<p>analyst</p>
<p>son didn’t do well in financial setting. He’s heading for grad school next year. The challenge will be handling cold weather clothes</p>
<p>sabaray, congrats for your D. That’s fantastic news. </p>
<p>H will pick up S2 on the 8th. He technically has to be out of the dorms on the 6th and tells us his way of “handling it” is to ignore that mandate. He doesn’t think they will kick him out. We shall see. He will drive back on the 15th for summer school, so will be home for less than a week. We will let him drive the 15 year old Honda so he can drive himself. He will need to come home the very next week-end for his brother’s graduation. So that is a lot of driving three week-ends in a row (about 6 hours each way to his college).</p>
<p>bookworm, grad school is always a good plan. What will he be majoring in? </p>
<p>I’ve told both of my boys to expect to get a master’s degree in something, so S1 plans on an MBA. I’m hoping he takes the GMATs before he graduates but he hasn’t scheduled it yet. He only has about a week between his last exam and graduation, but that seems as good an activity as any to squeeze into that time since the scores are good for five years. He still hopes to leave the day after graduation, but the flight won’t get booked until he has the work visa. All the initial paperwork is in but I will be a little surprised if they can turn it around in less than a month.</p>
<p>Has anybody read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire? I loved those two books and popped into B&N Friday to pick up the third in the series and they say it won’t be released until May 25th. I wanted to give the three book set to S1 as a going away gift (after I have read them of course).</p>
<p>Thanks Analyst. I am very relieved- this is her first real job. I’m really proud of her for persevering in a tough market. I know there are some bittersweet moments for her now; she knows quite a few students who will be graduating and that is always hard to say goodbye. </p>
<p>I have not read either of the “Girl” books but have always looked at them with interest. I fear H would kill me, however, if I picked up another thing to read. I am hoping when D is settled permanently to unload some books for her reading pleasure since we’re about to be overrun here.</p>
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<p>Congrats on this and other jobs! I forget - is this what started us on the hose/no-hose discussion?</p>
<p>NPR had a story on the “Girl” books. I guess the third is available abroad and on amazon.uk…some booksellers have ordered online (as have some individuals) but that is apparently illegal. I know several people who ordered the Harry Potter books from amazon.uk before they came out here - had no idea it was illegal!</p>
<p>I need to buy the “Girl” books. Last year before spring break I started a spring break reading thread and got some awesome suggestions. I spent the rest of the summer going through them. I have great memories of lounging by the pool reading Middlesex. I was just about to start a new thread…unless y’all have suggestions?</p>
<p>“I fear H would kill me, however, if I picked up another thing to read.”
Get a Kindle - he’ll never see the books lying around - and they’re cheaper than the paper books!</p>
<p>missypie, Orson Scott Card has written a trilogy on women of Genesis. I read Rebekah, which is the second in the series. The first is Sarah. Absolutely fabulous book if you like historical fiction along the lines of The Other Bolyn Girl. Card wrote Ender’s Game and is a very easy to read author.</p>
<p>DH and I will have been married 20 years on 5/5 He dresses the same way now as he did the year I met him. Jeans and a polo for work, Jeans and a T for weekend and Swimtrunks and a tank for summers on the lake/by the pool. When he dresses up it is Dockers and a button down or Dockers and a Hawaiian shirt. In addition he has rules for his polos, no ribbed sleeves, no pockets, hemlines must be even, none of that longer in the back nonsense.</p>
<p>He recently had a frustrating shopping trip wherein he discovered that “No stores have clothes I like” Well dearest, it could be that nothing you like is available for a really good reason. I would love to get the man on what not to wear!</p>
<p>I used a Gunne Sax pattern to make my prom dress Junior year. I too could have housed a small country using only the fabric from the sleeves on my wedding dress. A dress I paid 150.00 to have preserved for my daughters who gag at the thought. I had no chest before I had kids so the dress reflects that. My girls take after my MIL in the booby dept. so I doubt they would fit it. TMI…sorry</p>
<p>I buy H’s clothes. Mainly, because I can find them on sale and much much cheaper by hunting around. The two times he insisted on buying something while we were shopping he bought a plain white work shirt and a wool blazer in a houndstooth. I am pretty sure the shirt has never been worn and the jacket only once. One problem I have had over the years is that he will put on his best jeans and polos for Home Depot and when we go out to dinner I will look over and realize he has on his worn out stuff. One year when the kids were little, we went downtown to see Santa, ride the little train that Meier and Frank had that hung from the ceiling (parent could even go on it then) and out to dinner for D’s B-day. The kids and I were dressed up completely. Looked over at H walking down the street and I swear he was wearing his yard clothes.
