<p>Wonderful news, TA!! Congratulations to your son!</p>
<p>TA, all of S2’s virtual parents are bursting with pride!!!</p>
<p>I “Like” missypie’s post!!! ;)</p>
<p>Analyst that is terrific news! Congrats to your S2. And it sounds like a wonderful fit.</p>
<p>Yay S2! Such happy news!</p>
<p>TA congrats that is awesome!</p>
<p>I’m thrilled about the news TA.</p>
<p>TA how great!!!</p>
<p>WOOT to TA S2! I am soooo happy for you! (I guess swimming in the pool like a friendly lab has its benefits, right ;)?)</p>
<p>I think you too should break out the champagne! Glad he’s suitably excited.
Maybe now you’ll have some free time to come north and career counsel mcson 
Then again, we wouldn’t want to distract him from actually just, you know, graduating! Hi ho.</p>
<p>Last night was pretty humorous around here because I was harassing mch to watch a video of a kettlebell workout with me. I have this fantasy that swinging iron around might look fun to him, and that he could be cajoled into moving his butt a bit. As it turns out, it entertains him much more to just mock MY swinging iron around. What a pita that man is sometimes.</p>
<p>The funny part, apart from the repartee, was that he’s acting all coy about starting the treadmill or doing these kettlebell routines, but at the same time he ordered this ridiculous electronic scale that tracks depressing data like your BMI, your visceral fat, etc. by sending an electrical pulse through you, AND it weighs me 3lbs heavier than my old scale (so of course I hate it!) He was quite content to fool around with that darned thing. Which tells me I should be careful what I ask for…if the guy ever starts taking physical activity seriously I might end up with one of those athletic-gear-nerds on my hands and start getting things like the garmin hr monitor for Xmas Maybe I should get even for the evil scale and order him some snowshoes (Ha, take that! Tubbs for the Tubby!)</p>
<p>TA - Fantastic news! How exciting.</p>
<p>KMC - I live with that athletic-gear-nerd guy. H exercise on average 2.5 hours a day. Yes I didn’t mistype 2.5 hours! Bikes to work (most days), goes to the gym at work (working on college campus helps), and then bikes home. Lately he has been a bit more cautious on the bike riding after hitting black ice and skidding for 15 feet. He came out with a couple of bone bruises – I would have been in traction if that had happened to me! We have the scale, several garmins – even one for the bike, heart rate monitors, etc., etc… He even has running snowshoes! Yup I live with the guy and although I do go for an hour to the gym during the week I’m the tubby on the couch! I can find so many more things to do than MOVE! :)</p>
<p>Running snowshoes? My, my.</p>
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<p>Ah, I keep hoping that for Son…he has the type of personality where if he ever found a type of physical activity he loved, he would do it obsessively and talk about it to everyone. But alas, so far it’s still video games and movies.</p>
<p>Older D had a major (major!!!) disappointment yesterday. I won’t go into it for confidentiality reasons, but it just made me sick to my stomach to hear her crying (justifiably) over the phone. I keep thinking of all these cliches like “When God closes a door he opens a window” but I know that I’d hate to hear them if I was in her place.</p>
<p>Hugs to Missy d!
