I have been looking forward to this college visit but at the same time I feel like “how did we get here already?”
Schools closed early today and will be closed tomorrow due to a forecast of snow. Not the first day of spring I was expecting or wanted.
Why do I feel that when some give advice they are really just trying to justify their own questionable choices or extend their own bitterness regarding their situation?
Dear (adult) child - trust but verify would be a good policy before following the advice from friends that if WRONG will cost YOU money. Sorry you are learning this expensive lesson.
What did you expect? You kicked your husband out of bed two years ago, and when that didn’t coerce him to cave to your demands, you asked him to move out. So when you met, you really expected him to want to reconcile?!?!? Really?!?!? He finally realized what it was like to be free. It’s going to be a challenge to raise two young kids alone.
Oh Gods of Financial Misfortune - just stop it! We’ve got a wedding to finish paying for (in six weeks!!), a foundation to fix next month, and now a major car repair. If it wasn’t so darkly funny I’d cry…
You know what is great about snow in March ? It melts really fast 
I was so very cranky to have to go in for meetings with 14 inches of fresh snow on the ground today. I think I owe my coworkers a treat tomorrow morning; maybe I’ll stop for munchkins on the way in.
Daffodils, daffodils–I love daffodils!
He’s never been the lucky kid but the universe needs to give him a break! We just replaced his battery in December and yesterday was his first internship interview - sure enough car won’t start! He got jumped and made it there only 5 minutes late but who knows how understanding they’ll be. At least interview was near home and we traded cars with him while we get his checked out again - they’re saying it was just a bad battery and replaced it under warranty but idk
Really frustrated with the state of air travel. So the airline can cancel my flight with as little as 30 minutes notice and no compensation but does not have the decency to allow me to change my flight to one WITH AVAILABLE SEATS that leaves earlier so that I can arrive at my destination and not have to pay for the night of hotel that it will be too late to cancel once they cancel my flight !@&$?! What good is a weather forecast if we cannot all use it to plan ahead?
I’m being pecked to death by chickens.
Comforting DS through a mean and unexpected breakup. He didn’t see this coming. I feel gut-punched, too.
Expectations and dread for the prospects are crushing and heavy.
Hugs to you my dear child. So sad to hear of the loss of a college friend and then the loss of a HS friend.
I’m looking…but not touching. I mean, after all, all the contributors have already made up their minds and are just hammering on ‘their correct view of things’.
In the end it’s just an exercise in chasing electrons across the airwaves. The electrons need a union.
While I realize that many people would see your solo travel plans as brave and adventurous , I see them as a a sad existance of a person who is choosing to become more and more isolated from close human contact. This is not how it has to be. This is not how it should be. There is more to life than career and solo travel. You are not stable enough to safely travel alone and that is why we are worried about this
$26 and change is a little too much for lobster mac 'n cheese entree even if it was very good.
People go to prestigious schools for a reason, my friends…yes you can get a decent job with an ok university, but opportunities for greater purposes may not be present.
One of my D’s got her heart broken. Her face is spotted with broken capillaries from crying and she’s been throwing up everything she eats. I wish there was something we could do to make it better.
The past week has been a rollercoaster ride with good and bad news.