<p>Kinder, that poor girl. How can any parent treat their child like that! Funny gsmomma brought up summer camp jobs - I was just going to suggest that the friend try getting a job at a summer camp - not that it’s not nice of you to offer your home - but she’d be able to make some good money and have a place to live. There are hundreds of camps all over the NE. Maybe you can suggest it to her. </p>
<p>Sorry the student you are helping is having a rough go. I didn’t really have to help my friend’s daughter with anything other than giving her advice on the various schools recruiting her as she has to accept w/o seeing any of them. My friend doesn’t have two sticks to rub together, has 3 other kids (one the twin of soccer player and one a year older) who are doing uni in the UK, which was affordable when free or practically free but the recent charges there have really hurt as most Brits never had to think about saving anything for college. So getting recruited with a full ride (even pays for her books!) was the only way the daughter could do uni here.</p>
<p>gs - good luck to your D. Hope they are able to sort it all out. </p>
<p>Avon, yay for Mrs Avon getting out and about!</p>
<p>Kinder - how horrible for your D’s friend; I can’t imagine how hurt she must be. She’s lucky to have you and your family as a support net.</p>
<p>GS - I’ll send up a little prayer that your D’s roommate meeting goes well. It is so tough to deal with people like her self-centered roomie!</p>
<p>AVon - I’m so glad to hear that your DW is feeling well enough to get out for a bit. And I hear ya about the weather - here in Columbus, we’re expecting a couple of inches and we’ve only had a dusting so far this year. Strange, strange winter so far…</p>
<p>Heard from younger D today - her books are all picked up, her room is all set up for the semester and she & her friends are enjoying their last few days of break. Just heard she is going to a rodeo on Saturday - NOT something she’s had the pleasure of enjoying before! I went to my share when I was young but this will be such an experience for her - can’t wait to hear how she likes it!</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughts regarding D1 and her roommate discussion. She called after they met last night, and seemed relieved that they all did talk it out. </p>
<p>She was supposed to meet at 12PM with the roommates on Tuesday. D1 was in the room from 12- 6, and the roomie1 never showed. When Roomie1 said “I thought we were supposed to meet at noon on Tuesday?” D1 said “We were. You never showed up or answered my texts.” The repl,y “I am really bad with keeping track of time and paying attention to my phone.” Apparently, roomie1’s parents have the same issue with her regarding answering her phone. She told the other girls that she will try to be better about the issues.</p>
<p>They made 1 revision to the roommate agreement concerning overnight guests. Roomie1 had her bf stay in the room for several days when he lost power in his house during a storm. D1 didn’t realize he was there until she came in the room to get changed, and he was sleeping on roomie’s bed. Roomie1 claimed that her bf “never stayed overnight”. Both D1 and roomie2 had to remind her that indeed he did stay for about 4 or 5 days and she never asked them if it was okay. D1 stayed with a friend during that time, since he made her feel uncomfortable. Roomie1 seems to have issues relating to other people and paying attention to her immediate surroundings. </p>
<p>D1 thinks that roomie1 may not have totally understood all of the issues, but at least she got it on the table and isn’t letting it fester.</p>
<p>I baked chocolate chip cookies yesterday if anyone wants some. ;)</p>
<p>Oh, and boychild called. He talked to the judge he interned for when he was in high school and got an internship with him for the summer doing research. Bates offers it’s students grants for doing research so he is going to apply for that. He’ll have enough extra time to work at his regular summer job, so all is good. </p>
<p>Gsmomma, sounds like the meeting was a good start. Did they discuss the overhead light situation?</p>
<p>Very happy to hear that AvonMom is doing well.</p>
<p>D is pretty happy about most of her classes. She is nervous about her psychology class since it only has tests. It does have four tests and I think she will do fine but she tends to be very nervous about tests with a lot of memorization since she doesn’t memorize well. On the other hand, her economics class has lots of chances for extra credit so she is already starting on that. She is getting a notetaker in psychology so that should help. </p>
<p>What I am really happy about is that she is going out tonight to see a gymnastics match with the two sort-of friends she has made. I hope that she actually becomes friends with them or some other kids. </p>
<p>The really funny thing happened in her psychology class. So d happens to wear a red cross pendant she has (yes, she is a Christian) and the first assignment was to have a casual conversation with a person sitting next to you. Then the prof. gave them four questions to guess about the other person- What political party they support, what music they like, do they support marijuana legalization, and how do they feel about gay marriage. Her partner got all four questions wrong and she got all four right about him. She was one of only a few in the large class that did get them all right. And his party was not one of the two main ones, either. Which is why I said that she probably should continue in the class and not worry unduly about the tests. (She much prefers classes with something else other than just tests like a paper or two or homework assignments).</p>
<p>Glad to hear that AvonMom is doing well. Retail therapy can work wonders - something I can attest to :)</p>
<p>D is leaving back for school on Monday. Looking at some of the other posts here, I should be glad she’s been here longer than most. She’s looking forward to going back, at the same a tad bit homesick. She’s spent time with her friends, had parties galore with them, but has yet been around to drive her brother to his ECs, watch Big Bang Theory on tv with us, sit around and cuddle late into the night, talking about anything and everything. Her stuff is all over the house as is typical - the kitchen table has the laptop/notebooks & her headbands, the dining room table has her Brita pitcher and filters, the table in the family room has her phone, her ipod is on the couch! Oh, the house will be much cleaner/tidier when she’s back at school, but I am so going to miss her. Feeling much worse this time around - perhaps because I know how it will be for the next few months ??</p>
<p>Making it worse, work has been incredibly busy these past ten days and I’ve been staying late at work each day…plan on taking the weekend truly off and spending it together…</p>
<p>ShawD heard today that she was admitted to nursing school for Winter 2012. This all started with a call on Jan 5 with questions about she should apply for Fall 2012 and the admissions counselor said that if she got everything in by today, they’d decide early next week. This involved transcripts, test scores, writing two essays, filling out common app (she also did the college-specific app) and getting letters from each of her 5 professors to an independent agency so they could vet her foreign transcript. Eight days later she’s admitted.</p>
<p>Orientation is on Tuesday, advisor meetings on Thursday, and classes start on Friday. Whew. We’ll be driving up to Canada tomorrow to pick her up. It seems to have happened breathtakingly quickly, but ShawD is elated.</p>
<p>Congratulations to ShawDaughter!! How exciting with such a quick turn around. I’m sure she will do wonderfully, and without question make new friends quickly!! Where will she be attending nursing school?</p>
<p>Good to hear all the news. Especially good to hear that AvonMom is up and doing well.</p>
<p>Shawbridge–that is an amazing turn around. I have to believe it is absolute the right timing since the doors were opened :)</p>
<p>As for me, spent the am giving an “animals in art tour” for exceptionally disabled teens…all in wheel chairs with either brain injuries, birth defects etc. Sweet sweet kids and the parents attended the outing. What special people. The teacher is exceptional…just so gifted.</p>
<p>Then tried to get in a little retail therapy myself to replace several pairs of shoes *many years old) that had to be thrown out (scored 3 prs at DSW), picked up 3 necessary items at Soma…
when…
I tried to fly too close to the sun.
