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[Cob24]

Strawberry shortcake seems popular. Everyone has a different basic fruit. Anyone else care to input?

 

[kgj]

Blackberry.

 

[Seanchai]

most of what Seanchai writes is beautifully written. i'm trying to encourage him to add a blog for his own stuff. he was wondering if there was interest. what say you?

I say absolutely.

Yes! Please do!

As soon as I figure out what to write about, I will. Can't post any of my usual stuff here - besides being wildly off-topic, posting writing in a public forum opens up all kinds of copyright issues for anything you intend to publish later. They're not insurmountable (see: all the blogs that have become books) but I'd rather not have to deal with that vis-a-vis any potential novels - they're all books I've been trying to write since I first started writing at age 4 or so, and it took me about 20 years of writing 6+ hours a day to uncover the story I'd been trying to tell all along. Only in the past year or so has it begun to take a shape I like and resemble the final product(s) I've been chasing, so I guard that stuff with my life. Honestly, anything in this thread is just spitballing and thinking out loud... I spend most of my day on my own, so you guys are the bulk of my current social life. But I'll see what I can do about blogging some "other stuff" and some more relevant to vaping stuff.

What's everyone's favorite fruit or fruit based flavor?

My favorite so far is Blackberry, but the thread favorite is definitely Moo juice or Blue Moo.

Here's an episode about unsung heroes in a great series about wildlife crime at WWF.
A ranger is killed about every 4 days on average.
They keep going to work and chances are they'll be kiiled fighting poachers. Brutal >:<

Yup. I have a cousin who's a ranger. Becoming one saved him from a really bad road, maybe saved his life... a life which, ironically, he now puts on the line on a regular basis by being a ranger.

View attachment 280869 just.........because ♥

Thanks, kelli. Back at ya. Hope you're hanging in there, too.

Talking IS exhausting for me anyway. My wife too. We only talk to each other so much because we are comfortable with each other. I think a lot of people who don't know it fall on that spectrum somewhere. My wife is incredibly smart as many who have varying degrees of autism usually are. She just has quirks that make her unique. That's how I see it anyway. It's very easy to discount people who might have some unusual quirks that's why it's never a good idea to judge people only by what we see. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. I am now trying to figure out if I think in words or images. It's hard to say, probably a little bit of both I think. It is amazing how we can find ways to cope or make things work for us. The human brain is so complex I'm not sure science will ever be able to fully explain all the inner workings.

All very true. I've suspected for some time that I might be on the mild end of the spectrum myself... my father and my sister are both officially diagnosed as autistic, and my mom has some very autistic-type sensory traits. Compared to all of them, I am *incredibly* normal, but I share the tendency to lose it over changes, and being social is hard work. Then again, maybe I'm just highly introverted and a creature of habit, who knows. I don't mind either way and I've never really investigated it, cause unless you're not coping well, there's not a whole lot that particular kind of diagnosis/documentation is good for once you're an adult.

The human brain is so complex I'm not sure science will ever be able to fully explain all the inner workings.

Quoting this again because it bears repeating... it's my stock line whenever anyone throws the "cure" line at me. Right before I blow their minds by stating that I wouldn't be interested in a cure anyway. I was born this way, I don't know anything different, I'm happy, I'm capable - other people's misconceptions are what trip me up, not being disabled itself.

It's all a moot point because even with the new neuro research initiative (which I am excited about on behalf of people with *acquired* disabilities who *do* want cures, as well as for people who deal with depression, bipolar, schizophrenia etc, not to mention the greater understanding of the blood-brain barrier, which could absolutely change medicine in terms of how we treat things like HIV and cancer), but even if we do *all* of that, we still won't come close to curing cerebral palsy in my lifetime... but I'm totally okay with that. When we can cure chronic pain, I'll be interested, but the fact that I walk funny and can't do stairs? That's what wheelchairs and elevators are for.

 

[Seanchai]

Be careful what you wish for. If Sean's busy with a blog it will leave him less time to post here.

You're either underestimating how much I like to write or overestimating how much I sleep. I type 17-18 hours straight most days... very little of it here. I could blog for an hour or so with little to no drop in thread participation. Only question would be what to blog about!

