<p>mootie - waaah! cheers made me think you started a thread! where we could dig into the Real Life Case Study of the Top Scholarship vs. schmancier choices issue.</p>
<p>So, either cheers slurred her words, due to too much time in here, or I slurred my hearing.</p>
<p>But you <em>should</em> start a thread, shouldn’t you? It’s an interesting topic. DO NOT put it in the thread from heck, I don’t think. It’s ****-a-roachy in there. Plus, I think the absence of contamination by the E-word (elite, that is) makes TSFH’s dilemma of interest to a broader crowd and, maybe, less incendiary.</p>
<p>You can house the thread in SA (virtually) and we will serve refreshments, cutting off anyone who gets snarky. And macrame-ing their hands.</p>
<p>Visiting the naughty thread is like turning your head to look at the scene of an accident – you know you shouldn’t do it, but can’t resist. I have kept peeking, but have not been tempted to post anymore; way too many smack downs. It’s gotten so far out of control that it’s almost like a SNL skit. What in the world is going on with MOWC and the confused one? With all the PMs that must be going on, I feel like I’m suffering from blackouts. Is that what happens here in SA?</p>
<p>Happy Bday everyone! H turned 50 last year, but he’s too busy trying to pay for the schools we can’t afford to slow down. I tell him it just keeps him young. Let’s have champagne!</p>
<p>Oh, you sweet young things. Coming in here regularly when you face down the big 5-0. Been there, done that. This year - don’t laugh - I face the final birthday to even begin with a 5. Will you still be my friends?</p>
<p>DH has already left 6-0 behind. Nothing to it, TuitionDad. Once you get there, you have so much to look forward to: monthly checks from Uncle Sam, eating dinner at 4:30 for half-off if you show your ID, lording it over people who take more little pills than you do. :eek:</p>
<p>The secret is to have everyone around you think you’re part of the facing down 5-0 crowd. Tips: no hush puppies, no black sox with bermuda shorts and athletic shoes.</p>
<p>LOL! And Happy Birthday to you too TuitionDad. And of course we will be your friend jmmom, remember it was people over 30 we didn’t like.</p>
<p>I celebrated 50 in September, as some of the denizens will remember as I decided it was a VERY IMPORTANT EVENT and had to talk about it a lot.</p>
<p>My vow now is to never ever become one of those older people who think the world is going to hell in a handbasket. You know, <em>uses screechy voice</em> “What has happened to kids/music/sex/employment/education these days!?!”. I vow that whatever the changes the world throws at me I will say to myself, “Well, maybe it’s for the best, maybe there IS some reason to have my telephone be a device to enter text with my thumbs,” just so that I never let my aging make me bitter that this world keeps winding up as I am winding down.</p>
<p>And in that spirit, Welcome to the Old But Cheerful Club! I have my AARP card in my wallet. Looking forward to cheaper car insurance. And being one of the ones who don’t take too many little pills or have so many aches that they require a telenovela to describe them.</p>
<p>Hey, the bright colors are back!!! Is it 2005 again:). For the newer people, imagine when bright colors and big fonts were the biggest controvery in cc:).</p>
<p>BTW, I am <em>still</em> on the floor over here in the corner. These posts are just intoxicated mutterings…</p>
<p>I’m obviously not getting any work today so it is time to leave. Thanks for the good wishes everybody, they were much nicer than the mean cards I got from my kids, and wife, and mom, and sister…</p>
<p>Yeah, tuition dad. DS, upon opening the cards at his 50th bday party, commented that “when you turn 50, you don’t get birthday greetings… you get insults :p.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I got 3 or 4 “great” birthday cards on my 50th a few years ago.</p>
<p>“When you’re over the hill, you pick up speed!” is one of the nicer ones.</p>
<p>The one that still makes me laugh is a grinning cartoon woman balancing a cup of dark liquid on her head. The caption reads, “Always one to see the positive, Mary uses her hot flashes to reheat her coffee.”</p>
<p>A wonderful weekend to all.
(And jmmom, I may think about starting that thread you suggest… except once I start it, I can’t control it anymore and it might just devolve into That Other Thread Junior. Will ponder, between sips on a nice Cosmo, I think.)</p>
<p>Not to change the subject, but is this Complaint Central? Is it o.k. to whine about stuff here? </p>
<p>I’m getting a little tired of DH’s travel schedule. As I sit here typing, he’s on his way home from CA. On Monday morning, at 6:15, the car arrives to take him to the airport again. This time to several cities in the midwest and then – wait for it! – California again. He’s been traveling every week since January. I enjoy our weekends, but I feel like I’m having a fling with my own guy. I know it’s his job, I know it’s important and I know he doesn’t like it either. So I don’t even get to b**ch at home about it. So, I think I’ll have an amaretto colada (without any calories, please) and go order take out for tonight. I did make a German chocolate cake, since DS is going back on Sunday. But I promise only to have a few large pieces and I’ll share with all of you.</p>
<p>Did everyone see Jym’s “thoughts to ponder” on the evil thread? It made my day! I was on the phone with one of my sisters in California, and I tried to read them to her. With all the laughing, I think she only heard half of them, but I’ve pasted the list into an email and sent it to friends and family in Ca, the midwest and Ireland. So your fame will be spread quite far tonight!</p>
<p>(((sjmom))) I feel your pain. dh is off in San Francisco this weekend. I have no idea why he’s there - grant review? conference? He says this is the last one for a while at least. OTOH since he was away we did all the things he won’t let us do - eat pizza while watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs. :)</p>
<p>sjmom…what post is it of Jym’s (post #?) I made a solemn promise not to go back to that thread that shall not be named. But, if there’s something funny and worth reading, I’ll go seek it out. I just don’t want to be sucked into the eternally flushing toilet…</p>
That’s us!</p>
:rolleyes: 
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