We have our Kentucky Derby Party today and S will arrive home to talk with the (fingers crossed, toes too) ex GF.</p>
<p>The Analyst: Those Orson Scott Card books sound right up my alley. Thanks for talking about them. I am also planning on “The Girl…” books for summer reading.</p>
<p>Historymom, my H has worn the same thing since I met him 25 years ago. Khakis and a navy blue polo (actually, now he insists on golf shirts which have slightly longer sleeves). When he’s dressed up, it’s nice khaki colored pants and a pinpoint cotton Oxford buttondown longsleeved shirt (white or blue) and a navy blue blazer (if necessary). Tassled loafers. And that’s it! No jeans, rarely shorts (but we do live in Texas now, so the shorts surface a bit more). No short sleeved, buttondown shirts ever. His wardrobe is so predictable it’s truly comical. But heaven help us when Brooks Brothers retailors their blazers or tweak the pleats on the pants. He acts as if the world is ending. But to make life extra absurd, when we’re going out, he always asks me what I think he should wear.</p>
<p>For those interested Amazon sells The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for $5.50 at the moment - 63% off.</p>
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<p>The movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo can be found in select theaters at the moment.</p>
<p>[“The</a> Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” movie reviews - CSMonitor.com](<a href=“http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0319/The-Girl-With-the-Dragon-Tattoo-movie-reviews]"The”>"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" movie reviews - CSMonitor.com)</p>
<p>Can the bus get here quickly? I have way too much food for this party and we all would have so much fun!</p>
<p>Loved “The Girl” books! Just finished reading Sarah’s Key…Holocaust era tied to today…very moving. Will start Winter Garden for this month’s book club.</p>
<p>H’s style has greatly improved with fashionista Ds! He loves the polos with the longer tails! He is 6’ 4" so extra length is good! He wears a suit and tie EVERY day so casual is jeans and polos.</p>
<p>UPDATE–wow, the S can talk! In sentances with inflection. He is so happy that he is taking this step and wishes he had 4 months ago. Yes, some interest in another girl but that does not seem to be where he is coming from.
I will have to look into “The Girl” books. Right now reading “Will I Ever Be Good Enough” for daughters of narcissistic mothers. Fabulous.</p>
<p>A college friend just emailed a college picture from 1977 and when my daughter looked at it she said, “He dresses the same way now!” I had to laugh - she was right!</p>
<p>He does little things with his suits - apparently now it’s fashionable to leave the last button on the jacket sleeve unbuttoned. Radical! Weekends it’s jeans and polo in warm weather and jeans and a long sleeved plaid shirt in winter. Weekend professional look is khakis.</p>
<p>I do sort of envy them though - much easier to dress. I have this luncheon this week and can see the need to run out to the stores Monday!</p>
<p>Here’s a wedding dress story: My parents got married in something of a rush because they needed to get to my father’s new teaching job. A friend made my mother’s wedding dress as her wedding gift (in 3 weeks!)–it was a nice simple 40s style with veil and puff sleeves. 30+ years later (when I am “finally” getting around to marrying, my mother asks if I’d like to try on her dress just for fun. ) It actually fit perfectly and I was dreading looking for a dress and this solved the problem–BUT the sleeves looked terrible on me and just emphasized my basketball biceps (not that I was so fit any more but not an attractive look). However, I was not about to wear that veil. I got someone at the university drama department costume shop to turn the veil into long bell sleeves. Whole wedding dress cost me $40. So there may be hope for “re-shaping” some of our heirlooms… (And the drama department seamstresses are great at such tasks, so you don’t necessarily need an expensive tailor if you’ve got a local college or theater company…)</p>
<p>Catching up on posts from the last couple of days.
Agree with woody – get a Kindle. I used to buy books only when they were available in paperback, and would then try to find them at Costco. Since getting a Kindle, I figure books cost me about the same, EXCEPT I can now get books when they’re first published AND I don’t end up with piles of books accumulating all over the house.</p>
<p>Re: suggestions for books to read – you all know about this thread over in the Cafe, right? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/403424-one-best-books-ive-read-last-6-months.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/403424-one-best-books-ive-read-last-6-months.html</a>
LOL! Too funny.</p>
<p>Spent yesterday with a group from church doing a 1 day blitz/ home makeover for a needy single mom – anyone heard of Homefront? I think it’s fairly localized – mostly CT. H & I were assigned to the outside painting detail, but there was also an inside crew replacing vanities, & doors, fixing toilets, etc. All in all, very satisfying. Unfortunately, the day had a huge “bummer” component for me since I lost an earring while trying to put on a face mask while up on a ladder scraping off peeling paint. Although I dislike losing things in general, this was so much worse because the earrings were my wedding present from H. H says we’ll get the original jeweler to make one to match the remaining one – but I’m still so incredibly down. I know it’s not that bad in the whole scheme of life, but …</p>
<p>CBB- Sorry about the earring. I’m also one of those people who rarely lose things , so it really bothers me when I do. Glad that your H is so understanding.</p>
<p>I like the sound of the “Homefront” project. </p>
<p>H & I spent several hours yesterday working with a church group on a farm which raises produce for food banks. A little early to plant, so we spent our time hauling rocks out of fields.</p>
<p>I hate losing jewelry and it is only the special things I seem to lose. H had my engagement ring reset several years ago and unfortunately the diamond was lost from the new setting. My parents gave me a beautiful bracelet and the clasp came loose and it too was lost. So now I just don’t wear anything. </p>
<p>Good day with D yesterday, starting to pack up. Brought home two duffels of clothing and a huge box of shoes. Looks like she has a good lead on a nice sublet. Took her and some friends out to dinner and then drove on home. </p>
<p>I guess I’ll have to think about a Kindle-- I just like the feel of holding a book in my hands. Don’t know that a Kindle would duplicate that experience. It would certainly cut down on the clutter around here.</p>