<p>Dear-est G
you can skim while you are at your job and read the AP Frank and his mom on underwear, closer to the end where the mom is about to bend.
Here is my sexting (i.e. sex-y bit in lit) obsession. (captain) UNDERPANTS !!
For those who care about Captain Underpants, the author Dav Pilkey ditched us…
he wrote whole new caveman saga or something instead of promised new episode of the Captain Underpants. I and my kid waited, waited, waited and now this.
… maybe the scandalized kid could write tell all books. That’s what everyone do, from politicians to refuges released hostages, porno star to Olympians.
One best seller, you’d be called from colleges to speak, have residency, etc etc.
Lose battle, win war. Top-Teen good looks would sure do him favor.</p>
<p>Fineartsmajormom says: “So…what is everyone planning for Thanksgiving? It is such a short holiday…are all the launchees coming home?”</p>
<p>Daughter has class until Wesdnesday at 7 PM and will not miss it – prof is not cancelling it for the holidays or anything. There are no affordable methods of transportation that will get her and her brother back here with that time limitation, so they may not come down at all. I just can’t afford to spend $800+ to get them here and back. We would only get to see them for a day, anyway, because of an annual event I have to help with out of town. I have to leave for that Friday morning. </p>
<p>Last year may very well have been the last year as a family T-day for a while; I will be away for grad school next year, so it will be three of us coming home instead of just one or two.</p>
<p>Trin
if you’ve quitted “nananana”
here is something you can do
<a href=“https://www.greyhound.com/farefinder/step2.aspx[/url]”>https://www.greyhound.com/farefinder/step2.aspx</a>
did it show?
you leave middle of the night Tue-Wed
arrive Portland Wed night after kid out of the class.
if it’s apartment suppose you can crash one night with her, or near PNCA, hostel is like 20 bucks/night
leave Thursday afternoon
arrive Fri morning back SF
or if your outa town is in somewhere between, you can stay longer.
$ 184 roundtrip with lots of time to observe, reflect and think about how lucky we still are.
either SF or Portland GH stations are scary nor dirty at all. near everything and safe.
This could be the last year sibs are in Portland together, I would go to them rather.
Bring food from home, then will cost you none.</p>
<p>my D will come home for Thanksgiving. Her fly landing after 7 PM in the thanksgiving day. She have to fly back Sunday. Only have two whole days: Friday and Saturday at home. I am planning to cook whatever she likes and have a late thanksgiving dinner for our family. I am not going to invite any friends or relatives this year. I feel it is not fair to have others wait to have a late dinner, but I will feel bad to leave my D leftover stuff … She is my central focus.
Yes, it is expensive but I want to keep our family together as a tradition as long as I can.</p>
<p>We celebrated Thanksgiving one year a day late when H had to work and D1 couldn’t be there on Thursday. It was one of the best times! Just our immediate family plus a couple of beloved friends of the kids (who normally wouldn’t be allowed out of their own family gathering, but hey, that was the day before so no problem). Loveblue, you’ll all have a wonderful and grateful time together, no matter what time you eat. </p>
<p>Trin, if you can’t get up to Portland, you could have a Feast of Thanks anytime over the break between the semesters to make up for it.</p>
<p>Trin: You may can mail you D something to eat. I mailed a small box of cookies I made last Monday by priority mail. My D got it Wed afternoon. It only takes one and half day. The shipping fee is $7.30. Yes, they can get food at many places but something from mom can be very special. You can make the package arrive around T day.
