<p>Mes Mundial de Margaritas aqui! Cuatro de mayo es mi birthday eve, por que Cinqo de Mayo es Feliz Cumpleanos para jmmom. Si, es verdad.</p>
<p>Whew. That’s it for me and espanol today (with all the mistakes I’m sure I snuck in there). For my birthday I want to go to the great new tiny restaurant near here and sit at the Chef’s Counter. The kid is 22 and he is spectacular! But DH and DS are not here and won’t arrive till next Thursday. So I think I’ll do it next week. After all, if it can be Mes Mundial de Margaritas, it can certainly be Semana Mundial de jmmom ;). Not only will it be delicious and fun to watch the young maestro, but I’m planning that it will inspire jmson to heights of culinary grandeur for Dia de las madres next week!</p>
<p>As per usual, SB… jmmom is clueless. Remember, I am back here on the <em>wrong</em> coast. And when I am on the Left Coast (ie, the “right” coast), it is south of the border where cluelessness can continue uninterrupted.</p>
<p>I second the congrats to Astrophysics daughter! We spent five very enjoyable years outside Munich. I once got prescribed massages and hot wraps in Germany. It was great!</p>
<p>Gotcha, SB. Well, I have gone to watch him - without the jmmales in tow. No problem. I just want them to see him, too. So I’m not <em>quite</em> as hopeless as you feared. ;)</p>
<p>OK. Wait. Renee is actually IN Germany, drinking margaritas. Jmmom is actually IN Mexico, having a near-birthday experience. Astrophysicsmom’s D is going to be IN Germany. Me and SBMom are in CA, wishing summer would show up already. Any many people have needlepointed.</p>
<p>Just needed to get my bearings.</p>
<p>Anyone feel like lighting a large wooden man on fire yet?</p>
<p>Jmmom, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I somehow missed the part about you being IN Mexico–I thought you and Mr. Spectacular were in a New England Small Town…this is getting better all the time. </p>
<p>I would sing the traditional Mexican happy birthday song for you, but it requires way too many accents that I don’t know how to do on my laptop and would probably result in more “weird characters” (no weirdos in Sinner’s Alley). So here’s the happy birthday song I learned in Spain:</p>
<p>Feliz, feliz en tu dia
Amiguita que Dios te bendiga
Que reine la paz en tu vida
Y que cumplas muchos mas! Ole!</p>
<p>Happy, happy on your day
Dear friend may God bless you
May peace reign in your life
And may you have many more! Ole!</p>
<p>When you go to the restaurant, have the jmmales get Mr. Spectacular and friends to sing Las Mananitas to you.</p>
<p>Muchas gracias, ReneeV. You are right, I am in small town NE at the moment. Was in Me-hi-co, for a good part of the winter. Las Mananitas is one of the popular eating spots in our little Mexican town, though. One more place and reason to think of Sinners Alley while I’m out on the town.</p>
<p>Don’t you love the way j-m-males kind of looks like tamales? Perfectament para Cinqo de Mayo. Everyone else has great acronyms for their guys (TSFH, TSFS etc); I’m going with jamales for my guys. That’s my birthday decision!</p>
<p>My DH got me a new cell phone (which was nice) but now I can’t do anything with it!! Why on earth would he pick one with a camera, a video? For ME, the Luddite? Who wants a phone so complicated that it can act as a graphing calculator/internet portal/movie theatre/ artificial intelligence robot/ taser…? </p>
<p>NOT ME. I want a nice low tech phone. WITH BIG NUMBERS that are always lit up. AND NO GROOVY FEATURES. I call and I text – and that’s IT!!! </p>
<p>Okay, maybe with a ring tone that says something sexy in Italian.</p>
<p>SBMom–I quite agree. I have a phone that can take pix but I always have to get someone to transfer or email them to someplace useful. Same thing with the digital camera which is even a short-term video camera, apparently! But all the buttons & little symbols are so small…who can figure them out? Well, my children and my DH can…</p>
<p>Hey! I learned that I can punctuate, add symbols and sounds to my text messages today!!! The 2 girls who call me mom were falling all over themselves that I didn’t know how to do that! (and they realized that the only way I can text is with my reading glasses on so I can see the itty bitty letters on the keys of my phone!!!) After wiping the tears from her eyes from laughing so hard at her sister’s jokes, D1 (soon-to-be-hs-graduate) said, “I love you, Mommy.” Kids!</p>
<p>Coming in late, but no less sincere, with birthday wishes jmmom!!</p>
<p>And as for technology-- I agree.I use a phone that my s#2 rejected years and years ago. I love it. It is very simple. I just, finally, started to store phone #s in it. I found his phone #s of friends from middle school :rolleyes:</p>
<p>OK, um… I use a phone that is also an integrated calendar, address book, web browser, camera, voice recorder, email receiver, and game machine. And I love it love it love it. Do I still get to keep a seat in the Alley? Maybe if I only sit in the back and don’t actually <em>use</em> the thing around everyone else? My ringtone is Eleanor Rigby, though, maybe that’ll redeem me a little. (And it’s a Treo, if anyone cares.)</p>
That’s my birthday decision!</p>