Parents of the HS Class of 2009 (Part 1)

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<p>Congrats to dte D!!! Yay!!! Hope the internship is everything she hopes for!</p>

<p>D1 wears dark denim wide leg “trouser” cut jeans as she can wear “dressy” jeans for work at the arena on some days. She likes the ones made by 7 For All Mankind Jeans that she gets at Nordstrom, this style but darker color . ([7</a> For All Mankind® ‘Dojo’ Stretch Trouser Jeans (Midnight New York) | Nordstrom](<a href=“http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/7-for-all-mankind-dojo-stretch-trouser-jeans-midnight-new-york/3251206?origin=category&contextualcategoryid=0&fashionColor=&resultback=0]7”>http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/7-for-all-mankind-dojo-stretch-trouser-jeans-midnight-new-york/3251206?origin=category&contextualcategoryid=0&fashionColor=&resultback=0)) Working in the front office of a sports team is more casual than working in downtown Minneapolis where D2 works. D2 wouldn’t be caught dead in them! She can wear nice jeans on Fridays and likes dark denim but only if they are skinny jeans.</p>

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<p>I am enjoying reading your thought on life and dying. I have always had the opinion that I would not prolong my life and my H is more of the “going naturally” attitude. However when his father became ill and had strokes this summer he was sad but grateful that his end only lasted a month. He could see the toll it was takingon his mother.
I began volunteering at the hospice center to hang out with my D (who loves it there and has considered palliative medicine) and also to see if my ideas about dying would change. They have not–if anything, as I see these lovely people waiting for death and their families lives suspended–I am conviced that for many of us a quicker death would be a blessing. This hospice is amazing. There are often more staff and volunteers than patients. Dogs, art, music, good food, places for families to sleep, gardens. The nurses and CNA’s are kind to their core. They adore working there. Often there will be 8 beds and 6 will be from 50-68 yrs old, We have had a number of brain injuries leading to death from bike and ladder accidents.
Getting long winded here. I just think we each have an attitude about death and that we, also, cannot know if a type of survival need might just click in when we think we learn we are actively dying. One of lifes ponderings. I studied Kubler-Ross’s material in my early 20’s, saw her speak, and this formed many of my thoughts. Her own death turned out to be a sad affair and is much misunderstood. She felt that she was mistreated and sometimes pysically hurt by her caretakers.
I am glad I live in a state that allows choice about dying.</p>

<p>Congrats to so many! and Greece/Italy trips too. We have sun! So must put away these thoughts and get some vitamin D.</p>

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<p>echo your thoughts about hospice, oregon. my mom had in-home hospice care for the last couple of weeks and it was truly a godsend. we thought the hospice nurses were angels sent from heaven. so kind, so gentle, so knowledgable. and even after mom’s death the hospice took care of us, providing counseling for my kids and for me.</p>

<p>I don’t want to prolong this sad topic, but I think its natural that at our age and with the age and health of our parents, we are starting to think about how these issues will affect us, not just the generation before us. I am hopeful (because I am mostly a Pollyanna) that given the size of our age cohort, we as a society will have to do better when it comes to aging and dying. I don’t know what that will look like, but I hope more of us have the choices oregon101 has. either that or we’ll all just have to move to Oregon!</p>

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<p>I know I’ve said this before but my Dad died at 52 extremely sudden, although he was in the hospital at the time. But I remember my great grandmothers (two of them). My grandparents were determined to make sure they didn’t burden their own kids. My Grandfather became sick not too long following retirement and my Mom, who was a geriatric nurse, actually quite her job and moved in to help. She was single at the time, had just gone back to school to get her nursing degree and ended up buying a house down there after Grandpa died. My grandmother lived to 93 and had, in better days, arranged her own deal. First it was a One Bedroom to a studio type thing to the hospital/hospice care. While there was nothing left once she passed away, it didn’t fall on anyone else either and no one had to “do” something to her she didn’t know was going to happen.</p>

<p>Seriously, Oregon, your mom sounds like a real piece of work, but I am sure she is just scared. I imagine she is also lonely and has no idea how to even be friendly anymore. Who knows, but wouldn’t it be great if once she moved into this place, she at least made a friend? Yeah, I know… but one can dream!</p>

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<p>*:: enters quietly ::</p>

<p>:: places platter of oatmeal chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, almond crackies, chocolate chip, and gluten-free brownies and blondies on the table ::</p>

<p>:: slices tiramisu and blackcurrant tart, and arranges plates for them ::</p>

<p>:: adds tray of crudit</p>

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<p>Owlice, I kinda love you.<br>
Lol</p>

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<p>owlice = best. virtual. friend. ever. thank you.</p>

<p>edited out exclamation point - don’t want to shout in your quiet space. :)</p>

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<p>more wine and sinful please</p>

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<p>*:: pours wine ::</p>

<p>:: sins ::*</p>

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<p>Loving the wine! Have had too much IRL…just finished having dinner and playing 500 with friends. Am awake way too late! I am definitely a sinner! ;)</p>

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<p>Love the snackies owlice.</p>

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<p>If we all had a friend IRL like owlice, maybe we wouldn’t be longing for a wife. </p>

<p>Worked out in the yard yeteday for a while in capris and a t-shirt. It felt so freeing to be outdoors, not bundled up.</p>

