<p>Cheers, you have helped me keep my sanity as my boys lost their driver licenses, cell phones (and it got sold on the black market with hours and used for thousands of dollars of international calls before Verizon got suspicious and cut the service and contacted us), got detained in a Greek jail, and I can’t even begin to list the other stuff. The pooch story probably saved my loving handful of a mutt from the pound after he gavemy husband’s purebred gift from the kids his third hematoma (he goes for those ears when he attacks him). Pooch is on prozac and I am licking my chops looking at the container some days.</p>
<p>Cheers:</p>
<p>Please don’t add to my load of guilt. I’m walking around with enought; my wife is having problems changing a light bulb while I’m away.</p>
<p>One of my most favs:</p>
<p>I get to give suggestions on where to SHOP for college stuff with others who really NEED to SHOP!!! There was a post on here last summer that was enormously long about mattress pads and egg crates!! Oh, it was heaven. And notebooks, and pens, and sheets and jackets and shoes and pillows and refigerators…</p>
<p>And then discussions on how we all got it there…</p>
<p>Sad, my only pleasure in sending DS away to college was the joy in buying new socks. Every time I deal with a bout of missing him, he receives new socks. Sometimes a new belt or a tie…He says he has about 8 ties now and absolutely no where to wear them. (they need ties for game day, but he says he can only wear one at a time, imagine that).</p>
<p>Someone just posted about what new things student will need, my addiction was fed again!!!</p>
<p>Considering I still have 3 in high school (oldest are now in college) I am marking time here. And of course, all the wonderful advice that is giving so generously…love it here, just love it here.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I buy my ties at Goodwill’s pricedown bin or when I go to NYC or Philly, from the street vendors, or from the dollar shops. My kids wreck ties, lose ties. My H locks up his ties, because if they take one of his, that is the end of the tie. This has been the situation for years, since every single school my boys attended had that coat and tie rule for away athletic events, and when they were in catholic school, that was their uniform.</p>
<p>I buy my ties at Goodwill’s pricedown bin or when I go to NYC or Philly, from the street vendors, or from the dollar shops. My kids wreck ties, lose ties. My H locks up his ties, because if they take one of his, that is the end of the tie. This has been the situation for years, since every single school my boys attended had that coat and tie rule for away athletic events, and when they were in catholic school, that was their uniform.</p>
<p>katwk -omygawd, shopping chats on cc?!? 
What bliss… I had no idea. :eek: Where are these threads?
I must get me there straight away.:D:</p>
<p>Jamimom; Haha on the Prozac temptation. Have you read momsdream’s puppy tale? The one about how her therapist tells her the dogs are not children and commands her to get rid of them? THAT got me thinking.</p>
<p>Do you think anyone would adopt a large, hacking, dog-biting dog that jumps on visitors? </p>
<p>We continue to lurch from crisis to crisis here. Latest news, S diagnosed with mono. Trying to line up premier medical back-up if university clinic fails him. Don’t want to broadcast what happened first semester. It involved an emergency room change during exam week and the police. </p>
<p>If he makes it through this first year he’ll be good as gold. I’ll be a wreck-- but he’ll be good. Sound familiar?</p>
<p>Not I, Cheers. I’ve been a sucker too many times about animals (and kids). This pup just put another dog we have into surgery for a hematoma for the third time. It’s costing us a fortune and it is not good for that dog to undergo anesthesia so many times. The kids all love this pup, and I am fond of him too, as I am of all of the dogs we have. I could not get rid of them without going through a lot of trauma. But the last several years have been a financial nightmare regarding vet bills. I am going to have to look for an online source of Prozac because that stuff is expensive. </p>
<p>And, yes, it does sound too familiar. So far no news is good new from S. He 's got tickets for the SuperBowl, he called to say and wants H to join him there. Wants his winter jacket, don’t know what he’s been wearing up to this point and he is in the Midwest. Just cannot worry about him.</p>
<p>And if we get S2 through highschool, we get to worry about him in college! I think I’m going to sample that Prozac.</p>
<p>Start with a shot of whiskey Jamimom! Don’t hit the drugs first! :p</p>
<p>Watch out cheers the kids may be lurking :)</p>
<p>You couldn’t PAY either of my Ss to look at CC. I’m completely safe…don’t get the sense Jamimom’s kids are on either…</p>
<p>Anyway, everyone assumes my moniker is a drinking reference–might as well live up to it! haha.</p>
<p>You are absolutely right, Cheers. My kids can’t believe that any STUDENTS look at CC. They think it’s like an online AA meeting for overinvolved parents. Sometimes, I think they are about to stage an intervention for me.</p>
<p>I usually had to drag D to take a look at something interesting here. She preferred for this to be my domain, to pass things on, and to print things out as necessary. Could kinda see her point…regularly being up to 12:30, 1:00, or later and having to get up at 6:00 made her very sensitive to allocations of time about things that weren’t absolutely required.</p>
<p>Also, she didn’t want to get tinged with my persona and vice-versa.</p>
<p>Loved the online AA meeting reference Jamimom, but that assumes we are trying to go without CC! Which in my case is not technically true. My S definitely thinks CC is for overinvolved parents and keeps telling me to get a life. I try to explain that he is benefiting from all the things I learn here. But he is not always receptive to things I try to explain to him… the latest being that if he can’t get up in the morning and snoozes after lunch (such that he is late to class) maybe he should consider going to sleep a bit earlier… Ah, he’s such a good kid. Shouldn’t be complaining.</p>
<p>As for why I come here, it is because you are such a smart and thoughtful group of people. I value your advice, experience and good humor. As addictions go, this one is pretty harmless.</p>
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Been thinking that this beats several other possibles: more productive than Free Cell, for sure.</p>
<p>Mardad,</p>
<p>re: Westmont</p>
<p>Is she Christian? It is Chrisitian school. Please share us with more information on that school, if you can. I’d like to know more about.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>