Comments | aome: Big events, with varying degrees of success

aome

Big events, with varying degrees of success

Apr 22, 2018 00:17

Yesterday I took Two on his first "real" college visit, to the Pratt Institute design school in Brooklyn. (Two had a college tour of a local university that was the namesake of his academic team in 6th grade, which he enjoyed, but he didn't have any particular hankering to go there; he's also set foot on a small portion of UC Berkeley and Harvard ( Read more... )

miniplu, college:two, milestones, dating, substituting, tae kwon do, food

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meathiel April 22 2018, 15:47:47 UTC

Glad to hear the NYC trip went well.
And woot @ MiniPlu's date ... even if it wasn't a big success.
Sorry about TKD ... that sounds really frustrating for you.
Wishing you strength for tomorrow!

aome April 22 2018, 20:23:30 UTC

I've taken two naps today, lol. :P But thank you!

milly_gal April 22 2018, 16:08:52 UTC

Wishing you strength and resilience for tomorrow x♥x

aome April 22 2018, 20:23:48 UTC

I had the strength and resilience to take two naps today, lol. :P

milly_gal April 23 2018, 11:26:08 UTC

That shows forethought and quick thinking, and a need for some zzz's ;)

Kid name anonymous April 23 2018, 03:28:39 UTC

I *think* you've got Two's name in paragraph 4?

manue7a April 23 2018, 06:58:49 UTC

Wishing you lots of strength for that Monday appointment.

aome April 23 2018, 10:25:56 UTC

I still feel so conflicted. She trusts us, and we're taking her to be put to sleep. :(

manue7a April 23 2018, 17:19:17 UTC

Which will be the best way to have it end. You'll be with her and there will be no pain. Natural death is rarely like in the movies, one last sigh and all is well. It's a long terrible struggle and it's good to spare her this.

hamsterwoman April 24 2018, 04:51:13 UTC

Glad the college campus visit went well, and all the travel around it!

I had to smile at MiniPlu's date dilemmas. Well, good for her, at least, for knowing this isn't what she wants?

(L still seems to have no interest in dating and thinks all boys are dumb, while also being very sure she's straight. She's hung out with guys one-on-one in the context of the zoo, but tells me that's purely platonic and she's not interest in them that way.)

aome April 25 2018, 02:12:57 UTC

The Boy officially texted MiniPlu yesterday to ask if she'd had fun and she was forced to admit via text - knowing that it wasn't a great way to do it - that yes she'd had fun (white lie) but that it was better to stay just friends. But she knew it wouldn't be any easier to say, "Look, can we talk face to face tomorrow?" and let him fret until then. And possibly have witnesses to their conversation. Anyway, she said they're now both awkwardly ignoring each other, which kind of sucks, but she's a lot happier to be off the hook with him.

Maybe our daughters are ace? :P

hamsterwoman April 25 2018, 19:40:13 UTC

but she's a lot happier to be off the hook with him.

Well, that's good! (And, yeah, it's hard for teens to have privacy if they only see each other in school...)

Maybe our daughters are ace? :P

It wouldn't surprise me if L was somewhere on that spectrum, but it also seems like that sort of thing can be very fluid around this age? Like a couple of L's friends thought they were ace, then tried relationships (which I don't believe had zero physical component) , with varying results. Guess we just wait and see...

I was not interested in dating in high school either, and B definitely wasn't, so I'm not too surprised she isn't either.