<p>D is also working full time this summer (her choice). This week’s goals were to write grad thank you notes, schedule physical and take language placement exam. Use you CC parent super powers to guess how many have been completed.</p>
<p>::: summoning CC parent super powers :::</p>
<p>Hey, look - I can fly! And chintzy, I’m going to guess that it’s roughly equal to the number of tasks S1 has completed from his list. Going to the midnight IMAX showing of the new Transformers movie cuts into ones productivity, apparently. </p>
<p>Actually I’m very glad to see him relaxing and doing goofy/fun things right now. If he were to spend his entire summer like this, I’m sure I’d spontaneously combust, but his full-time job starts Monday, so I think it’ll all be okay.</p>
<p>Hey, RochesterMom - good luck with D’s graduation this evening! </p>
<p>Will that mark the final transition of all our kids, from high school 09ers to college 13ers?</p>
<p>D’s two days off are Wed and Thurs and trying to get her to do anything on the days she’s working has become very difficult. She started looking at schedule planning yesterday (after I created spreadsheet for her) and realized that she would probably end up taking more than the recommended number of credits so now she needs to contact her academic advisor and actually get some advice. So that, as well as one extra thank you note, are on the agenda for today (and she is still in bed reading although awake).</p>
<p>Mom superpowers just don’t work that well although I must admit to continually try them. What’s that old adage about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?</p>
<p>S tried to go to that transformers movie last night… it was sold out. He was home by 10. Talk about small miracles. He did, however, finish the last of his thank you notes. I am sure they don’t wax poetic by any stretch, but he accomplished the task at hand. Be specific about what he was saying thank you for and how it will be used (money is in savings sure to come in handy over the next few years - standard line), then he needed to say one thing personal (which usually was a reference to the graduate in the house or the team the kid played on) and then a thanks again.</p>
<p>He’s working out, but I have not seen him really look at the program sent from his school. It seems pretty intense, and while he is definitely in good shape, I suspect they expect better than the minimum. He is supposed to be sending in a report in two weeks to show where he is. As I said, I know he works out a lot, but …</p>
<p>H took older D on a road trip to Yellowstone combined with some business on the way out and back. I am supposed to be getting all kinds of little to-do’s done around here and well… that hasn’t happened unless you count getting through the pile of things I’ve ignored on my desk!!</p>
<p>Sharon: That is called the definition of insanity. Welcome to my world.</p>
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<p>Son was on a trip last week, has a fever this week, and will be on a trip next week. After July 7th he is at home until he leaves for school, so that is when I’ll really be the chore enforcer. </p>
<p>When he returned from his trip last week, two grad gifts were waiting for him. Son’s reaction: “But I finished my thank you notes. I shouldn’t get any more presents now.”</p>
<p>Missypie… LOLOLOL. That is too funny! Boys… gotta love 'em. Puppies in human form.</p>
<p>HarrietMWelsch: Thanks. Too many things happening today. Layoffs where I work – I wasn’t effected thank goodness. Just found out my father-in-law (90ish) fell last night and is in the hospital. I’m taking tomorrow off from work to get ready for the grad party on Sat. Just way too many balls in the air for one day. </p>
<p>Need to eat my lunch and get to a meeting at 1:00 then hopefully I can slowly get things caught up so that I can leave for the weekend that may turn out to be longer depending on on the FIL.</p>
<p>Where is the screaming room???</p>
<p>breathe, breathe, breathe…</p>
<p>S now has a job - running a fireworks stand with one of his friends. It’s going to be an intense two weeks and he’s going to learn a lot about hard work and how to run a business. </p>
<p>RocesterMom - sending healing karma to your father-in-law.</p>
<p>RochesterMom, adding my thoughts and prayers to fireflyscout’s karma. Next week should look a whole lot easier, and it’s coming no matter what! Congratulations on the impending graduation… and best wishes to your dad.</p>
<p>Rochestermom-sending more good thoughts your way. Hope FIL is OK. </p>
<p>Just keep thinking" I will get through this…"</p>
<p>Do you know anyone whose daughter is getting breast implants as a grad gift? I was talking to someone who has a child at a popular southern school and she said that an amazing number of girls show up for freshman year with “enhanced figures.” I know a kid whose parents gave him LASIK for graduation. I guess maybe time will tell and the girls probably won’t. I did see a picture of a girl who graduated last year who certainly had a “growth spurt” in the last year.</p>
