<p>Well, we made use of our snowy eve by correcting the lovely fafsa. It’s done for a second year. Naturally, our efc went up from our estimated fafsa, but our efc is lower this year than last year. Amazing how a few little changes to the #s effects the efc by a few thousand. I need a drink. It was so easy to make corrections but H and I get so tense about just dealing with it.</p>
<p>^ Correcting FAFSA. That’s our day tomorrow!!! 
It’s already snowing like crazy out, so maybe it won’t seem so bad to be stuck inside with that job…</p>
<p>Hmmm, I really don’t know how our Bouncer allowed that FAFSA-thing in here :eek:. But I think it’s okay, as long as we start fiddling with those initials. Got to keep it clean, though (don’t we?).</p>
<p>So, let’s see, phishing for ideas. One of the A’s certainly has to be for Annoying. Beyond that, I’m momentarily stumped. Maybe the marmots have some ideas.</p>
<p>Forget Annoyances: Frequent Sinner’s Alley</p>
<p>^ Lol Lol :D</p>
<p>Freakin’ Annoying Freakin’ Stupidly Annoying</p>
<p>OK, where else but Sinner’s Alley can I go to lament? I see another mom has a similar lament…I’m not alone! Yay. </p>
<p>My 18 year old was flying back to college in NYC today from spring break having visited my mom in Palm Springs. She was flying alone via Dallas. Her best friend from home was on the trip with her at my mom’s but that friend was flying back to her college in Boston on different flights. That friend is now stranded in Chicago for three nights. </p>
<p>My daughter is stranded all weekend in Dallas alone and due to fly back to NYC Sunday night now since her flight to JFK was cancelled from Dallas upon arriving there. She waited in a three hour line to get reticketed. I booked her a hotel room by the airport. At first she was told she could get her luggage but now that is not possible. She will be without anything all weekend but the clothes on her back, her laptop and some homework. Her luggage is being sent on the next plane to JFK where she was to have gone, but her new flights are into LaGuardia Sunday night via Ohio. I have arranged for the luggage to be delivered to her dorm this weekend (fingers crossed). I don’t love the idea of her all alone in Dallas all weekend but it is what it is. She was stranded in Jan. alone in Jacksonville Florida and I got her a hotel room that time but it was only for the night. This is all weekend and without her stuff. They have a gym there though she is not too happy about working out in jeans but will make do. </p>
<p>I have had a lot of travel lately and the last two trips in the past month have gone horribly for me with airlines. However, I’m not 18. </p>
<p>It so happens that my inlaws were traveling today as well and they are stranded at their layover airport in DC but their daughter (my sister in law) lives there and so they can visit there. </p>
<p>Here, we are expecting 18 inches (just as the tons of snow was melting and mud season had gotten into full swing this week).</p>
<p>Hmm, 80F in the bay area today, hard to imagine the snow stopping the flights :p</p>
<p>Seriously, what a sad thing for the kids who cannot make it home! I would be doubly sad that I had not only paid for the plane ticket, might have to pay for interim hotels, and would not get to see my kiddo :(</p>
<p>I’m not gettin’ to see my kiddo anyway. Yes, this is costing a bundle. </p>
<p>She also just left where it was 101 degrees today (Palm Springs).</p>
<p>Two weeks ago I had to put my Mid on a plane in DC and it was 28 degrees and he had to wear his summer whites. He looked sharp, but riddiculous. But when he landed it was 78 and sunny in Honolulu.</p>
<p>Where should we go for drinks this week?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ncl.com/nclweb/fleet/shipInformation.html;jsessionid=F7s30r2h2YS0shZLzLTcw0WNzJn5TrfL!-884242904?shipCode=PRIDE%20HAWA[/url]”>http://www.ncl.com/nclweb/fleet/shipInformation.html;jsessionid=F7s30r2h2YS0shZLzLTcw0WNzJn5TrfL!-884242904?shipCode=PRIDE%20HAWA</a></p>
<p>I’m voting for the Medusa Lounge right about now, LFWB Dad.</p>
<p>Think we could get the Mids to put on a little show to cheer up Alu and sooz? Surely they have some trained marmots on that ship SOMEwhere, don’t they?</p>
<p>Yeah, why are all our kids trying to move around the country by air in flying cattlecars, when they could go the SCENIC route on a cruise ship with LFWBson? </p>
<p>DS will be trying to get from NOLA to Baltimore tomorrow. Maybe it will be fine. Maybe not. LFWB - can your S swing by the Gulf Coast and meet DS on some pier somewhere?</p>
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<p>You asked. This should make them smile.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYzo6lFqLiQ[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYzo6lFqLiQ</a></p>
<p>I arrived at the Philly airport yesterday morning at 9:00 AM – and wound my way back to my front door in the horizontal ice at about 5:00 (just in time for happy hour!). I don’t think any planes left Philly after 9:00 – though for some reason they kept making it look like it might happen. The airport was fully of very disappointed-looking college kids. I waited 2-1/2 hours in a line to get my money back – all the while trying to remember how much the damn ticket was and whether it was even worth it. I kept thinking that US Air could do a lot to diffuse the tension in the waiting line if those flight attendants would roll out the cocktail carts. I was also the only one in the line secretly smiling – as my trip was a mandated appearance at a family celebration I was happy to miss. However – I did inform my daughter when I trudged through the door that all those schools on the college list that require airplane travel should be bumped to the bottom of the pile! I hope all your wayward children make it safely to their destinations.</p>
<p>Mine just left Wisconsin for California via Minnesota about an hour ago.</p>
<p>w00t, morning Mid video! LFWB dad, my abs are hurting now just from watching those “drop and give me some number” drills! Maybe we need to squirt our kids with shaving cream when they finally do burst through the door? :)</p>
<p>I smiled the whole way through, LFWBdad. Well maybe not for the lone kid in the hall with the drill sergeant-y type guy. I wasn’t so sure <em>he</em> was having fun. And the kids in the close-ups? They were some cute! (in case one of them was LFWBson).</p>
<p>Enjoyed it too, LFWB. 
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<p>Lardass, a.k.a. EvilSister-In-Law, sent us a homemade St. Patrick’s Day card with this sentiment…</p>
<p>*May those who love us, love us
And those who don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if He can’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.
~ Traditional Irish Blessing</p>
<p>Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!*</p>
<p>Um…LOLOLOL! Sluggdad muttered something about breaking her ankles. One of those, She’s so fat… dozens rolled off of my lips faster than greased lightening. This is the same woman who sent us a handmade Valentine’s card that said, </p>
<p>Love is the thing
that allows a woman to sing
while she mops up the floor
after her husband has walked across it in his muddy shoes.<br>
Now that’s love! </p>
<p>::::blech::::: Clean-up on Aisle 4.</p>
<p>In her case, love is the thing that allows a woman to ■■■■■ around in World of Warcraft looking for a married man in rehab who can support her and her 2 daughters. Now that’s love! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Happy St. Patrick’s Day!</p>
<p>Well, pooh, Mathson got rejected from MIT, and mail from California didn’t get to NY so lots more waiting and some real decision making in the future…</p>
<p>Okay, mathmom. Here is a beer for you to cry in. Those rejections never feel good. How is he taking it?</p>
<p>But we have to believe that it will work out right in the end for all Sinners Alley sons and daughters.</p>
<p>Darn mathmom. Break out the pepperoni, cheese and crackers for with that beer.</p>