<p>Neptune? Bite your tongue. It was Poseidon. The other one it was a dead Romanov. And they’ll twins!</p>
<p>I wondered if it was our acronyms that got us in trouble towards the end…guilty as charged</p>
<p>I pm’ed a moderator and was told “they didn’t remember the particular
thread…” How could THAT be? “and that sometimes they shut down a
thread if they can’t fix by editing one or two posts, or sometimes a thread
is just headed downhill.” </p>
<p>I think one reason we enjoyed it so much was because of the intense
time of year - April - it was running. A new batch of parents having that
first Guidance Counselor meeting and finding out their top .05 child (and
all the rest) is just one of many thousands, “CHYMPS is a reach for
everyone” while May 1st looms for parents of hs seniors and concurrently,
the parents of hs juniors cannot find time junior spring for college visits.</p>
<p>I loved that meta thread.</p>
<p>I loved the meta-thread, too, even if I felt it was poking fun of me. It was the most clever, witty, humorous thing I had read in ages, coming at a time when a good laugh was most needed and welcome.</p>
<p>Meta thread kept me sane on many days. I showed a few postings to D1, and she was looking forward to reading it after AP tests. Sadly, it was gone before she got a chance to.</p>
<p>Did any one have the good sense to print it out?</p>
<p>Imagine if we were all in the same room and read it out loud or </p>
<p>made a skit out of it.</p>
<p>The day Meta-thread was pulled I saw that there had been at least 2 spam messages of quite explicit nature. I’ll bet the abbreviations became a spam magnet that had to be deleted to stop them.</p>
<p>I hope everyone is having a nice Memorial Day Weekend. </p>
<p>It’s lovely here on LI, and it was the perfect day for a barbecue. Hopefully, tomorrow is more of the same.</p>
<p>Tornado and thunderstorm watches and warnings here in the midwest! My D is driving home from a graduation open house as we speak; I just called her to tell her to either head home immediately or wait the storm out at the open house. The sky is a real creepy ominous color and I’m guessing we’ll be spending some time in the basement this evening!</p>
<p>I’m sorry Martharap. My prayers are with you and your family to make it safely through the storms.</p>
<p>Luckily the severe weather missed us. But, two counties to the east of us, 7 people were killed and an entire town was demolished–Parkersburg, Iowa. Very sad, and the photos of the devastation are incredible.</p>
<p>How awful, martharap! I am so glad you and your family are safe, but am so sorry about the loss of life and devastation so nearby.</p>
<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Taking a 5 minute break from all the activity at our house to check in. Hope everyone is safe from those storms…scary how many tornados this year. Makes me a bit worried for the hurricane season.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, graduation was so beautiful and all my volunteer work is just about coming to an end at school. Just a few more meetings to wrap things up and I’m officially done! </p>
<p>Blahh…I never got a chance to read more than one or two pages of the meta thread. I was waiting for one of those days when I could really enjoy it.</p>
<p>Hope all the other graduations are going well!</p>
<p>Surprisingly cool weather here. I have a lot of flowers and a couple of
vegetables to plant. The flowers include an Iceberg rose and a The Fairy
rose. There are fledgling birds in the neighborhood. Our cardinals are
on their second clutch. I saw a newborn fawn on Friday morning. So
many warm stories on CC today.</p>
<p>cottonwood, your roses sound lovely. I’ve never heard of either but I am getting wonderful pictures in my mind of what they might look like. </p>
<p>We have been having much cooler weather here this week than last-- after getting the air conditioners ready, we were freezing night before last. I don’t mind! I love warm days and cool nights.</p>
<p>The Iceberg is covered already in creamy full floribunda sprays
of white roses, some have blush edges. The Fairy is covered in
small (polyantha) pink buds. Haven’t planted them yet.</p>
<p>Expecting thunder and hail storms, so I tucked them next to
the building. Might bring the Iceberg inside to enjoy!</p>
<p>I guess many of us have stopped our vigil now that our kids’ senior years are winding down. My S has finished all his exams and is just waiting to graduate. Literally hanging between trapezes. He is enjoying some down time before his summer job gets into full gear. Sleeping late–very late-- and hanging out with friends, and I know that he already feels somewhat nostalgic for his soon-to-be “old” life! Some of these kids who are floating in and out of our house at all hours have been coming and going since middle school, others are new faces. I think my S has done very well for himself by choosing a great group of friends to spend time with these past years and I know he’ll do the same in college, too.</p>
<p>Hi all! D is done with all of her AP/IB craziness. Just as she wanted her senioritis to kick in, the classes are having their FINALS this week :eek: Who was the brilliant mastermind behind this ingenious schedule design: Prom on Saturday night followed by finals on Monday ?! Yikes. D had fun at her last prom, but was totally exausted on Sunday. She did look very Hepburn-like in her black dress (even the hair done at a local training academy looked fabulous). It was abargain on our end, since she only paid for the pictures; all the other luxuries (limos and dinner) were covered by the gentlemen in her party.</p>
<p>I have a first rose bush blooming in my garden - my beautiful Fragrant Cloud rose!</p>
<p>Yup, Bunsen, we have the same wacko schedule…Prom is this Friday night, finals start on Tuesday and, get this,…Senior awards are Monday night…Oh well; it’s a good thing that AP tests were over back in May or senior year would start to look like the insanity of junior year (back-to-back SAT’s, ACT’s and then finals…)</p>
<p>Bunsenburner: I just bought another Fragrant Cloud yesterday…one of my very top favorites! Can’t have too many of those. Meanwhile, those
Iceberg (white) and The Fairy (tiny pink) roses make a great combo
indoors.</p>
<p>The kid (first year) has third quarter finals next week.</p>