vmmmomof3girls wrote:

gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

Hey guys   just dropping in to say hi real quick.....so far she is holding her own with her counts   but.....proud mama moment......My son graduated from  his pharmacy program this morning!!!  he also got chosen to give the speech at graduation    he  will now be headed on to the next phase of his education  we just got back from his graduation and will be taking him out to celebrate so I can't stay on ......just had to tell you guys  hope you all are doing well



 

Congratulations april!  Proud mumma moment for you and glad for our niece. 
 

Yay! Congratulations to your son! I'm glad your daughter is doing better!

thanks

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gabriele wrote:

Hi Sisters!​So I went shopping the day after Valentines and forgot to check the confectionary aisle for specials.....  What's wrong?  Getting really busy with my little guy now.  He does horse riding once a week now.  School has freed him up to go swimming with a one-on-one instructor once a week.  We have been to the hydro pool with a physiotherapist on the weekend and he briefed our therapy assistant with the exercises he wants done.  We will also see another physiotherapist for an hour a week in their gym.   The OT is still on as well.   It sounds a lot at the moment.  But in a couple of months, our funding will be reviewed.  He then doesn't qualify for early intervention anymore as he will turn 11 in May.  A lot of these things will be cut then, so we make the best of it while we can.  Haven't 'seen' view in a day or so.  View, are you ok? You are back home, aren't you?  

My DIL homeschools and she has a similar budget from the charter school that allows her to use the funds for various extracurricular activities. It restarts every school year. Not quite the same as yours since they, I guess, "assume" that when a child hits a certain age, they need less. Isn't that interesting how these things seem to be quite similar everywhere?

I do hope your son is able to benefit from all the various therapies he is getting now. You are right, Gabriele, to take advantage while you can. You go, girl!! He has an amazing mum. 

Awww.....Gabriele I hope his funding goes through ok for you....is he liking the swimming as much as the equestrian therapy????

tangodancer208 wrote:

Gabriele, I'm so sorry for all your difficulties with your son.  It is so wasteful to have to expend energy ensuring that he has appropriate care instead of being able to focus completely on him.   So many have to go through that.   It is so helpful to have an advocate in your corner, but when you have to be the advocate, too, that's extra stress you don't need.

Thanks to all of you for your kind words.  I'll give you a blow by blow and post lots of pix on instagram where you can all see them.  If you haven't seen the few pix I've posted, you can check them out at instagram.com/tango.dancer.75

I got my front row M&G tickets to the Nashville Maks & Val show.  Great seats (and they top level VIP is sold out from yesterday to today).  I'm hoping that the seats are not too low compared to the stage. It's hard to tell from photos.  I may not go for front row in St. Louis.  I know you're at eye level with the stage in those first row pit seats at the Fox.   It will depend on what is available when you can actually buy them (St. Louis is still not up yet).   At least, my husband will be happy to watch P.   BTW, my tickets did NOT cost $1000.   I think the VIP tickets vary according to what the market will bear.   There are areas of the country where no one would pay $1000, well maybe for Mick Jagger or someone like that.   The front row Sway tickets in Manhattan were $999 and that included the after party.   That's where you expect it to be most expensive.   

Also for the VIPNation offer for Melbourne, FL, it doesn't guarantee you what seat you will get.   I was able to pick mine on a map of the theater.   I think promoters sometimes work with other promoters in certain venues, and I know that certain venues are more controlling in who/how they distribute tickets.   Also my site wasn't very specific about the differences between the levels.  It's possible that these are only the perks associated with events organized by VIPNational, and if someone else is doing it what is included will be different and therefore the price will vary.

I don't know, but I am delighted to see that they are working with professionals.  I'll be busy tomorrow with they installing a new heating system in our office (fortunately, there are two, so we are not completely without heat today, but it is definitely cooler on my side of the office), and then I'm off on another trip on Thursday.   No dancing this time.

 

that is so exciting that you'll be able to go to a couple shows Tango   YAY!!

