<p>missypie – yeah, that’s the sad truth …</p>
<p>Howdy all! Yes, having breakfast w/ SJTH was like sitting across the table from someone I have known for years! We had a great time!</p>
<p>One of my girls has already had a roommate switch??? We don’t know why but monday night she found out rm #1’s name, friended her on FB and made initial contact via email. After that there was no contact tuesday or wednesday then last neight a new roommate assignment. Don’t know what happened there. My D doesn’t have anything at all incriminating on her FB except a flair collection which shows a connection to HP, LOTR, Wicked and The Office. </p>
<p>Other D and her rm have been sending emails back and forth daily. Other than a marked difference in music taste, they seem to have a lot in common.</p>
<p>Historymom, if it’s any consolation, my D would TOTALLY be roomies with your D based just on the flair collection!! LOL!</p>
<p>So I asked my girls the difference between “emo” and “goth” – and they said, “emo” is an affectation, but goth is a lifestyle or subculture; and also for emo: long bangs (so lots of head tossing); whiny; and they write bad poetry …</p>
<p>I can’t imagine the chaos if I owned any kind of stress-meter. Seriously, it would be ugly.</p>
<p>Son FINALLY unpacked his suitcase, cleaned UP his room (but not out) and… <drum roll=“”> started his book that all freshman were sent to read before school starts. AND he was home for dinner! AND he actually chatted it up over the meal! AND… and here’s the real freaker, the sweater he wanted to wear tonight was all wrinkled from being mushed in his suitcase and he actually ironed! I had no idea he even knew how to turn it on. It wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t look slept in either. </drum></p>
<p>All this talk about shopping and seriously, we have gone out for nothing. Well, I did buy two sets of sheets and a mattress pad at the beginning of summer when they were on sale. And he already has a quilt for his bed. Now I am thinking I should buy a bunch of stuff online at BB&B and pick it up after we land like pillows and laundry basket. And hope it’s not already all sold out!</p>
<p>Going to check out that process now.</p>
<p>Sent eggson halfway across the country to see his college-age cousins (and aunt) on his own. First time flying alone. Somehow had a personality transplant while he was gone (4 days) and is delightful and mature on his return. </p>
<p>Or maybe it has something to do with the new (Toshiba) laptop. It is fabulous and he showed me how to stream Hulu on HD. (Did I get that right???)</p>
<p>S announced that he will pack this weekend. Moves into dorm one week from TOMORROW. </p>
<p>Trying to keep it all together. He casually mentioned “seeing you on Thanksgiving” and I alsmost lost it.</p>
<p>historymom, my daughter may be switching rooms. She didn’t know her roommate, but another girl she met on facebook’s roommate decided not to go to the school, so she and my daughter decided to now be roomies, so then the girl my d would have roomed with will be getting a new roommate. Tell your d maybe the potential roommate isn’t going to the school, or one of her friends had a roommate and she asked her to switch. It most likely is nothing personal at all, maybe just a better offer!!</p>
<p>At S’s school (and the same with daughter’s 6 years ago as a freshman) you can’t change rooms for two weeks minimum. And after my own freshman experience I would never change a room giving it a chance… even if you end up in roommate hell like my daughter did.</p>
<p>But in my own case, I am ashamed to admit it even though I had absolutely nothing to do with it… my mother called when she saw my roommate was named “Gardenia” with the last name Johnson or something. And I only know that because I met her after the fact and she was really really nice. We would have gotten along great, but my parents, who I always thought to be so hip and open-minded for the time were just freaked about the possibility of rooming with a black person. It was like, it’s fine to associate and hang out etc, but not to live with. They would have probably gone off the deep edge if I had mentioned the two week fling I had with the team’s running back.</p>
<p>cali-mom thanks…maybe they should friend eachother on FB 
</p>
<p>ilovetoquilt: thanks for the reassurance.</p>
<p>Modadunn: We aren’t done with shopping either.</p>
<p>I had a happy thought today. Labor Day weekend is the week after school starts and DD’s cousin who will be soph at the same college will be coming up here and they can hitch a ride home with him 
(their school is only about 2.5 hours away) So though I drop them off the 27th I will see them again in 8 days!! After that it will likely be Thanksgiving so I am glad for the additional weekend. We traditionally go shopping for school clothes Labor Day weekend so I think we can do that this year too.</p>
<p>I hesitantly have to say that my S is becoming human again (but don’t tell anybody i said so). He invited me up to his cave to look at his new game, and we spent about an hour talking and laughing.</p>
<p>The circle of life…they’re kids who love us, mini-adults who pull away and leave us, but hopefully, adults who come back for love and friendship.</p>
<p>Less than three weeks.</p>
<p>oh cpeltz…how nice for you and your boy to have that time! And I love the way you wrote about it. Three weeks from today-Thursday- we drop our girls off. What day do you fly out?</p>