Yep. Feeling good about the earlier accomplishments in those two stores (and I HATE shopping–so this is super super rare for me) I chose to tackle finding a new pair of jeans. EPIC FAIL!
A middle aged mom in a dressing room with half a dozen pairs of jeans–omg!!! And not only were the cuts/styles bad…the “longest” pair was 2 inches shorter than I need. Have no clue where to find jeans that fit and are long enough…
:(</p>
<p>Congrats to ShawD! I hope she has an easy transition.</p>
<p>Arisamp: You D sounds like my D1. She dumps her things all over, but now that she’s only home occasionally,I don’t really mind. Enjoy this last weekend with your D.</p>
<p>MM: Glad to hear that your D is making progress on the friend front.</p>
<p>Emilyb: Congrats on the summer internship for boychild.</p>
<p>Glad to hear that Avonmom got out for some retail therapy.</p>
<p>Fog Fog, were you shopping at a mall store? I’ve found the only good jeans which fit really well are sold at small boutiques and not at regular mall stores. Pricey, yes (avg. $200/pair) but really, really, really worth it, imo. </p>
<p>I had a wicked headache which got worse while I was running around doing errands, so when I got home I gobbled 4 ibuprofen and made a cup of tea. I closed my eyes and was drifting off when the phone rang and it was my stylist asking where I was. So I threw on my coat and with no make up - not even lippy - hopped in the car. Thankfully, headache was almost over and I felt so much better I gave her carte blanche to cut my hair in whatever way struck her fancy. Love what she did. :)</p>
<p>Great news for ShawD and emilybee’s S!
Arisamp - am with you - DS leaves Monday and feeling much harder this time. We’ve had some ups and downs but he’s not coming home until May and that is such a long time from now.
Jeans - Help! Am with fogfog - hate shopping, don’t know how to get them fitted properly. Would you believe I am wearing old jeans that DS has rejected?? They don’t have holes or anything, but they are not cool. Wearing my kid’s jeans when I am well into middle age b/c I don’t know how to shop for jeans is pathetic!</p>
<p>My D has always had a hard time finding jeans that fit. She is 6 ft, though will only admit to 5’11". (my dad says she is 5’12" in an attempt to make her feel better…)</p>
<p>Her weight can flucuate by 20 lbs or so, depending on her running schedule.</p>
<p>Old navy does sell long jeans on their website, not sure if they do in their stores or not. I bought her a long pair of jeans from the website for Christmas and they fit fine, no returns there.</p>
<p>The really expensive jeans only come in long lengths - they are all the same. Since I am only 5’!" I always have to have them shortened - which is fine as a good seamstress can hem them using the original hem bottom so they don’t look like they have been hemmed. Also, almost all the good jeans have stretch in them so they never have that baggy look or sag by the end of the day. </p>
<p>Siemom , I am well into my 50’s and wear the same jeans as younger people do. “Mom” jeans are awful and you are too young to be wearing them.</p>
<p>I have no problem finding jeans. I usually pick them up at Kohl’s-Lee makes a good brand and my daughter approves so they must not look too old lady!</p>
<p>arisamp and siemom I felt that awful last week. It was much harder than when he left in August. But…after he left the feeling passed pretty quickly and we got back into the routine around here without him. I don’t miss all the extra work he caused-although to be fair he went back into his taxi role very nicely. I miss him but it almost seems normal he isn’t here.</p>
<p>When ShawD was tall but really skinny, the best place to find close in size 00 was TJMaxx. They seem to get the oddball sizes that don’t have enough takers. Maybe they have longer jeans there.</p>
<p>Expensive jeans: we found a good supply as a substantial discount at Century 21, especially the Morristown, NJ store.</p>
<p>Avondad~Glad to read your Dw has had a nice visit with her sister :)</p>
<p>Sorry about the blues arisamp and siemom. </p>
<p>Free birds again, loved every minute of the precious time spent together.Looking forward spring break :p</p>
<p>Shaw~Congrats to your D on her transfer acceptance, certainly was quick work! Do agree on century 21 nice dept store with a quaint atmosphere :D</p>
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