greenwitch: thanks! I am excited for that time. D call me almost everyday when she walk to/from YMCA, but in person talking will be so differently!</p>
<p>Just spoke to my S today. H is picking him up on the way to my folks. He asked if his gf could come. My mom is thrilled, so its a yes. </p>
<p>Trin what is it with professors who hold classes late on Wednesday before T-day? Growl.</p>
<p>this is going to be hard to pick
should I ask to piggyback to Iowa or wedge myself in between little swit and his Arwen…
what your H driving? room left?</p>
<p>TrinF …that is tough about Thanksgiving but it is an awkward holiday for those in school. Luckily (hopefully) it will be a temporary suspension of the T-holiday which will make the return of the tradition that much sweeter. I like the idea of the late celebration…it is about the thanks not the day.</p>
<p>Despite the looming holiday I am sending care packages today to S and to his friend at McGill. Like Loveblue, I think getting a little something from home is appreciated. The package will be more helpful for the friend since Canadian T-day was last month and she has a long, cold slog without seing her family until the Christmas break. Still, I came back from Girl scout retreat with D and her friends that put me in the mood for baking so I have muffins and brownies and some fresh fruit and used paperbacks to send. </p>
<p>The weekend was fantastic…we went to a cabin in the mountains…it was relaxing for girls to take a break…no homework, no cell phone coverage, no tv, no internet, no parties, etc. We had only a few planned activities and the rest of the time was spent with the girls enjoying the outdoors, cooking s’mores on a campfire, and sleeping late. I went for a hike with the other mom and we came back to find the girls had made dinner…very different from the days of when they were 7 year-old brownies and camping was totally exhausting for the adults…It used to take a week to recover from campouts. This time it was a real break from the overextended/hyperacheiving suburban life.</p>
<p>Everyone’s making me feel guilty - now I guess I need to fire up the oven and bake something. It’s finally cool enough here to turn off the a/c. We’re always leery about sending anything chocolate because of the heat here. I have some frozen cookie dough that needs to be baked, so I guess I’ll send some. What’s the best way to pack them so it doesn’t get reduced to crumbs?</p>
<p>Guilty here too… I haven’t sent any baked goods. Maybe bubble wrap? Or those bags of air you get in packages sometimes?</p>
<p>I send cookies to my daughter at college all the time, and the key is packing them with cushioning so they do not move at all.</p>
<p>I start with those plastic Glad Ware containers…the oblong ones that are a little smaller than a shoebox. Get yourself a roll of wax paper and pack as follows: flat layer of cookies, sheet of wax paper, flat layer of cookies, sheet of wax paper, etc. until you get near the top. Then ‘crush’ some wax paper like packing material before putting the lid on. Try shaking and make sure you hear silence…no cookies moving at all. Add more wax paper if you need to. When the container is ‘silent’, tape it shut to make sure the lid doesn’t come off.</p>
<p>Pack the cookies in a cardboard mailing box using bubble wrap and/or newspaper as packing material, again trying to make sure the container won’t ‘move’ in the mailing box.</p>
<p>I have even used this method to send cookies to Afghanistan, to friends serving in the armed forces. Every cookie has always arrived fresh and intact.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip. I am doing a big box for a soldier in Afghanistan and I was really worried about the fate of the cookies. The soldier is the son of a coworker (who is a Russian immigrant–hard to get over the irony of leaving mother Russia so son doesn’t get sent to awful war zones and…he volunteers into the US special forces…she can barely talk about it but he only has another 4-5 months in this, his second, deployment). Anyway, she told me that he craves art supplies–wants to sketch and paint etc. — breaks my heart to think of this kid trying to draw sunsets after a day dodging IEDs. It just shouldn’t be happening. So I am sending some of my son’s “how to draw xyz” books that he used a lot when he started out and some fresh paper/pencils/charcoal and a nice journal/sketchbook. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>FAM- there are cool water color pencils. Cant remember the brand. And frankly, tubes of acrylic paint, red, green, blue, yellow, white, black he can mix his colors. Plaza has relatively cheap boardy things to paint on (like hard canvas, comes in manageable sizes. a set of paint brushes and the top of a plastic take out container for a palette. Micron pens, you can get a set of a bunch of finess-es. Matte finish gluey stuff in a bottle and old magazines for collage? Let me know if it gets pricey and I will chip in. if you end up with the water color pencils get watercolor paper. But you know, those silly water color sets from when we were kids are pretty ok. We like prang brand, believe it or not.</p>
<p>second those kids’ water color sets.
