<p>I guess I am feeling nasty as I want to mention that her mother teaches 2nd grade and her father is a superintendent.
So one would hope be more present for her.</p>
<p>Oregon101, how lovely to send flowers! I hope your DIL has a great interview.</p>
<p>Congrats NM on D2! I know my D (who only had 2 exams) felt such a huge relief when having to study every spare moment was behind her.</p>
<p>Two days down at new job training. It’s a transition from feeling competent and knowledgable in my old job to stumbling around learning new software. Fortunately there is also overlap so many of the new things I do already know how to do.</p>
<p>H reports our old dog’s eyesight is worse than we suspected. Now that he’s in our new home his blindness is more apparent. But said he doesn’t seem stressed, thankfully. He handled the long car ride well, which is good since he had never been on one before!</p>
<p>Oregon - how thoughtful of you. Some families (my H’s) are just like that. They don’t do anything - matter of fact not one of them is attending DILs baby shower? I know that it is a 3.5 hour drive but I did it for their kids!</p>
<p>Oh well – I’ll have a better time without them. :)</p>
<p>Baby quilt is DONE!!! I’ve never made a quilt before. There are mistakes but it still came out nice. Hopefully I learned and the next one will be better. :)</p>
<p>oregon…what a kind and caring gesture! Sending out prayers and our famous CC fairy dust for a good interview for DIL! </p>
<p>cq…glad your training is going well. How wonderful that you are learning something new and are understanding more and more as your training continues. So happy for you! Hoping your dog stays stress free and finds his way around the new house and neighborhood quickly and safely.</p>
<p>woody…fascinating info! I would have loved being there to hear the speaker. CD…keeping my fingers crossed that your son finds his way easily and quickly! </p>
<p>kmc…I bet being around the young talent is fun for you. Your place of business must be electric with their energy. Sounds like your S is in a good place.</p>
<p>RM…Hooray on finishing the quilt! I bet it is adorable! What a nice keepsake for the baby.</p>
<p>Would love to see the quilt, rochmom! I’m stitching a needlepoint point pillow for the newest addition to woody family - my nephew’s daughter.</p>
<p>My sister is a quilter - does some gorgeous stuff - both with the hand stitching and with fabric design. I’m thinking of asking her to do a quilt for my SIL who will marry for the first time at age 50 this spring. :-0</p>
<p>SIL asked my D to play violin for her processional at the service - D hasn’t played for an audience in quite a while and would love the opportunity. Her college’s orchestra was filled with music majors and the time commitment was impossible for her. So this should be nice opportunity for her!</p>
<p>Would love to see the quilt - my Mom was an amazing talent, my sister is taking over the reigns (but pilfered through all of mom’s fabrics) and made a beaut for our new second cousin. </p>
<p>So very kind of you to send flowers Oregon! As soon as S is accepted I will definitely be sending his GF flowers just for surviving him! Good luck to your DIL on her interview!! So stressful on a lot of levels. is it her only so far? While I am hoping S gets good news from his heart’s desire, so many keep saying there will likely be more in the spring. But I have to agree that it’s somewhat incongruent that you’d have two parents in what would be considered nurturing roles be so … umm… un-nurturing. But some people see “celebrations” as spending vs celebrating.</p>
<p>S had rewritten his letter of interest about 15 ways from Sunday. He says in it that he didn’t want to miss an opportunity to say how much he would love to attend… and I say, you will if you don’t send!!! :)</p>
<p>Thanks all. It was my Aunt’s funeral today and my 2nd cousin sent me a nice pic of the flowers we sent. I was up way to late last night and woke up thinking I was a bit of an idiot. Then all of you posted support. Later in the day my D texted that it was wonderful that I had sent the flowers to DIL and such a nice message-- but wondered if I was dying of a cancer and not telling her as my message was an “We love you”…sort.
Very funny. I am extremelly generous but hate fan fair–which is what I think she was saying.
D is never annoyed or threatened when I make DIL important–or spend $ on her.
That might be my marker that I did a good job with her. </p>
<p>Good morning. Glad your DIL was appreciative of your gesture, Oregon.</p>
<p>Missy, how is the new location so far…or is that Monday?
(I can’t seem to remember my own skedder this week so. May have mixed yours up too ;)</p>
<p>Felt like I had back to back to back meetings yesterday. Like it much better when I actually have some time to do the work 
Madcap, I know!</p>
<p>I have come to notice through the years that leading up to an election of any sort seems to cause some kind of activity moratorium, and then the day after its settled one way or another, suddenly everyone seems to kick back into gear. I find it very strange.</p>
<p>If I can figure out how to not have the photo show on my newsfeed I would could post a photo of the quilt on the Facebook group but I need to make sure that it won’t show on my newsfeed. Will need to investigate.</p>
<p>Isn’t it a private closed group?</p>
<p>oregon - so nice that the cousins sent you a pix of the flowers! An moda… great idea to send the GF some flowers.</p>
<p>I’ll never forget the bouquet my H’s boss sent me after H completed a rather life-sucking project. I’ll always think fondly of that guy!</p>
<p>I would love to see a picture of the quilt, RM. Remind me again - when is baby due?</p>
<p>oregon- that was so nice of you to send the flowers to your DIL, and for being so thoughtful especially when you are having stressful times yourself. Wishing your DIL all the best with interview.</p>
<p>Rumor is big upheaval at work very soon. Trying to just go in and do what I need to do.</p>
<p>Due date is Jan. 5th. I’m currently predicting that even though it is the first I think she is going to go early but we will see. 
