<p>Sendin the mojo to all who want/need some some anti-allergy mojo sounds like it would be in order too.</p>
<p>CQ, what’s up? Sending hugs too in case they’re needed.</p>
<p>Mcson’s gf has landed some kind o theatre work after an audition/interview. Don’t know how long the run is, but its nice she nabbed it. Mcson was light on details except to say it was a musical. I’ll know more likely after my trip to SF next week. For which I might add, I’m totally unprepared. My gf seems to be plotting shenanigans though…something about learning to sail. (I’ve crewed before, eons ago, but with my dyslexic leftiness, I’m not exactly an asset to an sea faring vessel… So look out SF bay!</p>
<p>Oregon - That’s how I am lately – a bit passive aggressive. I nod my head to the boss but then go and do my own thing. It is somewhat liberating for me. :)</p>
<p>D called last night. After her BF (how DID she TRAIN this guy) cleaned up from dinner they noticed the lower level bathroom had flooded. She called to ask what they should do. We hopped in the car and went over but nothing we could do either as the plumbing snake didn’t reach a clog so she got to experience calling a plumber at 8 PM. I guess the guy came, tore out the toilet and managed to clear the clog. Put it all together and left around 11. H felt miserable that he couldn’t help and got up at 1 to check his email. D indicated that the guy said that it should cost about $700 but he only charged her $300 – so there are NICE people out there. Today they have someone coming to look at the new fridge that they bought that for some reason isn’t dispensing water. Oh - home ownership!</p>
<p>They did have someone out last night to give them a quote for the fence and it was less than they had planned which is nice with everything else.</p>
<p>2 nights ago just as I fell asleep my MIL called to wish my H a Happy Birthday (gee it was his birthday all day and you need to call once we are asleep?). She asked if I was sleeping, I said yes and she LAUGHED. REALLY? Needless to say I’m exhausted today with basically 2 nights with little sleep. Just need to make it through today!!</p>
<p>It’s too early, because when I read that, I first interpreted “gf” to mean Grandfather and I was thinking how cool it was for an old guy to be getting into theatre. Well, congrats to the girlfriend, too!</p>
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<p>I have forgotten - is that your mother or your H’s? So sorry.</p>
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<p>Here’s hoping for karma to visit the not nice people, DTE! Of course, this is why I will always worry about Son and employment…whether nice or not, if people aren’t up front around him, he will never get the politics under the surface.</p>
<p>Older D was worried that she wouldn’t have an internship this quarter. Now she’s had 2 interviews, one phone interview and another scheduled. She turned down the first job offered because it was going to be stressful and a whole lot of work, (having to check her email on non-work days and respond as necessary) and not in an area in which she wants to work in the future.</p>
<p>If she ends up with offers before the last interview, how does a college student delay a decision these days? In my line of work, we know that the law students have lots of interviews and there are unwritten rules about when to accept, etc. If she tells one potential employer that she has one more interview, will they be mature enough to not throw a fit and withdraw the offer?</p>
<p>Missypie, does her school have any guidance on how she should navigate handling the timing of an offer if she still has interviews scheduled?</p>
<p>kmcmom13, H is looking for a new job and interviewing. It looks likely we will need to relocate so I applied for a job that involves traveling (doesn’t matter where I would live) and had an interview last week. Things are just very unsettled and uncertain right now. Plus the financial stress of him being out of work.</p>
<p>Sending prayers and karma for jobs/employment your way cq! I am sure the uncertainty is wearing on you. Stay strong!</p>
<p>Hope the allergies clear up dte. I am still so impressed you are back in school! </p>
<p>RM…I think of you often and hope your job situation gets better. So awful when a superior doesn’t listen or treat his team with respect. Your new attitude seems to be helping you relax and that is a good thing!</p>
<p>shaw…your schedule is unbelievable! Make sure you have some down time to rest and recharge. How is shaw son doing with the new classes and adjusting to a new academic environment?</p>
<p>oregon…Congrats to S on finding employment! Yay! It sounds like the young family is really happy and strong.</p>
<p>missy…How is D2 liking college life? I read about the new piercing. I don’t worry much about piercings as I know several young women who changed their minds later in life and removed them with little sign of them, Does she like her classes? What about S? How is he doing with his independent living and attending a new school?</p>
<p>kmc…SF trip sounds great! I have vacationed there the past two years and am missing not being there for the wine harvests! Wishing you much fun and hilarious shenanigans! ;)</p>
<p>D2 found out last night that she passed her third CPA exam! Hooray! One more to go. She starts work at the end of this month. Her H surprised her and arranged a trip back east to visit her best friend who recently moved there. They had been training together for a marathon in Oct so they are excited to run together while she is there. I thought that was very thoughtful of him. He knows how stressful and hard it was for her to study and have the wedding take place at the same time. </p>
<p>moda…keeping my fingers crossed for med school interviews. I really tried to make sense of the process when several close friends had their students applying. I couldn’t discern a logic or figure out what made a school interested in one student over another when stats were equal. As I mentioned before I am amazed how the schools want applicants to have the whole package… perfect grades, high MCAT scores, significant volunteer work in the medical field, research, study abroad and work experience. That is a lot of boxes tick!!! Sending the med school mojo your way for S!</p>
<p>My Mil is failing she is losing weight and sleeps a lot. She has alzheimers, but also cancer and we decided no treatment, she would not tolerate it anyway.