CEK40 wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

WAIT WHAT!!....Castle's tonight????.....how did I miss that.....can one of you Castle fans pleeeeeease give me a quick a recap of part one so I know what's going on in part two????? I didn't realize it was coming on so didn't record it

Hi April,  It was a "stand alone" episode, not a two part episode.  They just ran it on a special night (Sunday), tomorrow is another Castle episode that is also a  "stand alone". 

Did you watch last weeks?  I missed it.  Heard it was good, will have to see if I can find it online to watch.  I liked tonight's show.  It felt more like the "old" episodes and kept me interested. 

Hey Luv and April...
I didn't watch last night, recorded it, but last week was good it was more on the way to being like it use to be.

Recap:

Corbin Bleu guests on this episode...

Martha was doing a show in a theater and a body of a young girl was found...Castle was called by her along with the rest of the gang...Castle and Beckett are pretending to be apart and dating other people, but secretly being married...  They work together to solve the murder but Espo and Ryan are mad at Castle because he told them he was dating a Russian model named Svetlana and Beckett says she is dating a doctor name Livingston...LOL
The murder is tied to a Capella singing group composed of past offenders that help to keep them on the path to stay out of prison again.  

I found this on the internet...This is someones view of the episode ...
This week’s story revolves around the murder of a young woman, Robin King, recently released from prison and rebuilding her life. That new life happens to cross paths with Martha, who asks Castle to help find out what happened to the girl who was found dead in the theatre where Martha was rehearsing for a show. We soon learn that, while Castle and friends initially suspect that she’s gone back to her life of running drugs (red herring #1), her twice weekly trips to Spanish Harlem are actually due to her singing in a competitive a capella group made up of other girls she met in the pokey—girls who are being mentored by a non-profit called No-Backsliding Partnership.
 The girls, it turns out, were about to perform in an important a capella competition, one run by a man (played well, as most parts are, by John Billingsley) who felt they were not properly posh enough to take part, and who eagerly accepted a bribe in order to throw the competition. But when Robin overheard the chicanery, she confronted the organizer who asked to speak to her privately (red herring #2). However, while they are walking through the competition hall, she sees the video playing that has been created to introduce her group to the audience. In the video, the details of the accident that led to her incarceration (for stealing and wrecking the car) are recounted by the young man who supposedly “saved” her life and she realises he’s lying. She instead demands a copy of the video and runs off to confront him. Well, not really, but… (red herring #3).
 You see, it turns out that she wasn’t actually driving the car that she was accused of stealing, which means she never committed a crime in the first place. But when she went to confront the person who was driving, Linda Weinberg, co-owner of the NBP non-profit, she instead ran into someone who killed her to keep the secret (unless you believe his eleventh hour confession about it being an accident).So an appropriate number of those delicious herrings and a culprit that we meet in the opening stages of the investigation (not unlike a Scooby Doo mystery).
 What makes this episode worth watching is the musical talent on display. It’s always a pleasure when Martha gets featured in an episode. Susan Sullivan is always pitch-perfect in the role, but so often, we here about Martha’s career rather than seeing it, which is strange considering how rife theatres are with intrigue. You would think the writers would take advantage more often. So getting the chance to watch her not just sing but repeatedly be exactly what the character is—an experienced performer and warm soul—that makes this a very special episode.
 While we might have expected her to be all that given the milieu, the riff-off that Castle and Alexis stumble onto is as much a surprise for the audience as them. Their Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go is a delightful antidote to the tension of the preceding scene where it feels like father and daughter are moments from a violent encounter.But what no one can have expected is, when Ryan and Esposito try to get some tough-boys witnesses at the competition to talk and the boys refuse to engage in anything but song, Javi bests them by playing bad cop a capella, harmonizing his threat to lock them up if they don’t change their attitude. It turns out that Jon Huertas can more than hold his own musically. If only the same could be said for Rick.
 But if showrunners Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter thought that this was the episode (which they promised) that was going to restore our faith in Caskett after the horrors of the first half of the season, then “tone deaf” doesn’t begin to cover it.
 Because what fans have been trying to tell them is that they don’t recognise the characters or the relationship that Hawley and Winter have been portraying since they took over the show. That despite the producers claims that the estrangement between the two brings back the fun and excitement of the early days, what fans see is years of character development gone, a Kate Beckett that they loathe, and a Rick Castle so desperate for her love that he’ll put up with anything for merely the hope the that she’ll return to him. There has been nothing fun or exciting about any of this.But wait, they assured us in interview after interview, now that Caskett are going to be together in private but broken up in public, it really will be fun.I think it’s time we ask them what their definition of “fun” is.
 When we first see Rick and Kate, they are in bed together. They’ve just enjoyed what is supposed to have been an energetic nooner, a “lunch meeting” that Beckett faked to have some time with the hubby. Despite the fact that she tells Castle that she has successfully completed her meeting “agenda” three times, neither of them look tired, sweaty, or even particularly endorphin-glazed. They talk about how much more exciting their public fighting has made their private time, but there’s no indication of it, and even the chemistry between the actors—something that has held the show afloat for so long—seems out of joint.
 Later, we get to see that their public fighting is just that: ugly and brutal. They yell at each other, hurl accusations and insults, invent infidelities, and Kate even slaps Rick at one point. Even back when the show started and Beckett genuinely didn’t like Castle, she didn’t treat him like this. I get that they are now supposed to be portraying a possibly divorcing couple, but a couple that is still actively choosing to work together, or at least in the same precinct. Their behaviour isn’t just out of character; it’s unprofessional and could get Rick exiled or Kate fired. There is simply no reason for the writers to have actively escalated things so far beyond where they were when the two were actually estranged.And in fact, this is all the “fun” we get. Either the two are having (or talking about having) sex, or they are emotionally and physically abusing each other. It’s the kind of relationship that, if your friend was involved in it, you’d be trying to get them into counselling and hopefully into a different county from the guy/girl. Which is probably why Ryan and Esposito seem so freaked out. What should freak us out is that when, at the end of the episode, both Castle and Beckett both insist that they have hot dates with their respective lovers, the boys don’t immediately put two and two together and call Caskett on their duplicity.
 Of course, that would be a different version of the boys. We haven’t seen the insightful, smart version of our favorite bromance since Hawley and Winter took over. And Bella has never written for the series (or much else) so he wouldn’t know better.But we do. And it doesn’t matter how many times they reassure us—there is nothing fun or exciting or romantic about what we are seeing in Caskett right now. The love that we watched blossom between these two over all those years isn’t even mentioned. They no longer do the work together that helped them discover each other and themselves. The banter is gone. Their relationship has been reduced to sex. And while the two of them were hot together, that was never what their relationship was about. Nor why we have loved them.
 If only we could get the producers of Tone Death to hear us…



