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<p>Dollar store? Hey, if this is fantasy, I want to go to Kleinfelds, and I want Randy to wait on us!</p>
<p>Keep inspiring me eddie!Need you to push me on the wellness thread!
In my fantasy I will have lost weight and have nice toned arms. Busload welcome anytime!</p>
<p>D2 packing up some items and bringing them home this weekend. Won’t be home the following week as she prepares for finals. Home for good on the 14th after her last final!</p>
<p>D’s 19th Bday today; first time either of our girls has celebrated a bday not at home.</p>
<p>She comes home for the summer two weeks from today (this is hard to believe!). We’re looking forward to having her home – but wondering what kinds of adjustments it will take for her and for H and me …</p>
<p>Arms are SO depressing. I’m starting to have some definition, but the backs of my upper arms are still getting saggier and saggier. It’s not “flab” per se…it’s loss of skin elasticity and short of surgery, I don’t know that that can be reversed.</p>
<p>first year S left her things in storage on campus she found a few moth eaten sweaters the next fall, a few things that had not been dry enough and so mildewed…etc.
As for S, as of yesterday he does not know when his last final is and his school has the 24 hour rulle that I learned about from all of you. So it is looking like he leaves on a Wednesday. Oh yeah, like H has a random Wed. off, just happens to be one of my work days, and what if he discovers that it is really Tues. Why not set up your acedemic years so students leave on a weekend???
Ok rant over.
S is coming home to take the broken up with GF to her Senior prom. He promised he would if she wanted him to. Neither D nor I understand why he decided to break up one week before prom unless there were other pressures that we do not know about. Not sure if he is interested in another girl or what. Do know this-- he has been so sweet and wonderful for nearly 3 months now and suddenly, wow, I am the enemy. So I know he is under stress. My mistake was in calling him and not just texting. Texting does not give me the tone…
Yes, partybus but to–where? the wedding? and the decorations come from the dollar store and we can travel around and advertise–something–
Off to hair appt and then work until 8:30 tonight. Have a good day all.</p>
<p>OH Kleinfields! I’d be so in for that trip!! Love that show and have even told my sister that if and when older D gets engaged that we do the NY trip for picking a wedding dress. Thing is… how much are those taxes going to be in the middle of the city? I don’t think MN doesn’t have tax on clothes, but not sure about Wedding dresses. 
But oh that place looks like a dream.</p>
<p>I guess the plan for the Martha’s Vineyard is these boys would open the house. In my day that mean porch and patio furniture carried to their rightful place and putting in the dock. Not sure what this means to these people. Maybe some heavy lifting but avoiding May water - which is nothing short of freezing.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the best feature of any woman of any age is shoulders. So stick with sleeves and go with off the shoulder. Me? I prefer turtlenecks. Of course, from all the typing, my fingers are the slimmest part of me!</p>
<p>Okay! So we’re all off to Kleinfelds. Arms–years ago I cut out a workout plan to get Linda Hamilton’s arms- she was in the Terminator movies. That was step one. </p>
<p>D sounds mopey. She’s ready to be out of the dorm. She and her roomie this year were not incompatible, per se, but weren’t the best fit. End of the semester is always tough.</p>
<p>S (2013) is so blase about almost everything, it seems – or maybe he’s just that way with H & me? Anyway, he has all his exams next Tuesday, on the last day of school. On Sunday, during our “Mom mandated weekly phone call,” I was trying to talk to him about working hard right up to the end, doing well on exams, etc. He was all about could he stay at school, in the fraternity, for a few days past the end of school? We compromised – he can stay through Thursday evening since H & I need to be at his school for a dinner anyway. Then he comes home with me (H stays overnight for a meeting the next day) since he has a consultation on Friday about his wisdom teeth with the oral surgeon.</p>
<p>D (2010) OTOH, is in constant contact. Today’s texts were all about how this was her last day of undergrad classes, when did I think she should look for housing in her grad school town, and did I have any ideas for a summer job for her? Graduation is 5/17 and I’m not sure who is more freaked out by this – H & I or D. Where did those 4 years go? Didn’t we just celebrate her getting into the place? Yikes!</p>
<p>Hey I bought my wedding dress at Kleinfelds and we’ll will be celebrating my 23 anniversary this weekend. I had no idea Kleinfelds was the subject of the wedding dress show. It was the local place in Brooklyn - to buy wedding dresses when I was there.
