<p>Modadunn–I use the Revlon root touch up between coloring appts. It is hard to find but I have been able to use it at my sides/temples/just the part in my hair and extend my appts by 2 weeks. And I did tell my colorist. If you google it you can find the store near you that carries it–it really works well and I have dark hair.</p>
<p>I also have done the root touch up. There are several products that can be used. Besides the one mentioned above you can use a box of the regular hair color and just place it on the roots and don’t “pull out” to cover the rest of the hair. My colorist does a version of this so my highlights aren’t covered over in just 3-4 weeks. There is also a daily application product called DermMatch that is worked in to the roots. I only used it once. It was ok…has to be applied with a brush. More like a foundation/powder type thing. It is more like a concealor for people with thin hair but some people use it it to cover the roots. I think you can actually get it at Walmart!</p>
<p>4Giggles…glad to hear your D is happier! My D2 is still at her school but will transfer next fall…actually if she doesn’t get a job she will be there for a class over the summer.</p>
<p>Modadunn…have fun on your trip! I leave a week from Friday for Mexico. Can hardly wait for the sun!</p>
<p>SPA trip. Bermuda is actually 500 miles off the Carolina coast, so is not toasty warm in March.
How about Atlantis in the Bahamas? I have been there for a week and had a great time. They have a spa there (although I didn’t use it). We can swim with dolphins, and go down water slides and sit around and order frozen drinks, etc. Maybe read some smutty books…</p>
<p>I’m up for Atlantis if you’re paying, Eddie!</p>
<p>Actually I’ve seen some pretty good deals at Atlantis from time to time. Probably not when we want to go, though! Better get going on that exercise plan!</p>
<p>My cooking class last night was fun but the recipes weren’t any that I haven’t tried before. The chef is the “pie guy” on Food Network and is on Twin Cities Live quite often. He was very entertaining. They did serve a sparkling rose that was pretty tasty and inexpensive. It was from Yellow Tail. I guess it is new. Not bad for the price. </p>
<p>D2 will be home for the weekend and packing for our Mexico trip the following week. D1 comes home on Monday for a week and will box up her room. Makes me sad with graduation fast approaching!</p>
<p>I got on the phone today to campus public safety to order my son a new student ID card (which had been stolen in wallet theft). He called last night at 10:45 our time which he still does not get that my brain instantly does the math and thinks… 11:45? What’s wrong? But nay. He was just on his way home from the library and for some reason chooses to call when he’s walking across campus. He is sounding better but there is something lost in a phone conversation where between the wind and his walking that requires a lot of repeating. Not a complaint, mind you because it is a phone call after all, just an observation. He has major labs due, a test and a paper by tomorrow and another paper come Monday or Tuesday. Glad he is spending a lot of time in the library. But then he had to go because he had to call someone to let him in the building and so … I got on the phone this morning and noted it was $20 to replace said student ID, which now made sense as to why Son didn’t feel this was a necessary expense when he could so easily inconvenience someone else to walk down the hall and let him in. All he needs to do is stop by the office. Wonder when he might get to it?</p>
<p>I have seen that brush on hair color and even used it on Son a few years ago when he had been prescribed a rather stronger facial cleanser that had peroxide in it. He was washing his entire face with the stuff and… his eyebrows and a tiny bit of his hairline went orange. Highly recommend the hair color, not so much the face wash which also destroyed two sets of pillow cases before I went out and bought white ones for S’s bed. His face, however, did look good.</p>
<p>Sister has now booked us a pilates reformers class and massages. I swear the woman cannot just sit and do nothing. I, on the other hand, have gotten quite good at it. :)</p>
<p>H is taking younger D and meeting his brother and his D (whose like 10 or 11) at their parents. Older D and her BF will also go out for a few days and so there will be one night when everyone (include S and some of his friends) will be at the inlaws. H says I should come too, but the sheer numbers are going to make the whole thing a little tight even if there are plenty of beds, if you know what i mean. Still… that they will all be there and I won’t is a little disappointing, but it is what it is.</p>
