Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[trr1]

• October 14: National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day
• October 14: National Dessert Day

 

[trr1]

At 1:30 in the morning typing on an iPod, you shall get little paragraphs and spacing

Happy? I pressed enter here.

I would love to move out on my own, but quite frankly, I don't have the money to do that. It would be $10,000 per year to live on campus. Right now I don't take out student loans because I don't want debt when I graduate, so I can go where my parents can afford to send me. Which is this school minus room and board.

I've looked into off campus apartments. Can't afford that either. And the only person who I would want to live with, my bff, cannot afford to move out either. Even living together would be expensive for both of us.

Plus I'm in a set of circumstances where I'm still needed at home. If I'm home a few days a week, it allows my mom to take substitute teaching jobs. My brother is not legally able to get off the bus and come home by himself as I would at his age. The bus driver cannot let him off. So my mom can only take jobs at the elementary school when I don't have class and am able to be home in the afternoon. I also watch him when they go out.

So right now, moving out is not an option. I did look at colleges away from home, but again, too expensive. When I'm out of college, 22, and working full time, yes I'll move out, hopefully to Florida. And then when my parents are no longer paying for college, they can help me. I think it's great that you were able to move out on your own at 19. I think it's great that your son is moving out, if for no other reason than your sanity. I just can't afford to do that right now.

If you move to Florida you wont be near your beloved Oreo's

 

[StarWarsGirl]

if you can get a full time job.

That's true. I'm not horribly worried about that (yet). The plan is to apply to the Disney college program and then see about going back after I graduate, if I like it. Otherwise, I might stay up here for a while. My next door neighbor is a head hunter and has said that if I need help to just call her. The insurance company I interned for has also said that I can come back and work for them if I want. I don't really like insurance sales, so not sure that I want to, but it's an option. I could also come back to them and they could put in a good word for me if they know of companies hiring. So I've got some options.

 

[FutureCEO]

If you move to Florida you wont be near your beloved Oreo's

I don't like Oreo's. I know you meant the baseball team but...I figured I would talk about the snack.

 

[Gabe1]

It was a little different for me. We were southsiders and then moved just south of Chicago when I was in 5th grade. I could hop on the expressway and be downtown in 20 minutes. When I was younger, they used to have concerts at the Chicago Amphitheater, which was even closer. Then they built Popular Creek - a bit further away, and finally the Rosemont Horizon. I was lucky enough to see a bunch of the old rock groups: The Who, ELP, Journey, Foreigner, Santana, Styx, Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, REO Speedwagon... We were always visiting the museums and all the festivals in Grant Park.

Yeah, I got my long hair set on fire at the Chicago 'Amphitheater. Some stupid fool lighting his pot took out about 12 inches of my hair. Popular Creek is pretty far out from there. The Horizon, I am very familar with, next town over from the suburb I grew up in. My office window looked out over the Horizon, it was great, I'd park in my lot and walk over the creek. My folks would let me travel just about anywhere in the suburbs or into Wisconsin but not Chicago or Indiana. And there were the Indiana Dunes, so that was a challenge.

A friend of mines Dad died building the Horizon along with many other men. I have gone to the arena many many times but always think of him when I look up at the roof from hell.

 

[Gabe1]

I don't like Oreo's. I know you meant the baseball team but...I figured I would talk about the snack.

Ha!

 

[Goofyernmost]

Wow, pre-built suicide equipment. Their motto... You'll get a charge out of our tubs!

When I was 12, we moved into an old, old house, that we shared with mice, raccoons, squirrels, and bats. One of the chimneys ran through the back wall of my bedroom, and the critters scared me so bad, I used to make him sleep with me. In a tiny twin bed, no less.
What I thought a 5-year old could protect me from, I have no idea.

That comes under the philosophy that you don't have to be able to out run the bear. You just have to be faster then the person with you.

 

[Gabe1]

When I was 12, we moved into an old, old house, that we shared with mice, raccoons, squirrels, and bats. One of the chimneys ran through the back wall of my bedroom, and the critters scared me so bad, I used to make him sleep with me.

Wowsers. I house made of animal feces. I'd move at 19 too. Ewe.