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<p>Thanks, Owlice, I needed that. Haven’t had a good allotment of sin this week ;)</p>

<p>I went snowshoeing yesterday at a nearby conservation area and really enjoyed it. The terrain is hilly enough to ensure a reasonably strenuous workout. I also had the opportunity to recall why I’ve avoided buying/trying cross country skis after nearly being run over by an out-of-control woman on one of the taller hills :wink: That, I’m afraid, would be me!</p>

<p>Friday night when out for drinks a new pal/neighbor was tempting me to do cross-country with her and her friend on Saturday on the same trail. Another friend, who is a triathlete and knows what she’s doing said “OMG do not go there to learn Nordic” and now I undrstand why.</p>

<p>I think I’d enjoy Nordic immensely but I’m a little concerned about not twisting my back when I already have facet joint syndrome and know those joints can lock up n a twist pretty easily and can take a long time to unlock. On one hand I hate to be cowed by a back; on the other, I’d like to avoid walking with a cane and enduring the pain anytime soon. Maybe if I meet my fitness level goals this year ill try it next year. It would be a great motivator to have a friend just up the road who loves to go! I could practice my turns and hill walking pretty easily in the back transition field, but my forest trail is too much of a tangle, I’m afraid, and the hills beyond it are way higher than even the conservation trail.</p>

<p>NM, sounds like a lovely evening. We’ve been a tad hermitesque around here this month with h’s tests and what not. I am amazed by how much I’m looking forward to a night out next Saturday to the cabin fever blues fest, because cabin fever describes my restlessness!</p>

<p>Normally by now I’m plotting travel junkets to beat cabin fever, but with graduation, grad thesis performances, mcgf’s upcoming play, having bought mcson his grad gift early, and a summer Newfoundland reunion in the offing, plus the imminent but still undated Greece trip in either late 13 or 14 (a wedding date is involved and has not yet been set) , I’m kind of in flux. </p>

<p>I will live vicariously through the rest of you wander ers in the mean time, and will be especially interested in the Grecian travels. My friend’s fiances family all live in Athens, but if I end up going that far, I also want to try to work in a cruse of the area.</p>

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<p>Owlice, I am going to start clipping your posts so I have ideas for S1’s wedding reception food. Or better yet, get you to make all this yummy stuff! :D</p>

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<p>Mmmm! Thanks owlice! Yummmmy!</p>

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<p>lol, eddieodessa!</p>

<p>I’m glad you all enjoyed the snackies. </p>

<p>missypie, believe me, you’d still need a wife! I’m useless at everything domestic except feeding people.</p>

<p>CD, though the marriage to exH2 was not a success, the wedding reception menu was, and I’d be happy to share that with you. (I probably shared it on this site somewhere years ago; it was <em>really</em> good. Excellent catering; my main job was paying for it.)</p>

<p>Called the kid; he’s in NYC for the weekend! Well!!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the snacks Owlice - as always it comes at just the right moment with just the right amount of sin!</p>

<p>H&I watched a movie on Demand - Hope Springs. Has anyone seen that? Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. Struck a little close to home in their lack of connection as the decades of marriage go by (they were married 31 years). Obviously, it was extreme, but it definitely started a conversation that was unexpected. I am not sure if H liked it as much as I did, but we definitely could fall into the same situation in another 10 years if we’re not careful! I very much enjoyed the reminder. Steve Carrel played the therapist in a very straight man role, which was unusual, but I thought again he did a great job.</p>

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<p>owlice, my renewed commitment to healthy eating is about to go out the window with your return. Every time you post about food I am thinking about something to eat! And of course I had to do a search to see what you had at your reception. No, I’m not food obsessed. Not in the slightest. Okay, well, maybe a little. </p>

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<p>km–I am very experienced at nordic. Love or rather loved it. Decided last year that I am no longer going anywhere other than flat. Use to love long downhill runs. I have decided that I am not risking a broken anything for a good afternoon. There are also just too many dogs and people on the trails and many make it a more dangerous sport. It had been years and years since I had taken a spill until one dog and one person decided to move into my path…so now we are looking for the perfect snowshoes. H still downhill skiies a few times a season. For sure learn to fall properly if you go forward-- important. I have taught a number of friends to ski and this comes first.
Love the menu! Yummy. I think I should start a wedding file for D-- it will be needed most likely in 1-2 years.
Mod–saw Hope Springs. We were with friends who are much younger and they did not identify at all. Carrel was quite good.
We went to a one man play about James Beard, “I Love To Eat”. It was well done but I thought the script could have been stronger. One thing bugged me–this was arranged through H’s work–we were given gift bags. Geez–I really do not need a party favor. Some flyers, a magazine thing they had for their 25th celebration and a mug that is for cappuccino with the companies name on it. It was like getting a ribbon for showing up for soccer. Landfill. Wanted to leave it but the organizer was too pleased and so…decided not to act like my mother:).</p>

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<p>Love those yummy snacks, owlice.</p>

<p>Saw the “Hope Springs” movie when it came out. I was really expecting more of a comedy, but enjoyed it. It spoke a lot to me.</p>

<p>Not doing much of anything this afternoon, just reading and relaxing. I will probably see some of the Superbowl as H & S will watch. I need to watch last week’s Downton episode at 8 (missed it last week in NYC, but thanks to the WaPo I know the spoiler) as well as this weeks’ episode at 9.</p>