<p>Whooohooo! Whay to go Mootson! $20,000 is no small hunk of change… Will he be off to FD then?
I’m in bed tapping on the computer - complete CC and internet junky. What have I accomplished this spring break? hmmm, well…I did a load of laundry and ordered some photocards showing DS when he was 1 year old, to send out as graduation announcements. Not much to show for 5 days of sloth! I mean, that’s bringing slothdom to a whole new level. 
So tell me to get off the bed and go exercise, before my perimenopausal bones collapse from lack of use…</p>
<p>m&s LOL re “the relationship”</p>
<p>mootie ::confetti:: WOW!!!</p>
<p>anxiousmom, think of all the endorphins you can get at the gym!! I’ll go if you’ll go!</p>
<p>m…u…s…t… g…e…t… o…f…f… b…e…d… I’m trying! I’m trying! 
Okay, maybe a brisk walk around the lake this afternoon. :eek:</p>
<p>Mootie,</p>
<p>TSFH and the marmots did good. Congratulations!!! Now he may want to ride his motorcycle across country to school.</p>
<p>anxiousmom, hey just pretend you are a college student. Sleep all day, e-mail and talk to friends, go out for a little while and let someone else (hey our kids sound like a good idea) do the cooking cleaning and laundry.</p>
<p>And don’t forget to stick out your grubby little hand for money, car keys, etc.</p>
<p>I think we need vacation to regroup from our kids being home for spring break.</p>
<p>:) ::::confetti::::: WOOOT FOR MOOTIESON! ::::slugghuggs:::: :)<br>
Throw those marmots some Cheese Nips for pulling off yet another mission impossible. duh-duh duh duh, duh-duh duh duh…</p>
<p>Anxiousmom, lol. If you slow down a little, you can join the slugg club. Slothdom is just one level above sluggdom.</p>
<p>Sybb, you nailed it! I’ll buy the next round of Long Island Ice Teas. </p>
<p>Spring Break for the sluggprincess, a.k.a. NBWLHA (Neurotic But We Love Her Anyway), starts next week. She will be home to take care of dental, medical, and financial arrangements before she leaves in June. The CWMBO (Copenhagens Who Must Be Obeyed) want to see a financial statement showing that she has a bank account in her name with enough moolah in it to cover the year of her study abroad. I kinda like that hardass, show-us-the-money approach. It might be because they’re descended from Vikings. :)</p>
<p>The marmots must have stopped off in Berkeley to celebrate because an apartment for sluggieson might be opening up. It’s in the same building as his best friend (we love her, btw), and it’s in a decent neighborhood. I told the TRUTH when I talked to the building manager…he’s a musician. ;)</p>
<p>Mezz, speedy recovery for MezzoD. 
Appendectomy scars are cooler than tatts.</p>
<p>Awesome mootmom – the $$ is wonderful, but I LOVE what they said in the letter. Way to go mootson!!!</p>
<p>Mootson gettting uni-love (love from a university), Sluggson with an apartment possibility, mezzomom’s D with a successful emergency appendectomy (we had one of those on a 4th of July when OSWAHSA was 8 and could not jump off the proverbial chair without screaming…FYI fireworks look great from a Santa Barbara hospital…)</p>
<p>We are throwing a marmot appreciation party! And anxiousmom you gotta walk all the way here:).</p>
<p>What do marmots drink?</p>
<p>Marmots drink whatevery they want. As long as it is from a mayonnaise jar lid.</p>
<p>Clearly, mootson FH has been only masquerading as a slacker. TSMAASFHWWMMITE,AWAFP is what I’d call him (The Sr Masquerading as a Slacker from He!! Who Wins Merit Money In The End, Along with Accolades from Profs). It’s so long it needs commas.</p>
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<p>Hope he got a big tip! I got carded forever, but spent too long in Germany where no one cards, and New Yorkers knew I was old by the time I got back. Maybe the baby attached to my hip was a hint too?</p>
<p>Glad your daughter is doing well.</p>
<p>Mathmom and M&SDad, you bet the waiter got a big tip; I was going to give him 20%, but my daughter talked me into 25%. Her comment: “Mom, it’s clear he needs Lasik, so help him save the money for the procedure”! In light of that, I hereby dub my daughter “SWAHASC”…She Who Always Has A Smart [*ss] Comment.</p>
<p>mezzomom, we’d better not let your D and my S meet. They’d create a super race of wisea$$es!</p>
<p>I have salt and pepper wisea$$es: boy and girl. They come by it naturally. </p>
<p>Must be from their mom ;)</p>
<p>Mootmom, I think I neglected to add my congratulations to the chorus. That’s a nice hunk of change!</p>
<p>Send marmots to New York/New Jersey.</p>
<p>D’s flight out of Newark was cancelled. Nothing available until 7am Sunday morning. Then she turns around and goes back Wednesday. Whaaah.</p>
<p>She, of course, is spending the night or even nights in Manhattan instead with a friend and the friend’s father - nice hotel, nice dinner, movie, etc.</p>
<p>I guess actually the marmots can stay in their holes.</p>
<p>Just me is sad.</p>
<p>Have you tried Philly?</p>
<p>Alu–condolences! If we could, we’d get her home on wings of marmots. </p>
<p>Son #1 is in Japan, touring after a major programming competition in Tokyo. I’m happy for him, but we only get a token appearance at the end of spring break. He won’t be home this summer, either. :(</p>
<p>Son #2 is home and managed to get a summer job where he won’t be saying “You want fries with that?” Considering he sat on his backside and never did visit the career center or whatever it’s called at his college, he is darned lucky. (An internship suddenly opened up in another department of the company where he worked last summer.)</p>
<p>So I guess I have reasons to belly up to the bar & enjoy a cold one. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, Alu. It’s bad over here on the Right Coast. Out my window the snow is moving as fast horizontally as it is vertically. Windy, windy, windy.</p>
<p>Sorry AluD won’t be gracing your shores. But I like picturing the DS in New Orleans for his spring break (he’s there now; headed back Sunday for Monday classes… hmmm… does he hope the weather will or won’t abate by then ). So, think of the fun AluD is having in the Greatest City in The World (David Letterman told me).</p>
<p>She’s still planning to fly your way on Sunday?</p>
<p>Alu: My dad called me frantically from the Fort Myers airport. He was stuck until Tuesday. I found him a flight out tomorrow on Northwest through Detroit - and I swear it was the LAST flight to Rochester on any airlines until Tuesday. First class - $600. He didn’t care one bit. :eek:</p>
<p>I’m sorry that your visit will be cut short. That stinks!!!</p>
<p>Oh I’m frantically calling and pulling in chits from United but not very helpful and a real pita.</p>