<p>I know…
My Dh and I were searching our names as well…and his thesis book pops up! hahaha
Also lots of pics from our kids school, things from the school publications like NHS, andhonor roll stuff. Its a private school and does online website publications as well as glossy print stuff.
Things I “liked” in FB, for example, a beer company someone I know owns…that pops up …</p>
<p>Googled my parents–and found a grade school pic of my dad…from his 50th hs reunion website. Even a pic of his dog…</p>
<p>and there is a website called something like “my life”…which data mines from multiple sources…and then puts together your info…
My name is xyz, and I live in abc. etc etc</p>
<p>also another named something like radius… I forget exactly…yet it data mines too</p>
<p>I googled my brother and found a pic of him in his backyard that he used for an avatar on a hobbyist site–and there is a whole thread conversation between he and another person re the hobby and moving to another town…</p>
<p>The net is quite a helpful AND scary place.</p>
<p>One of the stupidest pics of my nephew of his whole FB shows up…like he needs to have a pic of him with underwear on his head on the net…</p>
<p>Thankfully, only one pic of my ds but a ton of pics of apparently prominent researchers, cardiologist and a photographer pop up - (apparently his name is fairly common) all without underwear on their heads - LOL Fog!</p>
<p>A few pics of ShawD show up but none of ShawSon – he has the same name (different initials) of a modestly well-known author (we’d never heard of him 22 years ago). For me, there is one picture, but under the everything column, there are many entries (says 498,000, although I doubt there are that many) because I’ve written things that people cite or use in syllabi. Plus, some are included in “best” lists. ShawWife has lots of images of her art work (at least the first two pages) and 3000+ entries.</p>
<p>I googled mine and only one picture (my current profile picture) then it just showed a lot of other people with my name. Need to google my kids!</p>
<p>Breakfast is on! Come on over! My D leaves for Florida tomorrow morning for rowing spring training over her spring break, so we won’t see her. She is not responding to my emails about housing for next year, hopefully she will get with it on that.</p>
<p>I have googled my d’s name in the past. Not much from FB comes up (I think that sometimes if a person is tagged on someone else’s pic and that someone else’s privacy things are looser than the person being tagged, then the picture shows up sooner). My D has been a long distance runner for years and years, so her times and newspaper pictures from her races are what comes up on google.</p>
<p>When I google my D, 90% of the results are pretty plain vanilla about her, but the other 10% are a British porn site. Since it is so blatantly random, I can’t worry about it. She, on the other hand, finds it disturbing. Happily, there are no pics, only invitations to get in touch. I share my name with a 19th century novelist and a soap opera star, so there is
lots of distraction along with a few innocuous pics of me.</p>
<p>Picked up DS at the airport for his week home. Haven’t seen him since Jan; he seems more confident, assured - grown up! Has some work to do and wants to “chill” rest of week which is just fine. Then back for quick six weeks and freshman year is over! This time last year did not even know where he was going …</p>
<p>S is home packing as I drop him at the airport tomorrow morning. Where did this week go? At least we had a nice dinner out with him last night and enjoyed his company at his niece (2) and nephew’s (4) birthday party this morning. It was a pancake breakfast (brunch) in pajamas birthday party for the two kids and it worked quite well as none of the little ones were tired out from a day of activities. I have to give our older D and SIL a gold star for this event. :)</p>
<p>S is home if I didn’t mention it. A couple of friends went back today. Not too many people around here for the week. I have a feeling he won’t come home for many more if that’s going to be the case.</p>
<p>He brought the giant Nike?? Nylon bag filled with 50 lbs of laundry so at least I will have something to do ;)</p>
<p>I’m thinking of getting another one of those bags and filling it with ikea linens, pillows& comforters before we go visit S1 at his furnished 2 br flat in the UK. We were going to stay in a hotel, but the pics don’t look too bad. If we bring all that stuff it might be doable. I don’t think we have to pay for a second bag for international flights.</p>
<p>ldinct, ShawSon brings home the toxic duffel bag (also huge) full of laundry when he comes. But, he now does the wash for the most part. Folding, well, not so much. And, he’s not been here much at all this year – he told us he’s not coming home for spring break because he needs to work.</p>
<p>ShawD comes home with her laundry but she’s here more frequently. She may wait around for others to do it. ShawD is with us this week and starts school again Monday.</p>
<p>D1 is back from her trip. She called this morning, and had a great time. She asked if I could make a trip to see her to day, since she bought us presents that involve chocolate. I can easily arrange my day for German chocolate!</p>
<p>D2 does dance as one of her main activities. Last night, she had a dance competition. Her studio is very conservative, even though the director is only 25. We were totally appalled at the costumes and lack of general attire on the dancers from other studios. During some of the other dances, D2 was sitting next to me. The girls on stage were basically wearing bras, super short shorts, and bare middles. I asked D2 if she would be comfortable wearing an outfit like that on stage. She immediately said “no way!”. She has been doing competitive dancing for a few years, but this was by far the worse as far as inappropriate attire. I think too many people are watching “Dance Moms”.</p>
<p>No laundry bags arrived here although I volunteered that he could bring one. Impressed though that DS arrived with only backpack and computer bag (with his two laptops - more precious than anything he owns!). Said he knew only needed few clothes for week (true) and that much stuff here - not true Off to get some socks and underwear!
Very happy that he wore a t-shirt with his school name/logo for trip home - says to me that he’s really invested and pleased with his choice :)</p>
<p>Ds in a show of brilliance, brought his xbox back with him for break - and LEFT IT! Seriously, this was an addiction that caused much of my stress all through HS - didn’t seem to have an “off” button on the thing. Well, he bought a just released game while home, played it till the wee hours a few nights - and then left the whole bundle here because “it would be too much distraction” - might not seem incredible to you all, but to our house - it was like the heavens opened up and angels were singing. To top his break off, he has some soft confirmation of a summer internship in a bio/chem lab in NYC - and blessed be, it pays good money. (do you hear the angels now?)</p>
<p>We’ve seen inapprpriate costumes for years. During a few, I have thought that guys were going to come up and tuck cash in their shorts. How must those girls’ dads feel? I always said that if high school boys ever discovered dance competitions, there would be no room for the parents.</p>
Off to get some socks and underwear!