Thanks everyone for your answers. Everything you said helped by at least reducing my anxiousness. (I hadn't been able to answer before, you know how it can get, 10 days before the wedding!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:41 PM on May 20, 2008

I really like the ones at Brooks Brothers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:09 PM on May 17, 2008

Well, I hope my fiancé doesn't take thomas144's advice.

I don't think I'll have any energy for sex before at least 10 hours of sleep. And we've been abstinent. I don't care. I figure, if we've waited for months, what's another 10 hours?

The plan for the wedding is get up friday, early, have a whole day of wedding stuff, get married at night, have the reception, leave the reception at 4am to go shower and change, leave for the airport, and spend... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:50 PM on April 14, 2008

I asked a question about peer-to-peer filesharing a while ago that had some good answers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:15 PM on March 28, 2008

Thanks whiskey point for the suggestion, but if there's anything google has tried to get me to do, is to smash my wrist with something. Thanks but no thanks. In any way, I'm trying to find out if surgery is still needed even when there's no bump left...
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:38 PM on March 26, 2008

Thanks everyone for your answers. I finally got to speak to the doctor, on the phone, and he told me to cancel the surgery and to check back with him in a month.

If anyone cares: I came to the conclusion today that apart from the relaxing vacations (I mostly get the cyst during times of stress and lots of work), I did a LOT of shopping one day and the carrying of heavy bags seem to have helped with the going down of the bump. I guess the carrying of heavy things works both ways...
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 7:23 PM on March 26, 2008

Is there a way to do this without Outlook? (I don't use it)
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:44 AM on March 8, 2008

Thanks for all your answers.

I don't really know what I'm doing, and how, but I managed to get all my contacts from the old phone downloaded into MyPhoneExplorer, and from there into Outlook.

Now I'm trying to connect the new phone, but it doesn't want to. If I try to connect it to MyPhoneExplorer, it tells me: "Could not open COM6!" and if I try to connect it to the Sony Ericsson PC Suite, it keeps telling me that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 2:04 PM on March 10, 2008

I don't understand a lot of the people here who are calling your friend an asshole or a drama queen or whichever other adjective. I think it's very reasonable to expect a less than positive reaction from a friend, when you've told him you've been lying to him for years. Ok, yes, maybe he's overreacting by saying that "he is accountable in part for the actions of those he associates with", but what does he even mean by that?

I can remember... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:55 AM on February 20, 2008 marked best answer

The info I have so far is:


United 888, Arrival
San Francisco, CA (SFO)
Fri, Feb 1
Scheduled: 8:54 AM
Estimated: 8:54 AM
Reason: --
Gate: INTL
Baggage claim: --


Continental 1536, Departs
City: San Francisco, CA (SFO)
Gate:
Check-in Terminal: Terminal 1
Scheduled Time: 10:50 a.m.
Estimated Time: 10:50 a.m.
Scheduled Date: Fri., Feb. 1, 2008
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 4:18 PM on January 31, 2008

Ok thanks everyone, I'll email this info to my dad. Hey, does anyone know if he'll be able to see the map of the airport on his Blackberry?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 5:36 PM on January 31, 2008

Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm on Internet Explorer, in case it matters.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:54 PM on January 7, 2008

Ok, I tried lowering the "Privacy" option from "Medium" to "Low", and I included google.com in the "Permited" sites. I'll see if this works.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:33 AM on January 8, 2008

I just checked. There are 7 flights on Interjet.com.mx going from Cancun to Toluca on Jan 5. Only ONE still has available seats and it leaves Cancun at 00.25hrs, getting to Toluca at 02.45hrs. I'm not sure if that would mean a LOT of time doing nothing at the Toluca Airport, but it'd save the money of taking a taxi from Mexico City to Toluca.

Volaris.com.mx does show more flights available, but mostly in the afternoon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 5:55 PM on December 20, 2007

I think your stepdaughter sees you as the right amount of "friend", "adult" and "parent", which means you are a bit of everything but no 100% of any. Like thinkingwoman says, you must be doing something right if she's confiding in you, so don't do anything that will break that trust she has in you. (Of course, as long as it doesn't put her life/integrity in danger.)

I'm going to be a high school teacher next year, so I've been to a bunch of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 4:05 PM on December 20, 2007

Just by looking at your tags, I'd think these words should be nowhere near a healthy relationship. If thinking about your boyfriend makes you think about exes, infidelity, cheating, etc..... you'd really be better off single.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:48 PM on December 17, 2007

I don't really know of this helps, but I'm Mexican [and have lived here all my life] and I have NO idea of where this place is. Never even heard of it.

