^^^LOL, mp – “unfortunate first name…” Hope you can get everything sorted out. Since I didn’t change my name when I got married, I’ve never had to deal with any of that.
D’s birthday was yesterday – 27! What I want to know is how exactly did this happen??? Just the other day I was pushing her in a stroller …
It’s official – yesterday we (Boston) broke the record for total amount of snow. Now that we’ve checked that off the list, it’s time for spring, in a really big way. The snow is melting though, and as c_q mentioned earlier, all the trash, etc. is showing up. Truly disgusting!
Utter failure on the name change. But the weather is beautiful and I stopped by Pei Wei on the way back, so it’s not all bad. I can’t even think of how one would find a real person at DPS with independent decision making authority. They way the only way to remove my first name from my driver’s license is to do a legal name change. That seems rather drastic.
Which reminds me that the third medical appointment I tried to make, where I left a message over a week ago, has not called me back yet. I guess I need to try again. The medical appointment I had Saturday had entered my name into the system incorrectly (transposed first and last names), so I had to fish out my driver’s license (which they had already taken, along with my insurance card, when I checked in) from the locker in the middle of my appointment so they could correct it in the system. How much you want to bet it won’t be the last time I have to correct it?
The merry was undoubtedly an iPad correction. But glad it became apt by the end.
Well, ShawSon called me last night. Finished an incredibly hard programming assignment. There are two: one is a bit younger – a junior or senior at the esteemed institution where he is studying – and the other graduated from the same school and is a product manager at a tech firm in the neighborhood. Apparently the 2nd one is his age and gorgeous but not much else whereas the younger one is pretty – though not in the same ballpark as the gorgeous one – but sweet, bright and a lot of fun to be with. So, he is thinking of phasing the gorgeous one out. If my experience is any guide, it is at precisely this age where he will start to become very attractive. So, it is nice that he is not choosing just based upon looks.
Hope the back is feeling better, kmcmom13. And too funny about the turkey. I remember driving around some rurual part of Connecticut and having a turkey dart out in front of me. Scared the bejeezus out of me. The wild ones are not much like the captive bred idiot turkeys we used to see in California.
A few years ago, trying to get turkeys on our life birding lists, we were in a number of places known for wild turkeys. Nothing. We finally saw them walking down the street at some friends’ house in western Michigan. Go figure.
D2 is done with her 2nd term of her 1st year – she had inorganic chem this term from one of the legends; she was enthralled. In her particular program, there is a lot less course work, and a lot more research early on, than I would have guessed. But she is thriving academically; on the graduate honor council; does aerial workouts 3-4 times a week; and seems to be “in a relationship.” This may be why we hardly ever see her . . .
Z, sounds awesome fr your D. Too funny about the turkey sighting! My first real wild turkey sighting was on the road around the corner from my place…when barking down the road I leaned that with adequate and imminent motivation, wild turkeys can fly! Or at least clear the windshield…narrowly!
Arabrab, thanks, back is all good now!
Shaw, indeed it sounds like Shawson has his priorities straight.
Missy, re name change…I can’t actually picture you with any other name than Missy
I’ve been toting around my ex-husband’s last name for a few decades now. Initially, I left it because I’d had a well-known byline. Then, I hadn’t wanted mcson to live in a household with nobody by the same name. I’d made a half-hearted effort to change it 10 years ago, but abandoned the notion at the specter of the hassle.
Enjoying working from home today. Babysitting the grandson but that’s easy right now as he sleeps a lot. I’m sure that I’ll get in almost a full day but we will see how the day goes. Of course I can work tonight to finish up things if need be. A break from my boss is NICE…
Names are complex. ShawWife kept hers (which no one ever spells right the first time) to mine (which is incredibly easy to spell) because she had started her career and had a bit of a name. In hindsight, she would have switched names. She now she realizes she could easily have have used HerFirstName HerLastName Shawbridge for years and switched it to HerFirstName Shawbridge if she wanted to at some point. It would have been convenient seem at some points (crossing borders with kids, dealing with kids generally) if we shared the same name. Otherwise, not a big deal. It also was always funny to watch kids who’d been trained to be polite calling her Mrs. HerLastName.
In the awww department, I was talking with ShawSon who finished the truly painful programming course. Very intense. He’s got two finals this week and then home. But, he called and thanked me for all that I have done to help him (at the moment, it is actually not much but listening to him every day think through how is going to manage the workload and have him dictate a few emails). In particular, he said he wanted to “be like me when he is an adult” and he told his ex-GF that people are the most important thing to him and that he was talking to me every day and she asked if he wanted to be with his kids like I am with him and he said Yes but he would have to learn to sleep four hours a night as that is what I do so that I can always be there for my kids and do my work (or something like that). Not clear how many fathers get to hear that that their adult sons want to be like them. So, an early father’s day.
