<p>D and I are each quizzical about some of the other’s on-line choices but she appreciates the digested info. TheMom appreciates the tidbits and sometimes offers some to be conveyed in turn but spends enough time on-line per her work and her own stuff. I don’t think CC would affect my marriage unless it led to me taking a junior wife.</p>
<p>No, in fact now she’s started reading posts on CC. She’s slowly getting hooked.</p>
<p>H and sons think it’s a little odd, but it’s pretty innocent, after all. H works long hours, travels a ton, and is either on his laptop or blackberry when home, so he sees it as an amusing hobby for me. I don’t watch much television, so CC doesn’t eat into my reading time too much. In general, the info I’ve gained has been beneficial to everyone in my family.</p>
<p>Shopping used to be my biggest hobby. Now it’s CC. H has no complaints!</p>
<p>I’m with Momof WildChild and sax. My whole family thinks I’m nuts and H is playing poker (or bridge) on line while watching TV. I tend to stop in on CC frequently, but not necessarily for long periods of time. So I’m a little sneakier.</p>
<p>Of course, I have to cover the travel forums too…</p>
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O.K…You’ve GOTTA come back and tell us how THIS goes over, c-mother!!! <em>ROFL</em> :)</p>
<p>It will pass. There was a time I spent much time here while the kids were college shopping. I was checking the site continuously. I went through high and lows with this site. Sometimes I misinterpreted things said to me here.Sometimes I did not express myself well. But then, the kids grew up!They found their college and the stresses of having them at home and me watching their every move to prepare them for all the admissions forms was OVER! Gosh. Life is so much different now! I barely come to this site any more. I think it may happen to you too!</p>
<p>Long time no read, bhg! Tell us about your new life! Personally I am giddy about the amount of brain space that’s been freed. </p>
<p>I’m in email contact with robrym. She’s mad busy with a whole new life and is no longer on CC. driver might have created different CC personalities but that is not robbie’s style. Says me.</p>
<p>It’s important that parents whose kids are already at college stay on the forum! Otherwise it’s just the blind leading the blind.</p>
<p>“Hubster comes in each day and asks, “Hey b, what’s new on CC??” <em>lol</em> A good man gracefully accepts and yes, even embraces, that which he knows he cannot change!”</p>
<p>Berurah,
After I quoted your words of wisdom to DH, he replied with a chuckle,</p>
<p>“Every ‘smart’ husband knows that…But it’s not easy to put it into practice!”</p>
<p>Mission accomplished! 
DH will not complain about CC (at least for a few days!)</p>
<p>CMdad, I suspect, just rolls his eyes. But he also appreciates the info, as does my d who is in college but looking for internship and eventually grad school info. </p>
<p>Also, I assisted a friend who’s d is now in the audition phase of Musical Theater school apps…</p>
<p>It’s official, I am addicted…</p>
<p>Mine gets it. He’s a rabid sports fan and I’m not a tv watcher, so I actually think he’s grateful that he doesn’t have to feel guilty about those hours and hours watching football and basketball…and golf…and more golf…and poker… and billiards…</p>
<p>AND whenever he finishes a book, he pops in and announces “I’ve finished my book! Check CC for another good book recommendation for me!”</p>
<p>Mine thinks I’m nuts for reading it so often, but I’ve caught him reading it too. He definitely realizes the value of a lot of the information. He also has no room to talk, because he’s equally (ok, not quite) addicted to Ask Metafilter. “MeFi,” as he calls it, isn’t quite the same as CC, because posters are limited in how often they can post. Imagine that!</p>
<p>I came upstairs with a section of the NY Times a little while ago, fully intending to read it. But first I had to stop by the computer. There I found that I had a PM, and how could I just leave after reading the PM and replying to it. “What else have I missed in the last day and a half?” I thought. So, I went to look at the site specific to my oldest S’s college, then to the grad school forum, because he has just submitted apps, then to the Parents Cafe, and then it will be on to the Parents Forum. It just happens, that’s all. I used to be the Queen of the minimizers, but I don’t even bother minimizing anymore. My H is on his d*mn Crackberry so much he has no standing to question what I am doing. :D</p>
<p>Oh Weenie, that is funny! lol</p>
<p>Yes, joyous life. Life is joyous. (especially since the kids went BACK to college)
Ah, no more high water and gas bills, no more lights on all night, doors left unlocked, and going to the b room at 4 am to find every light on in the house and son downstairs ‘gaming’ on the computer. No more being confined to my bedroom after 9 pm so I don’t run into young (and handsome) men and women wandering around my house and me trodding around in my bedclothes looking like , heavens, my mother! No more climbing into the car and finding strange, wierd cd’s playing and the radio stations tuned to ‘undesirable’ stations. No more pizza boxes on the table in the morning with half eaten pizzas and my diet shot to heck.No more eternally having to make sure there is enough extra snack food in case several young people wander in for the evening. No more big home cooked meals and baked desserts.
Ah…life is goooood when the boys go back to college! he, he.</p>
<p>BHG, you touch upon a point…TheMom and I are much better about being able to start and sustain a diet when D is not home. Too much pizza around, as you say, and too many restaurant meals while traveling, etc.</p>
<p>We never ate out that much while the kids were home. Cost being one factor, plus everyone’s schedule. We go out to eat much more now. Traveling presents a problem, too many breakfast buffets, too many Friday Night buffets and too many seafood buffets.</p>
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This reminds me of this rather bizarre situation I have going on here right now. Most of the h.s. seniors do not take a full class schedule in the last semester, so they are off during various parts of the day. My own senior D, however, <em>IS</em> taking a full class schedule due to the scheduling of some classes that she wants to be in throughout the last semester. </p>
<p>Our home, however, is <em>still</em> grand central for friends of my kids!! So, while my OWN bio kids are in school full time, I have various adopteds who wander in and out of my house ALL DAY LONG!!! At the beginning of the semester, I was not accustomed to this, so there were some close calls with stuff like getting in and out of the shower <em>lol</em>. Finally, though, I have gotten used to the fact that I never really know when I’ll be alone in my own home, so I’m a LOT more careful about where I undress–or what I muse about out loud! 
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<p>I’ve nearly forgotten what it’s like to be all alone! 
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<p>~berurah</p>
<p>My whole family thinks I bit crazy with my CC addiction but when we go to MT auditions and meet people from CC and we seem like old friends and have tons of good info to share they are so impressed! I have met such nice people on this cite some who we email back and forth all the time and have become close friends. Who else but another CC MT person would understand what auditions and applications and competition is like for an MT kid. Who else would be so excited for you, no holds barred when your kid gets the lead in the school play? And who else can give you the pro and cons, joys and heartbreak, money and career path info that you can get here? How lucky to have found CC! My dh will probably have to buy anther laptop.</p>
<p>Well, CC’s better than porn. . .</p>
<p>But not quite as good as those York cookies.</p>
<p>When too many conversations with H start with, “I read on CC. . .” I know it’s time to cut back.</p>