I tried on exactly one dress - saw it in Bride’s, they had it. I bought it.
It was pink by Priscilla of Boston. I guess it was the Vera Wang of my day. And it was sleeveless…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!</p>
<p>A couple of the Kleinfeld’s employees featured on *Say Yes to the Dress *are old enough that they could have been working there 23 years ago!</p>
<p>S has gone totally underground on me since his FB “in a relationship” post. I’ve texted the “please call, it’s been too long” messages three times and silence. I know his classes end next week before finals week, so he probably has a ton of papers due, but at this point I’d settle for a text.</p>
<p>Thanks, Oregon, for reminding me that letting the contact be on HIS schedule is in MY best interest!</p>
<p>Speaking of FB, I am a member as of today. Doubt my kids will accept my friend requests.</p>
<p>I’ve never tried to friend my kids on FB. Saves me the embarrassment of them turning me down, and saves them from seeing the pictures of them I post!</p>
<p>CBB, we have a similar situation. Very little contact with S2 and contact all day long with S1. S1’s last exam isn’t until May 13th, graduation on May 23 and leaving May 24 (assuming the work visa is processed by then). He decided today to skip beach week this year. While he was thinking that through, I bit my tongue and didn’t say a word, figuring that even he could figure out that the logistics just were not going to work. His boss emailed him today that he may switch his first assignment from Australia to Rio. S is fine with that–actually prefers Rio, although he would have to find housing. Luckily, details like that are not the sort of thing he stresses over. He will crash on somebody’s floor and figure it out after he gets there, if that is in fact where he goes. Between now and next month, I guess the assignment could change to some other place just as easily.</p>
<p>S2 did call H today and was frustrated over something or other. He is our prickly pear.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh! I couldn’t stand it if our girls weren’t in touch! We have daily contact even if it is just a brief text saying I’m ok. Maybe just a girl thing. We have had too many incidents around here of people missing and we all get freaked out about that.</p>
<p>Took D back to school over the weekend for short term. She’s into it already but we have spoken with her 4 times since Sunday night when I called just to tell her that I made it home no problem. She’s tired. I don’t think a week was enough of a break and she is just tired.</p>
<p>So we went to one of the caterers today for a “tasting.” (I’m stuffed.) Does anyone remember doing anything like this when they got married? I hardly remember picking the menu …</p>
<p>I am friends with my kids on FB but limited with D1. she does not text everyday but I see her posts on FB. I am suprised I am as good about this as I am.
I am up for the bus trip, starting to feel much better and almost done with treatment. I would love to get out of dodge.
planning a wedding stressful but fun, you will get lots of suggestions here.
how is it going Zetesis?
D2’s computer died, H car 900.00 dollar repair, now fridge doesnt work!!! I’ll never get that trip if this keeps up. did buy 2 gap shirts today 3.99 and 6.99 respectively SCORE!
funny what amuses me these days…</p>
<p>Will just say that there was absolutely no tastings at either one of my weddings! But with all those shows on weddings, it’s become quite the regular thing. </p>
<p>Did I happen to mention that D16 went off the road over the weekend on the cloverleaf and hit a reflector? $600 later, I have my car back to myself. If I text, he answers … I might get sent to voicemail if I call him and the odds of his listening to it aren’t good. But I text “proof of life” he knows it’s in his best interest to at least let us know he is alive in the moment and usually he’ll then call either then or within 24 hours. NMN is write… we’ve seen our share of missing kids around here. And this weekend there was a run on deadly driving accidents which put the whole fender bender (literally) into perspective.</p>
<p>I am friends with S and D25 on facebook. I am “allowed” to post on older D, but learned recently that anytime I post anything on S’s FB which is rare to never, he deletes it immediately. In the twisted words of Tom Cruise, I text him today: You… delete me. He actually thought it was pretty funny.</p>
<p>DTE - I will be your sponsor for the bus trip. It will be a celebration trip, too!</p>
<p>No tastings for our wedding reception, either. It was the church ladies making turkey salad sandwiches and veggie trays, red punch in a punch bowl, etc. Our cake came from a grocery store. Total budget for wedding - $2,000.</p>
<p>It will be 26 years on June 2nd.</p>