I see a pattern here
Posted By: raising my GD now - SM on 2007-09-15
In Reply to: Spoiled - TiredOTyping
You are exactly in the position I was in UNTIL the bios (biological parents) decided they were too interested in their own lives to keep raising a child. My GD was literally dropped off on my door one day while I was working - with "everything" from home in a half-full pillow case. That was over 1-1/2 years ago. They now have bench warrents against them for failure to pay child support and my attorney has advised me to wait until they are in jail to have them terminate their parental rights so I can adopt the child.
Enjoy all that "spoiling" while it lasts, but start taking vitamins now because the web will probably spread further with you doing more and more in the parent role.
My "girl" is now 4 and I pay full time daycare for her as she will start school next year and I want on the same level as the other children her age when she starts. I don't have enough time in my day to work 8 hours, spend quality time with her, keep my house (I'm single with no other family to help), and teach her what she needs to be ready for school.
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I noticed a pattern last year..
I think last year he said it on the nights that they sang but not on the night that the results were given and they kicked somebody off. One night recently when the girls were singing, they all said it for him at the end of the show as a group. My husband and I say it when we Nextel each other. It is our signal that we are done talking instead of saying "over and out."
That's why I asked if it was a one-time thing or a pattern
A one-time slip-up is bad enough, but some people have a "serial cheating" personality that is unacceptable and definitely a deal-breaker.
What is your most annoying redundant speech pattern? sm
You how doctors always seem to have a pet word? They will use it until you are ready to smack them.
Subsequently. Said by an ESL at least once in every sentence and pronounced sub see QUEENT ly. He is also says Prolene mess potch and plook for mesh patch and plug.
Next...next this, next that, next, now I...
At this moment. Did you know you can start every sentence in a 2-page report with at this moment?
then
then
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and THEN I screamed and was heard in the halls of every hospital in America.
Use main pattern, secondary backup patterns when first SM
isn't enough, and then deviate by choosing the "intuitive" choice for an abbreviation that pops into my brain, on the assumption that it'll be the one that pops in when I need the expansion. Usually it is.
I've always had the drop-down list turned off on my ShortHand program, so I can't speak to working that way. A lot of people clearly like it a lot.
However, when editing rather than transcribing, I question how well one can read ahead for corrections to pop down to and scan the dropdown list too. Fast-reading ahead and even making corrections while listening to the squeaky speeded-up dictation as it trails is how to make good money editing. One needs expansions a lot less when editing, of course, but they're still extremely handy. So if you choose to keep developing a system to work directly from as much as possible, rather than coming to depend on scanning a list, I think it should pay off nicely over the long term.
OTOH, since editing does need a lot fewer expansions overall, an Editor would come to memorize all the usual ones anyway and only have to stop and look at the list now and then, never in some documents, often in others. I'm not tempted to change my routine, tho.
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