<p>I hit the submit button on my presentation rather late last night, but it was yesterday, and not today! Since I’m talking about real-life uses of a software, I decided instead of trying to make it all perfect, I’d let it be what it is, and included the challenges of why it isn’t perfect in my presentation.</p>
<p>Happy birthday to McH! My D’s bd is Monday; her due date was 2 days ago. </p>
<p>Glad you had a good trip, FallGirl. </p>
<p>Congrats to Zetesis’ D! What a wonderful honor and opportunity.</p>
<p>Percussiondad, let yourself go through the emotions. I hope you had a good walk, although 6 miles sounds very long! </p>
<p>I asked my MIL if I could bring anything for Easter dinner. She said everything was covered food-wise, but it would be wonderful if I could look at their computer for them while I’m there. Works for me!</p>
<p>oregon101, glad you had a nice visit. My mother is not a baby person, so I get it. When I had my D (almost 22 years ago!) she came out and told me she’d cook, clean, do laundry, etc and I could take care of the baby. When I had S and D was not yet 3 yrs old, she sent $ and said I could hire whatever help I needed. I know she wouldn’t have been comfortable taking care of a toddler or a baby! Which is fine; it’s also why I’m fixing a computer instead of trying to make something food-wise for Easter!</p>
<p>And in other celebratory news, S has a job for the summer! He’ll be a camp counselor at a theater camp he attended when he was younger. Woo hoo!</p>
<p>Oregom: I have become very fit since getting this dog. I now walk him him 4 miles every morning between 430am and 6 then in the evening my W and I walk a more leisurely 6 miles with him on pretty flat terrain. My W has diabetes and needs the exercise so this works really well for both of us and have a high energy border collie/ lab mix (borador) and he needs this or he bounces off the walls. Fantastic dog which is why I will now train him as a companion dog and then start start volunteering at schools, hospitals, seniors homes etc.
I decided to take a mental health day today. I do feel better today but still wrapping my head around permanent holiday status.</p>
<p>sabaray, I am not cooking Easter dinner this year but if I were, it would be lamb or spiral sliced ham. Probably with some asparagus. </p>
<p>It will just be H and I for Easter so we are not cooking. S2 will be away at school. S1 made waves about coming for Easter but decided to stay in DC. If he had come home,we would have cooked. So,instead of cooking- husband and I found a restaurant in Williamsburg that is having an Easter breakfast. Then, we will go over to Busch Gardens for a few hours to walk around (we have a yearly pass that expires in early April). We went there for St. Patrick’s Day and the flowers are lovely.The weather is supposed to be in the 60’s on Sunday, so should be a nice day . I don’t really want to sit at home by ourselves on a holiday!</p>
<p>I haven’t even had time to think about Easter meals! I better get going on that! H is taking tomorrow off and we head up to the cabin to make some more construction decisions. We need new mattresses for the place so will then shop at the local store. Hope they have some good choices! H bought a new section of dock and that is being delivered today and will be placed somewhere in the snow! Appliances are being delivered on April 11th and of course the contractor isn’t ready for them so they will have to put them somewhere and work around them. We pick up D2 from the airport Friday night. So hard to believe graduation is looming in 8 weeks! :eek:</p>
<p>Wow, Zetesis, congrats to your D. Am I allowed to brag about knowing her?</p>
<p>C-q, congrats to your son on his summer job. Sounds like fun. </p>
<p>Oregon, we loved the Tessa. Great view from the balcony, a subway stop right across the street, about 3 ATMs within half a block. Explore the far wall of the master bedroom…we still laugh about it. (You’ll see.) Just pay attention when they tell you how how to work the washer and the stove. Both were a bit tricky to operate (the “universal” symbols did not fit with my neanderthal mechanical instincts) and the manual was in German. The subways get lots of bad press for pickpocketing, but just be wise and you’ll have no problems. (One time, we got off and the buttons on the pocket on the leg of H’s cargo pants had been unbuttoned…but he had nothing in there to steal.) I’m so excited for you!</p>
<p>My mother is so lonely. People call and drop by, and my sister stops by twice a week, but she just spends so many hours alone in the house (expecting more snow over the weekend!) She is actually considering getting a dog and she doesn’t really even like dogs all that well (hasn’t had one since 1955.)</p>