What state is "Todos Santos" in?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:03 PM on December 17, 2007

Ups, I'd skipped over the title. Now I see you mention "Baja".

Like I said, I've never heard of this place before, but from my own experience in a lot of Mexican towns and "pueblos", there's never enough to do for a whole week. You'll probably get bored before that. Maybe you can combine half a week in Todos Santos with half a week in Cabo San Lucas. Both places look close enough for a short road trip.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:10 PM on December 17, 2007

I use one in the shower but only for my face. And I just call it a towel. For the rest of my body I use my bare hands or a bath poof around once a week. I picked this habit (the washcloth) up myself, since no one in my family, that I know of, uses one.

I'm in Mexico.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:53 PM on December 17, 2007

What I’m looking for, in short, is a way to plan for the year rather than a list of resolutions.


Then that's the answer to your own question, I'd say. You need a New Year's Plan for 2008, instead of a resolution. Yes, sometimes New Year's resolutions end up being empty gestures because they mostly sound like "good intentions", instead of actions that are in a person's possibilities.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:39 AM on December 14, 2007

Thanks to everyone for your good answers. As they're all opinions and/or suggestions, there's no "best answer", but I've taken everything into consideration.

For now we've decided to stick to the Garden View option, since as Ambrosia Voyeur said in the first answer "just how much staring out the window are [we] planning to do?". Plus, we *will* have a room with a balcony on the Alaska cruise, so there'll be lots of "looking at the ocean"... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 12:10 PM on December 6, 2007

My little niece has loved this "ExerSaucer" since she was around 6 or 7 months old. My sister loves it too, since she can put the baby there for a few minutes and she'll be entertained and safe (and off her hands for a while).

It's a great gift too, my mom has given it to a few of my cousins who've had babies in the past year.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:20 PM on November 27, 2007

Wow, I hadn't been able to get online until right now, and I'm happy to see a lot of good answers. I'll have to read them carefully again in a few days, when I go talk to some travel agent.

Like I'd said, I wasn't really sure about what I was asking, but basically I guess I wanted to know if Alaska was really worth the trip (I'm from Mexico) and if the cruise wasn't going to be full of retired couples and such. I do love the fact that the cruises either begin or end in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 5:40 PM on November 22, 2007

I think the idea of an expensive diamond engagement ring is... absurd. .....Using the money for a down payment on a house or investing it for retirement seems so obviously more sensible that I'm wondering why everybody but the rich doesn't do it.

If you already think it's an absurd concept, then check with your SO and see if you both agree. But still, a lot of things that we do are absurd. A lot of the things that we do for fun or pleasure are absurd,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:24 PM on November 19, 2007

I hope I'm not too late but you marked thinkingwoman's answer as a best answer and it has some errors.

"bendigo" is not the correct tense to use here.

I would suggest:

"Señor X, quisiera pedirle su bendición para casarme con x"
(Mister x, I'd like to ask your blessing to marry x."

Or

"Señor x, quisiera pedir la mano de x en... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:59 PM on November 15, 2007

Thanks, adamrice, but yeah, thats a very good example of what I DON'T want to get him. This is a poshy kind of company that makes real estate developments and such.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 12:37 PM on November 12, 2007

Thanks everyone, I'm talking a look at all of these.

If everyone can think of more places where I can find something, keep the suggestions coming.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:55 PM on November 12, 2007

Plagiarism and source citing? That's just boring...

Anyone else? Some fun ideas?

I'm thinking something from what I studied, which was Psychology, but I still have to narrow it down.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:09 AM on November 5, 2007

It's a class in career orientation, so I don't think it's a good topic for this model class, specially since I'm not that prepared yet on this topic and I don't want to mess up in front of people who teach it. I'd rather talk to them about something not directly related to the classes they teach.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:37 PM on November 5, 2007

Chespirito is certainly one of the most popular old shows out there, and La Carabina de Ambrosio is also good, but I'd like to maybe suggest some other options, in case you want some more:

Chispita , cheesy soap opera with a very popular theme song sung by the original Timbiriche band, which is currently on a reunion tour.

