<p>So…D1 has been approached by another sports team in another state to work for them. Ugh… She really wants to be around here and this is 6 hours or so from home. She would like to keep interviewing around here and hopes that she could get a job here at home with support from us. Hard for me to advise her. I want her around but also want her working. HELP!</p>
<p>I just posted the same question about FB, but their explanation is BS. It MIGHT just give you a link to the thread, but it sure looks like it’s quoting the post itself. In any event, it’s impossible to test unless I post a link to my page… not to a private page, a friend’s page or in a private message. Stupid. </p>
<p>NMN - well… if we’re talking Milwaukee or Chicago - they are BOTH great towns especially for their sports-minded fun side. And I, for one, would be leery of turning down any job offer where the job would make you happy. Meaning - sometimes you take a job because you need a paycheck… but ideally, shouldn’t it be more about excited to go to work every day? Is there an opportunity to go there and spend a day? I mean, don’t you typically want to go into the offices and meet the people you’d be working with? If nothing else, I would follow the job lead to conclusion and make a decision with all the facts if given an offer.</p>
<p>I’d be inclined to land on Moda’s side of this equation, though I too would be tempted to want to keep her near 
In some ways, a fresh start in a new city is exactly what someone in her shoes would benefit from as it will push her out of her comfort zone and allow the space for her to reinvent her life a little. Granted, she can do that in town with you, but sometimes that ready access to love and support can keep you in a holding pattern. I’d just advise her to explore her options with an adventurous spirit :)</p>
<p>NM, you haven’t mentioned how she is doing regarding the divorce. It seems a little too soon for her to be completely fine and she must have “moments”. Is she ready and wanting to move off on her own?</p>
<p>I know a number of us here are trying to protest the Facebook issues. I am not very up with the logic–can anyone explain?</p>
<p>Talked with D yesterday and she felt good about her test. She still is hurting big time but will see her therapist today. I wish I could go with her.</p>
<p>Nm, if your poor D, who has been through so much and was quite fragile so recently, wants to stay near, then why not? PS are you frozen yet?</p>
<p>Her hesitation is twofold. As she evaluates her career goals/aspirations she is thinking of getting out of the sports marketing field. She is a bit tired of working nights and weekends which is when games occur. Trying to break in to a new area of marketing will take some time. After having been away from home she felt she was missing out on family get- togethers and being at the lake. We shall see what she decides to do! She has a second interview today for a position that she really isn’t interested in but wants the practice and then a phone interview with someone else this afternoon. </p>
<p>Good luck to her NM. Maybe this position today will turn out to be something good. </p>
<p>Ok, I am feeling really illiterate. What is “writing on a Wall?” and where would I find my/your Wall?
Is this Facebook or CC? Help!</p>
<p>We are surviving the cold! Had some worries of my truck starting at the lake but the beast started right away in -50 degrees! </p>
<p>D1 is doing ok. Good moments and bad. She is getting out with us a little more and actually met some college friends unexpectedly this weekend. She was out for dinner with H and D2 on Sunday and ran in to some guys she knew from college sports. They invited her to their place after dinner and she went! The divorce was acknowledged but not discussed. One day at a time! Thanks for asking!</p>
<p>I can’t even imagine -50. Wow.</p>
<p>oregon101, I think “writing on a Wall” is for Facebook. At least that’s the only reference I’m familiar with.</p>
<p>I don’t know how you Northern folks are handling it the cold! You’re a hearty breed!</p>
<p>I bought our Spring Break trip plane tickets yesterday and today booked our flat in Budapest. I found the perfect flat. Because prices are lower in Budapest than in other areas of Europe, we could have found a serviceable, if cramped apartment (with Son on a sofa sleeper, as usual) for not a lot of money. But I found a sunny 3 bedroom, 3 bath flat, in a great location and only about 8 blocks from D, for about $190 a night. Considering that I am paying $157 a night for a plain double room at the Little Rock, Arkansas Mariott a few days later, I think it’s a heck of a deal. (I just won’t mention to H that we had less expensive options.)</p>
