<p>alu-
Looks more like a stroke to me.</p>
<p>“Group hug” - I’m laughing out loud!</p>
<p>Love the away messages.</p>
<p>I like the “Gone to London” “Rome” or anyplace that isn’t here. That’ll be the day.</p>
<p>Hey mommusic: Let’s all go together!</p>
<p>I almost had a trip to London in the offing. DD will be there for Spring semester, and I though DS and DS and I would go for a very brief visit during her long vac (month).</p>
<p>But the dollar is so weak and DD needs to plan for something to do for the month (dorm is locked). She was thrilled at the idea of travelling, but has only one friend in Spain as destination. Travelling companions chickened out. And again the dollar is so weak.</p>
<p>So, it looks like she’s go to Spain for a few days and come home for most of the month. Boo Hoo. Sometimes I just hate being the mom.</p>
<p>I could put “Gone to Shanghai” on my IM but that would just be normal:(.</p>
<p>“got a life – leave a message”</p>
<p>My S’s away messages run the gamut from “sleep” to “around.”</p>
<p>but the interesting part is the long string of Profile stuff that he includes after that. He’ll add sports scores of his fav teams, tallies on his fantasy football team, quotes from famous authors (been sporting several verses of Donne’s “no man is an island” for some time now), song lyrics, links to funny websites, and snippets of IMs between him and friends.</p>
<p>A recent example of the last runs like this:</p>
<p>S: Well, it’s at 9 in the morning.
S: Though he is a great lecturer.
S’s best friend from home: Here’s what you do
S’s best friend from home: Flip a coin
S’s best friend from home: Go back to bed.</p>
<p>Haha. I wonder, does S know I am going to see that?</p>
<p>Shaved my head–loved that. That would get mine going.</p>
<p>“blogging the family secrets”</p>
<p>“do not disturb…any further”</p>
<p>" OMG, my pregnancy test was positive!"</p>
<p>^^^^^^^ The Best^^^^^^!!!</p>
<p>A favorite of mine:</p>
<p>GO AWAY!</p>
<p>Along the same lines: DD had the full workup at the gyno before she left in August. Being of age, the results of her blood, urine, etc. tests were given directly to her. I still have her text message from that day:</p>
<p>“Mom, I’m not pregnant!”</p>
<p>“drunk again”</p>
<p>Don’t laugh. I have seen that on unnamed teen messages…</p>
<p>Springfield Mom. Which Springfield?</p>
<p>I once read that “Springfield” is THE town name that is most widely distributed, in more states than any other single name.</p>
<p>Hey, tonight I was driving home at 9 p.m. and there were fireworks in our suburb. Not just some backyard stuff, I mean a bea-yoo-tiful display that went on for a half hour. I pulled over just to watch it. I think it came from the fancy shmancy high school. For a little while I thought, “are my school taxes paying for this?” but it was too pretty and I just enjoyed it. I’m sure I wasn’t on acid.</p>
<p>Alu: Springfield, Delaware County (right near the Del. border) in PA.</p>
<p>I always think of Springfield, OH, but probably every state has one.</p>
<p>Too late to edit the above, but:</p>
<p>Most young people today think of the Simpsons when they think of Springfield. :D</p>
<p>Yes, there was some kind of todo about identifying which Springfield it is, and I think they did…oh, I don’t remember.</p>
<p>It was Springfield, VT that won. We weren’t even in the running…the only thing we have in common with the Simpson’s Springfield is that we do have a Moe’s Grille (which is more like a Dennys than a bar). Sorry, no Nuclear Plant in this Springfield.</p>