 

[Sambuca]

Be careful what you wish for. If Sean's busy with a blog it will leave him less time to post here.

maybe if he just adds a blog here for the stuff he writes here. it's a shame to miss any of it.

 

[StacyInOkla]

What's everyone's favorite fruit or fruit based flavor?

Rainbow Sherbet
Strawberry Shortcake
Blackberry
Blue Moo
Moo Juice
Berry Creamy
Spurburry

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

What's everyone's favorite fruit or fruit based flavor?

Is Cinnamon a fruit......or veggie ????

 

[Butch]

Blackberry.

Is Cinnamon a fruit......or veggie ????

Yes, yes it is..............totally loaded with vitamins & minerals too..........

 

[kelli]

Anybody know when Uno is due back, or what is up with Roonies?

not sure when michael is due back, probably be gone a couple weeks. and i suspect roonies is finally a new grandma.

 

[Butch]

not sure when michael is due back, probably be gone a couple weeks. and i suspect roonies is finally a new grandma.

Oh boy another week to run amoc

Hope baby, mom ,& grandy doin' fine.

 

[opal]

Another chatty evening in MVB land... 5 pages since this afternoon catchup

fruit flavor for me would be johnny chimpo

SNIP

The autistic woman referenced above also cleared up for me the *specifics* of why my sister can't handle physical change (like, say, switching the furniture around). According to her, any time an area is unfamiliar, including if the room has just been rearranged, her vision gets a digital camo/pixelated effect... so she *literally* can't see where everything is for several minutes, until her brain "remaps" the room.... and that effect persists each time she re-enters, until the room has been "remapped" enough times to not do the digital camo thing at all. I immediately called my sister out and showed her the example pictures on the blog, and she went, "Yeah, DUH... why, do other people not have that?"

*That* makes complete sense to me, since my feet/legs also have to "remap" if my usual markers change. The human brain is *so* weird, and it gets exponentially weirder if the slightest thing gets tweaked.

Vaping some Bavarian Cream now.

hubby has a form of Asbargers (spelling issue there I think - even firefox is confused- wants me to enter raspberry.. but I digress) I wonder if that's why he gets unglued when I move the furniture - which for me is the only way to really clean a room. Take everything movable out.. clean and only put back what goes there.. and not necessarily in the same spot.
Moving furniture is much easier than actually moving and ya get whole new surroundings - I like it and always have.. makes the spouse nuts.

this evening's no nic flavor.. pumpkin cookie.. yum

 

[Seanchai]

hubby has a form of Asbargers (spelling issue there I think - even firefox is confused- wants me to enter raspberry.. but I digress) I wonder if that's why he gets unglued when I move the furniture - which for me is the only way to really clean a room. Take everything movable out.. clean and only put back what goes there.. and not necessarily in the same spot.
Moving furniture is much easier than actually moving and ya get whole new surroundings - I like it and always have.. makes the spouse nuts.

this evening's no nic flavor.. pumpkin cookie.. yum

Asperger's is the spelling you're looking for. And yep, it's probably some permutation of that... as you know, every person on the spectrum is different, so it might not be *exactly* like that for him, but it's probably some form of "you've moved my landmarks and now my mental map is all screwed up." We quit moving the furniture because it absolutely sent my sister into *orbit* (which makes sense now... I can't imagine walking into my own house, knowing it was mine, knowing the stuff in it was all mine, but having it *look* totally unrecognizable!), and it tended to screw up our walking too (my sister and I have to "spot" things ahead of us at regular intervals as we walk, or our balance will fail catastrophically... so if I'm expecting to spot the back of the couch and all of a sudden it's not there, hello floor.) But back when we did shuffle things around, it was *enormously* helpful for us to be *in the room* while the furniture was being moved. I have no idea why it works for both autism and cerebral palsy (other than the fact that both are neurological), but it does... something about being present while the couch was being moved kept me from trying to spot the couch for the next two weeks and crashing to the floor, and kept my sister from meltdown mode. I don't know why being present for the actual change makes such a difference in that mental mapping process, but at least for us, it appears to be the key.

Glad you're liking the pumpkin cookie - that one's going on my next order for sure, now.

