<p>Yes. Helen Mirren as the Goddess. I’m with you.</p>
<p>Phyllis Schafly as the anti-Goddess? One of the girls promoting anorexia on the Internet as the anti-Goddess? Or perhaps the Goddess doesn’t do anti. Yes, I think that’s it.</p>
<p>“And Diane Keaton also looked very good. I may have to try her tinted-specs-to-obscure-my-crows-feet approach. Effective!”</p>
<p>lol SBmom - I’ve been getting the Diane Keaton comparisons since I gave up my contacts for my granny specs a few months ago. And yes…ya can hide a lot of sins with the tint! 
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<p>I loved the way both Diane Keaton and Helen Mirren looked…and I thought Reese Witherspoon looked lovely as well.</p>
<p>Or we could have an Auntie Goddess-- baking brownies or something.</p>
<p>Resurrecting the thread…</p>
<p>And over yonder, I just made Member! 300th post! </p>
<p>It wasn’t brilliant, but it got the job done. :D</p>
<p>congrats mommusic!</p>
<p><em>cancan line weaves across the floor, throwing confetti</em></p>
<p>Helen Mirren is, in fact, a dish.</p>
<p>Wait, mootmom, I just caught up on acceptances. Clarkson!!!</p>
<p>Hooray.</p>
<p>That is great. Good for him.</p>
<p>Thanks, Alu, but he hasn’t even looked deeply at the Clarkson materials yet: tomorrow at oh-dark-30 we leave SFO for his monster scholarship interview at Fairleigh Dickinson in NJ, and he seems to be a serial-concentrator. He wants to just think about one school at a time, so this week is FDU, next week is Clarkson. :)</p>
<p>Can’t wait to see TSFH wailing on my brother’s eight drumkits in his basement… heh. Two peas in a pod. (And if things go well on Sunday, I’ll be buying rounds for the entire Alley.)</p>
<p>Is it May 1 yet?</p>
<p>“Is it May 1 yet?”</p>
<p>No, but it’s not February any more! That is my least favorite month, I have decided. If it weren’t for chocolate, I don’t know how I would get through it. ;)</p>
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serial-concentrator=focus=living in the moment</p>
<p>Hmmm, TSFH could be our Sinners Alley guru. Can we handle it?</p>
<p>Thanks to you guys, I’m starting out my weekend with several outloud yukks. 
Jym626, my HMB (High Maintenance B–) has her head buried in a bowl of cruelty-free kibble, and we’re both enjoying an early start to the day. </p>
<p>I loved the run on turning 50. And, in character with that, my stunning, 49-year old, steel-trap of a short-term memory could not retrieve one word or one sentence from the post I wrote that went <em>poof.</em> Was it a presentation in parable between Man’s will and his environment? What was I was saying again? I think I was bashing all of the decades leading up to Fifty. It was funny, though, and I think I may have insulted someone, although it escapes me now who that could have been…probably EvilNeighbor who is an asstard all the time and parks her asstard SUV too close to my fence. My carefully constructed post morphed into a website about a new pharmaceutical, a luxury vacation, or an insurance company – I can’t remember which one. Oh, and btw…yesterday, I forgot how to say thank you in French. :eek:</p>
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<p>A large mystery mammal is walking around in my front yard, and the HMB (High Maintenance B–) who guards us with her life (as long as there’s a window between her and the perpetrator) has just issued a polite <em>woof,</em> which in her language means, Move along, nothing to see here, go back to your hole. I’m hoping that the large mammal is a herbivore and will snack on some of the thistles that are starting to sprout in my yard.</p>
<p>A round of Wootz! for TSFH on his acceptance to Clarkson! Way to go!! Marmots standing by on the big FD fin aid package…</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot to mention this conversation which took place at 3 a.m. this morning when TCSFH rolled in…</p>
<p>MrsSlugg to MrSlugg: Hey, are you awake?</p>
<p>MrSlugg: (groans) Sort of.</p>
<p>MrsSlugg: (Thinking that I am alerting him to a natural spectacle that is worth mentioning at 3 a.m. as long as I’m up…) The moonlight is shining in on me through the curtains.</p>
<p>MrSlugg: That’s where they get “lunatic.”</p>
<p>Shut me up. :p</p>
<p>serial concentrator = unitasker</p>
<p>Theory I have had for the last 15 years.</p>
<p>Boys - narrow-casters (serial concentrators, living in the moment, unitasking, can only hold a conversation on the topic they are currently obsessed with)
Girls - broad-casters</p>
<p>Slugg - you are making me snort vanilla yogurt (mixed with a little plain for virtue) out my nose…</p>
<p>Is it May 1 yet??? Seriously. We are having a BIG party that night. :eek:</p>
<p>Woke up at 3:30am worrying…trying to see this all through the eyes of my kid…and that’s when I got really worried…all I could see was a girlfriend and some video games…</p>
<p>Mathson has been a narrow-caster for 10 years on computer programming!</p>
<p>weenie, take heart-- that’s TWO things!</p>
<p>Isn’t it a minor miracle that the men we married can function at all?</p>
<p>SBmom: True! I hadn’t thought of that! My kid is a multi-tasker. I’m SO proud!!! :D</p>