Dreaded appts

I was dreading two appts this week. The first was taking my dd to the endocrinologist because I thought the dr. was mad at me. Six months ago, dd and I thought that she said she would take her off one of the medicines she is using to treat dd with. So I didn't refill it. Then doctor calls 3 weeks later to say to leave her on it. I told her that I hadn't refilled it and then she said well don't bother then, I don't want her on it, then off it, then back on it in such a short amount of time.

So I go to the office thinking she will be snippy with me. Our appt was at 11:20. We got to the exam room around 11:45. Around noon, a nurse came in to apologize and say the doc was called to the hospital -- we could wait and they would give us dining cards to use at the hospital cafeteria or we could reschedule. Well, we were ready to get this over with so we decided to eat lunch and come back.

After lunch, we ran into the doc as she was coming back from the hospital and she was as apologetic and as nice as she could be. I told her that I understood getting called out on an emergency and it was fine. Well anyway, she was so nice through the appt and then the meds were decided upon and off we went. We go back in 6 months and then I think dd will be graduated to a non pediatric endocrinologist. Guess I should start researching them now and see which ones are on our insurance.

Dreaded appt #2 was this morning. Dentist. I don't mind the dentist, it's the hygienist that I don't like seeing. I should mention that she is a very nice person, but she pokes my gums with a sharp instrument and then says "oh my your gums are bleeding!" Well duh! They just got poked! But today she told me how much better they are since the last check! I've actually been brushing better! woohoo. They do some kind of measure on them with numbers of 1-5. Apparently 1, 2 and 3 are good...4 and 5 are bad. Well I had mostly 1's, 2's, and 3's with only a couple 4's. She said that was much better -- last time I had more 4's. So yeah me. Also, No Cavities or reasons to go back until next cleaning appt.

Then I had lunch with a friend and tutored her daughter on College Algebra!

Ready to go to work on my real tutoring job now.

Corner Gas and other TV stuff

I watch alot of tv shows with my family. There are certain shows that we record to watch together. So when I am alone at home, I had to find something to watch that no one else in the family watched! I found a quirky Canadian sitcom called Corner Gas. It is so much fun! I record them all and then I just watch whenever I want!

But now I have a few questions -- they are somewhere in Canada (Saskatchewan I believe) and it never snows! Also, even when most of the regular characters are wearing coats, Lacey aka "The pretty girl of the show" is wearing a tank top! This is a phenomenon of tv shows everywhere. Even on SVU, the guys will be wearing suit jackets and the "pretty girls" are wearing lowcut shirts. One of the most stupid things we have seen along these lines is on the cop shows (CSI, Law & Order, etc) some of the gals even get V-neck lowcut bulletproof vests to wear! OK that is stupid!

Parenting Plus

I started to write an entry about being the parent of an adult child. Then I realized that I don't really have anything to write! It's sort of like being a parent for the first time--you do your best and pray a lot.

The parent is no longer required, in fact is not allowed, to fix anything that may be wrong in the adult child's life. This is ok, if it needs to be fixed, the adult child will get around to doing it.

You are still allowed to encourage and love your adult child. That's it! (and pay for college if possible, food when the ac's food account is running low, etc).

I like this phase!

Not quite adult daughter did very well on her SAT. We were sitting at IHOP having our Thursday morning breakfast -- which no one showed for except dd, dh, and me. All the others were out of town. Anyway, dh has a new Kindle (see Amazon if interested). Anyway, I said hey can't you get on the internet and check her scores -- they should have posted. Well he did and we went woohoo!

Work is going well -- one of my best (most interesting) students told me that she will be coming for tutoring over the summer. She hated coming at first, but now I think she sort of likes it. She always has good stories to tell about the comings and goings of people at the local high school!

Senioritis

Both my kids are seniors now. One a senior in college and one a senior in high school! Wow! How in the world did this happen?

Daughter's history teacher asked her to take a Western History/Philosophy class next semester from that professor and another one. It is worth 6 hours and she needs to apply to get into it. Her professor said she would sign the application. Now we just need to go to the college and see if she can take that class and two more as a dual credit student.

Son came home last night. It's fun to have him home again -- even if it's only for a little while.

It is happening!

I may be turning into my mom! I was watching the weather last night and saw that there were storms in Lubbock. I actually called my son to see if he was ok! Good Grief! (Nice talking to you son).

Figured it out!

Yea for me. I think I am good at math because I just can't stand not figuring something out! So I have solved the Sam's not printing the 12x12 problem.

I remembered that Sam's prints 12x16. So after creating and saving my 12x12, I created a 12x16 and put the 12x12 at the top. I then had room to add 2 regular photos at the bottom. An hour and $3.81 (including tax) later, I had my 12x12 with the 2 pictures attached. No problem, I have a paper cutter to separate it all.

Cool!

If you are a TG, you can see the 12x12 on our photos.

Fever

Time for an update. It has been way too long since I updated, but I have come to realize that I don't have the most exciting life. April was very busy for me. It's TAKS time in Texas which means extra tutoring. I also tutored a little SAT math. Should probably have tutored my daughter more -- but was too busy tutoring others! One also wanted tutoring on the English portion -- not my specialty and if you haven't been reading novels since you were 10 then your vocabulary isn't up to par and there isn't anything I can do about it. For an improvement, try reading SAT novels available online. (just google SAT novels). Now SAT is over for now and TAKS is over for the year.

TAKS is so important to publicly educated people that they are shocked when they are told that homeschoolers/private school students don't take it. It's like the test of all tests in Texas Government Schools that they think no one can get into college or live a good life without it. My kids are proving them wrong as are many many others!

Daughter went to homeschool prom a couple weeks ago. She took a friend who is in college as her date. We had the updo done where I get my hair cut and she looked absolutely beautiful. She had a great time. Her date had fun too and told her he will go with her next year!

Son has finished his junior year at Tech and is coming home for a few days. He and his dad are off to Vegas this weekend (yes over Mothers Day) and are meeting a friend from California who we named our son after. Hope they have great time and don't do anything stupid. Maybe I'll get some special M&M's out of the trip (from the M&M store on the strip).

I got the most cool scrapbooking software -- Creative Memories Storybook Plus. I have created a 12x12 page of the prom and I've created some 5x7 cards. So cool and so fun. Unfortunately, Sam's doesn't print 12x12. Many places online print them but then I have to pay more and pay for shipping. Costco prints them for $2.99 but I don't have a Costco membership. This is not just a financial dilemma although it is that too; it is also a moral dilemma. I used to have a Costco membership in the next town over, but then Sam's opened in my town. I don't need a membership to two warehouse stores and I would much rather my tax dollars support my town instead of that other town across the bridge! I emailed Sam's and asked if they were going to add 12x12 printing to their options and they emailed me back that they forwarded it on to whoever. Ritz/Wolf charges $14.99 and that's way too much. I guess I will wait until I have 5 or 6 to print and order them online with only one shipping fee.

I'm listening to Michael Buble and that's why the title is Fever and I'm ending with

How Can you Mend a Broken Heart