Parents of the HS Class of 2009

[missypie]

I WAS the girl with the crown and sash. Back in 1978.

Ooh, ooh, are you famous? Would it be too identifying to tell us which Miss you were?

[missypie]

H and I are going to our first HS football game of the season. We play the team that has the huge Tongan guys who do the Haka dance. We are actually favored to win this year, which is very scary because we have never beat them and have a long history of being psyched out by them.

Younger D - the former HS cheerleader - has ZERO interest in attending the game.

[Bandie Mom]

Fudge sounds really good right now. Yummy!!

So doctor said no surgery, but I will have to get 3 shots of Hyaluronic Acid. Said I was a candidate for knee replacement in the future. Well, I now know right.

DD is doing well and the weather here is finally feeling like fall.

[arabrab]

Oooh Eddie -- was it poofy hair? And a crown?? Pictures?

[kmcmom13]

Bandie, I hope it heals up nicely for you. Sending ya knee regeneration light!

Eddie! All these years and we had no idea we were among polite company Do tell of life from the throne!

[kmcmom13]

Also, I had posted a funny pic of mcson at age 7 swinging at a birthday piñata for his bday yesterday. Gave me the opportunity to notice all the kids who wished him a happy birthday when several commented. Two interesting things -- 1) every girl he ever half-dated posted some kind of good wish or inside joke. 2) His friends seem to hail from literally all over the country/world. The first posts were from three austrians he met four years ago on an exchange. The rest are clearly people he connected with at Umich, plus a few others from the music scene.

It certainly makes him seem sophisticated/cosmopolitan
It's interesting how Facebook seems to on one level facilitate keeping in touch (even with x-girlfriends) and it's also interesting how diverse his student body is at his school. I'm so glad he's had this opportunity!

I think I want to be 21 again

[FallGirl]

kmc- Happy Birthday to your S! It says a lot of good things about him that he is on good terms with the ex's and has also made so many friends from all over. He sounds like one of the good guys.

missypie you gave me an idea. We need to make a parade float for all of us who never got to be the queen. It will be BYOT (bring your own tiara). Of course , eddie you will be invited to ride too.

Spent the am getting ready for H's family to get here. Thankfully they are nice. After reading that MIL thread in the cafe I am doubly thankful.

[missypie]

kmc, what a cool insight into your son.

Well our much lauded football team lost and it wasn't even close. What in the world has happened to me that I was sincerely disappointed? I went to a total of ONE of my own HS football games, and that was only because a friend was drum major of the band and I wanted to see what he did. (BTW, our marching band show is bad this year.)

Rainy day so the fundraiser car wash was cancelled....a free day! I am going to make "homemade" (boxed) cupcakes for D to take to a choir party tonight - I hate to send her with a tray of grocery store sweets. I also think I'll go buy two books I want to read before they come out in paperback! The Barnes and Noble discount price is just about $4 more that the paperback price and why oh why does anyone who is a partner at a large law firm have to justify buying two hardback books? I mean, it's not a sports car or a face lift. Always practical.

[FallGirl]

^buy the books! Go for it!

[oregon101]

missypie you do not need to justify buying books--you just need to be annoyed about something or with someone and then you just go into the bookstore and buy 3! books- even a hardback (which I never do). Just read my first book on my IPad and real books just feel so much better to me. Anyway, I had a fun time at the bookstore the other day.
Bought: Room, The Cat's Table, and Miss Peregrin's home for Peculiar Children (which I will pass to a 14 yr old and we will go to lunch and discuss). (It is excellent!)

Educate me please--do the titles go in quotes or are they italicized?

[college_query]

I'm pretty sure book titles should be italicized. Quotes are for a "smaller" things. So if the book is an anthology, the book title is in italics and the title of an essay in the anthology is in quotes.

But I could easily be wrong. I still put two spaces after periods and that's passé.

[sevmom]

kmcmom. Congratulations on your son's 21st! My 25 year old just let me know an hour ago that he had just landed back at Dulles after his first trip to Europe. Even at that age, I was relieved to know he was back safely. I still remember the day he was born!

[woody]

Happy B'day to McSon!! Is he the last of our '13ers to hit the big milestone??

[shawbridge]

Happy McBirthday.

italics typically.

ShawSon is floundering a bit -- three courses that are essentially independent studies plus a GF at a distance (and they don't appear to do distance well) plus job search. 1/3 of the semester is done and he's probably not far enough along on the independent courses. One course is well in hand and one is an art course he's taking P/F. So, just two to get under control. But, he's got the will to pull things together and do his usual over the top thing.

[oregon101]

How can you do italics on this forum?
Happy McBday
Good luck Shawson
H is cooking a pork roast. We have been vegetarians for 30 of our 31 years together. He is trying a gluten free diet for 6 weeks and meat has become his "go to".
He has rarely, if ever, cook anything but eggs. Does do a great kitchen clean up.
He used an old steak knife to cut beets. He is so dangerous in the kitchen. Nearly pulled a hot pan on himself. Then he says I am not encouraging him. Really? Who will be there when you have to go to the ER and when you have skin grafts?