<p>I thought about you the other day when DS had on a pair of hand me down shorts…blue and gold with something written on the leg. On closer inspection they said “Marquette” and I smiled.</p>
<p>S2 (football player) has already said he’d rather not room with another athlete. Someone in band/drama/music or the quiet, studious sort would be just fine, than you very much.</p>
<p>S2 will also need a sizable supply of Sweet Baby Ray’s. He blanched when he was visiting a college the other day and the guide said there are virtually no kitchens in any of the dorms. For a kid who loves cooking (for himself and a crowd) and inventing recipes, this is almost a deal-breaker.</p>
<p>Historymom, see you in a few hours!!!</p>
<p>Eight days to go here - I will have the clothes rack I use for garage sales and empty tubs waiting for D’s return from her wilderness trek tomorrow, there will be much packing to do.</p>
<p>At least one fear was eliminated - a year ago some of D’s friends complained about rooming with two girls in a room meant to be a double (which will probably the case at the state schools again this year). I guess D’s class is relatively small (one of the private LACs that took a hit enrollment-wise), so there are two people in triples, freshmen in singles, and one smaller dorm will not be used at all…</p>
<p>Move-in is two weeks from today. No sign of getting ready yet, but I don’t expect that to happen until a day or two before. I don’t think there has been much contact with the roommate. All I have been told is his first name (David), home of origin (northern Virginia), major (history), and that he has long hair in his picture. Our high school feeds five or six kids to S2’s college every year, so he knows a lot of people already and has spent week-ends there for football games, etc. However, he decided not to room with a friend based on advice given by H for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>S2 got his two lower wisdom teeth out last week. We will get the upper two out next summer, needing to split it for insurance reasons. S1 was supposed to start fall classes on Aug. 3 but they have been postponed to Aug. 17 due to a swine flu epidemic in Rio. S’s email yesterday said he wasn’t feeling well, so he may be getting sick. S2 is playing pick-up games of basketball every day at a local court and S1 is playing pick-up games of soccer regularly at a park in Rio, so both are staying in shape.</p>
<p>Reading all these posts about packing, I’m feeling as if I should be more stressed – but I’m not. S is away until just a couple days before he’s due at school. He had previously “approved” the comforter I found, and doesn’t care about towels or anything else – so I’ll gather my BB&B coupons and do a 1 day blitz. He doesn’t have all that many clothes and will just throw them all in a bag or two. Gathering his electronics will be his major concern.</p>
<p>Just gave mine a hug and sent him off. He has a week of orientation off campus. I’ll be there next week to help him move in to the dorm.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>I think when they go and you’ll see them in a week, that’s better. Even for us, we go early for athletes (internationals go early as well) and then we are more or less hanging out for another two days before orientation starts. So… while I won’t see him or anything, we’ll be close enough for that day or so in between that if he needs stuff at least he has us there to buy it for him and we have a car! :)</p>
<p>CBBlinker – re: electronics. Same here. The issue currently at hand is how to transport the XBox and if we ship, what’s the perfect date that’s not too early that it’s missed here and not so late that he’s waiting on it at school to arrive. He could care less about sheets and towels.</p>
<p>Drove D to airport for quick trip to visit relatives. Extremely pleasant conversation. Has foreign language books with her to study for placement test. Now is concerned her schedule for fall is not demanding enough. Who was this stranger and what did she do with my D???</p>
<p>PS Only item I bought she has issues with is rug. I bought beige. She is concerned re dirt showing (again who is this person), and said could I exchange for black. I think beige hides dirt better.</p>
<p>Black rugs will show every speck of lint and dust! I know this because I bought a dark brown one thinking I was so much smarter than my mother…Beige is the best of both worlds…</p>
<p>We leave a week from today. One week. Son has still never done a load of laundry. I guess we’ll do a bit over the weekend, but I think it’s more important to look over the machines in his dorm and figure them out. He doesn’t own anything “hand wash only” and I guess if he shrinks his hoodies, he’ll have to live with that.</p>
<p>Son needs books around him. In that way, he’s just like Rainman. (Remember the scene - they’re in a hotel and Raymond says, “I’m bookless” and ends up memorizing the phone book? Son can’t be bookless. He reads the same books over and over again and can’t understand how I can enjoy a book but just read it once.) The other night I asked him if he was just going to wait until the very last minute to decide what books to take…he gave me a very sweet and heartbreaking look and said, “Yes.” They are his security.</p>