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Hard to imagine the card that would accompany that sort of gift. I guess it’s all about re-inventing themselves before they go off to a new environment? But that kind of surgery at 18, when bodies are still developing and hormones still getting adjusted … just sounds scary to me. It’s not quite the same as a nose job, as I understand it.</p>
<p>LASIK I might understand. My eyesight went south over HS senior year, and I had a terrible time in the lecture halls until I went to the optometrist and left with a glasses Rx. Dealing with extreme near/far vision discrepancies can be a pain. If the kid’s a good LASIK candidate and the doctor who performs it is extremely competent and trustworthy, I can see that being a wonderful gift (though I’m afraid of the procedure myself).</p>
<p>But new boobs for graduation… that’s just kind of weird in my book.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d gladly spring for LASIK for Son - I love mine - but I don’t think his eyes are stable yet. I was always nearsighted, but didn’t develop an astigmatism until I was 26 (in law school).</p>
<p>I think I’m also “eek” to the implants because I’ve never had anything like that done. If the mom had some of her own, it would be a little less startling for the D to ask for a pair.</p>
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<p>LOL. Clever.</p>
<p>Kinda weird???</p>
<p>However, I do know of someone who sent their daughter to UCLA and when I saw her at her younger sister’s Christmas concert (sister and daughter are classmates), it was clear she had had “work.” Low and behold, younger D showed me her facebook page. Here was a girl who went from a tad of a nerdy wallflower in HS to a playboy magazine wannabe. Seriously, she had as a status one time that she went for pre-photos. In any event, it became clear that when her boobs got bigger, her brain got infinitely smaller. Really disappointing. However, I think her Mother is living vicariously, but that is a much different story.</p>
<p>Lasik? It pays for itself after about 2 or 3 years of not having to buy glasses. My husband had it done and it worked wonderfully for about a decade or so, then he needed glasses again and it wasn’t just for reading. However, he agrees had he not had it done he’d be looking through coke bottles about now.</p>
<p><sending healing=“” thoughts=“” to=“” rochestermom’s=“” fil!!!=“”></sending></p>
<p>Hi all—had an opportunity to spend a week at the beach at a friend’s beach house==reading/pina coladas heaven! tried to catch up on everyone’s activities… sounds like several of our kids are enjoying some down time at the moment…</p>
<p>on the special grad gift- a tragic outcome occurred with a local girl who died last summer after a breast implant surgery–our hearts went out to the family, (my kids knew the young woman who was bright and very lovely) —sadly so many of us felt it was such a preventable death. my daughter tells me how many of the girls have had a variety of cosmetic surgeries in her Florida high school. I personally find it sad and strange to support this as a parent, seems to reinforce perfectionist body image issues but I suppose there are certain circumstances where it might make sense for a certain teen.</p>
<p>Lindz- That is a very sad story. </p>
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I am glad D is going to school in the north.</p>
<p>The boob thing… truly creepy. yes, hugely preventable death. Although I wouldn’t truly mind if mine remained somewhere ABOVE my waist in these latter years! Just sayin. :)</p>
<p>I was totally inspired by those already sendng kids away that I got in the car and drove over to Home Store just to check prices before I went to BBB or some other retailer. I am so proud of my finds, but I will also say that had I been sending a girl, I would have done far better on the sheet thing.</p>
<p>Got a Ralph Lauren X Long mattress cover with extra fiber fill for a mere 19.99 and two sets of 100% cotton decent count name brand xlong sheet sets for 16.99 a piece and two sets of extra pilliow cases to match (son loves fresh pillow cases) for 7.99. 74.78 total. I think I love this store. Of course, I could be returning the sheets if son doesn’t like, but really? I cant seeing him caring less.</p>
<p>So on my way home… on Top of Ed Mcmahon and Farrah Fawcett… Michael Jackson’s dead? On the one hand, I can admit he was a musical genius, but on the other I wonder how so many can forget how many times he was accused of being a pedophile while they show up for the vigil of dedication.</p>
<p>so sad about Farrah, she fought valiantly, and courageously showed the world her experience…may her spirit rest in peace</p>
<p>shocking about Michael, but not really, since it seemed everyone covered up all his difficulties…and sounds like he was drug dependent for years…somehow I’d like to think that he can still be remembered for what he contributed, a sad soul, may he be at rest.</p>
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If they filled 'em with helium instead of silicon, I could maybe see the justification for letting somebody cut on me. ;)</p>