So if it’s a closed group and I post no one else will see it? Won’t appear on my newsfeed?</p>
<p>Just had to chime in on the flower sending. One time I went down to Houston to close a deal. As soon as I got there I realized there was way too much work for one person so I asked an associate to fly down and help me. He did it without complaint but did let me know that it was his wife’s birthday and her first birthday of their married life. And I made him miss it. Yes, I sent her flowers. </p>
<p>Yes the new assignment started Monday. I have not yet curled into a fetal position and wept, so I guess I am doing fine. Corporate life is SO different than private practice. Not having a window is a challenge. Yes I realize that I am very lucky to have a window in my regular office. I gave yet to get the hang of waving my badge in front of the reader to get in in the morning. No free coffee. No free packets of sweetener. Office supplies under lock and key. The thing that blows me away the most is the hierarchy… Who reports to whom. I have not had a boss for close to two decades. </p>
<p>Ha, Rochmom! I am the last person who should be giving FB advice. I barely know how to sign in!</p>
<p>If you upload to that specific page, all is good. No one else can see your posts - we post a ton of pictures on the family page. My cousin has been very particular about the new baby, which is fine by me as long as she posts on our family facebook wall. And just so you know, you can’t share photos to the page either. You have to put them there and only there.</p>
<p>S sent the ltr. Thankfully.</p>
<p>OK… I should have come here first, but there is little I can do about it now anyway. I was looking in NYC for a place to stay over thanksgiving, but then S convinced us to stay closer to him in Brooklyn. So I did kind of what we did when we went to see D in SF by looking at the map to look at listings. BUT… here’s the thing… In my head, I had the exterior visual (and location) of one place combined with the interior of another (but where the location wasn’t as good). And without even double/triple checking - which is completely unlike me ever - I booked it. Anyway… thing is, this place had a strict cancellation policy and I can’t really cancel even if I wanted to without losing half of $$ for five nights. I think it will be fine, because like I said, the inside seems great. But since I’m driving and will need to park on the street, I don’t want to have to worry even though its by no means a new car. The good news is that S’s apartment will be just two blocks and we’ll be equidistant from the train - and he knows how to get where he’s going. I can only hope for great NYC weather for Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>I am going to try to score some tickets on the money we saved from not staying in the city! I looked briefly at Book of Mormon but they look to start around $350 and that is definitely out of my budget for four of us. And seriously, who knows what we’re going to do for thanksgiving dinner. But it’s an adventure and even though D1 won’t be there, it will be fun to do something with the four of us and she’ll have my two sisters in SF. </p>
<p>RM, on FB if you post something in a private/closed group, only members of that group can see it. You can see your post and other posts from the private group in your own newsfeed, but others who are outside the group cannot.</p>
<p>I had an absolutely lovely evening with oregon101 tonight. Saw some lovely sights and experienced delicious local culinary delights. She is wonderful and gracious and we discovered we have way less than six degrees of separation! It is a very small world.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is my last day here for training. I’m feeling confirmation that the new job is a great fit. Also the opposite experience from you, Missypie. After working for a public university, a private company is a very different environment. </p>
<p>I had a delightful evening with cq! We met and then took the tram up Pill Hill to the medical center and walked through the amazing garden. drove by the water front and then down Hippie Hawthorne. Had dinner at Pok Pok and then walked an entire block to have Salt and Straw Ice Cream. Then drove to Powell’s (largest bookstore this side of the Miississippi) and parked in the Whole Foods garage making me buy $10 of food to pay for the parking. Actually, more difficult NOT to buy more.
She is great, I know some of you have already met her. </p>
<p>The amazing thing is that my H lived in Lahore and she did also. They attended the same school. Her brothers were friends with his. H cannot wait to tell his mother about all of this. What a small and interesting world! She was best friends with the D of H’s parents very close friends. Another name came up from her life there and I was the maid of honor for that person. CQ’s brother was a friend of the bride’s brother.</p>
<p>Wow. Very fun evening.</p>
<p>BTW cq–we will be in NYC in April and maybe H can meet your then.</p>
<p>OK , I just saw your post! Hope I did not share too much info!</p>
<p>That’s so cool!</p>
<p>I’d been thinking actually, how interesting a fiction novel might be wherein anonymous members of a bulletin board in real life and unbeknownst to them might be overlapping in a plot. Kinda an omniscience challenge ;)</p>
<p>Gads km–just use us and cut to the chase on the research</p>
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