<p>My oh my, you all have been chatty! I was doing my least favorite chores…cleaning house and grocery shopping…before the college crowd arrives. BBQ pork is in crockpot, cheesy potatoes mixed and ready to pop in oven when they call from an hour away, cole slaw to be made shortly and bars finished!!! And it is Beautiful here today and I can’t get out in my garden…grrrrr! Of course I did stop and pick up wine for the weekend for me!!! Wish there was a beach here but we are fortunate to get to the lake on summer weekends. Nothing better than reading a book in the hammock beside the lake with an adult beverage in my hand!</p>
<p>Mythmom…I’d love to have a hubby who would cook with me. He is allergic to the kitchen! I wish he would just sit and have a glass of wine while I cook. I love to cook for company!!! He does do windows and floors, though so I’ll keep him around! 29 years in June!!! Time flies!</p>
<p>Since we have wandered seriously off topic, and since this is a public forum, and since many on this forum feel rather bonded, should we perhaps give some thought to moving our discussions off this list? To something that is not as public, like facebook or yahoo groups? (When I told my daughter that a college friend invited me to be her ‘facebook friend’, my daughter said “oh Mom, just… don’t”.)</p>
<p>I would love a not-so-public place to yak. I was going to make the suggestion that this site add journals (which can be restricted by the journal owner to a list of users, and not Googleable), but a yahoo group or a restricted forum might be even better. One could set up a restricted forum that looks a great deal like this one, with threaded conversations.</p>
<p>Someone much much much earlier referred to this group as “vigilantes” which I got a kick out of. IMHO, men should be welcome, too.</p>
<p>:: gets dragged kicking and screaming back to salt ::</p>
<p>Hi! Checking in late today. How’s everyone?</p>
<p>lindz, are you sure there are no dads lurking in here? Although I have a theory that dads (at least in my neck of the woods) do not like to pay too much attention to all of this college and AP “fuss”. Soccer, football or softball - that’s a whole 'nother issue! Pretty much anything that involves a ball. Which leads to the following question: are there any AP PE classes? There are art and music AP courses…</p>
<p>You can always make me smile, Owlice!
Hoping you break free soon!!! Would you like another cake??? (pssttt…there’s a file baked inside!!! Quick, make a run for it, it’s Friday!!!)</p>
<p>Meanwhile I have some requests from my son for his school’s spring scavenger hunt…1986 penny, JCL national award, very tall shoes, Badtz Maru vibrator (?), Ghostbusters lunchbox, check dated 19__, voting
receipt from Guam or North Carolina…</p>
<p>I’ve been enjoying spring, just checking in and did we hear what happened to the meta thread?</p>
<p>A not-so-public forum is a good idea - I just have no idea how to set such a thing up. If someone is willing to do it, and pms me with instructions, that would be great. Still not too computer savvy!</p>
<p>Cottonwood - good luck to your S. Some of those things won’t be that easy to find!</p>
<p>Thanks so much owlice. I am listening right now. I love the Sarabande from Partita 2. DS plays all these so much that’s it’s like having him here, not that he can play this well, but you know what I mean.</p>
<p>I still have to give it Hilary Hahn. I find something soooooooo transcendent in her playing.</p>
<p>OK. There is now a facebook group called: CC Vigilantes</p>
<p>I got it started, but I’m not quite sure how to go from there. It did ask whether it should be an open forum or a secret forum. I chose open, because otherwise I don’t know how to allow people to join. But if we decide “secret” is better, then we can change it.</p>
<p>bunsen-good point–I think I was intuitively responding to jude’s “ladies” without really thinking…I would happily include men if they are here and want inclusion…the guys were great fun on the meta thread–among other places</p>
<p>I have no clue how to use facebook and S told me that he will not join facebook until he starts college (no clue why not; something about his “principles.”) I know he does Live Journal and he does a private one.</p>
<p>He’ll probably disown me if I joined a facebook group. Does that mean I don’t have to pay tuition?</p>
Wish there was a beach here but we are fortunate to get to the lake on summer weekends. Nothing better than reading a book in the hammock beside the lake with an adult beverage in my hand!</p>