<p>the one that moved from the 41st is
Bookoff
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I haven’t been there since moved. If I do, I will let you know.
It was hodge-podge-y chance finding good deal sort of place.</p>
<p>bears:
Put in boiled water and take out quickly and then put in cold water to simmer for one hour.Get the water out and I call it soup, but really it is water without any flavor, taste fine.
Put some salt, sugar,soybean sauce,ginger to add flavor to the snake.
Are you going to cook one? Maybe you can find snake to buy in nyc, just kidding!
How is your packing? All done? Saturday is coming.</p>
<p>nahhhh
actually, we are at Bronx zoo yesterday (remember, pay as you wish every Wed. folks! I mean, please save the wildlife but tickets now are like, $16 adult $12 kids, plus 3-5 bucks each for pay per attractions; jungle world, butterfly garden, congo gorilla forest, tiger mountain, bengari express(monorail)
or
all inclusive $29.95 for adult $19.95 for kids ages 3-12
imagine, say, how much family of four/five would cost?
It’s a zoo for crying out loud, look at the beauuutiful national zoo in DC!! free! </p>
<p>So
that was what we did for the last of mom & son day.
There is this old old reptile house, where one snake escaped and made quite stir in the city recently.
It is called the reptile house but also houses amphibians, frogs and toads=his thing.
I was watching them snakes and thought about your snake soup. </p>
<p>packing?
what packing?
really!?!?!?!
sleeping over at somewhere in Columbia tonite. meeting Cooper friend tomorrow, visit old HS after that. he have to be home if he were to pack, yes?
or
packing fairy prevails (again and again)</p>
<p>Oh Bears, the packing fairy. This year I warned S that the packing fairy is a myth, and anything he leaves behind will stay behind. He packed all his stuff into our car with the help of his bf. My H then drove it up a couple of days after S took the bus. But at the time I was feeling bitter about boys who have time to spend all night socializing but cant get up and do nice things with and for thier mothers. </p>
<p>In retrospect, the real reason he was packing at the last minute was because a tree fell on his bf’s house and he spent the weekend helping them deal with it. </p>
<p>OK so launchwise, he seems to be doing really well. All moved in, appears to be making it to classes, he only has one 9 am class, with one of the teachers who gave him a huge amount of what-for for showing up 5 minutes late. His roommates are good friends, and sweet kids. He has thursdays off, and my goal is to text once and a while through the week and only talk to him on Thursdays, when he calls me when he wakes up. He hasnt been talking to me about the work he is doing, and I thought it was because he was being disorganized, and last-minutey, but then during yesterday’s conversation he described his drawing project, which he traded for one of his classmates drawing projects, and it was clearly a thing that took more than last minute. I said, “wait you did all that in one night” and he said, no of course not, I worked on it through the week. In other ways, he seems to be growing up. He used to always do cool things, and take opportunities, but they tended to be things I suggested, or figured out the logistics to. (Applying for awards, classes, etc…) So since being back at school, he applied for a job, teaching a saturday art class. And my attitude is so strange. He first told me he might do it, and I figured he might not get to it, or get it right. Turns out he did it, had an interview, and I think has to come up with a lesson plan, and I cant quite figure out, he may have the job. So the thing I am unfortunately and fortunately figuring out is that he is in the right place for him, and probably would be better off if he stayed in that place, and didnt come home next summer, to revert to his teenage life…</p>
<p>Oh I confess…I was the packing fairy for a lot of things and we have a very large attic so when everything came home last year I made him wash, pack and put upstairs so it was very easy this year. But the first year was nuts right up to the last minute so bears you are in good company. I am so pleased he had time for one last trip to the zoo…like switters I had some bitterness that there was little mom time that last week or so but S still made time for friends. However, the communication has been much better this time since he left so there are tradeoffs. Congrats little switters on the get up and go to try for a job. I have to admit it has been the strangest thing to see my S actually make sure that he got in his app again this year for the welding room monitoring job. How incredibly grown-up! Now will he actually go to the summer job/internship fair that CMU puts together next week?! They start really early there and the companies…robotics, computers, banks, but I didn’t see any artsy jobs on the website. Still…perhaps he can convince google or microsoft that they need a welder/sculptor/animator for the summer?!</p>
<p>D din’t have any class Thursday also.
I asked her: do you have any class with little switters, she said Drawing. I will ask her about her drawing project and see what she did.
Told me her sculpture project is hard like she need to figure out what makes human and interpret that with her body
Good thing to found a job, gain experience is good. D didn’t say she is going to looking for yet.
This summer she did said she is interesting in Internal Design.</p>
<p>This summer I actually suggested D to find a job in grocery store or some food places, she didn’t want to do it…
She seems didn’t have intention to look for one. Find a job maybe good for her social life, and confident.
Will think about how to encourage her on this.</p>
<p>OK
I just finished what was outstanding at my job.
dr.fix-it performed miracle on the laptop
it is back to life with all his music in it. gawk.
also being backed up everything ever so kindly.
rumor sayz his roommate share some of them musical trait.
Nirvana of millennial!! (hey, I can dream)</p>
<p>now go home to see if anything is in the suitcase and then wee hours trek to LaG…
wish us luck. lots of it. we need it. more than ever.</p>
<p>switts that is lovely.
is it Saturday program (all welcome)
or
Outreach (selective)?
get there by 9-sh every sat.mornings is going to be hard but he will do great favor to those NYC youth.