<p>Ok…need advice from those of you with sons. D2’s BF is a senior, just 2 months younger than her. They went to her prom last year and are still dating. She told him to go to Homecoming with someone else since she couldn’t go as she was away at school and was playing her fall sport. He wouldn’t go and missed HC…and he is the school QB…thought that was sad! Now he asked D2 if she would be interested in going to prom. She doesn’t want to go and again told him he should go with a friend. He doesn’t want to do that either. Should I put the pressure on her to rethink her decision???</p>
<p>Actually, I get the whole “you can’t go home again” rationale of your D. However, it is she who should put the pressure on him to ask someone else. I ran into a kid who graduated last year at a recent hockey game. He said it was pretty lame he was showing up and felt in a no-man’s land between the student section and those of the adults. I got what he was saying and is probably pretty close to how D2 is feeling. So the pressure should go to the BF to enjoy his senior year and all those things that go along with it.</p>
<p>My my my, parenting is just one heart stopping moment after another, isn’t it? Son just called, after taking a midterm, and says he wants to come home. He is sick, which doesn’t help, but he’s serious. He says he just doesn’t have the self discipline right now to do well academiclly away from home. I said he needs to stick out the semester. He wants to drop two classes. He can drop one and remain a full time student. We’ve got to figure out the consequences if he’s only taking 10 hours.</p>
<p>Oh, missypie! So sorry to hear this. The midterm must have been a doozy! Maybe you can get him calmed down and talk to him about salvaging the rest of the semester so he could transfer closer to home. I know you must be disappointed but at least he has recognized and acknowledged his problems. Has he been taking advantage of the use of a tutor? {{{hugs}}}</p>
<p>I think he has really taken to heart our advice that the teachers are there to help, that if he talks to them and gets to know them, it would be good, etc. But it hasn’t worked out that way. He says that between the peer mentor and all of his teachers, there is only one of them who is not “aloof.” (And that coming from someone on the autism spectrum.) I told him to make an appointment with his academic advisor ASAP. Unfortunately, she is the woman whose house we wanted to tee-pee back in January. I’m pretty sure he can get 10 hours of As or Bs.</p>
<p>so sorry to hear this missypie. Will it effect his health insurance? What would 10 hours effect? I would call the dean and explain this situation and ask for advice. And I would not call the witch–let the acedemic dean do that. Hang in there.</p>
<p>Missypie, ask if there a mid-semester course he can add to keep his full time status. As you remember our S just dropped computer science and added a basketball course that starts March 21 designed to address that kind of need. Hopefully, just scaling back will help him rebalance and get back on his feet.</p>
<p>NM, on your question I would encourage your D to go to the prom, not because she would enjoy it but because her BF would enjoy it. Doing things my H wants to do but I don’t kind of goes with the territory of being in a relationship. I can see where it wouldn’t be any fun for her BF to go stag. If she doesn’t want to make that kind of compromise for him, it might be time to break up. Just my thought.</p>
<p>Going to go get myself a cup of thick, dark Dove hot chocolate, then call the school.</p>
<p>Heck…I would be having a stiff drink! ;)</p>
<p>Oh Missypie…what an absolute bummer. Let us know.</p>
<p>Northmin - I’m with TheAnalyst on this one. Time to part? It’s so sad to think that the QB didn’t go to homecoming…</p>
<p>If you can handle a bit of ironic/cynical news, yesterday Son’s peer mentor told him that he was doing so well that he only needs to see her every other week. If Son should change his mind and want to return to the school, I’ll have a hard time keeping my opinion of the school to myself.</p>
<p>NM, wasn’t it a year ago that we were all looking at prom dresses on line for your D?</p>
<p>Yes we were! I dread to think about that! I certainly don’t want to spend that amount of money again! And you saw the dress on fb! Beautiful but hard to find one that fit!</p>
<p>woody…don’t think they plan on parting any time soon. I think they may end up at the same school next year. sigh…</p>