Rosa Salvaje, another popular soap opera, with famous Veronica Castro as the lead character.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:05 PM on October 31, 2007

Yeah, there's a reason. The paper's due date is on sunday, by email. I just thought of this question today, and most tutors never answer emails during the weekend. I tried calling her but she didn't answer, so I took that as a sign that she was already out of the office.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:58 PM on October 26, 2007

This is the report of an activity for an online masters in Education course. We had to design an activity using constructivist theories, and we had to explain which theories were used, and where. So most of the theories come from the textbook (Piaget, Vygotsky etc), but others (Gardner's Multiple Intelligences) were not.

Like I said, we could probably get away with this, seeing how not many of my classmates are very good at using APA formatting, and the professors and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 4:27 PM on October 26, 2007

Ok people, thanks. I get everyone's point and I'll take it into consideration. I guess I have a little more work to do tomorrow (since this part of the paper wasn't done by me, so I have to go back to the book, see where everything's from).

I think in the end I was trying to get out of having to correct someone else's poor work...

Oh and those preoccupied with:

I think it's kind of weird to assign a paper that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 5:16 PM on October 26, 2007

Idcoytco, I really just want to call you out for jumping to conclusions so quickly about the "dubious quality" of my course, but I don't really think this is the place to justify my studies to you.

Read some of the original literature for the education of your own mind, and then cite that rather than the text book.

The whole point of an online master's program is that they're usually meant to be part-time, for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 4:32 PM on October 27, 2007

Would Meet Joe Black fit the criteria? Brad Pitt's character dies, then is replaced by death, then sorta....goes away? (what does Death do to leave the earth?)...then is replaced by his body's former...er, soul.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 12:14 AM on October 27, 2007

Yeah, but what about the tertiary source?

What I've got is, for example:

Smith, 1990...cited in Jones (no date)....who is part of [book] edited by Brown.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:54 AM on October 10, 2007

(Oh and I'm a grad student....I should know this by now, but I guess I never came across a reference this "deep")
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:55 AM on October 10, 2007

Ok that makes sense. Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:05 AM on October 10, 2007

sociolibrarian, I just emailed you a pdf. I'm not missing any articles, though, I was just missing the date of the "secondary" reference, which some googling took care of.

If you come up with a better way to cite/reference, please come back and post it here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 4:29 PM on October 10, 2007

Villas Akumal looks really awesome. I was going to go there with my family last july, on recommendation from my sister's pediatrician who's been there with his family. (Our own vacation fell through at the end.)

The villas are probably not big enough for 13, but you could probably get two of them side to side.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:49 AM on October 10, 2007

I don't think waxing is a good idea, since you have to wait for the hair to grow enough. And I'm guessing anonymous doesn't want 1/8 inch hairs on her chin.

I suggest laser. I would think it wouldn't be so expensive on an area so small as the chin. (I'm getting it done on my legs, underarms and bikini area...and so far no complaints.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:45 PM on September 26, 2007

Sorry for not contributing with an answer, but you don't have an email on your profile and I wanted to say hi, as we're both in Monterrey.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 3:37 PM on September 13, 2007

Depending on the context, it's either:

Su excelente inglés proporciona conveniencia para todos a su alrededor.

or

Su excelente inglés es conveniente para todos a su alrededor.

I think my translation is correct, but, the sentence kinda doesn't make much sense. Even the original one. Just a thought.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:47 PM on September 11, 2007

Oh, I see now on your link that they're saying something similar to my "it doesn't make much sense".
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:51 PM on September 11, 2007

edmz, "tu" only has an accent when it means "you", and not when it means "your".

"Su", on the other hand, never has an accent.

By the way, the way you phrased the sentence adds a little more sense to it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:09 PM on September 11, 2007

"...les conviene a todos los demás."

makes it seem like it's more convenient for everyone else [and maybe not so much for you].
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 10:00 AM on September 12, 2007

I log on to Gmail through the web, or sometimes through Gtalk and I just click on the number on the bottom that shows the amount of new messages.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 5:39 PM on September 10, 2007

Thanks roger. I already stopped the email from my school account from being forwarded to my primary gmail account.

I also emailed one of the professors of the online courses saying that if he uses a signature with HTML, this could prevent the message from being delivered to all the students.

If anyone has some more ideas, please let me know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 1:34 PM on September 11, 2007

Chocolate La Popular is way better than Abuelita. I don't know how easy it may be to find it outside Mexico, though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 9:13 PM on September 9, 2007

Disney's Princesses stuff, maybe? For girls 4-8ish.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CrazyLemonade at 11:06 AM on September 8, 2007