<p>Shaw I’m in for the champagne tasting.</p>
<p>Yes MP most are attractive but I have VERY high standards. :)</p>
<p>Shaw I’m in for the champagne tasting.</p>
<p>Yes MP most are attractive but I have VERY high standards. :)</p>
<p>I am sure I would have back then. Unless I was too inhibited by the sheer beauty of the others and so hung back. That is a possibility. Are there any statistics about births following the participants 9 months later, condoms and all?</p>
<p>Sent D a fun bracelet and her dog a Tierra I found on sale for $3. Gave G’Son two books while we were up there with a card that we forgot to sign but did not do anything for DIL or S…not sure about that, either. I esp. did something for D because this is her first without her BF. I am half a afraid he is going to send her an email that will be self serving for him and confusing for her. H and I just do candy/flowers, nothing much. Our anniversary is the 16th and we have been celebrating other times of the year as it is a bad weekend to get away. I will make crab cakes and such for dinner. </p>
<p>My client for whom I closed the deal earlier this week just sent me a $90 bottle of wine. (Yes, I looked it up online.) I think I’ll do a blind taste test with H and his boxed wine. </p>
<p>I see we are picking up speed in the conversation, which is nice to see despite the new format! </p>
<p>But since my time is short (visiting my mom who had a fall on Monday night and scared the crap out of everyone due to a bacterial infection which caused her to go unresponsive. A much longer story there, but it’s where I am.</p>
<p>However, I actually have some experience with the tattoo thing! Not sure if anyone recalls, but upon meeting my SIL the first time (and for about a year following), his tattoos had me judging him completely unfairly. I had some stereotype in my head which has been inferred by others here, so I totally get it. In fact, H&I both said recently in talking about SIL that we were VERY unsure of him on the surface and too, we likely took longer to get to know him than we would have otherwise. This is the truth. And I have to say I still am not a fan of the tattoos but I am a huge fan of his. He is a graphic designer, BUT… my older sister’s husband has a number of tattoos that when he wears a plain white T you can’t even see them, but seriously? It’s a T-shirt worth of tattoos. He is a very successful investment guy who looks straight out of the 50’s when dressed.</p>
<p>Our youngest also wanted a tattoo when she was a senior in HS. I thought she was testing my reaction to the idea more than she actually wanted the tattoo. You can do so without parental permission at the age of 18 here. I gave her my niece’s best advice from when she was in her 20’s attending Reed (in Portland Oregon where Tatts are prolific) who is now 32 with no tattoos, who said “Anything you’d want on your body before the age of 30 is something you won’t likely want after the age of 30.” My feeling was, it had to have significant meaning and I’ve never come up with anything I’ve felt that strongly about.</p>
<p>D2 turned 18 Nov 3. It wasn’t until well into January before I even noticed. She got an aztec sun in standard blackish gray on the top of her foot. Do I like it? No. But in the grand scheme of problems, this wasn’t necessarily one. So, I would lean towards counseling her on placement and of course, hygiene. Since our oldest had already gotten her belly button pierced at this place, we had already screened for hygiene. Originally D2 has wanted this sun on the bottom of her foot so she could always be walking on sunshine, but I had already explained that a tattoo on the bottom of a foot would likely get infected and then umm… life would definitely not be sunny. I would also inquire not why she might like a tattoo but the meaning of what she is wanting tattooed. Also, with such proliferation of tattoos in general, this makes her LESS different not more. </p>
<p>Fortunately, D1 has no interest in a tattoo besides one of the teeny tiny ones, and even then doubtful. Her MIL has threatened her S (D’s H) that she will kill him if he ever “allows” her to get one!</p>
<p>So there’s my two cents on the tattoo. Do not get a tramp stamp - they are called that for a reason. But she has a lot of living left to do and I think there are days (like her sister’s wedding) where she would have preferred that tattoo been a little further left, so it wouldn’t show up in dress shoes! Rib cage? Side of ankle? If it is a statement, who is this for? Because above all else, it should solely be for herself (and not, for example, the stupid BF).</p>
<p>Who needs to go to Sochi when this is just down the road:
<a href=“http://www.dailycamera.com/lifestyles/ci_25113305/from-om-omg”>http://www.dailycamera.com/lifestyles/ci_25113305/from-om-omg</a></p>
<p>Added to the I can’t make this stuff up file.</p>
<p>re Immunizations: It won’t help now, but I have immunization records for the whole family. As doctors move from paper to electronic records, stuff doesn’t necessarily go along. As kids get further away from being pediatric patients, or parents change doctors, older stuff gets sent to dead storage or even shredded. And, as learned last month, when docs change from one medical records system to another, not everything transfers. I’m keeping copies of our own stuff for just these reasons. Also, as more practices have been taken over by hospitals, getting records has gotten more painful – more forms, more wait. </p>
<p>For sometime interesting intimacy issues have come up in my work. I recently decided to visit some shops and explore. (H would probably die first). I have had quite the education and would say more except it could now end on Facebook so I won’t. (somehow a post I made is on my H’s Face book and we have no idea how but scary and weird and fortunately benign).
