This lesson learned by Gale:
Remind me when I become a grandmother someday, to do a lot of research and not depend on what was considered safe when my boys were born. I had everything homemade, including the crib bumper. Who knew that crib bumpers are now considered unsafe for babies?
WHAT is so hard to learn about this lesson? Why am I still learning it? Or not learning it?? Book flights early! As soon as you know your dates. Just do it!
I lost out on using a free flight just by snoozing and waiting. I ended up paying for it, and paying twice what it would have cost a week ago, at that!
Book early!!!!!
I have learned that the Digital Credit Union iPhone app works like a charm for check deposits right from the phone!
It took me a few lessons to get here. One was that there was a PC deposit function that looked like it worked, but only sometimes. Then Kat told me about the iPhone/iPad app that was not announced but out there and great for checking balances.
Now it’s come together in this free thing.
Once logged in, click which account, enter check amount, photo of front, photo of back, DONE! Worked like a charm on the first try. Wow.
Kat called me to say that she had a lesson for me to share with you. I thought she told me to tell you to make sure to close the top securely when using a salad dressing bottle – the kind with the recipes printed on the side. She was now wearing the dressing.
But no.
She was really trying to tell me to HOLD the top securely. Closing it is not enough! I had the same bottle, was making the same dressing (hundreds of miles away), and minutes later, had the same experience!
Now we know why these items were at the Christmas Tree Shops for $1.99!
Learned by Gale:
Today I learned that I should not be gulping down huge glasses of water just to get my daily water intake because the bloodstream can only handle being diluted by about 4 ounces at any one time. Any additional goes to the kidneys to be filter out out to maintain the osmotic balance of the blood. This means more work for the kidneys to filter water that hasn’t even had the chance to filter through the lymph system and clean the body’s tissues.
This process takes about a 1/2 hour so actually we should drink 16 4-ounce glasses of water per day. That sounds so much nicer to just keep a glass of water nearby and sip and enjoy. Ok, I can do that.
source – “Natural Eye Care, an encyclopedia by Marc Grossman
I may be the last person on earth to learn this, but hey, these are my lessons and I learned it… from Kat.
If you want to delete something in the search or web (or any) field on the iPhone, just hold the delete button down. You do not, after all, have to hit delete-delete-delete until you drive the person sitting next to you crazy.
When you do this, it deletes slowly and then very quickly, deleting entire phrases at a time.
Who knew? Did you?
I learned that if you send an Outlook invitation and mark it “Private”, then the people they have delegated calendar functions to will not see it.
So if someone has an assistant who accepts all their meetings, this one will not make it to that person.
This could be a feature, but not if your recipient ignores calendar invites, thinking someone else has that covered.
OK this wasn’t hard to figure out but I still had to learn it anew:
Either just don’t get a pedicure in winter (or mud season or a day of mud season in the middle of the winter)… but that would be a sad lesson
OR
Just wait inside until everything is dry!
Never wear those flimsy flip flops outside in these conditions, no matter how close the car is to the salon!
And if you do, make sure that no one sees you!
I learned that if I keep my yoga mat in the car, it means I never forget it when I go to class.
But then I learned that if I keen my yoga mat in the car, in New Hampshire in the dead of winter, it is really really COLD when I unroll it and it takes a surprisingly long time to warm up!
Today I learned, from Kat, that the Digital Credit Union has an iPhone/iPod app! The DCU website needs to learn this from Kat, too, since they still claim to be working on it. Whoops.
This app has a check deposit function! Which is great, because even with the hints I have learned and posted here, scanning checks with the DCU desktop thing is just way too obnoxious and time-consuming and plain old broken. I’ll let you know how it works from the iPhone when I next have a check to deposit.
Jane's Lessons Learned 