<p>No matter how many times I go away every time I come back all the same people are here. This place is like that bar on Cheers. The same old folks warming the same old seats with the same old friendly converations. </p>
<p>Will we be coming back here when we are 80?</p>
<p>What a thought!</p>
<p>No only are all the same people still here, but we’re all still saying the SAME things.</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>I assume we’ll get our grandkids by the time we are 80, and they will want to go to college - then yeah, we will be here! I like your Cheers comparison ;)</p>
<p>CC: Sometimes you wanna go “Where everybody knows your screen-name…”</p>
<p>dmd, I resemble that remark! Okay…I keep saying the same things but people keeping asking the same questions…</p>
<p>And on the internet…we haven’t aged!</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>I’ve aged…and I’m still saying the same old boring things. I’m hanging in here waiting for the award you get at 10,000 posts. (You DO get an award at 10,000 posts, don’t you? If not, I’m outta here! ;))</p>
<p>Gheesh. Every time I go away my posts go back to 800. I have been to 1000 a couple of times now! I kind of wonder if the 800 has something to do with the old SAT’s or something, like something Freudian is going on with my numbers. …ya know?</p>
<p>(That is weird bhg. How long are you gone for? CC is a jealous god, and likes its devotees to pay it constant homage.) </p>
<p>It is kind of weird to think that I’ve been coming to this website for over 5 years… dang… I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rollled, I shall walk along the beach and hear the mermaids singing, each to each…</p>
<p>You mean I won’t get over it soon and stop posting? I keep thinking it is a short term obsession, and will move on. To something more constructive like cleaning the basement. But it’s been over 6 months. My kids laugh at me. But they did before, too.</p>
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<p>LOL!..In that case, TheDad had better hightail it back soon, lest he rip his ticket with the gods.</p>
<p>Speaking of Cheers, where is she?</p>
<p>Cheers wrote some time ago that she would not post much as she has been busy with a huge new project. Both her sons are in college, so maybe, unlike some of us (me, in particular), she is able to wean herself from CC.</p>
<p>Great Lakes Mom… let’s see, I started with the old discussion group when my kids were in high school at not-to-be-named website, moved over here, suffered through the reset of membership in Aug 2004 (we didn’t all join then), and now my kids have graduated from college and have jobs (sort of). And I’m still hanging out here.</p>
<p>Good grief.</p>
<p>Why would I move on, though? Where would I move to?</p>
<p>I too have been here for 5 years–found this site shortly before DS heard from his RD schools but after we completed visits and applications. I knew then that the search for his (5 years younger) DD would be more complicated and not as clear cut–and I was right–but unlike her brother, who was so indecisive that we had to send in our deposit by FedEX at the last minute, she applied and was accepted to her ED I school. That was my reward for all the research, both on and off CC that I did over the intervening 5 years–that we were finished in mid-December. Nevertheless, I’m still here. It’s definitely an obsession!</p>
<p>still here, after years and years and kiddos and kiddos</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>People keep asking the same questions and apparently paying no heed to the answers! I too started on another board, moved to the old CC forum almost 6 years ago, both of mine are in college (senior and freshman) and here I sit. I mostly read in the Parent Cafe and post on my boys’ school and the summer program sections.</p>
<p>I started last summer and find my self hooked. If y’all weren’t so darn smart I’d have no trouble staying away.</p>