I had to buy travel size Van Gogh brand 12 color set $25 or some for MICA pre college because that’s what the list said we had to get.
I cheated on pushpins and put them in the small tupperware to conceal the evidence but thought better not fake this one.
Yet, Van Gogh hinges on the case are crappy and broke, brush that came with is lost ( tiny expandable thing, that was) color blocks are small flipp-able thing and came off the pan and rolled off and mingled in the case.
Well, hues are nicer than kiddie kind but I don’t see that much of difference since I’m no Van Gogh.
I’d rather use my kid’s leftover colors from grade school days at my job when I have to paint something small. like, red is red, not carmine, green is green, not viridian something. ( and I thought I was an art student once upon the time…)
all you need is a good brush - get one fine quality brush to go with kiddie sets, the brushes that come with is usually awful. - and tiny bit of water, damp sponge or rag if water source is not handy. spit works well for tiny winy details (yuck) lick an’ paint!
all the more better be non toxic = kiddie brand, easy on budget and no regret when lost or ruined, which might be the possibility considering where the boy is.</p>
<p>Good idea about those sets. Once my S was considered “artistic” by the family we have dozens of those and some of them are pretty good ones. The big prepaid box at the post office doesn’t have a weight limit and you just pay domestic to send to the troops so I can get a lot in there. Apart from art supplies I will send some home made toffee, etc. and I still have frozen girl scout cookies from last year’s sale so some happy soldier is getting the last of the Samoas and DoSiDos. I just hope they don’t melt in transit. The packing list is somewhat different than the care packages I sent yesterday that were full of vitamin c products (clementines, dried mango, cranberries and gummie-vites with extra vitamin C) since I don’t want S bringing home horrible college colds to the family for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>our mayor, Mike Bloomberg hates to lose to next door neighbor about anything.
now our geezer dept of Ed head is replaced by some gal from publishing with very little experience in dealing with teachers union, which head is the first person she met when she started on the job, so out mayor just bragged.
is it a good thing or bad thing for our kids, I don’t know.
the old geezer actually helped my kid by bending/changing some rules in recent years, then again our mayor wants to take credit on that, since he literally took over the city dept. of Ed himself.
I have crush on mayor and mayor’s mom (the only person who can shut him up, it seems) you got my virtual vote for fourth term if it ever gonna happen.
OK, hate me now, most NYers.</p>
<p>Feel this maybe is a question we all interested to better support our D and S.
Our kids get in Art School. I have a mixed feeling all the time, not sure how they can make a living …<br>
What I did recently is searching good options for the coming Summer. like:
Vermont Studio Center have Summer residency ($3,750 for 4 weeks)
Fine Arts Work Center have Summer workshop</p>
<p>I did find one Summer program in China to learn Chinese culture and philosophy in Shanghai. There are potential to get scholarship, so it can be free.</p>
<p>Would like your input on this. I may started early on this, but want to have my portion prepared when D start to discuss this with me. I know now she is interested in finding some internship work. Homework keeps her busy, she haven’t really started the search yet.</p>
<p>big guys MoMA, Met will pay but want college junior and up
little guys like Brooklyn won’t pay but maybe your D would qualify it.
scroll down to internships and check each one if she is interested in.
[Brooklyn</a> Museum: Career Opportunities](<a href=“http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/]Brooklyn”>Brooklyn Museum: Careers)</p>
<p>I don’t think she needs to get any better technically but looking into other career opportunity other than practicing or teaching would be nice.
like, research, catalogue, conservation, mounting show, money counting.
I would try big guys once they announce summer internships for HS kids and graduating seniors, I have a feeling if you push, they’d bend.
maybe Cooper’s summer course need studio assistants (usually payed)
^^all these are doable if she get to stay in the city during summer.
My floor is open.</p>
<p>thanks bears.
What I am thinking is what kind of experience can help them to get in GOOD MFA program later.
For example get in workshop with big shot guy to get input from his/her art view, etc. As a college student, I think their understanding about art, or what is their style or how to express their own voice can get heavily impacted by the teacher.</p>