<p>Good luck to S2 with his background check,TA! Still waiting to hear about S2’s clearance . That is his last hurdle as well.</p>
<p>Hope your H’s knee surgery goes well,FallGirl.</p>
<p>S1 and his friends had to cancel their first trip to Las Vegas . They had already lost a day yesterday to the snow and the airline could not reschedeule them until tonight so they decided to just cancel and go another time. I’ve never been to Las Vegas either. I’m not a gambler but it just seems like a place everybody should experience once!</p>
<p>Surgery is finished. Just talked with the doctor ( whose D used to play travel soccer with our D) ended up talking about college admissions for S. The topic follows us everywhere.</p>
<p>I’m not a gambler, but had family living in Vegas for several years, so I have been there a few times. It is very unique to say the least. Worth going once.</p>
<p>So I assume that the surgery went well, Fallgirl?</p>
<p>If you recall, I made the Worst Mother Ever list by taking younger D to Vegas to see Criss Angel for her Sweet 16. It was actually lots of fun. I can totally see taking a family vacation there and driving out of town to hike, etc. during the day and then seeing shows at night. But in reality, the kids are now too old to be in Vegas with Mom and Dad.</p>
<p>Congrats to Missy’s D… Good luck to Woody’s D…
Fall girl, hope your H is on the mend real quick with PT and all that good stuff…</p>
<p>Unexpected luck for D#2 has an interview today in her related field, so we are all keeping our fingers crossed, would be great if she were no longer underemployed!</p>
<p>The D of this thread I am meeting about an hour’s drive from home tomorrow, from her ride with a fellow student…better than actually driving 6.5 hours and then back again! She is bringing her cat, who will be spayed on Monday… (Guess who is paying for that?) Our son arrives on Friday night for Spring Break as well… Usually they do not have same week off, so we are very lucky…</p>
<p>Safe travels to everybody…snowing lightly here, are not supposed to get much…maybe 4 to 6…</p>
<p>D#1 who broke her leg skiing on Dec 23rd is doing quite well, is finally driving and working…Her progress with the PT was very encouraging.</p>
<p>She broke it in 3 places…honestly, this was the scenario from the ER on her cell phone:
“I hurt my knee”. Then “They think I broke my leg”, then “They think my leg is broken in two places.”
Then “My leg is broken in 3 places.”. …then finally “My leg is broken in 3 places and I messed up my ACL.”</p>
<p>H said “Do you have medical insurance?” Yes, she did but not everything was covered, she was able to get financial assistance by providing her 2012 tax return and copies of bank statements and she makes monthly payments. Recent college grads do not often get good medical coverage with their places of employment and these kids think they are invincible of course. This is something that 20-some things think will not happen to them!</p>
<p>ShawSon called me today. He had called me a couple of weeks ago a little unnerved because although he’d passed the hard part of his Math comps, he hadn’t passed the easy part (multivariable calculus and linear algebra). He would have to retake those parts of the exam. He was surprised as he thought he had studied enough – in fact, he was a little shaken as this was so out of line with his normal test performance. So, yesterday, he went and checked his exam and had done well. They’d reported someone else’s scores – he had a high pass or honors or something like that once they redid his scores. So, he doesn’t have to retake the test.</p>
<p>Up since 3:00 AM…ugh. H’s snoring woke me up and that was it for sleeping.</p>
<p>My neighbor boy got accepted to Northwestern medical school yesterday! Yay! Now he has at least two choices and waiting to hear from two other schools. </p>
<p>Hi SLUMOM! Glad your D is on the mend. Sending good interview mojo to D2!</p>
<p>FallGirl…sending healing thoughts and prayers to your H!</p>
<p>^he must be relieved! Are you back in Shawhome yet, or are you still wandering? Hopefully, they can get things back to a place where shawwife can enjoy her home ;)</p>
<p>Fall girl, good luck to your h on reab. Slumom, it seems that it wasn’t very long ago that you’d reported your d’s break – so it’s great that she’s doing well. My sense of time must be askew!</p>
<p>I’m not sure how to handle how busy we are and continue my health and exercise plan. I kinda needed to stay late at work last night but was so hungry came home at 7:30 because I did not want to eat junk. I’m now down 18 lbs, but I’ve got to find a way to account for super busy nights here and there as we’re on two rush projects right now and our skedder is still suffering from the week of mch’s absence. I think if I pre-plan the nights I’ll stay and take appropriate pre-pared food I should be able to do it without falling off “the wagon” so to speak! </p>
<p>I am probably my own worst enemy because I’ve also started getting subcontractor quotes for the home studio conversion I’m contemplating. I need a final cost to determine heather or not, in the end it makes enough sense to pursue. Our lease is up in a year and the local health organization seems to be slowly expropriating every studio in our building. A group of lawyers were just pretty much run out (with generous compensation, of course) a full four months before their lease was up. So my hand may be forced. </p>
<p>The home studio space is 1350 sf, so it’s enough room for us in the day-to-day work sense, but I still want a branded meeting room/satellite office downtown for clients since we’re kind of rural. I have a hunch I may soon feel like a plate spinner trying to get our options lined up ;)</p>
<p>When I moved to the US and joined h 10 years ago, I had to close a satellite studio in Canada and move us all into the studio we’re in now. It was hell, frankly, and as busy as I am with my retainers, I’m kind of dreading the notion now. But with 10 years left til mch is retirement aged, I think this move would make a lot of sense for us on many levels. Especially if we may have to move anyway, and word on the street is that the health co wants to take over the whole building. It will make for an interesting year, I fear!</p>
