<p>He he. I figured it was wrong:). What would the right term be? Although, we can always add chowder to our rites of the Sinner’s Alley Temple Festival of Early Decision. Perhaps jmmom can cook it for us?</p>
<p>filles craquantes</p>
<p>ou bien, belles nanas</p>
<p>My 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Kunkes, adored me. I found her annoying and didn’t like the stigma of being the teacher’s pet. We moved to another town after 6th grade; before we left, Mrs. Kunkes made me send for a catalog (which I remember as a thick book listing all the courses offered) from her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence. She also cooed over how I really truly needed to take French when given the opportunity to start a foreign language in 7th grade.</p>
<p>Just to spite her, I refused to go anywhere near French, and started Spanish happily instead. (Of course, I never saw her again, so I have no idea what I thought I was proving to whom…)</p>
<p>I will never be able to read all the secret messages you guys are exchanging up there. Was there anything content-ful that I should ask about? (I got the Burning Man stuff, no fear! 
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<p>moot we are just describing ourselves in french ;)</p>
<p>And what shall be the official libation of our rites? As we burn, sacrifice, dance, and chant? </p>
<p>Mead, or tequila? Rum??</p>
<p>Alumother–we need to have a Festival of InDecision as well!</p>
<p>I think sluggbugg drank all the mead.</p>
<p>I will cook the chowder and attempt mightily not to confuse it with my guacamole. No cilantro, that I know.</p>
<p>The Festival of InDecision will begin in April and will only end in September of that year. Except for jmmom, who is the High Priestess of that festival, and in her infinite wisdom survived two years of it…:).</p>
<p>And I KNOW Sluggbugg drank all the mead. I think I am going to vote for champagne as our official libation. Champage and that pink juice - pomegrante? -------hmm, it’s cassis, my aging mind brings it back to me… a kir. And the teetotalers can just drink the pink stuff:).</p>
<p>I’ve been making Cosmos pretty much non-stop since Thanksgiving (except for the night I spilled the wine, and then the rest of the weekend when I was on Shirley Temples). And I might have to seriously lobby for Boilermakers next spring…</p>
<p>Moot, that’s right I forget. You are in the fray this year, out there beyond the Alley, beyond the temple walls. We in here, we see the smoke rising in trails over the battlefield, we hear the cries, we have another virtual drink.</p>
<p>I will have to venture out again next year with my darling space cadet. Here’s a love story for you. I got him a Wii for Christmas. I won’t be with him Christmas Day, and I am taking him and his sister to Hawaii the day after Christmas. So he said, Mom, it would be too hard to have to leave it behind the day after I get it, can I have it when school gets out. And, we had some little guys over last night, and I let them break it out early.</p>
<p>The game has a feature that lets you create your little avatar - a Mii. Well, he made one for me with me sitting there. Chose my hair, eyes, put my reading glasses on, put me in a white shirt. By the time it was done, it actually looked like me…And it felt like the sweetest thing. Teen boys, what they do to us:).</p>
<p>Bravo, sweet Aluson! </p>
<p>I know what you mean. When my lanky, loose-limbed boy breaks out his loving side it undoes me too! Latest episode: picking out a Christmas gift for his GF. He asked me to help. We went to her favorite store. After 90 minutes trying to decide, he finally wailed, “Oh mom, you pick; I’m terrible at this!” But I made him pick, because I suspect she’ll love anything she gets and he needs to get the credit. :)</p>
<p>The Wii is great because its the only game system where the parents have a fighting chance to beat the teen. Whupped 8th grade S today in golf :)</p>
<p>I also have my own Mii avatar, the whole family does. Other cool thing you can do is swap them between Wii owners. Alu, I’ll be in touch after the holidays and share the virtual M&SDad. May be a jmmom avatar by then too…</p>
<p>gee… has anybody besides me noticed that we are closing in on the all important 5000th post of this thread??? Let the festivities begin!!!</p>
<p>Woo-hoo! We’ll need a champagne fountain and ice sculptures!</p>
<p>But not too close to the viewbook pyre. :D</p>
<p>Hmm… can we import our Second Life avatars into the Wii as our Mii? (Not that I’ve managed to <em>find</em> a Wii yet, you understand… but my SL av is coming closer and closer to unmistakeably me… including the frumpy duds while surrounded by avs in roughly nothing, clothing-wise…)</p>
<p>Counting down until 5,000…</p>
<p>No luck with the Wii hunt here either. but I shall continue the quest.</p>
<p>It’s been a rough week at our house. Both boys have experienced a serious disappointment, there’s been an unresolved health scare, and my brand new washing machine blew it’s electronics! Please send some champagne (or beer - we’re not fancy) our way. I could use a “quiet” evening in the Alley.</p>
<p>whew, over30,
when it rains, it pours. Hope all’s better in your house. Sending some cyber screwdrivers your way (the drink kind). Let the electricians bring the other kind to fix the electronics!</p>
<p>Awwwwwwwwww, over30, {{{{{major hugs}}}}} to your and your boys. Hope the health scare gets resolved <em>very</em> soon in a positive way and that y’all settle into a MUCH calmer period. <em>buyin’ you a nice, cold glass of champagne</em> ~b.</p>
<p>I’ll send cosmos to you and Alumum. Contemplating a Christmas day without the kids. Bummer. </p>
<p>My 18 year old holds my hand when we are in public. Saturday night was his graduation ball and he held my hand as we walked up to the dance floor for a couple of dances. Mind you, we had an EPIC battle the week before when he announced that H and I were not to leave the table and were, under no circumstances, to get jiggy with the kids on the dance floor. </p>
<p>Once we got to the actual moment, he was as right as rain and happy for us to be there, gettin’ jiggy with him and his 50 best friends.</p>