It was pretty cute today when about 4:00 pm the store exploded with young men buying sweet nighties and oils and nothing much more. The store has about 5 rooms and they go from nice knee socks and nighties to the underworld.
I was very uncomfortable for a while but did get over it. The front door is on one of the most main streets of my entire city. I decided that if any of my D or S’s H.S. parents saw me they should just decide to be jealous.
The other clients were just so normal, still the back rooms were quite an experience.</p>
<p>arabrab - whoa! You’re right --definitely can’t make this stuff up.</p>
<p>Good morning.
Missy, if I’m honest, yes.
Shaw, I’ll be there in a sec…are there strawberries too?
I am, as you can see, quite the hedonist!</p>
<p>Short post as I am still in Ann Arbor.
The play was truly flawless and very deftly handled. I’m betting an A+ in terms of thesis, and believe an adjudicator may already have said as much.</p>
<p>We had a lovely post-play visit back at our “hospitality suite” with mcson, mcgf and mcgf’s folks. Very nice, toms of fun. We’re scheming to throw a grad party for mcgf in May, so we’ll get to meet her brother then too.</p>
<p>Also found out the job in SF wouldn’t be until fall…which is nice in terms of no lease hassle and time to plan/save etc. Just a great visit in all.</p>
<p>Bravo, kmcmom13! Glad you are having such a nice visit.</p>
<p>arabrab: OMG! Or is that OM?</p>
<p>Hope Valentine’s Day was wonderful for those who celebrate, and painless for those who don’t. H, D and I had a nice dinner out. I thought we should avoid restaurants, with the combination of Friday night and the holiday, but we ended up at a wonderful restaurant that 1) isn’t on the “main” restaurant row; 2) doesn’t take reservations unless it’s a large party; and 3) we went as soon as we got home from work. We had no wait, and enjoyed a lovely dinner. I also made a dessert H wanted. He was quite subtle about it: printed out the recipe and left it displayed on the kitchen counter.</p>
<p>D thought her phone interview went very well. They said they’d be back in touch, presumably for a second interview, however they are also hiring a position on the west coast and said they were working on filling that position first. So she is still hopeful. In the meantime, they had a couple more interviews to fill the temp position she’s in, and decided against both candidates. I made the mistake of seeing the salary range for the position she’s in. Holy cow! It’s almost tempting enough for her to stay in the position. It’s more than H was making in his last position. The issues: it’s here when she’d rather have a change of scenery; the boss is difficult, and most importantly, she’s concerned if she took a position like that, she’d be stuck career-wise. There would be no place to advance, and she could be pegged as a secretary and it would be hard to break out. I know I had that problem. But still, the salary is quite tempting. She’s hoping the position in Chicago leads to something, but if not, and if they are still unable to fill her position, she might need to think about it again. </p>
<p>Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!</p>
<p>Hi everyone! I remember there was a piece during the summer Olympics about the incredible amount of fooling around during the games - on the heels of a story about the exploits of one of the American male swimmers …Lochte??(sp).
H and I had tickets for a B’way show on Thursday night and we ended up staying in the city due to the storm- I love Hilton and Amex points! Hah! After the show, we went to a benefit in the basement of Studio 54. So cute! All these adorable talented couples from the various choruses in the B’way shows sang love songs with their real life partners. So much fun and such great talent! New couples, married couples, couples who were obviously about to break up, gay couples. And the overwhelming were grads of Carnegie Mellon… who knew? It was like a really, really, REALLY good HS talent show.
D’s BF sent flowers to her at her office - nice move! She had dinner with us last night. The restaurant didn’t know what to do with us… ha! S and his GF went to Shake Shack for dinner and then to an Improv show. Different strokes, I guess.
