<p>Timely, you are making the most of this! I think it will be easier when hubby is around more.</p>
<p>My youngest daughter made me a Facebook friend with limitations as to what I can see, and I’m fine with that. I originally joined Facebook so I could see my older daughter’s pictures from Europe, and it’s mostly the pictures and the little profile comment that I am interested in. I don’t need to see what they write on their wall- I probably don’t want to!</p>
<p>We got home last night (this morning?) at 3:00 a.m. after a 10 hour drive, and the house looks like a clothing and accessories bomb went off in it. I have a couple of boxes to send – she forgot most of her jeans – and some food to buy. Get the house to a point where I am not wading through debris on every surface. (Then, who knows, she may decide to come home.) Your list is great.</p>
<p>I would love to be a facebook stalker too, but can only do it through the youngest’s two older sisters. I don’t have an account myself, and I know the kid wouldn’t friend me until hell froze over and thawed again.</p>
<p>In the 8 days since dropping the youngest off, I have:</p>
<p>visited the oldest in DC and enjoyed 3 days of museum-hopping</p>
<p>come back to work in a very bad mood</p>
<p>decided to mope until the day after Labor Day</p>
<p>watched way too much “Law and Order”</p>
<p>spent about 25 percent less on the weekly grocery run</p>
<p>had coffee with a dear friend whom I never get to see</p>
<p>heard from the baby four times (2 texts, a 30-second phone call, and one that lasted a whole 4 minutes!)</p>
<p>Cheers to us.</p>
<p>I was a facebook stalker, too, who browsed their pages when they left them open on the computer until I got my own account and friended them. Both kids accepted, but I just check status for the most part. I found IM to be the preferred way to communicate with my S last year, even had some threads that ran for over an hour a couple times. If I don’t hear from him for a while I can check to see if he is on-line, at least make sure he is still there. Once last year I noticed that he had been off-line for over two days, and started to get concerned when he called to tell me he had just gotten back from visiting friends in Boston.</p>
<p>One of my friends, with no kids at home and a husband who works out-of-town, just accepted a foreign-exchange student. I thought she was nuts, but it looks like this is just what she needed. I just hope the foreign-exchange student isn’t too disappointed, not having any “brothers” or “sisters” at home.</p>
<p>I have no shame… I am a Facebook stalker too</p>
<p>Good post. Daughter goes to college, life doesn’t change so much, and just need to do better budget. the major changes are,</p>
<p>First, cooking the food what ever I want, because my son is not a picking eater but my daughter is;
Second, going to bed early and don’t have to wait until she comes home at midnight;</p>
<p>I don’t miss her so much just like she does not miss us (weird?), I know she is very happy where she is and she has made a lot of friends. My 8 year old son still plays basketball, ping pang with me, and goes fishing with my husband.</p>
<p>Today my daughter’s facebook profile comment was :</p>
<p>“Ha ha! I love my life!”</p>
<p>And that makes everything worth it.</p>
<p>Except for my 2 rabbits, my nest is empty including empty of H, who has been working out of town for the summer.</p>
<p>Since younger S left a couple of weeks ago for soph year in college, I’ve:</p>
<p>Had lunch with a friend, who kindly treated me to lunch because I was feeling blue.</p>
<p>Had a new friend over to lunch.</p>
<p>Started taking two dance courses and one acting course at the local community college, which I’ve found out is dirt cheap, and has wonderful instructors and students who are very friendly even to students who are decades older than they are.</p>
<p>Finished writing a sketch that will be in a local community theater’s fall show.</p>
<p>Been cast in several sketches for the local community theater, and have agreed to assistant direct another one. Have been pleasantly surprised to find that people think I’m a good comedian. (I was a very shy, nerdy kid,)</p>
<p>Have agreed to produce a one night one woman show at a local community theater.</p>
<p>Have started reading a couple of books.</p>
<p>Watched Obama’s speech on TV, my first time turning the TV on in months.</p>
<p>Have agreed to head a committee for the community theater, and have facilitated two meetings of it.</p>
<p>Have enjoyed reading younger S’s blog, which he created just for H and me, since S doesn’t want us to be his Facebook friends.</p>
<p>Have had some hilarious e-mails over politics with older S, whose political viewpoint is almost 100% the opposite of mine.</p>
<p>After berating myself for gaining 20 pounds after getting off my four-years-long program of regularly working out, did a 40-min. workout at the health club. </p>
<p>Have started publicizing a retreat that I’m coordinating for one of my spiritual organizations.</p>
<p>Nobody has mentioned this so I will… working to pay tuition bills…and soccer, soccer, soccer. Son reffed his first games and got his learners permit.
Was in a MVA, but fortunately he is fine and was not driving. He keeps tabs on D’s face book. Root canal , mammogram, and “annual” I’ve been putting off are next. Oh, and a pity party.</p>
<p>My turn? Ok, well I thought about exercise! I promised my daughter I’d look better the next time I see her, and I can’t break a promise to her. Ugh. So I’ll have to do more than just think about exercise. Tomorrow. I hope.</p>
<p>Her bathroom is clean!!! No hair anywhere!</p>
<p>I can see the floor in the florida room. Two kids had stored their apartment stuff there, and it’s clean now! I dread next summer, when all three will store their stuff back at home.</p>
<p>I can get out of the driveway without an obstacle course of cars!</p>
<p>Cleaned the refrigerator and will clean the pantry…getting rid of all the junk food! Most of it. Except the chocolate. And some chips.</p>
<p>I’m going to start going through files and organize tax stuff way before I have to. I think. I want to anyway.</p>
<p>Thinking about getting a CDA and working in a local preschool. Should get a job. I quit working in April since this was the last summer to spend with all three kids. I’m getting lazy!</p>
<p>Gotta find a course about investing. I know nothing! It’s embarrassing. Any good books on basics of investing? Or finances 101? </p>
<p>My daughter is busy but fine. Sons are settled in, too. All’s quiet while I wait for the next visit, either October or Thanksgiving. </p>
<p>Oh, and I have got to stop checking cc every time I pass this room! I get nothing done! I’m going to allow myself a half hour in the morning and a half hour in the afternoon. I’m getting addicted to reading the political threads as well as the college threads!</p>