As I mentioned, I didn’t change my name when H & I got married. He periodically still asks when that’s going to happen, but at this point I know he’s joking! We had a lengthy discussion about this before we actually got married – that, and religion. Anyway, although he probably would have preferred I change my name, I was having none of it. Ultimately he said “OK, but I absolutely do not want hyphenated kids.” I was fine with this since it would be much more of a PITA to have 2 moderately long names strung together. So, both D & S have my last name as a middle name. When D gets married, if she asks for my opinion, I would encourage her to keep her name. But whatever she does is fine; I just know it was important to me. I do remember my mother jokingly saying something like, “Oh, you’ll be one of those people who make it tough for future genealogists.” (She was deep into our family history at the time.)
@CBBBlinker, the kids have ShawWife’s last name as a second middle name. Gets the airlines and SS exercised every once in a while, but no real issue. I didn’t care if ShawWife changed her name. Having the same last name makes a few things more convenient, and in many states, that isn’t an issue. There are times when we are traveling abroad when not having the same last name is confusing, especially when taking kids across borders. But no big deal either way, so from my perspective, it was her choice with no push from me.
hello, been trying to keep up but as usual I cant. I have started using a skin regime and do get compliments. But it also could be I am finally not sick. I am lucky to not have a lot of wrinkles, just feel gravity is having its effects.
I am busy in class, and working. also have to take another undergrad statistics class as a pre requisite as I haven’t taken one in the last five years. I find all the computer stuff daunting. I did go to Fla for the break. I wondered where Shaw D went some exotic locale? I added my husbands name and go by two . It is confusing and I don’t advise it. I have a rather strange name anyway, so don’t know why I wanted to keep it. (my first and ladt names mean something) and I never liked it.
More snow on Friday, am enjoying the sun.
DTE, good to hear from you. ShawD went to Puerto Rico with one of her study buddies. I hope Florida helped you get rid of the cold/fluish/infection things you were having.
Speaking of skin, I think the best “treatment” is to not smoke. My “boss” here at the corporation is exactly my age but her skin is very wrinkled…life long smoker. (It’s a shame, too, because she has high cheekbones, and those lucky folks typically age very well.) [With that said, I sometimes think it would be pretty wonderful to inhale something that made me feel relaxed.]
It’s official that my stay here is being extended for an extra three months. So I will be here until the end of July. That’s really good news, because that gives me more time to learn their business and bring back more work in the future. And now that the weather is warming, I am gong to start making lunch dates with my local acquaintances. Since the workplace is so close to home, I should have time to catch up on all the high school moms that I’ve lost track of, etc.
Good to hear about boysx3.
And good to hear from you, dte. Actually, good to hear from everyone. So grateful for everyone still posting on this thread!
Glad you can have S home, FallGirl. Enjoy the visit!
I chose not to hyphenate when I married. Long, somewhat difficult maiden name + shorter, more difficult married name did not lend itself to combining. I switched to H’s last name. I was already used to spelling my last name all the time, and do like moving up higher in the alphabet. Now I’ve been my married name longer than I was my maiden name.
Shawbridge, that definitely was an “awww” moment. Glad you have such a good relationship with your children.
As an amateur genealogist I’d say that having a wife not take her husband’s last name would often make the tracing a lot easier. I’ve got more than a handful of ancestors for whom I have not been able to figure out the maiden name, either because it was pre-marriage licenses/no church record or because there were too many possibles with the same name combination. (The Irish were none too creative when it came to names.)
D’s mentor at work was let go yesterday, and that definitely unsettled her. She was in a different department, and definitely more senior, but they’d just been out for drinks a few days earlier.
And in news of the weird, a remote acquaintance forwarded an invitation for me to spend $325 attending a weekend conference. "Jonette, channeling MARK leads a weekend workshop that easily takes you to experience Quantum Consciousness — the zero point of all unmanifest potential, known as the 8th Dimension. From here your awareness is beyond duality and all choices become possible— irrespective of the past. Non-sequential quantum leaps in your skills, abilities and vision spring into reality from these higher spaces. You become integrated with the vast field of quantum potential which then guides your growth through intuition and synchronicity.
For the first time in a weekend workshop MARK introduces the 9th Dimension —the incredible world of multiple simultaneous realities. We will play with changing time lines, practice ‘quantum jumping’ and enter the ‘Dreamtime’ world known to Aboriginals and shaman."
So there you have it. The 9th Dimension. I wouldn’t want to keep an opportunity like that to myself.
I’m sure that I’ll get in almost a full day but we will see how the day goes. Of course I can work tonight to finish up things if need be. A break from my boss is NICE…