<p>I just cannot get going this morning. I’ve started waking up at 2 am and 4 am. The problem is that I fall back to sleep by about 4:30, then my alarm rings about an hour later, and I just keep snoozing it and having dreams each time. My sleep cycle is a mess. Should I just go ahead and get up at 4?</p>
<p>I know that one of the answers is more exercise. (Ok, any exercise.)</p>
<p>kmc, I’m returning from London but ShawWife told me she was going to try to stay at home last night. When I return (weather permitting), I’ll see if the house is OK.</p>
<p>mp, have you thought about blue lights. I should talk as I tend not to be a big sleeper. I go to bed around 2 on many nights. On an average night I get 5-6 hours sleep, though this week it has been 4. Every once in a while, I go for 8-10.</p>
<p>MissyPie – Hope you get some good sleep tonight. I’ve read that avoiding computer monitors for at least an hour before bedtime helps with sleep, as does making sure that there are no glowing lights in your bedroom.</p>
<p>D made it back from the NYC interview before the snowstorm ended. She thought it went well, though hearing the kinds of questions she was asked H is fairly convinced that whoever organizes hiring must have come from Microsoft. Her least favorite: being asked one of those really-hard-to-answer questions on how to explain some complicated technology in terms an elementary school student would understand. Fumbling through an answer. Agreeing with the interviewer that it wasn’t a very good answer – and being told, “OK, answer it again” with no think time. She said it did go a lot better the second time, but still…</p>
<p>Somewhere between 6" and 14" of snow for tomorrow; the weird part is that they’ve upped it to a blizzard forecast twenty miles north of us, and also about 15 miles south of us – but for us it is just a winter storm advisory. (All foothills areas.) Weird – I don’t get how that is going to work, but the weather folk are saying pretty bluntly that this one is really tough to predict the snowfall on because the temp will be hovering right around 34. Little lower – some snow. Degree or two below that – lots of snow. Warmer? Rain, or rain turning to snow. I don’t care; we need the moisture, but it is weird.</p>
<p>Well I’m glad to hear your D thought it went well, ararab. That question sounded to me like a ‘gotcha’ kind of thing. I’m not sure if those do much to evaluate the potential of the candidate but who knows…</p>
<p>Good mojo to arabrab and slum ones interviewing d’s!</p>
<p>By contrast, mcson reported on FB that he’s “graduated Disney” and the tower of terror shall haunt him no more. I replied its a good thing because life is just like a roller coaster…seems to take forever on your way up then life flashes by you while you’re muttering “omg, omg, omg…”</p>
<p>And of course, in the case of mcson, that first part seems especially true then again, he’s not so dumb…he’s out having fun on the coast and I’m here working overtime on weekend to catch up because I’d laid him off until he had his school work caught up. I really am my own worst enemy!</p>
<p>On that note, gotta get ready for writers group then head into the office. Have a great day for those having a life!</p>
<p>Glad to hear that the interviews went well and continuing to send the positive vibes.
arabrab - you forecast sounds something like how it was here in DC area on Wednesday. The temps were hovering around the freezing point so some areas to the east were just rain and someplaces were lots of snow. Very hard to call.</p>
<p>S just left to take the SAT. </p>
<p>H’s knee is sore today, not unexpected for 2 days post op, but he was bored yesterday and maybe overdid it a little. He took one of our cars for a safety inspection yesterday AM (only a mile away and he isn’t taking pain meds) and someone hit the car which he was not in at the time. Damage is somewhat minor, no one hurt so could be a lot worse.</p>
<p>Quiet weekend and strange after only working 3 days last week.</p>
<p>S made it home last night - he was lucky; students traveling south to NYC had lots of cancelled flights. His connecting flight was delayed before he even boarded his first flight due to other delays, but eventually he arrived at the airport about 30 minutes later than originally scheduled. Good to have him home!</p>
<p>Do NOT have a quiet weekend; need to get going!</p>
<p>Good luck with the interviews. Some of the interview questions I read about leave me scratching my head. I don’t know what purpose is served by asking some of these silly theoreticals. But asking for a writing sample sounds very promising and is a good idea. </p>
<p>We need to work on taxes today. That is always an all day and then some project. S1 has to file in three different countries this year, so I don’t envy him.</p>
<p>I hope S1 has a good international tax accountant; that is one area where I would fear to tread. (And that he remembers to declare every one of his overseas accounts lest he be snagged in one of the dragnets – a local professor who did a sabbatical year abroad got whacked because he’d forgotten about some small account he’d left <1000 euros in in Switzerland that he’d left open because he expected to go back for more experimental work a year or two later. )</p>
<p>We are having a blizzard. Or so the media and businesses seem to think. They shut down all sorts of things including the university, canceled the SAT’s, canceled hundreds of flights – and there is basically NO accumulation of snow on any of the roads because we had days of high 50’s temperatures leading up to this. No wind, either. I’m afraid we have become wusses. Yes, it is snowing – but not hard enough to keep me from seeing five hundred feet out the window. Yes, there are (gasp!) four or five inches of wet snow on the grass. This is a blizzard? I don’t think so.</p>
then again, he’s not so dumb…he’s out having fun on the coast and I’m here working overtime on weekend to catch up because I’d laid him off until he had his school work caught up. I really am my own worst enemy!</p>