c_q. last night I simply could not get my phone to back up to read your post and I wondered what you had posted that was so exciting. Now I can see it - what an adventure!
Interesting fact - we are boarding our dog for our vacation next week. Once we get back I wanted to take her to the groomer. Made the appt. today. I mentioned that she had been skunked and they want her in as the LAST appt. of the day. Guess when she gets wet she is going to smell again. Oh JOY!
Thanks for all the well wishes for my sister. She is my only sibling and we are very close. She got a call this afternoon about the results. They did find cancer but it is at the very earliest stages as to when it could have been caught(she has had regular mammograms). So, we have an appointment with the breast surgeon who will make the final decisions but the radiologist’s office and her gynecologist’s office (who reviewed everything already) have already said it should be an outpatient surgery procedure to remove some tissue , followed by radiation. So, we think chances are very good that it has been caught early and she will be okay. I have not been good myself about getting mammograms (didn’t get my first until a year ago) but I plan to be better about keeping up with that going forward.
Well sevmom, sorry to hear about the cancer, but given that, it sounds as if the situation is about as good as it could be under the circumstances.
Thanks, shawbridge, agree, and that is how we’re looking at it.
Sevmom, wishing your sister a successful procedure and a full recovery.
Sevmom, all the best to you and your sister.
I have my mammogram today.
Sevmom - I missed your original post about your sister. So sorry but happy that it sounds like they found it early. Where I have my mammogram done they book you when you leave for the next years appt. Makes if difficult to not schedule one. 
Also if you need to reschedule they don’t let you off the phone until you make another appt! I suppose you could be rude and hang up but I figure they are really just making sure that you get in EVERY year.
I had interesting conversations with the kiddos.
ShawSon called me after he finished is first mid-term. It was in Strategy and draws heavily on Microeconomics. He won prizes in microeconomics in college and his advisor was quoted in an interview as saying that ShawSon was brilliant in strategy. Surprisingly enough, he found the exam trivial. However, he then told me that he has been offered a position that would cover tuition and a stipend and could be worth about 100K. This quarter, he is only taking 10 hours a week and is trying to see if he would be able to do it at twice the hours next quarter.
I asked ShawD about what she was thinking about for next year. She is tired of exam after exam, but is still enjoying the field. She told me that she thinks she might not be a city girl – she thinks she feels stressed in the city (though this is correlated with work and school, so who knows). She’s thinking of moving to a place that is green, has lots of trees and lakes (perhaps not coincidentally just like the town she grew up in…). But, she and her best friend/study buddy are thinking they will move to the Pacific Northwest for NP jobs after backpacking for 3 months in SE Asia. She’d like to live 45 minutes from a big city, though in Oregon, I suspect you could be in a nice place closer to a city. Sounds like a plan I could support, especially if she finds a place where the cost of living is lower than in Boston. Oregon101, where are the teaching hospitals in Oregon – Eugene, Portland and Corvallis? Has Portland become expensive?
Shawbridge, your kids have great options and I’m pretty sure that that has been the goal of every parent here…to make sure our kids have good options.
Shaw your kids are very accomplished and have earned themselves some great opportunities. What a great time for them both to explore these options!
Shaw, the main teaching hospital is OHSU, also the Legacy system (Emanuel and Good Samaritan), Providence, are in Portland. The Kaiser system is big and supports some of the other teaching program. She would have an easy time finding employment here.I don’t know about the other cities.
It is possible to live outside of the city and commute but the traffic would be stressful so being near a MaX line would be important. Portland’s housing is very expensive and there is a shortage–one of the largest in the states. Still. it is doable.
If she likes the outdoors she will be happy most of the time and it is free. We do get gray skies and they can last for months. That is the hardest part of living in OR. that and the homeless problems.
sev, fingers crossed for good news.
FallGirl, love that dress!
shaw, I was going to mention OHSU, too. Brian Druker, who is a pioneer in chronic myeloid leukemia, is based there. He also left Boston for Portland. WOW on the offer to your son! is this through the university or something outside?
Younger D is amusing to me. She really really really wants a kitten.
She has a 12 month lease. She keeps texting me, asking permission. I guess that in her almost 20 years of life she has never learned the rule, “It’s better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” She has certainly done many things for which she has not asked, nor obtained, permission (e.g. the most recent tattoo and more of which I am likely not aware.) Hasn’t it occurred to her that if she just got a kitten, there would be nothing we could/would do about it?
I guess the question is ,how do you (and your H) feel about having a cat? Because frequently the kid gets the pet and then somehow mom and dad end up with a pet. Which is fine if the parents want a pet. If they don’t…
Yup on the cat. Do you remember how we got the ducklings?
It is through the university, CountingDown. But, there is a reasonable possibility that the business school will not let him take it in his first year. To be negotiated, I guess.
Getting ready to go on vacation. Very ticked off at my H. At the point where I would love him to stay here and I will go on vacation ALONE. I know that this will pass but he just really annoyed me. Last night he had to go out. Prior to him leaving I said that I was going to clean the kitchen/hall wash floors and get some of the laundry done. He said yes he thought I should start on the laundry. Needless to say he came in last night and tracked leaves etc through the hallway and into the kitchen and wondered why I was mad. Really - I’ve been up since 4:15. I’ve been to the gym, been to the grocery store for a few things, worked a 9 hour day, cleaned the kitchen including the floor and done 3 loads of laundry which was folded and put away I might add. I have loaded HIS breakfast dishes into the dishwasher along with his snack dishes from prior to him going out and of course he called on his way home and wanted me to get his dinner ready which I did. He stormed around like this was all MY fault. Gee if you had just come in and taken your shoes off…but no. He did get the vacuum out and clean up but he was mad. I don’t really think he has anything to be mad about. I had done ALL the work!!
Oh, RM, I can SO relate. Especially when we would go on major trips with the three kids and I would have days like the one you just described and would find H on the computer playing games because there was nothing left to do (meaning that he had gotten his clothes out for me to fold and pack) and my checklist would still be two pages long.
My passport and driver’s license aren’t identical, name-wise, so when I’m booking I have to make sure I use the correct name depending on whether I’m flying domestic or international. For the last big family trip to Europe I forgot and we got to the airport and my ticket name wasn’t identical to my passport name. I finally got on the plane but there was a time when it was iffy. The thing was, by then I was so tired and frustrated from doing 95% of the preparation work that it would have been fine to have sent them all off, with me to have 10 days alone in the house without any of them!
On the feline front, I would love to have a cat. My husband doesn’t ever want a pet. Ever. He doesn’t comprehend that a person could love or enjoy cohabiting with an animal. He is the one who is home all day, so I guess I will live the rest of my life without a cat.
I’m just amused that D hasn’t just gotten a cat, without obtaining permission.
At Bryce. loads of rain off and on. Managed a 2 mile hike (walk) and it was lovely. Tried a cliff hike but just hate drop offs so stopped but H went further.
Millie, D,s dog will return after just a month ( this time wth D) for 6 months
Had a long post that disappeared last night!
RM, H use to turn all the light off as it and play the piano while I packed everything
Only took 28 years for him to change