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OMG....thanks so much Luv and Cek ((hugs))  I missed monday nights too (I fell asleep)  but I did record it so I just need to find time to watch it....and I am going to have to find this episode somewhere....it sounds like it's getting better again

gabriele wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

gabriele wrote:

Hi Sisters!​So I went shopping the day after Valentines and forgot to check the confectionary aisle for specials.....  What's wrong?  Getting really busy with my little guy now.  He does horse riding once a week now.  School has freed him up to go swimming with a one-on-one instructor once a week.  We have been to the hydro pool with a physiotherapist on the weekend and he briefed our therapy assistant with the exercises he wants done.  We will also see another physiotherapist for an hour a week in their gym.   The OT is still on as well.   It sounds a lot at the moment.  But in a couple of months, our funding will be reviewed.  He then doesn't qualify for early intervention anymore as he will turn 11 in May.  A lot of these things will be cut then, so we make the best of it while we can.  Haven't 'seen' view in a day or so.  View, are you ok? You are back home, aren't you?  

 
That is too bad about things being cut, glad that you are taking advantage of everything while you can. After he turns 11 and your case is reviewed, Will you still get some sort of help?

​We have had a budget of over AUD 17,000 for the 12 months leading up to March that I could self-manage and 'buy' therapies at my own discretion.  I've stretched it by using a therapy assistant (last year OT student) who is much cheaper hourly and have him briefed by our regular professionals. From April onwards, we will be allotted 10 hour blocks of professional sessions at a time, but have to show that he is in need for them and formulate a goal that they support.    

oh wow that sounds time consuming to have to go through.....how often do you have to show he still needs it????