And re Missy son…I know an (adult) it gamer guy who lost tons of weight using DDR! I think the sustained interface in the game-like environment hooked him!</p>
<p>RM, just last month I started snowshoeing up my back hill for a mile every morning to try to get moving a bit. I’m actually starting to feel comfortable enough in them that I could kinda picture running in snowshoes, which is funny because I’m not a runner (although could manage a mean sprint as a teenager, but even then, not cross-country or distance!)</p>
<p>I am in awe of folks that can squeeze in a few hours every day. I keep telling myself that the couch is not my friend but it has a kind of magnetic pull when I’m in near orbit ;)</p>
<p>Hugs to MP D. dislike!</p>
<p>{{{HUGS}}} to missypie D1!</p>
<p>Crazy week here again. H hurt his back this weekend and is still in agony. He is driving me crazy as he is not a good patient. On top of that I have been running around checking on the cabin construction and meeting with subcontractors and picking out plumbing fixtures. Have a hair appointment today so that will make me feel better. Snow from yesterday hasn’t been shoveled yet and more is expected on Friday. May have to learn how to use that monstrous snowblower in the garage! ;)</p>
<p>missypie, so sorry to hear about your D’s disappointment.</p>
<p>NM, I hope your H’s back is better soon. I know that is agony. My H is also a bad patient when he is hurt.</p>
<p>As a mother, I know that in the long run, it’s a positive when a physically beautiful, sociable, bright young woman suffers a major disappointment, but “character building experiences” are certainly painful when you’re going through them. I’ve said before that I had so many disappointments growing up that I don’t know how my mother stood it.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear of misspie D’s sadness. Always so hard to know they are upset.</p>
<p>I love kettlebell! I have been doing a workout routine for about two months and it is just fun. I bought everything from Amazon and have even moved up a weight. It really burns the ol’ calories and I think it is better than hand weights. Kettlebells, hill walking and the elliptical are my go toos. Still too much time sitting at the computer.There just always seems to be something to look up. </p>
<p>Mother update! She is miserable. Hates the place. The rooms are too narrow. Only has a microwave and small frig. “I am never going to that dining room!” so her aid fetches her meals and she stays in her bed. She is angry with B as he cleaned out all of her overthecounter stool meds. Sis and B had a huge falling out last year and ran into each other in the hall and had a flare up. B is ready to throw in the towel which would possibly give truly greedy S all the power. Mom sounded great! She is angry and has targets and everyone fights so all is good in her world.</p>
<p>Looks like we are going to Spain in June. Looking forward to it!</p>
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<p>That seems to have happened to ShawSon. He went from little exercise to serious workouts – but doesn’t always do them if he has lots of work and is pulling all-nighters. He is also playing intra-mural and pickup basketball. I strongly urged him to join an IM team freshman year because even though he isn’t that coordinated, with his size, people would want him. Well, he’s gotten better and better and even scored 15 points in a game this year. And, he’s made friends completely different from his proud-to-be-nerd friends. And, combined with an intense diet over the summers and some attention to diet except during crunch periods, he lost I think 40 lbs and only regained 5 or maybe 10. It’s good to be young and male for dieting purposes and generally good to have ShawSon’s discipline.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about Missypie D’s disappointment.</p>
<p>Hugs to MP D. It’s hard, I was there enough when D was in HS.</p>
<p>I can also relate to the not wanting to do physical activity. Never was good at sports, very uncoordinated and so ther was no enjoyment for me. But I have found recently (6 weeks and counting!) that I can get myself on the treadmill for 20 minutes each morning. Hopefully your S can find something.</p>
<p>Got slapped down rather rudely in another thread a few days ago. Just trying to clarify something a poster said ( not to mention wondering why she seemed so eager to put down another person’s child), so glad that all of you are such a nice group.</p>
<p>Hugs to missy’s D. Terrible when things happen to our kids.</p>
<p>So what to do when D makes in my mind a huge mistake. She has decide to not go to the interview in Wisconsin. Too late now – she already told them but I think she just thinks that jobs are falling out of the sky! She has never had a job other than tutoring at college for a variety or reasons unless you count babysitting a couple of summers. I really think she should have gone. She is stresse with her math thesis but still! I mean this week she has off and is skiing in Vermont. Last week BF from home went and stayed the week with her. Really! Stop socializing and get a blasted JOB already! I’m so afraid that she is going to be the one with a $250,000 education that works at McDonalds as the janitor. She doesn’t like people so they can’t put her on the cash register. Sorry! Just VENTING!!!</p>
<p>FallGirl - I stay here almost exclusively for that same reason. This is just a great bunch of people! A pat on the back for EVERYONE!</p>