One of the best thing ever happened to my kid.
thank you thank you Peter Cooper.</p>
<p>I am wondering if there is a sustainable transformation going on …Grandparents sent D1 a package and she responds by calling and thanking them. i suggested before she received it that she acknowledge. My amazement is at the follow through. Who is this young woman?!</p>
<p>Mom4Art and all - yesterday all five of us were in the car driving up to the barn. DH and I were astounded - -we almost fell out of our seats – at the words coming out of Manga girl’s mouth. We have NEVER heard either Aspie girl or D1 take ownership of their lives the way Manga girl is doing. She needles me everyday about going to Rochester to visit colleges. I finally agreed that we could go next week. She immediately says ‘Okay, Geneseo has a tour on Friday, but I need to call RIT and the University of Rochester and make appointments’… WOW! She is owning the process and doing it herself. She also talked about how, if she takes a fourth year of latin next year that she will be able to get college credit for that, so she wanted to do that. And she talked about her classes for her senior year (next year) and how she planned to take some of the courses where she could get a jump on college credit, but she needed to make sure they were transferrable to the colleges she was considering. WOW and WOW!!!<br>
Then she launched into how she wanted to take Japanese language class in college and would that still count towards her language requirement if she had one year of college latin and another year of Japanese. What a kid!<br>
When we were at the barn waiting or Anna to do her thing, Manga girl asked me if I would show her how to drive. So she got behind the wheel and drove around the dirt roads at the farm (I was only slightly scared). D1, in the back seat, provided a running sarcastic commentary on my ‘teaching driving’ technique. Manga girl I know will jump at the chance to get her learning permit ASAP (she turns 16 in November).
It’s just so refreshing to have a kid that seems mature beyond her years and is doing things ‘right’ – at least from a parent’s perspective. D1 was saying last night that she would like to go to the Met again – and I pointed out to her that she can go to the Met anytime, nothing is stopping her (except herself). I then suggested that all three of them go to the Met on their own on Monday – school is cancelled for Aspie girl and Manga girl (get this) because the principal’s BROTHER died… I mean, seriously… I’m sad for the Principal’s loss… but to cancel a whole day of school over it???
Ok I’m off point. I need to see if the tree guy is at the door.
Bouncing out now…</p>
<p>G-mom, it sounds like Manga girl is a natural organizer and this will make things greatly easier for you. You deserve it! My D3, also 16 and driving around, would give me a death stare if I suggested visiting or even thinking about, colleges. Manga girl will have all her choices well thought out, a few spreadsheets prepared, and everything done early. I wouldn’t be surprised if she finds some place and applies ED, sparing you all months of waiting and decision-making.</p>
<p>D2 is doing fine as a sophomore but confesses to feeling lonely at times. She has a roommate she likes, and it seems that whenever I visit she will see someone walking down her block and will say hello but it still doesn’t come close to the cauldron of social interaction that was the freshman dorms. Both for bad and for good! </p>
<p>She started at a job downtown but panicked when she realized they expected her to work two 8-hours shifts a week. I thought that was too much and she agreed and left that job and is looking for something more modest. She worked quite a bit over the summer and has most of that money left and will get more when she can file taxes since the summer job stupidly insisted on withholding state and federal tax when she would surely end up being exempt. </p>
<p>She has no drawing class this semester and misses that terribly. Partially, I think because Dave Cloutier, her old drawing teacher, was one of her favorites. She’s also had some trouble waking up on time after burning the midnight oil and requested that I send her an alarm clock called “the sonic bomb” that comes with a vibrating hockey puck thing that you put under your pillow to help get you up. Now her Dad wants one! I tell him he has me, the human alarm clock who wakes up if a bird chirps too loud but he is a worrier and feels lost if I am away and he needs to be at work by 7:30 AM.</p>
<p>Ok here I am in the school library
roommate is there, mom gotta go.
We made it great
didn’t rain, plane flew, bags didn’t get lost
light bulbs, coffee mug, few cup-o noodles… nothing broken but my heart
see you at home</p>
<p>Dear Gmom:
manga girl is sweet! for sure it will save you a lot energy when it come close!</p>
<p>bears:
It is understandable you will be heart broken, it is hard to leave them alone.</p>
<p>greenwich:
For some reason, D seems not lonely anymore this year. She told me she is trying to get more involvement with her classmates, not that panic to be around them. I hope this trend can continue.<br>
D called me yesterday which make me really happy, but turned out she is asking permission to buy a $200 ticket to a concert. I did said yes to the ticket. There is no home work this whole weekend and she seems not busy.</p>
<p>Meh… this tree guy want’s $4500 to take out the trees. Sigh. DH says maybe we’ll do ‘some’ but not all. The big Norway maple next to the deck is $1800 for removal just for that one tree (it isn’t dead at all, but there’s a big rotten hole at the bottom… so it’s structural integrity is compromised). So you really don’t need a college education to make money. There’s the neighbor’s dead elm tree that is the immediate threat to life and limb… but how to convince them to take it out…without a big legal hullabaloo that I don’t have the time or energy for.</p>
<p>Bears, I know this will be hard on you. Cross your fingers that everything works out positively for little Bears.</p>
<p>Things are up-in-the-air with D1. Not sure what is going on just now. Her mental state seems to be about the same, even with the increased medication. So she’s in kind of a holding pattern at the moment. </p>
<p>I guess the girls have decided not to go to the city tomorrow. Not sure what their plan is.</p>
<p>gmom:
Check the insurance of your house, you may have the coverage called “debris removal” to pay this bill, check if you have it and what is the limit and deductible of this coverage.</p>
<p>bears…we are thinking of you and little bear (rember those books?)
You are both so brave to split the coasts
remember…the world is getting smaller</p>