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ya'll are too quiet these days.
So, the kids are out of school (or almost out) and your sanity is still intact (kinda). what have you got going on this summer?
me: we are headed to Sedona, AZ in a couple of weeks with my folks in tow for a week of looking at the beautiful desert, sitting by the pool, maybe some horseback riding, but general laziness on my part. (and hopefully meeting CPF and Ylime! but that still needs to be worked out.)
then at the end of august B and I will be heading out to an entirely different desert to get our Burning Man on. I am much more excited about this than anything else. it's all i can think about. (as the planning is coming along i'm having fewer dreams about showing up unprepared. it was awful how many dreams i kept having. in one of them my cat stowed away in my stuff and i had to keep him for the week out there. it was nerve-racking!) while i'm out there, i'm doing a few shifts out at the Black Rock Intergalactic Spaceport (aka the Airport). i need some help thinking of low-cost costumes/characters to be in while i greet people arriving to the playa. any ideas?
also, as you may have seen from my FB, i'm starting a "Couch to 5k" training program to help me shed some weight before the i hit the playa. today was day 1 and it was only a partial success. i made it about halfway through the first session before the childcare people came to get me because RoRo was having a fit. i knew it was a crap-shoot to go today due to his allergies and short nap, but i figured i couldn't put off day 1 or i might never start.
i never did get D signed up for any summer camps or swim lessons, but there is still time. unfortunately funds are tight so i think camp might be out of the question. oh well. so what have got going on?
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Permalink Reply by TeacherJ on -
I have started that Couch to 5k program a million times and something always gets in my way. Broken toes, blizzards, you name it. So frustrating! But I have found that even when I have to take time off from it, I don't start over all the way at the beginning. It definitely helped my stamina. Maybe I will pick it up again this summer?
I'm really looking forward to a summer of not job hunting, which will be unusual for me! After school is out I'll probably pick up some tutoring gigs. Since I moved last fall, I don't really know what goes on around here in the summer, so I'm also planning to check out the local attractions. Like, farmers' markets and whatnot.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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I am working way too hard at my fulfilling job which took way too long to.come along. Big O is turning into a teenager way too early. Ebay is a terror still, but now she's cracking jokes as she does it. Still stuck at my oarents' house, even though my husband's music career has taken some huge leaps this past year. We're hoping for a job offer for a fabulous 3-year-gig to be coming in the next two months, he's really perfect for it.
Other than that, I will admit that Facebook takes most of my time, but I still come check OS several.times a day.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Mama on -
The big move to small town PA is finally coming! We close on a house in three weeks. #1 son and I are going on a HUGE trip starting next week - we signed up and started paying for it TWO YEARS ago (which would have never happened if we had known that we were moving!!) and are flying to Italy with a bunch of people from school. Hopefully we will do a little family traveling as well this summer, so I expect to be VERY busy.
(HBD - like you I check in to OS at least twice a day!)
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on -
TeacherJ- congrats on not job hunting! that has to feel good. :) where did you move to (and from)?
HBD- that's awesome about hubby's career. it's about frackin' time for him! It never ceases to amaze me how little value we put on the arts as a whole. it's good to see him have some success.
JM- enjoy Italy! i spent a semester in Florence 10 years ago. such a wonderful experience. where are you going and for how long? and congrats on the house!! yay for home ownership!
i also wanted to add that it looks like we have finally made some headway with D's ADHD. he got an award at school for having the biggest turn-around in behavior this year. he's stopped calling me names and has become that wonderful, helpful little boy again. his attitude and demeanor has totally improved and i don't feel like sticking him to a velcro wall anymore. :) i can see that the medicine has helped slow his brain down enough so that he can focus and listen. i still don't like that we have to do meds, but hey, they're helping a ton so it's just what we have to do for now. the price is ridiculous considering we have insurance though. and the shitty part is they won't cover generics which i just don't understand. i've been meaning to call and check on the prices for some other brands to see if we can find something that doesn't cost us $50 a month, but i keep forgetting.
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Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on -
I keep planning to have low-key summers just taking the kids to the pool and such, and it never works out. This year we've got a few trips planned. In just a few days I'm taking The Little Miss with me to Seattle to visit High Maintenance Sister. It's going to be some mommy-daughter-auntie time. She never got any one-on-one with me, not the way Little B did. And B has never had the chance to just hang out with his papa for a few days. So, they are planning a "Manly Weekend" of 'manly' things to do. I think there's going to be poker and networked games going. Since we aren't coming back until Father's Day, I already gave the gift and card to Little B to hide in his room. He'll give it to his father from all of us, on Sunday Morning.
Then, in a few more weeks, AlphaGeek and I are leaving the kiddos with some friends and are flying to Boise, renting a car then driving to the wilds of eastern Oregon for a wedding. Yes, his old college friend has decided to get married in the middle of nowhere. However, it's really pretty there, so I kinda can't blame them.
In August we are packing all of us up, and heading to Wisconsin to visit Know-It-All-Sister, her boyfriend and his son, who is B's age. We're hoping they will get along, because I'm pretty sure my sis is going to marry this guy eventually. A week or so after we get back, the kids will start school! B will be a fourth grader, and the Little Miss is starting first grade.
In between all that, AG is supposed to be going to Rio and possibly Norway for work. And maybe California. Or was it Colorado? Gah, I can't keep up!
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Permalink Reply by SweetJudyB on -
Jealous of your trip to Burning Man- kiss some hippies for me.
I've got blinders on because we're potty training (E just turned 3)and it's all I can frigging think about. I'm almost to the point where I say "Once this pile of diapers runs out, we're not getting any more!"
Finally taking a family vacation at the end of July to Maine....but with almost all of hubby's family. His brother wasn't supposed to be going this year, but lo and behold, yes they will....I need to keep repeating "whatever" about that one.
