Busy Busy weekend is over.
But I enjoyed it.
I shot a class reunion over the weekend.
It was a weekend-long party for the class of '55!!
I met alot of wonderful people...people so nice to me while I shoved a camera in their face.
Old men flirting with me..to see if they "still got it". (they do!)
"older" women giving me lots of advice on love and life:
"I can't drink alcohol and have sex both....that's why I don't drink."
Stuff like that.
passed out lots of business cards, made lots of contacts.
I've realized that "networking" isn't really my "thing".
I know I need to do it to build up my business, so I can be self-supporting one day (soon I hope), but man that's hard for me to do. I feel like I'm "bragging" or something and it's so difficult to push myself. Maybe I need a publicist, huh? :)
But I'm working on that and I'll get the hang of it soon.
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So my dirtbike boy rode his bicycle to Lake Erie one day. probably close to 90 miles round trip. WTH? WHO DOES THAT?!!!! :)
I told him when he got home ( took him about 10 hours to do this)...
"Don't even THINK about asking to go anywhere tomorrow.....don't even think about it."
Well, he tells his dad what he did and his dad is like, "Cool! you rode that far!!! WOW!"
Um....HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN TROUBLE HERE!!!!!
So he asks me to go to his friend's house that night, and I look at him like, this is a joke, right? you're kidding, right?
He looks at me all innocent like and points to his face, with a big smile and says to me,
"Mom...see this? it gets me everything I want"
the little shit! he can be so funny at times and then other times, he is soooo moody. Hard being a teenager. I do remember that.
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Well, it looks like my college bound son is NOT college bound.
We were late getting his deposit money in and now he's on a waiting list for a dorm. #148 on the list. UGH.
he can't stay with his brother who is in Akron cuz the other girls he lives with said no.
We're looking into other avenues but it's not looking good so far.
So he said he'd rather wait a whole year, instead of just a semester, and start next year with all the other freshman, instead of coming onto campus in the middle of the year.
While I see his point, I don't agree with it.
Why sit out a whole year when you only have to sit out a semester?
and this has caused a HUGE fight between his dad and I.
BIG. HUGE.
See, he was originally going to Thiel to play football...his dad's alma mater.
But decided he didn't want to play football anymore. he's burned out and wants to just concentrate on academics.
And since he wasn't paying football, he switched to Akron...Thiel is very very small and there is NOTHING there to do. NOTHING. At least Akron's campus has a vast amount of stuff to do if you're not involved in sports. I mean, our football stadium at our high school is bigger than Thiel's.
So his dad was a little upset about this...and I feel he is screwing him over on purpose.
There is a long history of bad relationship between the two of them....so this is par for the course.
So it has caused great tension in our household once again.
There are many things I do not agree with, and while I am trying to make it on my own, it is taking a while. I'm slowly but surely plugging away at it, tho, and I hope to be self-sufficient one day soon. Cuz there is no talking to his dad....he simply refuses to talk. Not much I can do about that.
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Sooooooooooooooo.............I gotta get busy on the reunion photos so I can get them out to the people who ordered them.
later totes mcgoats!!!!! (I watched I LOVE YOU MAN last night! HILARIOUS movie and one of my favorites. JOBIN!)
12 comments:
The dorm thing happened to Eldest. (Twin sister got her deposit in on time.) They were going to put him up in a common room and then have him move when space became available. I was able to get him in under the disabled students accommodations. He had major, major surgery and could not lift anything over so many pounds until late fall. He would be unable to move himself - would they move for him? That was enough to get into a room.
froggy: hmmmm...idk. we have tried just about everything we can....trying to set up a "commuter schedule" now...he could have classes just 2 days a week and have to drive to akron on those days...of course, that means he has to HURRY UP and get his license!!! His brother in law is GIVING him his car..I just have to get to NC to drive it home...hubs won't give me the money for a plane ticket to get down there. loooooong story there too. UGH.
The older the kids get the more complicated the problems... my girl friends and I were commenting that toddler years were easier than post high school!
froggy: on they were so easy then....who woulda thunk it? :)
ok....Evan paid for me to fly to NC to pick up his car. I will drive it home. such a good boy.
I can dig how your boy is tired of football. That crap is a job and it so not what everyone thinks it is. I have known friends in college and in the pro's who say that it is a grind.
Hubby is on some sort of power trip. And that is that with that.
I rode A BIKE from Motown to Ann Arbor more than once in my teens. Joke (sorta) about riding from here to Omaha... mainly BECAUSE I CAN. If I did have the ability to operate a scooter or moped, you bet your buns I would ride out west!!
I'm not looking forward to when my kids become teenagers, so many issues.
I hope things work out for your son.
oh and as someone who teaches college tell your son to not stay out a whle year. Tons of students come in after first semester. (unsolicited advice, sorry)
why is he being such a dick? glad evan paid in the end. sometimes you just gotta throw money at it.
as for networking: you are your only advocate for YOU. no one else is going to sell you like You can. no one is your biggest critic AND your biggest fan than yourself. hold your head high,smile and bullsh-t the rest. it'll come...
在莫非定律中有項笨蛋定律：「一個組織中的笨蛋，恆大於等於三分之二。」. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Glad you got the money to fly to NC. I think if there is anyway you can get him there, do it. Even if he commutes or rents a room or something. I think if he takes that year off, it way be harder for him to want to go back. That is what happened to my brother, the year off thing was NOT a good choice for him. It is too bad the girlfriend said no, most likely he would get a dorm room second semester.
You, my friend, push and network like crazy. You are so good at what you do and you should advocate for yourself. You got it girl. xxxxx
I have to agree with Big Mark about the hubby-on-a-power-trip thing. If he's going to commute, is there a closer community college or other school that he could go to for the first semester and then transfer over? I'll keep my fingers crossed in the meantime for you that his number moves up the housing list quickly.
As for the smiling bike-rider... I got one just like that too. My sympathies.
良好的開端，已是成功的一半。..................................................
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