Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 06, 2010

It’ll look familiar to anyone who’s ever known a 13-year-old girl.

Love creates hormones, I say, no matter what your age!

Poor Phil - I’m afraid he will NEVER understand!

2 things a man CAN’T reason with are Hurricane Season and the Female Hormone !

It is a re-run. I have the original stuck up on my fridge!

Don’t pay them and they moan………………….

I had a daughter like that. She’s 20 now… Hallelujah!!!!!!!!

Holly is growing up… is it PMS, that dreaded time of the month when a woman will act like a man does all the time?

It happenss again around 43. Thirteen is for training, just as the “terrible twos” train for teen age.

And the Oscar for best dramatic performance goes to… Holly!!! (Clapclapclapclapclap)

@N7326 Foxtrot – are you speaking from experience? I’ve never heard of the age 43 one…

I don’t think I went through this when my daughter was that age. But then Holly is a drama queen. Is school over for SS?

@lightenup The 43 bit is the first tweaks of menopause, although I’d say 43 is a little early. Try 53. Anyway, rewinding the hormones isn’t any more fun than releasing them in the first place and a lot of us menopausal sorts are suffering from hot-flash induced sleep deprivation. It makes a girl pretty snarly and loopy sometimes.

Catherine I’m there myself. Though ended my timely a little late. Was using something to stay normal but notice things different finished a product and my body celebrated with having sleep problems at times not hot flashes either. I’m 54 to been free for 3 years yea. Now angry at employers not wanting someone my age for full time I work pt in office setting for past 8 years. Main reason too many looking for work can’t compete for someone with high education. 300+to 1000 applying for jobs. No I don’t feel better venting. Just annoying others. I hope someone else is in my shoes to.

I caught that, Yukoneric - an oldie, but still a good one!

@Kab Buch, is there any reasonable (and realistic) way for you to pick up college credits (while continuing to work part-time)? So in a job interview you could say, “I’m working at it.” Because it seems to me that making an effort must count for something?

Of course, it depends on what facilities are available. The university that I went to, you went full-time for four years to get your bachelor’s degree. None of this accumulating of credits! And no evening or summer courses, either!

But there was another university in the same city, that did run on the system of accumulating credits, and had evening classes as well as day classes. In fact, when the school first opened, it was for people who hadn’t been able to finish high school even, because they had to go to work. Gradually the school added classes for people who wanted university credits as well.

All this to say that where there is a school, lots of people will go to it, and it becomes an acceptable thing to do.

I used to teach Jr High. This is EXACTLY what it’s like. Imagine being trapped in a room with 15 of these creatures and approx the same number of boys who bring their own special brand of pubescent craziness to the mix. Now, try holding their attention for 50 minutes with something as exciting as English Grammer… LOL

You know God had to have a sense of humor, since it seems the “Change” for Mom happens around the same time her kids are teenagers with their own hormonal swings.

Those are all my emotions & I’m pushing 50. I need a hug

LOL! I was once Holly and am still more like her than I should be.. God bless my husband for putting up with it. ;)

@Rrmom - too right!

@dapperdan - no worries. Have a hug.

I thought the strip appropriate for today since Phil is hanging out with them more now. like all last week. Though that was probably just Memorial Day. Now it’s Sunday and he’s still wearing his uniform?