<p>sjmom. I will just swig your cold medicine - OK? And the floor is OK with me, just roll me to the corner somewhere…</p>
<p>Anybody know any really loud obnoxious songs to sing so I don’t pass out? How about We Are The Champions?</p>
<p>I’m sure SA has a karaoke machine in the back.</p>
<p>How about “Another Brick in the Wall?” but only if everyone sings along…</p>
<p>We could sing “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” in honor of the “other” thread… I just need a cup of coffee, thanks.</p>
<p>D is flying back to Boston first thing monday morning to be with her people. I did not realize that a term could be so long when they are taking a leave term and are back home. I tried to coax her in to leaving over the weekend but she though it would be too soon (that is until she talked to the other friends who are also coming back from a leave term and found that they are coming back saturday/sunday). </p>
<p>She is happy about having housing on the gold coast when she returns but will be living with 2 people that she does not know. She will be down the hall from one of her best friends so she is not complaining. She got her room draw number while she was home and is happy that it is a really good one. Now she is deciding where she wants to live since she will have a lot to choose from.</p>
<p>Last week she landed a Deans Administrative Internship for senior year so she is really happy about that (I can’t believe that I am writing senior year as it is all going by really fast). This has prompted her to toss out a few more applications for summer internships, yeah!!!</p>
<p>Wow, Sybbie, that’s great news about your D’s internship! She just sounds like a dynamite girl. It does fly by, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>My sister, who is 5 years younger than me, was just talking about her youngest kid being, get this, the high school class of 2019!!! :eek: </p>
<p>Just the thought of that made me want to lay down and take a long nap.</p>
<p>mstee – I have not posted a lot here, but I did lurk for a long time. I hit the big 5 – 0 today too, so congratulations to both of us. My wife has today off, both of my daughters have the day off school, and I am at work right now (although not working too hard as you can tell) – not fair! I get to spend the evening at a high school track meet. Happy birthday!</p>
<p>Happy birthday, Tuition DAd! Seeing your moniker, I guess it is a good thing you are working, LOL.</p>
<p>The cure for any thread from heck:</p>
<p>Remember, March is prime time for the annual sphincter convention in CC. You might as well be sticking your fingers in a ringer washer or going to the annual PTA convention. Ooo, how about a nice arm burn from a hot oven rack? A camporee with sixty-five hyped-out Seventh Grade Girl Scouts and a bunch of beeyotchy mothers? These are a few of the things I’d rather do than read that thread. :)</p>
<p>Besides, it’s Mstee’s effing birthday, so put on a pointy little hat and CELEBRATE, damnit!! 
Following Weenie’s lead on spending her 50th birthday on the sofa…here is my Big Five-Oh?! suburban rapper poem. </p>
<p>Ooo-pah-choo…Oo-oop-ahchoo (sorry about the spit)…</p>
<p>*Drop the kids off at school,
Call the principal a fool,
Try not to drool,
When you roll through the hood
Sippin’ that iced decaf triple grande
Vanilla non-fat with whip latte
In your pimp mom-mobile.</p>
<p>Wear a thong, sing a song;
Hump a tree, drink some rum;
Braid your hair, watch Dayz,
Yo, yo, yo – turtle cake
With caramel glaze
From the stizzore, Whole Foolz! </p>
<p>Da bomb dilleo – yo fizzle,
Five-Oh is shaz-zizzle!!
Fiftee is crackin’, Fiveo is mackin’,
Avoid a car jackin’</p>
<p>Life is koo,
Happy on the B-thangz, Mstee and Teedad!*</p>
<p>Happy Bday mstee!</p>
<p>Happy bday tuitiondad! Are you tempted to freak out like so many 50 year old men? Tempted even a little bit? My H turned 50 in February and he seems okay–so far. Last year he took up Jujitsu with my son–and he’s continuing it now that son is gone to London. </p>
<p>I’m keepin’ my eyes on him though. </p>
<p>SJ/JYM, I am glad you liked the ‘mentally challenged’ exchange on the cur thread. It made me laugh. We can’t see beyond the length of our own arms, can we? I’m sure dstark pictured me in his/her neighborhood and made the assumption. Anyway, my panties weren’t twisted by it. I had a laugh–and enjoyed the mea culpa plus pat on the head too.</p>
<p>Alu, you can untie my beaded macrame wrist cuffs now. Don’t think I’d even be tempted by that thread which has descended to a lower level of heck. If you ask me. Oh, I dropped in; but then I raced out, tripping over unidentifiable bodies on the floor. For every post on topic, there are 10 of the ilk of:
“Mo-o-o-m!!”
“He hit first!”
“No, you!”
“No, you!!”
“I’m telling!”</p>
<p>Ever so enlightening.</p>
<p>Jmmom–after not only venturing back there, but, gack!–posting–(though very saliently) we may have to dose you with disinfectant before we let you back in.</p>
<p>It’s weird how weird it’s getting.</p>
<p>And see, the thing is, jmmom, we are in exactly the situation the original thread purpose was designed to examine! (Except the term “elite school” would never escape the lips of TSFH, so aim those sites a little lower.) If the discussion had stayed on track (HAHAHA who am I kidding) it could have been enlightening for us, since he <em>is</em> deciding between a top scholarship at a more regional school vs admission at a couple of better-known more top schools. At least I got a few PMs that were on-point and helpful.</p>
<p>Could someone get the marmots hustling that last admissions decision letter our way, please? </p>
<p>Many happy returns to everyone celebrating: my S1 leaves teenagerhood on Sunday and it’s creeping me out a bit.</p>
<p>That ain’t so bad, mootmom–my YOUNGER is 21 :eek:</p>
<p>Another lurker-refugee from The Thread Which Shall Remain Unnamed…what on earth is it about that thread that spins everyone up so much? Never mind…I don’t think I even want to know. Just pour me a hard cider, and let me share in the birthday celebrations. Slugg, do you do Motown too? You can be Diana Ross if I can be one of your Supremes…</p>
<p>Sluggbugg, that was hilarious. You have always been one of the funniest posters on CC!</p>
<p>It’s money. Money talk in March makes CC posters crazy. It has always been thus.</p>
<p>Speaking of Diana Ross, I saw her on Idol and was blown away by how the emotion she wears on her sleeve. At 60 something. Plus, her insight for each young singer was keen as. I was impressed.</p>
<p>cheers – I figure I’ll freak out when I am 60. I’m too poor and tired to put out the effort right now. At 60 the kids will be out of school and I won’t have to haul them around/pay their tuitions anymore.</p>
<p>On the subject of drinking in this lounge, I was telling my wife the other day that I remember when going out for a drink didn’t mean getting something at Starbucks.</p>
<p>I’m feeling so glad that I did not let myself get suckered into participating on the thread that should not be named! Whoa…</p>
<p>But the following post there is VERY funny by LeftHandofDog:</p>
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<p>This brought a smile from MomofWildChild who was wrongly accused by a confused poster:</p>
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<p>And Cathymee says it all:</p>
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<p>While that is not the SparkNotes version, it is some of the funnier moments!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday Tuition Dad. When I turned 50 a couple months ago, it truly did not bother me. I don’t feel old. Typing that number right now, pinches a little, only to have to SEE it but otherwise, I am fine. You will be as well. Enjoy the day (after work).</p>