2007

I-90 by Storyhill
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:51 AM on December 28, 2007

I once mailed a half-eaten, burned pancake in a ziplock bag to a roommate who was home visiting her family. It got there just fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 10:13 PM on December 15, 2007

If it helps in your searching, I've always heard them called "German Christmas Pyramids" (not "carousels") .
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:22 PM on December 4, 2007

Almost anything by Storyhill - Stillwater, Clearing, If I Could, Mary on the Mountain, Absaroka Air
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 8:02 AM on December 2, 2007

My husband and I make beautiful djembes and ashikos. We're having a 20% off sale this week, too. :)

The small ashikos are really great for kids - even our 5-month-old loves to bang on them.

Everything is made right here in Minnesota.
posted to MetaTalk by belladonna at 5:40 AM on November 27, 2007

Definitely chocolate chips & peanut butter. Those were what I missed the most when I lived in Italy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:12 AM on November 19, 2007

Congratulations!

I had all the same thoughts & feelings, even though the kiddo was planned. One of the hardest adjustments for me was accepting that I was not one of those glowy, earth-mother pregnant women I had always thought I'd be. I was sick & sore & exhausted & the feel of the baby moving made my skin crawl. I hated nearly every second of pregnancy (except the last 2 weeks, when I felt pretty darn good) & birth, but the 5-month-old smiling &... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:02 PM on November 16, 2007

Cookies

Cranberry sauce. I made sauce for the first time a few years ago & it was almost faster than opening up a can of the stuff. I'll never buy it again.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:29 PM on November 9, 2007

When I used nuvaring, I specifically asked the pharmacy about the "keep refrigerated" stuff on the label. They told me not to worry unless I was keeping it in the cupboard for more than a few months. Of course, they also said to use common sense and not store it directly over the stove or a radiator, etc. where it would get too hot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 3:53 PM on November 6, 2007

The other thing is cats don't drink much of ANYTHING at one time. I can't imagine a cat imbibing more than a tablespoon of water at a time, and with other liquids (had a cat once that liked cold black coffee) they'll just have a few licks for a taste. I think it would take quite a bit of red wine to actually make a cat drunk.

My parents had a cat that LOVED beer and would get staggeringly drunk when they had parties.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 5:02 PM on November 5, 2007

"The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper takes place at Christmas. It's young adult fiction and not terribly long, but a really great book.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:25 AM on October 31, 2007

You could also run the photo of their logo (or the logo from their website) through VectorMagic and then get it printed someplace like cafepress (if they don't discover that it's a real logo belonging to someone else) or DIY with some t-shirt transfer paper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 12:48 PM on October 28, 2007

Toss in some cottage cheese, chopped apples, & cinnamon. mmm
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 3:30 PM on October 25, 2007

My mood started improving within a day or so of stopping & was pretty much back-to-normal within about 3 weeks. My period went back to my usual cycle right away. I'd only been on Nuvaring about 3 months & the minipill for 6 weeks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:00 AM on October 25, 2007

This happened to us this spring. We deposited a check via ATM and the machine took it without giving a receipt or showing it as a pending deposit. It cleared the other account but never made it into my checking acct.

In the end, several months later, we got the money. But I spent a long time on the phone with customer service and had to fax them copies of the cancelled check.

Be persistent. If I hadn't kept calling, they never would have done... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 9:07 AM on October 14, 2007

We swaddle our 4.5 month daughter because if we didn't, she'd flail her arms in her sleep and wake herself up every 30 minutes. She sleeps better & is much happier swaddled than she is the nights we let her sleep without the blanket (because it's still in the wash or something like that). When we wrap her up she gets a huge grin on her face. It's certainly *not* a case of learned helplessness.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 7:41 AM on October 13, 2007 marked best answer

We moved her stuff with our van.
posted to MetaTalk by belladonna at 3:18 PM on October 6, 2007

Deborah is bee in Hebrew. Here's a list of other insect-related names.
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 6:47 AM on September 29, 2007

My husband says that overtones are usually from the drum not being tightened enough. You might also have a bad skin or have put it on wrong. So the answer to most of your questions is "maybe."

Morgan has never seen the rings shift that much during drying. The target is 3/4" down, but your 1/2-1" tilt/placement should only be a cosmetic problem. 2" is too much.


a) loosen the ropes just enough to try... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by belladonna at 4:03 PM on September 27, 2007 marked best answer