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I know H rolls his eyes whenever he hears me tap-tapping on “that college thing.” :D</p>
<p>If I bumped it any higher, it’d fly off the browser.</p>
<p>Doesn’t need a bump, but I gotta agree.</p>
<p>PS - It took me about 3 weeks to figure out what Bump, or bumpity bump or bummmmmp meant. Finally someone said “Need to bump this up to the top and get it back on page one” and I finally got it.</p>
<p>Same here, H thinks I should limit the time to be on CC. He said I already spent a lot of time sitting in front of a computer at work(8+hours) and then when I get home, I spent more time sitting in front of the computer.(lol) I need to get off the chair and do some exercise.</p>
<p>Certifiably bug-eating nuts. And they tease me unmercifully (I do have to admit that it is kinda funny.)</p>
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Me, too. You and I must have had the light go on at the same time. That’s why I was so proud of my thread title :o</p>
<p>Anyway, I know I am crazy, because I found myself speaking to a friend in real life, and she looked at me funny when I said, " Well, yesterday H said…"<br>
“H”???</p>
<p>The other night at dinner I was telling about something that someone had done and my s said “who’s that, someone from CC?” They all looked at me :eek: I lied, well I didn’t lie, but I wanted to!!</p>
<p>My daughter said if I mentioned college confidential to her before 11th grade, she won’t go to college. What a thread?</p>
<p>MY H thinks I am addicted to the computer- guess he’s right :D</p>
<p>Me too! My family put up with my CC quotes until April 1st. Now they just glare at me and tell me the processs is over and I need to get a life!!!</p>
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You only have 22 posts. You HAVE a life!
As for the term “bump”, someone on the abbreviations thread actually explained that it is an acronym for “bring up my post”. I hadn’t realized that. It just seemed reasonable as the word for moving up a post to the top-- to bump it up.</p>
<p>I’m an “in the closet” CC lurker…shh, don’t tell my family, because they already think I’m crazy.</p>
<p>I’m on board here (pun intended). My family thinks I’m crazy and that I am driving them crazy with all my college knowledge. S is glad he is at boarding school and D is tired of me emailing her asking advice on how to respond to other poster’s questions about Rice.</p>
<p>Bump, but D made a whole bunch of posts with my screenname while she was studying for AP US History, so HAH!</p>
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Nah… tell them the process NEVER ends and you need to stick around CC… you still have the “what to bring to college” “how to deal with your child leaving home” “best cell phone plans” “how to adjust to child coming home for vacation” and all the other wonderful threads to read.</p>
<p>Hi, my name is SplashMom and I’m a CC addict. DH and DD husband tease me all the time about CC, but they sure do take the information I get here seriously, and we apply it often.</p>
<p>Bump! I think what really got to them is when I took a break from the college stuff to post on the cafe about DD’s up-coming wedding. “OH NO!! It is taking over your life!” When I need help, I SEEK it.</p>
<p>bummmmmmmmmmmmp - one more to be added to the list of crazy peeps - moi!</p>
<p>When my S sees me on CC (it happens a lot), he smiles at me like I used to smile at him when he was 2 and did something cute…but then one of my CC friends sent him a get-well present (which he loved) when he broke his ankle…and now he’s not so sure that I’m all that crazy…</p>
<p>Of course, my addiction is relatively new (and hence likely that much more powerful)…I only “found” CC 3/16 (and it’s now 5/9…shudder!)…but CC “saved my life” on 3/16…S had left on a 2-week overseas trip, w/strict instructions to leave his college mail for him…(both of us thinking it might arrive a day or maybe even two before his scheduled return on 3/29)…well, on 3/16–about 2 hours after he left (and he was camping in South America…no way to contact him), he got a letter from his top-choice college…a thin little letter–too soon to be rejection, I thought…it was driving me insane (I decided within hours I’d feel worse about steaming open his mail and invading his privacy than I was feeling about not knowing what was in the expletive delated letter!)…anyway, I vaguely recalled CC from S having told me about it months earlier…I fired it up…and found a thread of kids posting the contents of their thin little letters that had arrived that day…it seemed “obvious” that that was what S’s letter was, too…(It was–an early write)…it saved me 2 weeks of peace-killing curiosity and I was hooked from that moment forward!!</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve now made 3 friends “in the real world” as a result of CC correspondence, and that alone makes CC way more than merely worthwhile as far as I’m concerned…so addicted I am and I’m not going to even try to change it! </p>
<p>Can’t wait for the next round of “life-saving” (the upcoming empty nester threads!)…</p>
<p>overanxiousmother - LOL! And you didn’t have to be devious about learning the contents of the letter.</p>
<p>momofthree - considering there are forums here for grad school and employment, perhaps there should be one for wedding planning? And then one for birthing options? And then one for raising toddler? And then one for selecting the right preschool? And so on? I can see it now - CC, your one-stop forum for life issues!</p>