 

[Criticalmass]

Another chatty evening in MVB land... 5 pages since this afternoon catchup

fruit flavor for me would be johnny chimpo




hubby has a form of Asbargers (spelling issue there I think - even firefox is confused- wants me to enter raspberry.. but I digress) I wonder if that's why he gets unglued when I move the furniture - which for me is the only way to really clean a room. Take everything movable out.. clean and only put back what goes there.. and not necessarily in the same spot.
Moving furniture is much easier than actually moving and ya get whole new surroundings - I like it and always have.. makes the spouse nuts.

this evening's no nic flavor.. pumpkin cookie.. yum

I would say it very well might be. I let my wife decide when it's time to move stuff around for that reason. It's just easier that way.

 

[StacyInOkla]

My oldest son is autistic. The main thing for him is routines. He has a set one for each day and hates when they change. If there's a change like a dr appointment I have to start telling him about it at the time of the change everyday a week or so ahead. When we moved from California to Oklahoma it was rough for him. We moved at the beginning of summer and it took until after school started to get adjusted. With a lot of help and me being on top of his IEPs he's learned skills to help him communicate better. He's taught me to look at the world different which is pretty cool.

Back to regularly scheduled programming.
In my main go case I just switched out Candy Cane and Blue Moo for Rainbow Sherbet and Pumpkin Spice. The last Rainbow Sherbet I had was from a B&M and I gave it to a new vaper. I didn't like it at but she loved it. I'm glad I put my trust in MBV and got it

 

[Mowgli]

Blue Moo



this video in Zambia's a bit nicer





"Housekeeping, cleanup in the lobby again. Bring the biggest shovel. Thank you."

 

[Criticalmass]

My oldest son is autistic. The main thing for him is routines. He has a set one for each day and hates when they change. If there's a change like a dr appointment I have to start telling him about it at the time of the change everyday a week or so ahead. When we moved from California to Oklahoma it was rough for him. We moved at the beginning of summer and it took until after school started to get adjusted. With a lot of help and me being on top of his IEPs he's learned skills to help him communicate better. He's taught me to look at the world different which is pretty cool.

Back to regularly scheduled programming.
In my main go case I just switched out Candy Cane and Blue Moo for Rainbow Sherbet and Pumpkin Spice. The last Rainbow Sherbet I had was from a B&M and I gave it to a new vaper. I didn't like it at but she loved it. I'm glad I put my trust in MBV and got it

Yeah. my wife is ruled by her routines, to the point where if she gets sick and has to stay home it causes no end of anxiety. I have to force her to stay home when she gets sick. Last time I didn't she ended up with pneumonia.

 

[Seanchai]

My oldest son is autistic. The main thing for him is routines. He has a set one for each day and hates when they change. If there's a change like a dr appointment I have to start telling him about it at the time of the change everyday a week or so ahead. When we moved from California to Oklahoma it was rough for him. We moved at the beginning of summer and it took until after school started to get adjusted. With a lot of help and me being on top of his IEPs he's learned skills to help him communicate better. He's taught me to look at the world different which is pretty cool.

Go, Supermom, go! I think I've said that before, but every parent who has to deal with IEPs and all that having a disabled kid entails deserves to hear from disabled adults that all that work really does pay off in the end, and they should hear that as often as possible. The day to day can be so stressful and feel like you're spinning your wheels, but fast forward 20 years and "oh, that's where all that work went!" My sister will never be fully independent, but she's so, so much more independent now than she was in childhood. She's at a Christmas party with some church friends right now, actually. She'll call any minute now to make sure she hasn't "missed anything," but mom and I can both relax, know she's having fun, know she'll be home when we told her to be, she'll have eaten, etc. There was a long time when going to a party would have been out of the question because *that's not the routine*, let alone going to a party *without* either of us, *at night*... but now, she asks to go, and recites the rules. (Nothing outrageous. Where are you going, who with, what time, for how long, don't get into a car with anyone who's been drinking. The basics.) And yesterday, we had a very interesting conversation about Nelson Mandela, at her behest. I didn't know she knew who Mandela *was*... but there's plenty going on up there, she just can't always express it to her own satisfaction.

Possibly amusing anecdote:
Me at age 5: Mom, when I grow up I'm going to go free Nelson Mandela.
Mom: Don't you think that'll be hard?
Me: Nope. Why?
Mom: Well... I don't think South Africa is terribly accessible.
Me: I'll figure something out. Apartheid's not going to end *itself*, Mom.
Mom: That's very true.