<p>Sounds wonderful, MissyPie. Budapest, a pastry, a nice cup of coffee and some music. Are there concerts you’re planning to attend?</p>
<p>NM --Sending your daughter very best wishes. One day at a time is good for all of us.</p>
<p>arabrab…thought of you and your daughter when I watched Pink perform at the Grammys. Isn’t it your D who does aerial performances???</p>
<p>Ack, thank goodness, no! One of the kids with whom I work is a freestyle skier, and I have no clue how his parents don’t have heart attacks. He’s shown me youtube videos that give me palpitations. </p>
<p>Hmmm…is it Zetesis’ D??? I have such a bad memory!</p>
<p>You survive in the upper regions by not going outside and honestly, if planned correctly, you can pretty much do anything and park in a garage. Downtown is connected via habitrail (skyway) and even the U has a whole system of tunnels (is this why they are the gophers? - hmmm).</p>
<p>Still cleaning and staging. I am not fond of H & S as I seem to be the only one doing the work of it! Worse is that I do a room and come back and they’ve “lived” in it already. Tomorrow is my last day before pictures. Fortunately, I can just close the door to the store room and hopefully have the weekend to get to that!! Tomorrow is my office and lower level, plus our bedroom and kitchen - but they are “mostly” done anyway.</p>
<p>NMN - hoped the interviews went well today! And yes, I too remember someone’s daughter doing silks. Scary stuff! </p>
<p>Ignore thi…posting shenanigans ;)</p>
<p>Missy, when are you going to Budapest? I have a friend who lives there and teaches at the university. She’s also a musician who plays around town so maybe I can get you the skinny on upcoming events </p>
<p>Good luck on the staging, Moda. I think we’re in for a strong spring market so I will kep my fingers crossed!</p>
<p>So, I’ve managed to replace the flakey cancelled project with two new and better projects that are now opened, cash-in-hand. Of course, since I’ve appealed to the universe, two more bids have also cropped up that could have us a wee bit overbooked but I’d rather be overbooked than under so I’m a bidding little beaver Now just remind me that I said that in a month when I’m tearing my hair out because I don’t have time for the move Its amazing how the landscape can change in just a few days. I am grateful that my universal mojo can be activated with such short notice :)</p>
<p>After some final finishing carpentry this weekend, the studio is ready. For the downtown studio, they’re aiming to have the new floors, paint and lighting done by mid-Feb. So I’m optimistic we’re reasonably well-positioned to just get Er done now. A little excited even. And very very hopeful that this deep freeze lets up enough for a sane relocation…</p>
<p>Hi, yes it is our daughter who does aerial. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her do something quite as high and spinny as Pink did … and, frankly, don’t need to!! I get heart attacks just watching her wrap and climb (because you have to let go of the silk).</p>
<p>The amazing thing is that D2 has found an aerial teacher where she is in Germany. She says this teacher is not as seasoned as her previous teachers, and that getting all the commands in German is tricky, but she has opportunity to practice and keep up her strength. </p>
<p>I think a sunny flat in Budapest sounds great – and hope you do have sun. D really misses the sun – Germany’s winter days are short and gray. …</p>
<p>So Monday night my mom called to say that my younger brother had been taken by ambulance to the hospital – apparently he’d been sick for a number of days, and wasn’t getting any better. They put him into an ICU with a diagnosis of pneumonia. Today, his doctor moved him out of ICU because things were now going in the right direction (I guess they wondered whether he would make it when he was brought in). I just talked to him.</p>
<p>He said that he’d called the Kaiser advice nurse on Monday evening and within 5 minutes there were aid vans and EMTs in his living room getting him to the hospital. Thank God for a nurse who really understood what needed to happen pronto and acted on it. I don’t think any of us, including my brother, knew how sick he was.</p>
<p>Wow, Zetesis, how scary. Glad that nurse figured out how serious it was.
Ten years ago or so we lost a friend who died from pneumonia (in his early 40s) in his own home while his wife was away on a business trip. He hadn’t felt good, but that’s the last we know.</p>
<p>Hope your brother’s recovery goes smoothly, and that he takes time to really recuperate. Pneumonia knocks you out.</p>