Arabrab, no kitchen table and chairs yet. I’ve sent them pictures of decent sets for $100 and under from Craig’s List. I need to be done with all my “helpfulness.”
What’s even more frustrating is that one of our cars was successfully registered.
Oregon, hope your D’s test went well! And missypie, hope your S gets some furniture eventually.
OH MY, I adore this young man. He is so nice looking as in clean cut and smiley. He loves the house I designed and we have so many things to talk about that I already know I need to go read a book or something as he is not here for me…
D had told him that I would eat him alive and she was not wrong.
He and I even went into the foundation area of the house to talk about it…
I wish I was an architech and it never ever was a thought in my head when I was young.
H teaches at Harvard and joked that I should get a degree. sigh.
65 is a new place to be and so not to be, also but so nice to hear it from him.
Oregon, so glad you like him!
Wonderful news oregon! Sounds like a good match.
Wow! Wonderful!
Great that you love your D’s BF, O101. I always get confused about this. Is she in medical school? What kind of exam is she taking (positive karma being emanated)? You said H teaches at Harvard. Did you mean “He teaches at Harvard.”
ShawD invited me up to meet her parents a couple of months after we met. I was a young faculty member at the same institution and objectively great husband material. I flew in to the airport and she picked me up and she started acting very snarky (which is pretty uncharacteristic). I asked what was going on. She said she was nervous about her parents meeting me. I said, “Relax. Your parents are going to love me. I come from a nice Jewish family. From a career standpoint, they’ll love me. What is there to worry about?” She said, “I know. What I am worried about is that the moment they meet you, they’ll start planning the wedding and we’re not that far along yet.” Well, She was right.
Great news Oregon!
Boss is still being “nice” today but hasn’t even acknowledged my email. Interesting… If someone sent something like that to me I would at least talk to them about it. Guess he just doesn’t care.
RM, maybe him being nice is his way of responding to the email? Hoping it will make a difference.
Could be. He has little/no social skills really.
Shaw, D has finished her 3rd yr and is planning on research for 6 months and then her fourth yr. She plans on going into Derm. I actually do not know what the exam was (bad mothering?)
Yes, BF teaches at Harvard and some classes at 2 other schools and has a business with a collegue.
Yes, H and I tried to map out the future today. Just H and myself–not D an BF. It really is too early to know but so far so good.
RM, maybe a little afraid of you–? which could be a good thing.
Today is my 30th anniversary with my law firm. Thirty. Good grief. How did I get here? (I know literally…by not quitting, getting fired or dying. ) But you blink your eyes and you’re old and the stories you tell are of a different era.
With 20 or 25 years of experience, I felt powerful, proud of my experience. Now I avoid saying how long I’ve been practicing, for fear of being viewed as over the hill, out of touch, etc.
Map out the future as in what you and H will do in the upcoming years and where you will live that type of thing? H and I aren’t good at that type of thing - we just let live come I guess. 
He could be a bit afraid of me. I’m typically nice and it does take a lot to set me off - I’m the type “oh they are having a bad day just let it go” until you reach my limit (which is pretty high) and then look out! 
Shaw, it is a step 2 test --not as important as the boards but did have 350 questions.
mp, congrats!? seriously, congrats. A young lady told me recently that she looks forward to being able to say she did something for a few decades. She was around 30. I mentioned I had been in my field for over 40 years (which I think is too bad just because I wish I had experienced a wider variety of careers). I did think it was interesting that she feels this way, seems old fashioned.
RM, do you think he is just now “getting it”?
No, we were mapping out D and BF’s future! =D>
We will not share that will her.
MP – Mucho congratulations. 30 years. Wow.
Are you settling back in after your secondment to the airline? (Not sure why CC doesn’t like that word. I am pretty sure it is still a word.)
Oregon – that is such happy news.
RM - We would never, ever go on a vacation anyplace where a reservation was required if DH was in charge. He isn’t averse to actually going, but the planning part holds zilch interest.
Good morning, all. Nice to be able to check in on everyone, even if my time slot seems to be 5:30 a.m.
Excited for your D, Oregon!
Kudos, Missy, on 30 years…as someone who bounced around a lot from marketing to consulting to journalism and editing then web dev and digital marketing, on one hand I’ve enjoyed the variety…but in other ways I’m the opposite in that I think I would love the continuity of 30 years with a firm…especially around retirement time…especially had it been a firm with a pension
I sometimes look back longingly on the “golden handcuffs” I escaped with the media mogul company for whom I used to work…for the pension That every single one of the associates I’d have managed had I taken the managing editor position offered when I left has now left the business should tell me not to be too wistful
CQ…I’m convinced a higher power is keeping you from that car! It might be a sign its time to trade it in and let the dealer handle the paperwork
I’ll plan things like trips/vacations because I love that. Planning for the future though as in where we will live 10 years from now. Nope not good at those things. We are going to redo our house with the idea that we will just live there however it’s a 2 story and probably too big for the 2 of us – however I don’t see us moving. We own it. Needs a new roof in the next 5 years or so and I want to replace the kitchen. Other than that it’s just either new carpet or better hardwood floors and really spruce up with paint/curtains stuff like that.
Ah, would that there was a pension. There used to be…no longer. There is a 401k plan. Back in the day when I was an associate, the associates were not allowed to be a part of the plan (theoretically because no one would ever retire as an associate but admittedly because it would cost the partners money.) A couple of years after my group made partner, we opened the 401k plan to everyone. Folks my age still talk about the years of accumulation lost.
Well - promoted to the same level as my boss. Wonder it that is why he backed down.
That sounds like good news, RM! Will you now report to someone new as well?