<p>Advice on interview clothing, please: This is for my arty niece, who will be graduating this spring. She has an interview to be an intern at a casting company. She asked her favorite aunt for advice, but this is so far out of my expertise it’s not in the same galaxy. </p>
<p>My notion is she wants to look fashion-forward but not childish, when interviewing for positions in the theater world, but I have no idea what that would look like. Ideas? With pictures? I know lots of your kids are interviewing for jobs. Around here, the question is more about how you interview for a job in a warehouse or as a busboy, so I’m vicariously enjoying my niece interviewing for a career kind of job.</p>
<p>CF…take a look at some fashion blogs. In the past D2 has liked Pink Peonies, Hello Gorgeous and Lauren Conrad for ideas. Also take a peek at Corporette. That site gives fashion advice for different career fields. B&W is very on trend right now and I bet she could wear that in the theater world. Statement necklaces are also very popular but I would stay away from any of the very large pieces. A sleek pencil skirt or dress and a blazer wouldn’t be as formal as a suit but still be appropriately serious. Will look for some links and PM them to you!</p>
<p>Thanks, NM. Now I will rant: How does a for-profit business get away with having college graduates who are unpaid “interns” working there? As I understand it, my niece would be an admin or something like that. FOR FREE! How is that legal?</p>
<p>“Ms. Leppink said many employers failed to pay even though their internships did not comply with the six federal legal criteria that must be satisfied for internships to be unpaid. Among those criteria are that the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and that the employer “derives no immediate advantage” from the intern’s activities — in other words, it’s largely a benevolent contribution to the intern.”</p>
<p>So, it’s probably not legal. But, it’s probably a lot better than the way casting agencies have treated females in the past. Hopefully only in the past. I had an ex-B Movie actress who worked for me for several years who told ShawWife that getting good movie roles sometimes required serious undercover work as there were a jillion pretty, young talented actresses who were really hungry for work and so why should they pick you. I think she had a sense of being taken advantage of repeatedly, which is why she quit.</p>
<p>missypie, I feel for your mother. When my FIL died, one of the things my MIL said was that she never knew she could be so lonely. Her whole life was kids, then husband; and when they were gone in one way or another, she was really bereft. With good intentions we tried to get her interested in all kinds of things, but she simply wouldn’t. Ah, me.</p>
<p>I do not think this internship has educational purposes. This would be a college graduate they are hiring, a young woman who already has a work history. She doesn’t need education on fixing coffee. She may need education in how to use their systems, but that sort of thing is the normal part of employee training.</p>
<p>So much exciting news! Congratulations to all on birthdays, grad school admissions, summer jobs, other jobs, life! I sort of fell off the bus for a while, a long while. But it’s always nice to catch up with old friends My two Ds continue in college, D1 as senior slaving away on her thesis, with pending grad school applications, and D2 as a freshman who was also thrilled recently to land a summer job as a live-in camp counselor. It’s exciting and scary that so many of the '09/'13s on here are seniors!! Happy Passover and Easter!</p>
<p>Good morning all. Still tired from the trip and working a long day yesterday to catch up. Just glad that we spend Easter at friends’ house so I don’t have to cook, just make a dessert. I plan to color a few eggs tonight and will most likely do that alone as S and H have no interest and D isn’t home. Part of me still misses the days of Easter egg hunts!</p>
<p>Hi peonies!</p>
<p>Is it just me or did cc do some sort of format change? Not liking it.</p>
<p>Site is totally borked and unusable on ipad; in firefox on a mac there is no width limiting, making it about 10 screens wide and impossible to read.
Hopefully, they’re on it ;)</p>
<p>D2 on her way home from Spring Break. She and BF took the offer to delay their flight by 2 hrs. Yay! They got 2 $400 vouchers and 2 meals each. </p>
<p>H and I went to cabin today. The windows are in! Really starting to see some progress.</p>
My two Ds continue in college, D1 as senior slaving away on her thesis, with pending grad school applications, and D2 as a freshman who was also thrilled recently to land a summer job as a live-in camp counselor. It’s exciting and scary that so many of the '09/'13s on here are seniors!! Happy Passover and Easter!</p>