<p>I’m slow today. It took me a few minutes to figure out what the “dreaded c-word” was. Or maybe it’s because we’re still a few years away …</p>
<p>Alumother - we just left Houston yesterday (Family Weekend at Rice - the dreaded “c-word” you’re probably visiting) and the weather was amazing. The humidity has all but disappeared and it’s beginning to cool off. I’m anxious to hear how Aluson likes it. The campus is really beautiful and we couldn’t be happier that S chose it. </p>
<p>To make a great weekend even more fun, we got to meet a few CC parents of Rice students while we were there! :)</p>
<p>dreaded c word – is it cats? (just kidding, I think I might have figured it out from patsmom’s hint)</p>
<p>Does anyone besides me remember the kittie newsletter that Sluggbugg shared on here awhile ago?</p>
<p>Well, I’ve found out that some kitties blog too. Take a look at Skeezixthecat.com.</p>
<p>Time out for a toast to tsdad’s son, who just won the Screamfest film festival in LA (or somewhere hip and cool). You can read about it in tsdad’s thread on Shameless Bragging. </p>
<p>Horror movies are <em>so</em> Sinner’s Alley, but I think we should wait to view it until 10/31, don’t you?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, we can perfect our menu.</p>
<p>Screaming Banana Banshee:
1/2 oz Banana liqueur
1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz white Creme de Cacao
1 1/2 oz Cream
1 Cherry </p>
<p>Shake all ingredients (except cherry) with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add the cherry on top and serve.</p>
<p>Yum…the Banana Banshee sounds great! But I’d have to go out and get 4 of the 5 ingredients…</p>
<p>I was going to skip the four I don’t have and go straight for the vodka, wanna join me?</p>
<p>^^ You can probably skip the chill-the-cocktail-glass step as well.</p>
<p>Efficiency is a virtue.</p>
<p>Yes-- and swigging from the bottle even eliminates the pesky glass.</p>
<p>I just sent sweet S#2 back to school after a 4 day Fall break at home. Boo-hoo. </p>
<p>And while it was great having him, when he let slip that he has a big paper (or a draft of it) due Friday and didn’t bring the books home, I almost slipped back into Mom-of-slacker mode. But I restrained myself. 
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<p>If he has to pull an all-nighter Thursday night it’s not my problem. 
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<p>Yo, Alley denizens. Y’all might want to check into the thread here called “The Office” and maybe just tune in to this week’s show (Thurs. 9pm NBC). You might see the handiwork and avatars of more than one SA familiar as part of the show’s sequences filmed in Second Life…</p>
<p>Tell, tell mootie…</p>
<p>For all of you moms of clueless sons, I just want to let you know that it does not necessarily end as they get older! I just discussed Thanksgiving plans with my son who graduated in 2006 and now is working on the opposite coast from us. He apparently told his 17 year old cousin on Facebook about a week ago that he was coming home for Thanksgiving, but that was the first I heard of it. He explained to me that he has a business trip to a conference in a city near our home which starts on November 27 (which happens to be a Tuesday), and “since Thanksgiving is ALWAYS ON NOVEMBER 25th, right?, it should work out perfectly!” :eek: This is a young man who completed a difficult course of study at an excellent university and now holds a responsible job! Come to think of it, my husband isn’t too good at knowing when holidays are, either…</p>
<p>MOT, that’s a good one!</p>
<p>MotherOfTwo, my H asked me last night what date Halloween was supposed to be on this year! He has a PhD!!!</p>
<p>BunsenBurner, I am not at all surprised!</p>
<p>Well, on the positive side, it would be good if he could somehow get his plane ticket paid for as part of the trip to this conference and then spend the whole weekend at home until Tuesday. He is going to be in for an unpleasant surprise when he looks at ticket prices for cross-country travel for Thanksgiving, since he hasn’t taken the time to do it yet.</p>
<p>MotherOfTwo, please don’t dash my hopes. I have been pinning them on the myelination of whatever brain lobe controls executive function, which I believe is complete in the male by the mid- to late twenties. I wonder whether there is a special diet or something that could speed the process up?</p>
<p>BensenBurner, my H has a Ph.D. in physics and cannot grasp the concept of separating dark from light laundry.</p>
<p>I guess he noticed that a big turkey dinner and a lot of football games on TV always seems to appear around a month before Christmas, and he never bothered to think about it beyond that.</p>
<p>Sooooooo funny NYMO2 & MO2</p>
<p>priceless</p>
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<p>Tell me it isn’t so! My D’s BF is going for a PhD in CompSci and I assumed he’d have to do a demonstration folding of laundry before his dissertation committee!</p>