We've been doing swimming lessons at the YMCA. It's a bit chaotic and E keeps telling me not to hold on to him, then proceeds to get a nose full of water. Kid, I'm here to help you!
Work is work- I'm pretty bored with it and wish I could find something new, but I'm bringing home the health insurance, so changing jobs probably won't happen. Hubby almost took a new job, which I was kind of pushing for as I was living vicariously, but decided to stick it out and hopefully get licensed soon (carpentry).
That is all, I guess.
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Andromeda, congrats to D for his award! He must have felt so proud of himself.
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
We're ridiculously busy this summer, as always. For once, I would like to have a low key few weeks.
But instead, we were just in Toronto (got back yesterday) and brought S's mom with us, we're going to Chicago next weekend, A's birthday party is the weekend after that, then on the weekend of the 4th we have to take her back to Windsor to catch the train. We're free the next weekend, but the weekend after that I am running the department's physics and astronomy summer camp for high school students on Thursday and Friday and then we have to drive back up to Toronto on Friday night for a wedding on Saturday. Then after that is my family reunion in WV. The next two weekends are free except for picking up Mr. S's niece from his sister in Columbus (she's 11 and lives in the UK) so she can stay with us for a couple of weeks, but then we're going back to WV to go camping with my dad and when we get back, we have to go back to Toronto to take Mr. S's niece back so she can fly home. And then school starts for me and then the kids the week after that. And in between all of that, I'm also taking three classes this summer, helping one of the grad students with a research project, and collaborating with another professor here to re-design one of the classes that I teach. And also working on getting everything ready so that I can do a pilot for my dissertation study this fall to work out the kinks before I start for real next year.
But next summer I plan to be finished with classes and exams and will, hopefully, be ABD. And then I can have a relatively easy summer free from all the school related stress on top of the normal family traveling.
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Permalink Reply by G to the G on -
Holy shit KS! I feel like a slacker. Eessh.
Glad everyone is doing relatively well. Things sound as though they are on the upswing. Yay!
I have 2 huge projects going live this summer at work... which pretty much tanks any vacation time. I'm hoping to squeeze in a long weekend on island resort (for reals - it some times pays to live in the sub-tropics) ... it is in driving distance and is pretty much a shack on a beach. I can't wait. Otherwise, it is business as usual. Parenting and working. And repeat. I'm giving myself a pass this summer though... last year was a nightmare. Maybe this is my slacker summer?
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on
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Burning Man has become pretty cost-prohibitive for hippies these days. which in the end i'm kind of glad about because instead of practicing radical self-reliance they tend to show up with not enough of anything and rely on other people for things. although there are those that were real hippies back in the day that come now. i'm always amazed at the crowd of "over 60" folk that really contribute some amazing shit out there. i met a woman last year who came one year and was so inspired by the art that she saw that she started making huge art installations for the open playa. she must have been about 65.
another project i'm really stoked to see (but is made by women closer to my age) is the one by The Flaming Lotus Girls. seriously. google that shit. these are some fucking spectacular women. i want to be one so bad.
good luck with the potty training SJB. i can't wait until we get there. i'm ready to be done with diapers too.
SweetJudyB said:Jealous of your trip to Burning Man- kiss some hippies for me.
I've got blinders on because we're potty training (E just turned 3)and it's all I can frigging think about. I'm almost to the point where I say "Once this pile of diapers runs out, we're not getting any more!"
Finally taking a family vacation at the end of July to Maine....but with almost all of hubby's family. His brother wasn't supposed to be going this year, but lo and behold, yes they will....I need to keep repeating "whatever" about that one.
We've been doing swimming lessons at the YMCA. It's a bit chaotic and E keeps telling me not to hold on to him, then proceeds to get a nose full of water. Kid, I'm here to help you!
Work is work- I'm pretty bored with it and wish I could find something new, but I'm bringing home the health insurance, so changing jobs probably won't happen. Hubby almost took a new job, which I was kind of pushing for as I was living vicariously, but decided to stick it out and hopefully get licensed soon (carpentry).
That is all, I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on -
We got most of our travel out of our system earlier this year. But, we live here for the summers, so we'll do our best to enjoy it!
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Permalink Reply by TeacherJ on
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Thanks! I moved from Chicago's western suburbs to Chicago's northern suburbs. So, not a huge change, but enough that I don't know where anything is around here! For example, this summer I am hoping to find the library. I just haven't had time to search it out yet.
And yay for making headway in dealing with the ADHD! I know a few kids who have been helped so much by their meds, like for the first time they could actually process the important things going on around them. I hope the meds help D keep being his best self!
Andromeda said:TeacherJ- congrats on not job hunting! that has to feel good. :) where did you move to (and from)?
HBD- that's awesome about hubby's career. it's about frackin' time for him! It never ceases to amaze me how little value we put on the arts as a whole. it's good to see him have some success.
JM- enjoy Italy! i spent a semester in Florence 10 years ago. such a wonderful experience. where are you going and for how long? and congrats on the house!! yay for home ownership!
i also wanted to add that it looks like we have finally made some headway with D's ADHD. he got an award at school for having the biggest turn-around in behavior this year. he's stopped calling me names and has become that wonderful, helpful little boy again. his attitude and demeanor has totally improved and i don't feel like sticking him to a velcro wall anymore. :) i can see that the medicine has helped slow his brain down enough so that he can focus and listen. i still don't like that we have to do meds, but hey, they're helping a ton so it's just what we have to do for now. the price is ridiculous considering we have insurance though. and the shitty part is they won't cover generics which i just don't understand. i've been meaning to call and check on the prices for some other brands to see if we can find something that doesn't cost us $50 a month, but i keep forgetting.
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