SPF - You Spin Me Right Round - Billy Idol

Wow, who'da thunk it? I actually got my shit together to do an SPF. I think the Song Title thing made it easy. Scrolled throu my iTunes, found a song and found a pic. This is one of my favorite pictures - Megan, Allen & Jessica probably 11 years ago. Now they're 18, 17 & 14.

For your viewing pleasure....

Meg's school has a "Mr. Foothill" contest each year. This is one of the performances.

I seriously have to give this kid credit. He did an awesome job. Be sure to catch the end.

Great.....

While doing the paperwork to pick up our rental car in San Diego, the clerk asks us why we're visiting. Just being chit-chatty. We tell him we're going to visit SDSU. He then says "Oh, yeah. We've got alot of people working here who used to go there"

FABULOUS!

All I can think of is my kid working at a rent-a-car joint after 4 years of college.

Decisions

So, guess what? Last week Megan lost her virginity!



Airplane travel virginity that is! I know, everybody who hears this can’t believe it, but seriously, none of our kids have ever been on a plane. When you’ve got 3 or 4 kids depending upon the circumstances it gets pricey to do air travel vacations.

Anyhow, it’s getting down to crunch time in our household as far as deciding where Megan’s going to college next year. She’s been so busy with sports and other activities that we hadn’t ever gone to visit campuses. We figured we’d do that once we knew where she was accepted.

One of the final 3 schools is San Diego State. I’ve been to San Diego once as a small child so it was actually really nice to visit and I’d recommend it easily to anyone visiting California. It’s just beautiful.



We visited some of the local touristy areas and attractions and also visited the school. The size of it initially really put us both off. (There are about 36,000 students there). When we went for the official tour and presentation on the second day it became obvious it was a lot more manageable that we originally thought just walking/driving around the campus.

Today she went with her dad to go visit Cal State Chico, which, despite it’s reputation as a huge party school, has an excellent liberal arts/teaching program (what she wants to do).

My personal choice, for many reasons - not only that she’ll be closer to home, is for her to go to St. Mary’s college. It is just half an hour or so away from our house, but she’d live on campus. It’s a much smaller school, just 2500 students and unlike a lot of the state schools, the average class size is 20, virtually all classes are taught by professors and not grad students. I personally think she’d do better in a smaller environment.

So we have to wait and talk about all the options over the weekend and then decide. I will do my best to not be my pushy self and hold things in check.

Oh, and here’s my $.02 on private vs. public schools from this experience. If your child is interested in a private school, even though they’re more expensive, I’d encourage applying. Many of these schools have much more endowment/scholarship money to distribute to students that what the state/public colleges and universities have to work with. Megan got an awesome honors scholarship/financial award package to St. Mary’s which would let her go there for less that what we’d pay for either of the state schools.

Memorialized

Today I was looking up an address on Google maps and noticed that up came a "Street View" picture of the house.

Hmmm, thought and typed in our own address. Up came a front view picture of our house, with both of Kim's cars in front, and whaddayaknow, the picture even shows him out mowing the front lawn! I guess I can't bitch that he never does that anymore.