And by the way, re: MP’s question - I would definitely engage in some Olympic shenanigans!</p>
<p>Missypie - Since you already told D2 that she can have a tattoo, I think you really do need to stick with that. Good idea to make stipulations as to where said tatoo is allowed to be and for you to go with her.</p>
<p>Glad you had a good time , woody. Your comment “grads of Carnegie Mellon_ who knew?” caught my attention. Husband is a CMU grad. Lots and lots of actors and Broadway people have come out of Carnegie Mellon so not surprising you would see so many at the benefit.</p>
<p>S1 and his girlfriend of almost 3 years have broken up. They have broken up before briefly but this seems to be it . I like her so I feel for my son but for her also. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.</p>
<p>Speaking of medical records, I did some digging today due to a total lack of communication yesterday to find out that the hospital had implemented a new medical records software just this past Tuesday - that with every doctor note pages of documentation is generated. That each doc/nurse has to then scroll thru to find the relevant, most recent information is absolutely absurd… but it was then confirmed by every doc/nurse we saw. It was more confession from one of the nurses that besides there being a learning curve, it’s a pain to find the most recent down and dirty notes/orders. I appreciate the honesty and told her to take notes because while I can accept a learning curve, there was a big snafu yesterday that seriously affected patient care. And that was pretty unacceptable. Yesterday when I was like, how could something like this happen, the male nurse had basically said, these things happen, it’s just the nature of the beast etc. Not sure why he didn’t just confess… every single doctor and nurse we’ve mentioned it to has had an opinion. My thinking was if Facebook or Text etc can set for VIP status, surely this software could highlight or flag specific issues/infection or change in a patient’s status, especially if all this documentation is being auto generated based on doctors notes. The truth is, I think it’s also a bunch of “prescriptives” as well - as if docs can’t have individual “opinions” based on individual patient needs. </p>
<p>Personally, if I have learned one thing the last week it’s that multiple opinions based on experience and/or the typical is hugely helpful to making confident decisions. But what I noticed most is that when Mom’s surgeon went out of town and her condition deteriorated, they mostly just put her in a holding pattern, putting out fires until my sister and I arrived on Weds morn. </p>
<p>All of this to say… gather what you can when you can. I have photocopies of my kids’ immunizations and they each have a copy as well. If they go to a doc, they’re to always take it with them as it has last tetnus (sp? I give up) on there as well.</p>
<p>Moda, thatt sucks. I’m glad you’re there to keep them honest. Sending ya the mojo.</p>
<p>CQ, glad interview went well and sending extra heaps of fairy dust.</p>
<p>Woody, sounds like a lovely trip. I wish NYC was a wee bit closer to me and I wish mch wasn’t adverse to said city. Don’t know what NYC ever did to him but he has had about a dozen opportunities for fun there since I’ve known him and he simply does not go. I think there were two events in his life that overloaded him on human density. The first was Woodstock, where as a too-young attendee he got trapped near the front for days, and the second was a gig in Hong Kong for his former co. where he worked for a few years. He is definitely crowd-adverse today. He still likes Toronto for whatever reason, but I notice even there we stay on the water :)</p>
<p>Moda - I read your Momma’s entire Caringbridge. She is such a spunky lady - I like her. </p>
<p>North minn - you might be able to find D’s MMR record through the school system. In my town, we keep the students’ health records including immunizations with the education records in central office after graduation.</p>
<p>ararab - O.M.G.!! That si so beyond my comfort level —justing reading about it!</p>
<p>sevmom - I had no idea about CMU. it must have been an interesting college experience with such a mix of tech and arts.</p>
<p>My H surprised me and planned a weekend in Newport we had a lovely time. He has never done that in almost 30years of marriage. I sent my kids things candy and GC to supermarkets, and other sundries. CBB wonder if I will ever run into your D. </p>
<p>That’s so sweet that your husband planned a weekend in Newport ,downtoearth. Glad you had a lovely time.</p>
<p>woody, yes, it IS interesting at a place like CMU. There is somewhat of a divide between tech and the arts. Although my husband roomed with 3 other guys in an apartment (I met him when I was 19 so I knew all of his roommates). . 3 of the 4 were tech guys. The other one was a BFA guy in set design. My H has totally lost touch with him but this prompted me to google him and found him on IMDB. He has been in art direction and set design in lots of movies and TV shows filmed around New York, some of them pretty big movies. I was glad to see he’s been so successful.</p>
<p>That’s pretty much the mix on north campus at Umich too. Mcson had a lot of crossover in terms of friends, but in his case, he kinda straddles both worlds :)</p>
<p>Speaking of mcson, my report from the field was light on details. Not exciting but interesting that wage slave employer #1 asked mcson to give up his other job and take management training. Mcson politely declined, reasoning that employer #2 had better future potential inline with his desired work and while he was flattered, he did not want to be trapped in the lifestyle of employer #1.</p>
<p>I think he chose well, considering the variables. What was interesting was that it put to bed any concerns I had that his LD would render him ineffective as a wage slaver He says no matter what happens, his experience in wage slave land has taught him things I never could have, and that he’ll always be grateful for the perspective its given him.</p>