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Yo, you too, girlfriend? I used to think I was Janis Joplin, I’d swing a bottle in my hand as I danced in circles to the music around me in the dark, my long wavy hair falling every which way. </p>
<p>I’d say something else nostalgic, but I’m one of the ones who knocked over her wine onto her laptop earlier this week, as you may recall, so I’m on Shirley Temples for the weekend…</p>
<p>“so I’m on Shirley Temples for the weekend…”</p>
<p>I predict a not-very-fun weekend. (What else is new, right?)</p>
<p>Peeps–a confession…</p>
<p>It just occurred to me that in real life (unlike SA) I hardly ever drink at all. Preparation for a night on the town usually involves quaffing something CAFFEINATED so I can stay up late. woo-hoo.</p>
<p>Sad, but that’s my life!</p>
<p>mommusic,</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. As a resident SA lush, I rarely drink in real life too. It’s great to get out all of your inhibitions here and not have any guilt ;)</p>
<p>mommusic and sybbie - Another self-confessed Minor Leaguer here - IRL drinking is a very occasional glass of wine. Love it, actually, but it gives me headaches too often.</p>
<p>And mommusic, I never drank coffee at all until about age 29 when I needed it purely for its anti-soporific effects. Eveyone else was just getting going around 9 pm - I had wanted to go to bed since 8:30. Coffee became my drug of choice so I could simulate adult bio-rhytms.</p>
<p>All right. I will confess. I have been known to drink in real life. Nobody has to pick me out of any gutters, but there you go. So I may have to nominate myself as the High Priestess of Sinner’s Alley, one who has been to the other side of the road outside the Alley, where from inside all you can see is the swirling fog. </p>
<p>Coffee however, I went cold turkey at the age of 21 when I started getting migraines. Never looked back:).</p>
<p>And mootmom, you really made me laugh with the image of you as Janice Joplin. Me, it was Neil Young (see SBMom) and Kat Stevens…</p>
<p>I preferred to channel Carole King. And I have spent the last 24 hours channeling Sarah McLachlan’s River. Can’t get the high notes quite right but, fortunately, nobody’s listening. Haunting song, imho.</p>
<p>Alu,</p>
<p>My W is a complete non-drinker due to migraine meds. She is hoping “the change” will help things as her migraines seem to be related to cycle.</p>
<p>I will have a very occasional beer. Guys (guys really, not a mix of males and females) I have worked with for 15 years pointed out not long ago that they have never seen me drunk (much like the virtual folk on here…)</p>
<p>Could use a belt today: 8th grade S is apply to the drama program at Creative and Preforming HS D attended. Auditioning as we speak. Household will be on eggshells for a couple of weeks awaiting results, much like you HS senior parents…</p>
<p>m&s~</p>
<p>Just wantin’ to send some good wishes your S’s way!!! As an MT mom, I am quite familiar with “waitin’ and worryin’” mode! Hope he gets great news VERY soon! ~berurah</p>
<p>m&s - did you send the marmots to the audition? Still time to send them to the Committee Deliberation Room. If any of the ones stuck to the duct tape are still alive when I see them, I’ll dispatch them right back ;).</p>
<p>Coffee & Booze bring on migraines…drats…:rolleyes: tg for Zomig!</p>
<p>I too am hoping the ‘change’ will bring relief from migraines, I wish I had the self control of Alu to give up coffee & m&sdad’s W to give up alcohol… :)</p>
<p>Alas, my screename is a heavy burden…:D</p>
<p>Joining Alu as an IRL drinker. If you need an alternate high priestess, I’m your gal, girl, chick, whatev.</p>
<p>I am thinking at about… 70? 75?.. we can start adding back all those things we gave up way back when.</p>
<p>Former migraine sufferer here-- Though mine were also somewhat triggered by hormones, my migraines went away completely when I began wearing a retainer/positioner at night. Lots of bite issues can cause grinding, bad neck position & migraines. Worth a try.</p>
<p>Yes! An acolyte! I’ve always wanted one…What shall we sacrifice on our altar? Oh, wait, of course, marmots…virtually, of course.</p>
<p>Slugg can chant. BHappy can chant and wail if she likes. Who will burn the various substances. Oh wait, that’s right, I’m an atheist.</p>
<p>Oh nooooo, don’t sacrifice marmots! They’re sacred!</p>
<p>Just burn incense & pour out a libation of wine. Or the beverage of the day.</p>
<p>No crispy critter sacrifices :(</p>
<p>Let’s make a sacrificial pyre out of unwanted college junkmail!</p>
<p>From schools of all denominations, of course…</p>
<p>Excellent plan.</p>
<p>We’ll start with a huge structure of those unwanteds. But woe unto the schools - of whichever denomination - who dissed our DChildren, via deferrals, waitlists or rejections. <em>Those</em> schools we will save unto the last, and feed their 4-color high gloss View Books page by page while chanting, dancing and lining up the Anti-Marmots to send their way. That would be the Wicked Marmots of the West, not those warm and fuzzy creatures whom we so love. The Anti-Marmots will upend the application files making the last first and the first last. It won’t matter to the schools; after all, we all know from their charming rejection letters that the ones at the bottom of the pile were equally qualified.</p>
<p>So we’ll need to hurry for the ED schools. We can have another one, a Spring Fling, just before the RD decisions are sorted out.</p>
<p>You are so right. What was I thinking. All Priestesses suffer from temptations from the dark and evil side.</p>
<p>Throw on those view books, those SAT scores, the #2 pencils, fan the flames higher and higher.</p>
<p>Keep the RD apps in the sacred cabinet. Hushed, where they will remain until the teenagers decide in their infinite wisdom to put us out of our misery and complete them.</p>
<p>Om.</p>
<p>You could just have a flaming sacrifice of the the usual MD20/20 being poured in SA. Be careful of spontaneous combustion and vapor blasts.</p>
<p>m&Sdad & jmmom–the best idea yet.</p>
<p>I will get my dancing shoes on, the better to dance all night around the rising flames. Bwahaha…</p>
<p>Fabulous group effort here, we need someone to film it though, and then we can project it on the sky above Burning Man IRL, (there will be lots of clouds from the Misting Temple) … wouldn’t that be great?.</p>