MP I unlike your dont have no excuse. I simply refuse to comply or condone mean behavior. There is a ton of lateral violence that as I get older I am less tolerant of. I am also rather passive aggressive. Until I get aggravated enough. . I need Shaw’s negotiation skills. The interesting thing is that behavior that any normal person would call unacceptable is somehow the norm there. people say things. to you or behind your back, prohibit your forward movement, don’t help you ,don’t speak to you. When I call them on it, I am too sensitive or they are “just kidding” REALLY? I simply want to act professional. If you dont want to invite me out for drinks, guess what I don’t want to go. I am tired and I want out. I would not want my D or shaws D to practice there as a nurse.
NM congrats! </p>
<p>I’m overlooking a beautiful orange moon over the River Mein in Frankfurt waiting for a conference call to begin and room service to be delivered. </p>
<p>ShawSon’s school is on the quarter system and doesn’t start until the 22nd. He’s leaving in 4 days. Then we’re going out there a few days later. But first to DC where maybe I will see the DC crowd.</p>
<p>Woohoo! S got his first interview at the state flagship! He’s thrilled, and relieved! But getting the interview isn’t getting in. Hopefully it is the first of several more. He should interview the end of the month or the beginning of next. I simply don’t understand the study abroad thing for med students mostly because if you major in hard sciences most top schools don’t allow transfer of science credits and the path to a major is very specific every semester. Of course, he could have gone in the summer but paying full tuition required he work and earn money in the summer to have spending money, plus he did research every summer. Hopefully, he has enough +'s between grades, scores, research and the rest that they see the potential? All I know is that with one interview in his pocket, he is far less stressed than he was last week. And the good news is, he isn’t getting flooded with rejections at schools that seem to be sending them post secondary and LORs. So he may be on silent holds OR maybe they haven’t really reviewed him yet due to when his application was complete (early August) and a lot of rejections seem tied to mid-july applications. </p>
<p>Hello to all! Didn’t realize how long I’d been off this “grid” until I started trying to catch up!</p>
<p>Congratulations, hugs, and support to all, as needed/required. </p>
<p>peonies - want to “borrow” our Wheaten puppy for a while? Kiley is mischievous, wacky, lovable, energetic, and insanely stubborn. Right now she’s in heat, which is all new territory for us as our previous Wheaten was a male. Trying to keep her off the LR rug is quite a challenge. The breeder doesn’t want us to have her spayed until she’s about a year old, so in January.</p>
<p>Sorry I missed the “hand holding/social drinking/bus trip” – or did I? Seems to me this could certainly be an ongoing event …</p>
<p>dte – disturbing to hear about your place of employment, since, as you know, this is where D works. She’s loving her new (since March) job.</p>
<p>We’re still at the beach – it has become wonderfully quiet again now that the “summer people” have left. We’ll most likely stay through October and then head back to Cambridge. Although spending all last winter here wasn’t as lonely as I had anticipated, I’ll be glad to be back in our urban nest. Since we don’t know how long we’ll maintain both locations, H & I are working on a “Metro Boston Bucket List” of all the things we’d like to do/places we’d like to go.</p>
<p>H has quarterly Board meetings in CA for one of his companies. (In fact, he just left this morning.) The next one is in Dec. Last week he proposed that I come with him (I’ve done that before) and then we’d continue on to HI – one of our favorite places! It all sounded great, until I started reading reviews of the Marriott where we’d stay, using points. (Clearly a free hotel is too hard to pass up.) So then I started thinking about foregoing HI and goring someplace here in the continental US on the way back from CA. Any suggestions? We’re looking for someplace warm – New England winters are long enough!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son on getting an interview, Moda! Good luck to him.</p>
<p>CBBBlinker, How about New Orleans or Charleston ( average high in the low 60’s in December-my kind of weather). Or Miami or the Florida Keys would be warmer than that. Depends on what kind of vacation you’re looking for.</p>
<p>My dear friend passed away today. She fought the cancer for three long years. Her husband called me and said he was happy that she was able to pass peaceably at home. She will be missed very much. Breast cancer is such an awful disease. Hugs to all!</p>
<p>MN, so sorry to hear about the death of your friend. I was all ready to offer congrats on your D’s CPA exam results, then this. What highs and lows!</p>
<p>Moda, I am so happy that your son has an interview scheduled. I was actually worrying about him last weekend!</p>
<p>CBBB, do you guys like hiking? Warm places in Southern Arizona and New Mexico. Also, I really like Baja California Sur, which is easy to fly to from LA.</p>
<p>Hugs, NM.
Woohoo, Moda. Happy news to kick off the fall.</p>
<p>CBB, being from Michigan, I’m jealous of any winter trip since I never manage to get away in winter these days. So even Cali would be enough for me Hawaii would be tough to pass up even if I had to sleep in a cardboard box…its a tall order to think of anything better on the first realllly chilli morning.</p>
<p>I looked at the forecast and realized I should be closing the pool before I leave next Tuesday given that I’m the only one who would still take a morning swim when its 50 and only after working out…But we like to leave it open for mcson’s birthday on the 28th because it often will warm up enough for a pool party.</p>
<p>But I am clear we’ll just be fogging the air if the guys leave the heat on while I’m gone! </p>
some anti-allergy mojo sounds like it would be in order too.</p>
Hawaii would be tough to pass up even if I had to sleep in a cardboard box…its a tall order to think of anything better on the first realllly chilli morning.</p>