<p>mythmom, I’d need new knees, hips, feet, and everything else at that poundage. A couple of years ago, my knees bothered me so much I was motivated to lose weight to make them stop hurting. </p>
<p>Besides, I’d rather bake for the Vigil Loungers than the public, any day!!</p>
<p>And mix drinks for y’all, too, so let me get some cocktails flowing here!</p>
<p>One of the ingredients of an Oatmeal Cookie cocktail:</p>
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<p>They must have substituted something else because D definitely had it. H has an in with a liquor store. I’ll ask him to ask his friend.</p>
<p>Certainly, we can procure as much as we need for the vigil lounge, but for yur H, that’s a different story.</p>
<p>Outing myself as a constant lurker for the vigil - and a sender of sympathy and good wishes to all, as this wonderful thread has spooled out.</p>
<p>I just had to set your mind at ease, owlice - ja"germeister is everywhere. Just ask almost any college kid.</p>
<p>So let the oatmeal cookie cocktail hour begin. :)</p>
<p>I think the last part of the description is a dead give-away that a college kid would know where to find it…
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<p>And us old folks would use it in the hopes that it may aid our digestion.</p>
<p>lol!!! Welcome, Harriet!</p>
<p>And okay, let’s go: bottoms up, all!!</p>
<p>We’ll need help after stuffing ourselves on oatmeal cookies and oatmeal cocktails. But at least our cholesterol should be under control. Haha.</p>
<p>Welcome, Harriet.</p>
<p>:::licking lips, trying to say “hello” and “thanks”::: :)</p>
<p>Hi harriet—I’ll join you–and I’ll add kahlua mudslides to the offerings–prefer adding ice cream for the added decadence–think you’d agree owlice and mythmom, yes?</p>
<p>I have found myself kind of in a fog last couple weeks w college acceptances/decisions/can’t think (for long or clearly) about much else-this too shall pass–thanks for the comraderie</p>
<p>I second the ice cream, lindz126. I can pretty much outeat anyone when it comes to ice cream, but strangely, I don’t care for vanilla.</p>
<p>That was very tasty, and VERY strong, owlice!</p>
<p>Going to have to wait a while before I switch to a mudslide, lindz. But they look good. </p>
<p>Will the vigil lounge be closing next Friday? Should I be looking for the furniture dustcovers? </p>
<p>And will it reopen next year, when I have to go through this (again)? I’m a wretched cook but I’m a decent bartender - I promise to work lots of shifts.</p>
<p>Harriet - I doubt it will close next Friday - some of us here have kids who “love” the thrill of waitlists. And I’m pretty sure owlice will be around for a few years (as with the rest of us). We’ll be here.</p>
<p>Good to know. 
I mean about the lounge and the good company, not the agony of children who love waitlists. </p>
<p>I’m sorry to report that we already used the chocolate voodoo doll someone gave us recently, but judging from some noises in the third floor walls, I could probably make small animal - very, very small animal - sacrifices (OUTside the lounge) if anyone thinks it’ll help with waitlist mojo. Can’t read the entrails though. Mythmom, would that be more your thing?</p>
<p>I can’t leave–not simply the jones I have with cc but because while my son’s admissions journey moves into starting college, my daughter’s college search and visits begin (she’s a junior) only 18 mos apart–what was I thinking–oh well the good news is they went out to dinner tonight together with friends and have always been close–love seeing that. (and my 6th grader will ensure I never leave) Harriet do you have a junior as well as a senior too? oh if you’re waiting on the mudslides I’ll make a fresh batch – they started melting so I just had to knock them off, didn’t I?</p>
<p>No animal sacrifices, please. </p>
<p>I’ll have a mudlside, if you don’t mind, lindz. IRL, kids just went to get Italian ices. They’re supposed to be bringing one home for me - pineapple, my favorite!</p>
<p>No, fortunately I don’t have a senior this year, which is why I went so long as a lurker. I have one already in college, and then a junior. And then I have a kindergartner. What was ** I ** thinking?? :)</p>
<p>It’s really a wonderful thing to see them truly enjoying each other’s company, isn’t it? It’s also wonderful to see the fresh batch of mudslides. Yes, please.</p>
<p>Don’t need the actual entrails. Virtual ones will do.</p>
<p>Sorry, but one oatmeal zinger is my limit. I do not hold my liquor well, unlike D.</p>
<p>I plan to be sitting around the vigil lounge for quite a while because it has such good company! Yea, and the college thing is icing on the cake.</p>
<p>Hm. Cake? No. Too much with ice cream, cookies and all orders of drinks.</p>
<p>But I do have my deck of Tarot cards, the Crowley deck, of course. One at a time.</p>
<p>mythmom wears gorgeous deep yellow silk scarf decorated with deep green leaves and impossibly dangly erring.</p>
<p>:::pulling up favorite bentwood chair, a real Thonet, of course, to small antique table:::</p>
<p>We start by shuffling.</p>
<p>“Ballroom Blitz” song…haha…I’m pumped!</p>
<p>Mythmom, I definitely prefer the Tarot card to the animal sacrifice. </p>
<p>2forcollege - that song has been running through my head all day!</p>
<p>Yes, I’ll be here a while, I suspect! S is a HS freshman. </p>
<p>H and I just came back from a Friday night dinner out – we went to the local McDonalds for Southwest salads. (These are very tasty; who’da thunk it?!) H wants a Frostie from Wendy’s later tonight for dessert. He’d never had one until S had his wisdom teeth out a few weeks ago and “needed” one as a result when he got back from the surgery; H went out to get S one and while he was at it, got one for himself and one for me. He seems to like them!</p>
<p>Me? I’ll stick with the ice cream in the Vigil Lounge, and whatever alcohol is wrapped around it! :D</p>
<p>My headache appears to be gone; at least, I woke up from my (lovely lovely) afternoon snooze with no pain. Yay!</p>