<p>jmmom - I think you will need to hold a red spoon with the name Betty Crocker written on it. Very appropriate since the color red often goes with December holidays.</p>
<p>catch me up, guys. Are you planning a food or al-kee-hol recipe calendar? Maybe the red for Dec. should be the red noses of all our esteemed colleagues lying under the tables around here.</p>
<p>Whoops, we were supposed to be planning a cocktails calendar, I forgot! OK, “Miss November” will still be all in pouffy pink, but she’ll be hoisting a Boilermaker. ;)</p>
<p>Hey, Betty Crocker was drinking from a flask hidden behind the cake mix…probably fooling around with Duncan Hines too.</p>
<p>Well if we’re bringing ‘dates’ to the calendar shoot…I’m bringing the Quaker Oats Guy… ;)</p>
<p>…and the Fairy & I have a scrumtious recipe for “Fairy Fingers Flambe” :)</p>
<p>Dibs on the Ajax man! (I have this thing for bald heads…)</p>
<p>Plus, he obviously know how to clean house!!!</p>
<p>I’ll donate a Sangria recipe.</p>
<p>Just tell me where I can get a copy of this calendar!</p>
<p>I can tell it will be a runaway best seller! </p>
<p>Proceeds go to the SA Scholarship Fund, right?</p>
<p>And the scholarship goes not to the most “above average” kid, because ALL our children are “above average,” but, in the “Queen for a Day” model, to the worst circumstances or bad luck. Applications lost in the mail, VW vans unfixable, snowstorms wipe out audition weekend, that sort of thing. </p>
<p>Stuff that even marmots can’t remedy, but money would console. :D</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the guy in the Diet Coke commercial from about ten or fifteen years ago - All the women in the office building were gathered around, watching him drink a Diet Coke. Can he be in the calendar?</p>
<p>No, no…surely Miss November has to be driver hoisting a double bourbon while wearing motorcycle boots and e-vote receipts— stapled to her tennis whities of ocurse.</p>
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Yes, ma’am, that would be the Betty Crocker I know and love 
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<p>Well, if mootmom has no objection, driver can have the Election month. moot can have October - the month TFSH became a Boilermaker in progress. And if he changes his mind, well she still makes a great Miss Pink October.</p>
<p>That would have been September, jmmom. But I think someone else has September already? Anyone care to construct the list-in-progress? (More monthly volunteers, step forward!) I was in Austria in July where there are marmots, I even took pictures of the signs warning about them: maybe I should do a marmot-themed summer month?</p>
<p>Pink won’t do if it’s not in homage to the shocking pink cranberry relish I’ll be making this weekend (hence November). Remember, I hate pink: it was only for this special purpose I’d be donning pink. I’ll think of something else, someone just assign me a month and I’ll take it. I’m easy. :)</p>
<p>Hey mootmom – how many words so far? </p>
<p>My son decided to participate in national novel writing month this year. And he tells me he is also reading War and Peace, but hasn’t gotten very far, due to the novel writing and classes . . .</p>
<p>Hey mstee, thanks for remembering! Due to pressures at work and needing to spend quality Mom-time with TSFH on our trip to Purdue a week ago, I missed an entire week of writing time. ( :eek: ) BUT, with a little buckling down (and taking a mental health day off work), I was able to raise my wordcount from 15,022 on Thurs. at dinnertime to 22,888 on Fri. at bedtime. (Go me! But it should be around 29K today to be on track to finish without superhuman writing days.) I’m still hopeful to finish all 50K this month, this weekend should be a good one for writing. I summarized my story to H this morning and he assured me that I would not have to worry about anyone copying that plot idea, LOL!</p>
<p>PM me with your son’s [url=<a href=“http://www.nanowrimo.org%5DNaNoWriMo%5B/url”>www.nanowrimo.org]NaNoWriMo[/url</a>] ID, if he’d like a writing buddy. What’s his wordcount? Reading War and Peace at the same time??? Now, see, THAT is NUTS! ;)</p>
<p>And now back to your regularly scheduled Sinner’s Alley, already in progress…</p>
<p>Rescuing from Page 2. Will try to assemble calendar in current guise when I return from China.</p>
<p>Beururah - how did the show go?</p>
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Hey Alu~</p>
<p>Thanks so much for asking about the show. 
Just got back from the closing performance this evening! OMG, I am just <em>really</em> happy for my oldest D! She has waited <em>so</em> long for her turn to prove herself, and that she did! She just did a beautiful job with her part, and the entire cast came through and really did justice to the play, this after such rough dress rehearsals. There were still a few mic issues (those darn little rascally marmots!! <em>lol</em>), but all in all, they pulled it together much better than I thought they’d be able to, and I think the audiences enjoyed the show a great deal. Oldest D has such mixed feelings right now…this has been her only lead role, and she’s enjoyed it immensely, but she and the rest of the cast are pretty exhausted from literally months of rehearsals. My middle D also did a wonderful job in her chorus role, and I’m very proud of her as well! Whew…glad THAT’S done…now, on to Thanksgiving! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Glad to hear that! There always is a huge improvement from the first disastrous rehearsal w/orch, costumes, sound, etc. to the actual performance when it comes together. Has to be, or no one would do theater!</p>
<p>We just saw a HS show last night which was enjoyable, but we didn’t have a child in it. Saw the same show when son was in it 6 yrs ago and I swear we enjoyed it more then, even tho that was only a “children’s” (Junior) production. Funny.</p>
<p>Back to page one place of glory…</p>
<p>Not exactly camping out for Talking Heads tickets (done that) but did do the video game camp out with my 8th grade S this weekend for a Wii. The things we dads will do to bond with our teenage sons. </p>
<p>Did I mention how cold it is outside in Pittsburgh at 3 a.m.? Even the marmots are in their holes sleeping…</p>
<p>But S is giddy as a five year old and will have a great birthday Wednesday.</p>
<p>B. So good to hear that.</p>
<p>m&s - My 16 year old son has said that clothes and a Wii are all he wants for Christmas…and maybe a guitar.</p>
<p>Some things don’t change.</p>