Susan--I do different things with both of the kids. DD of course LOVES shopping, but we do other stuff too. We dance around the house like idiots, we did the hair, makeup and nails--she always thought it was fun. I still always paint my toes a wild color that I would never put on my fingers--most times I have nothing or just clear on my fingernails--all the typing wears it too fast. My son liked to hit flea markets, hike or ride on back roads trying to find new ones--I try playing video games with him but I am not very good--except with Tetris and Asteroids--there was a downhill skiing one I did okay in and I like the racing games. He still teases me about some coputer game sampler he had--one of the games was golf and it was so easy he said that even I could do it---I was so bad the little girl character I was using actually dropped to her knees crying--he had never seen that happen in any game he played and thought it was hilarious!! my DD's friend Misty is a Chrissy Snow--I told DD that her IQ drops just being with her--luckily is only only a temporary setback.
Ginny--what's it like being Mom to 5 sons?? I would have had a second DS that would have been 16 now, but I had a miscarriage. I do agree with what you posted to Susan about things your sons did in Highschool. I knew most of what they were doing but apparently my son didn't want me to worry. He was always small and very skinny and got picked on alot--then the teenage anger kicked in about 13 and he wasn't picked on any more until we moved in his freshman years and he had to prove himself again-he dresses weird--think the Kurt Cobain thrift shop look and he likes strange colors oranges, greens and yellows--he has the ugliest two Mr Rogers sweaters--one is close to a mustard yellow but not there and the other he calls baby poop green. In a school with farm boys and jocks he didn't fit in well until he apparently won a fight with a football jock that was several inches taller and outweighed him by almost 80 lbs. I found out about it after he was out of school.
Work related--I have a headset with a remote lifter from Hello Direct at work--it's is very nice, but if you work more one to one with customers and several people answer your phone it won't do you much good--if you call the company and explain that your worker was not authorized to ask for the product and explain that it will not work for your business they will probably sent you a label to send it back. If you don't want to open the box--search on the internet for the company name and click on the contact info--most companies have an 800 line posted--if it is Hello Direct I can give you that number.
Shawnaa--the meal sounds yummy--good for you to encourage your daughter and you have a workout buddy as a bonus-this weightloss-better health does get discouraging--I want it gone yesterday!!!
Well I am going to finish my coffee and eat a bowl of cereal and then go workout!!
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