It's the most wonderful time of the year!

[leslie]

They went back to school today!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOHOOO!!

finally some 'me' time again!

 

[fury]

My brothers went back the 12th. Seems the school years are getting longer and longer each year... when I was going, they didn't start until late August damn near September.

 

[leslie]

ours is always the day after Labour Day...which is the first Monday in Sept

looooooooooooooooong summers

 

[Noite Escura]

And when I was a kid I wondered why did the adults invented school. Now I know

 

[Huge]

 

[Neo]

hehe mine have been back for a few weeks, its nice but at the same time worse. Now i got all this extra ciriculr shit to attend to. and home work...

 

[greenfreak]

Leslie, you see those Staples commercials with the father dancing in the aisles, buying school supplies while the kids morosely shuffle behind? That's a great commercial.

While I have no kids and don't know your joy, I'm happy for all of you.

 

[leslie]

I loooooooooooooooove that commercial!!

it really captures the joy in a way that can't be expressed any other way

 

[leslie]

but I did get smacked upside the head by one little 'schoolcaused' stress...

the impossibility of finding 9 snacks per day providing variety fun and nutrition while ensuring that said snacks contain no nuts of any kind whatsoever

 

[greenfreak]

My mom used to make me cream cheese and jelly sandwiches with a scooter pie and 25 cents for a container of milk.

YUMMY.

 

[alex]

Mine are out of the house

 

[Professur]

Alright folks. How much did you have to pony up in school supplies and new clothes?

 

[leslie]

I only bought pencils/pens/blah blah... about $30 at the dollar store, new ballcaps at Old Navy x 3 for $10 each, and Zach needed a new jacket and winter coat which I found at Value Village (secondhand store) - got a plether jacket and a cool black coat for $20 total.

So I didn't do too bad at all

 

[Nixy]

I already racked up a bill of $500 and that doesn't include my pens/pencils/paper/printer/furniture/tuition. That is just my damned books!!!

Oh, I didn't include clothes in that list cause I didn't get any...damn tuition was like $6200

*can't wait for her OTC shirt, YAY NEW CLOTHES*

 

[greenfreak]

I'm not going back to school and don't have kids that are but we went shopping today anyway.

I bought a 'how-to' book on orchids, another book on orchids that is a little bit factual a little bit fiction, a regular fiction book to read, this month's issue of Fine Gardening magazine, bark/charcoal mix for potting my new orchids, Rusty bought workout clothes, I bought a couple of nice fall/winter sweaters and some really cool lookin green pants.

Then, finally, home. I'm tired. I'm really not a shopper. Still, we need to get ink cartridges for our printer from Amazon and maybe a CD case for work and one of those CD sleeves that you attach to your car visor.

 

[freako104]

I went back on august 23. classes began the 25th. fall break is coming soon tho.