Ah, to regain the utter certainty of my youth!

In my main go case I just switched out Candy Cane and Blue Moo for Rainbow Sherbet and Pumpkin Spice. The last Rainbow Sherbet I had was from a B&M and I gave it to a new vaper. I didn't like it at but she loved it. I'm glad I put my trust in MBV and got it

Rainbow Sherbet is definitely on my list for the next order, too. And I really should grab a bottle of Blue Moo one of these days. Glad I got the 555, though - it's still steeping, but it smells *amazing* already... and that's coming from someone who doesn't vape tobacco very often.

 

[Butch]

Go, Supermom, go! I think I've said that before, but every parent who has to deal with IEPs and all that having a disabled kid entails deserves to hear from disabled adults that all that work really does pay off in the end, and they should hear that as often as possible. The day to day can be so stressful and feel like you're spinning your wheels, but fast forward 20 years and "oh, that's where all that work went!" My sister will never be fully independent, but she's so, so much more independent now than she was in childhood. She's at a Christmas party with some church friends right now, actually. She'll call any minute now to make sure she hasn't "missed anything," but mom and I can both relax, know she's having fun, know she'll be home when we told her to be, she'll have eaten, etc. There was a long time when going to a party would have been out of the question because *that's not the routine*, let alone going to a party *without* either of us, *at night*... but now, she asks to go, and recites the rules. (Nothing outrageous. Where are you going, who with, what time, for how long, don't get into a car with anyone who's been drinking. The basics.) And yesterday, we had a very interesting conversation about Nelson Mandela, at her behest. I didn't know she knew who Mandela *was*... but there's plenty going on up there, she just can't always express it to her own satisfaction.

Possibly amusing anecdote:
Me at age 5: Mom, when I grow up I'm going to go free Nelson Mandela.
Mom: Don't you think that'll be hard?
Me: Nope. Why?
Mom: Well... I don't think South Africa is terribly accessible.
Me: I'll figure something out. Apartheid's not going to end *itself*, Mom.
Mom: That's very true.

Ah, to regain the utter certainty of my youth!


Rainbow Sherbet is definitely on my list for the next order, too. And I really should grab a bottle of Blue Moo one of these days. Glad I got the 555, though - it's still steeping, but it smells *amazing* already... and that's coming from someone who doesn't vape tobacco very often.

The 555 is one that I will absolutely order again, it took about 6 weeks of steeping, but it is totally worth it. 555 with hazlenut & just a little peanut butter is a really great mix.

 

[Katcandoo]

I was so looking forward to my vapemail from MBV today. Routing said out for delivery. Yay! Waited all day, but the mailman didn't show. Had to leave at 5:30 for a holiday party, still no mail. I just got home and checked the mailbox, thinking maybe he was just running late. No mail. Checked the tracking and it said Note Left at 4:59 pm. No they didn't! There was no note, and my vapemail is always put in the box at the end of the driveway. The USPS has never left a note before! And I was home! It wasn't a large package; only three 30ml bottles (blue moo, moo juice and rainbow sherbet). I've had larger packages just put in my mailbox with the rest of the mail. Plus my dogs go apesh$t whenever someone comes up the driveway. I wonder if he just didn't deliver all the mail today and marked it as left note to cover his .....

 

[Butch]

I was so looking forward to my vapemail from MBV today. Routing said out for delivery. Yay! Waited all day, but the mailman didn't show. Had to leave at 5:30 for a holiday party, still no mail. I just got home and checked the mailbox, thinking maybe he was just running late. No mail. Checked the tracking and it said Note Left at 4:59 pm. No they didn't! There was no note, and my vapemail is always put in the box at the end of the driveway. The USPS has never left a note before! And I was home! It wasn't a large package; only three 30ml bottles (blue moo, moo juice and rainbow sherbet). I've had larger packages just put in my mailbox with the rest of the mail. Plus my dogs go apesh$t whenever someone comes up the driveway. I wonder if he just didn't deliver all the mail today and marked it as left note to cover his .....

Same thing has happened to me twice. Both times there was a sub running the route. Both times I called the postmaster.Both times he said that is unacceptable.Both times he said he woulb chew @$$. Doesn't do you much good when spending a weekend without your package though.