<p>Nope, not sex related, personality...both of my girls applied to the same reach school, several years apart. It is top 5, each was qualified, yet the chances statistically are less than 10%. D1 was declined and very saddened and held those feelings for quite a while. D2 would not have applied had not a coach from the school encouraged us, D2 has international experience in her sport, so that seemed like a decent hook, making the app possibly worth the app fee, so she applied.</p>
<p>D2 was also denied, and she immediately decided it was their loss, and never worried about it again. D2 plays games and tournaments at a that reach school all the time, and has a mentor relationship with the coach from the reach school, they talk a lot, he coaches "all star" type teams and is very encouraging to her in her progress in her sport. D2 still has NO thoughts of wishing she had gotten into that school! Really, really, she does not care and would not even consider transferring. As a matter of fact she was a bit relieved that she did not get in, as she worried her sister would have been sad! And D1 would have been bummed if D2 got in.</p>
<p>And speaking of mars vs venus... A friend sent me an email about a study out of UCLA regarding the differences in response to stress between men and women.</p>
<p>Evidently men have the classic response to extreme stress, Fight or Flight.</p>
<p>But they now realize women have a third option: Fight, Flight, or talk to other women. All about the oxytocin and how it calms stress. </p>
<p>Variation on your theme SB. Beautifully educated Grandmother takes 13 year old grandson to Nordstroms to buy jeans. Making an effort to be polite, the grandson agrees to try the jeans on and (horrors) come out of the dressing room to model each pair. On the third or fourth trip out, she asks her grandson to turn around in order for the metrosexual salesman to check if the jeans fit his 13 year old behind. I believe she used the word "Tooshie".</p>
<p>He came home shaking his head.</p>
<p>"I am not kidding mom. Grandma was asking gay men to check out my ass."</p>
<p>OMG, I have just fallen off the couch in peals of laughter over here! THANK you ladies and gents (and the sons attached thereto) for giving me a lovely launch into the weekend.</p>
<p>(Report on TSFH's motorcycle as we end Week 1:
He has met every condition of his contract. He has been up and out of the house to school (driving the car), without anyone else having to say anything to him, with plenty of time to spare, every single day this week, including today when he had to leave the house at 6:15am to make it to the bus in time for the Jazz Band competition, despite the fact that he was suffering from some food poisoning after-affects (the Band can't compete without the drummer, so he felt he had to go). He has yet to miss turning in an assignment this semester. We let him use the motorcycle to ride to work once to show off the bike to some coworkers, and when he came home he HUNG UP HIS GEAR in the hall closet. Need I mention that this is a <em>FIRST</em>?? Maybe he really did want that motorcycle after all.)</p>
<p>Ooo, a sea hag and a dad who washes things! And, I see that the marmots are still celebrating Groundhog Day...we have a few extra holes in the Naugahyde (which is the world's premier cruelty-free fabric, btw), and they're all stuffed with pretzel sticks. </p>
<p>The little chompers just got back from Goobler's Knob where they watched Punxsutawney Phil emerge from his marmot hole. Phil may be the most famous of the prognosticating marmots, but there are others...Willie, Billy, Beau, Wally, Mel, Chuck, Sam, Jimmy, Dave, Bob, Joe, and Lee. You don't see many groundhogs named Chesterton or Stevens or Roland. </p>
<p>Phil says we're going to have an early Spring. The moles and gophers who claimed my yard as their Middle Earth years ago look forward to uprooting EvilNeighbor's Spring lawn. My treat -- free drinks for all of the moles, gophers, and whistle-pigs in the Alley today! :)</p>
<p>LFWB dad -- Does LFWB son need a sea slugg to accompany him on that beautiful ship? I do laundry, and I can suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch.</p>
<p>one son home for the weekend, another coming home for a bit this evening. what a wonderful superbowl weekend. i wish some days could last longer than others....who's got the magic potion for that?</p>
<p>Super Boal Sunday...taxes are done...corrections to FAFSA and Profile submitted (and our EFC went down $23.00)...there's a fire in the fireplace...hot toddies all around!</p>
<p>Mootmom -- I have to say, I am a little jealous -- you seem to have found the magic key to good behaviour, there, with this whole motorcycle deal. I'm very impressed.</p>
<p>Be impressed, but also be appalled that it required a freaking MOTORCYCLE and not something benign like a puppy or a special concert or a drum kit or something... (sigh)</p>
<p>Mootmom -- Yeah, too bad it had to be a freaking motorcyle. </p>
<p>When my oldest was a wee laddie, we found a magic key for a little while. He wanted Nintendo so bad, we made a deal about 100 hours of piano practice. Maybe I should have chosen something else, but he did it, and he learned to play The Happy Farmer flawlessly, along with some other tunes. Unfortunately, that was the only time we found a magic key for that one . . . Could have used one his senior year in High School! I don't know if I would have had the guts to let him get a motorcyle, though. You are a courageous mom in my book!</p>