 

[wdwmagic]

Still can't upload a file w/iOS 8.2.
Has anyone figured it out yet?

This issue is now resolved

 

[Wrangler-Rick]

• October 14: National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day
• October 14: National Dessert Day

I always say "chocolate makes everythig better". I now have to qualify that statement because I don't think it will make bugs taste any better and I'm not willing to test my theory....

 

[Gabe1]

Wow, pre-built suicide equipment. Their motto... You'll get a charge out of our tubs!

Yep, any jacuzzis hot tubs whirlpool are all wired. Same with pools with built in lights and sound so a TV is nothing more.

 

[FutureCEO]

So guess who had an interview tomorrow at Bloomingdale's as a HR Asst but the store cancelled the interview because they found someone to hire today.

 

[JenniferS]

Wowsers. I house made of animal feces. I'd move at 19 too. Ewe.

The only animals actually IN the house, were the occasional bat and a handful of mice.
The squirrels and raccoons however, resided in the chimney. They made so much noise, scratching and screetching, and having parties every night, that I was terrified.
It took me about a year to realize that they couldn't get out of the chimney (connected to the oil furnace in the basement) any more than I could get into it.

We lived there from the time I was 12 until I was 15.

Aaaahhhhh, the joys of living in a house that was more than 110 years old at the time.
They don't build them like that anymore.
The house is still standing, and probably will continue to be, years after I am worm food.

 

[JenniferS]

So guess who had an interview tomorrow at Bloomingdale's as a HR Asst but the store cancelled the interview because they found someone to hire today.

Carp.

 

[Cesar R M]

That's true. I'm not horribly worried about that (yet). The plan is to apply to the Disney college program and then see about going back after I graduate, if I like it. Otherwise, I might stay up here for a while. My next door neighbor is a head hunter and has said that if I need help to just call her. The insurance company I interned for has also said that I can come back and work for them if I want. I don't really like insurance sales, so not sure that I want to, but it's an option. I could also come back to them and they could put in a good word for me if they know of companies hiring. So I've got some options.

always good to have contacts!

Carp.

here you go!

 

[donaldtoo]

My DD and I got lost in the Science & Industry which is an amazing building and museum on Lake Michigan, the water seems to float to the french steel doors. We wound up in an area that we had never been before through a series of odd hallways. We wound up in the Space area. It was beyond creepity.

Hahaaa...!
I think I would have made a pretty good astronaut. I've loved the idea of space travel since I can remember. Probably didn't hurt that my pop worked at the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Al. in the mid '60's when I was a young kiddo. I sometimes wonder why I never pursued that route...?
Anyway, space is cool and not creepity to me, and I'm not prone to claustrophobia or motion sickness.
One of the partners told me that he freaked a bit the first time he ever rode Mission: Space. Once the door was closed and that panel came right up so close, he said he just couldn't wait to get the heck outta' there.
I'm even more convinced after I did that MRI the other night. No sedative, no problem. I kept catchin' myself dozin' off in there. In fact, later that night is when I asked for somethin' to help me sleep, because I apparently got some rest in that contraption and didn't feel tired anymore....!

 

[Gabe1]

if you can get a full time job.

I don't necessarily agree with college students having a full time job. It isn't easy to graduate with honors and work full time. 'And college is expensive to only give it half the attention it deserves.

 

[donaldtoo]

Maple syrup?

Yes, please...!

 

[JenniferS]

 

[Gabe1]

Hahaaa...!
I think I would have made a pretty good astronaut. I've loved the idea of space travel since I can remember. Probably didn't hurt that my pop worked at the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Al. in the mid '60's when I was a young kiddo. I sometimes wonder why I never pursued that route...?
Anyway, space is cool and not creepity to me, and I'm not prone to claustrophobia or motion sickness.
One of the partners told me that he freaked a bit the first time he ever rode Mission: Space. Once the door was closed and that panel came right up so close, he said he just couldn't wait to get the heck outta' there.
I'm even more convinced after I did that MRI the other night. No sedative, no problem. I kept catchin' myself dozin' off in there. In fact, later that night is when I asked for somethin' to help me sleep, because I apparently got some rest in that contraption and didn't feel tired anymore....!

No the room was very creepity. Needed TLC and some lights.