donutsweeper | (no subject)

children are evil *nods*

ooh, snickers. *sighs*

She's only sometimes evil. Most of the time she's cool.

Except when she's not.

She's currently researching colleges in cool places. She's got 3.5 more years to decide. :-)

when snitching your chocolate they are evil.

College *shudders* If she's in 9th grade it's more like 2.5 years because you have to visit the schools and apply and take the tests and all that.

Yep, 9th grade. True, a lot of it starts earlier than that. I doubt we'll be making many site visits, simply because we can't afford it, but we'll go where we can.

you can tell a lot by the material the college sends and what's online and all that. it'll be FINE

I'm not going to sweat it. She has a multi-class project every year relating to investigating colleges. She's having fun with it and plans to pull out the materials from time to time and run another school through the process. I told her I'd happily help her create a database for her information (I like doing that stuff ;-).

Some years, her school has a 100% 'go to college' rate among its graduates. They've got this down to a science.

wow, that's great- the school'll be such an excellent resource then!

YES! Because I'm not. :-) I'm first generation college in my family and had to figure it all out for myself. What that meant was I went to the local state school. ;-) I don't want her to do that out of ignorance. If it turns out to be the best school for what she wants to do, great. But I want her to set her sights higher and see what she finds.

you are a GOOD mom!

I try.

Now, if I could only afford to *pay* for it. But that's why I ride her about her grades. :-)

ah yes, that whole paying thing. That's why I had gone to work in the first place, of course with the market the way it is I've lost all the money I put away over the past two years (more than, actually) *SIGH*

I refuse to invest in the stock market. The so-called "ownership society" touted by Reagan (I think his admin coined that one, or the term may have happened during Bush I) is nothing but a con-game intended to get ordinary people so financially dependent on corporations that we'll do whatever it takes to keep them going (bail out anyone?).

Pissed off? Me? :-)

Pissed off? You? Nope. Not at all.

LOL!!!!

I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

:-)

just, no hail of bullets please. Even if that's later in the movie

No, I think I'll pass on the hail of bullets.

Wouldn't say no to a hail of chocolate, but I don't think that would be practical.

someone could toss a handfull or two of hershey kisses my way- I wouldn't say no to that

*mmmmmmmmmm*!

although none of those freaky flavored ones- no candy corn or cherry cordial or cookies'n'creme- thank you very much

But the dark chocolate ones are very nice, indeed. :-)

as are the peanut butter and caramel. But pumpkin is scarier then hell

That's just sick. :-)

Boss kept a jar of hershey kisses in the office. At first there were just the normal ones- chocolate, dark chocolate, then peanut butter and/or caramel too... but before I left there would be 8 or 10 different flavors. many were terribly scary

*shudder*

the worst was when two would have similar wrappings so you'd think you were getting the caramel, but it was really a pumpkin. That's a mistake you only make once before you learn to be very careful before shoving a chocolate in the mouth

LOL!!