<p>Alumom, I’m with you…roasted quite often in the regular forum.<br>
NYmom, to boost your posts, suggest you visit the chances threads and just cut/paste “NO Chance” in response to each. LOL.</p>
<p>I’m with Alu - I don’t think it’s safe in the regular forum. 
I just hang out here - don’t talk much, but listen, and live vicariously and celebrate when there’s cause for such!
it would be great to have a Slugg thanksgiving story to enjoy.</p>
<p>I would probably win the contest for Longest Memeber with Fewest Posts ;)</p>
<p>o really ?</p>
<p>So do you need a “hook” to become a moderator?</p>
<p>Sluggy come back! Your virtual age can be like SBmom, 21!</p>
<p>georgiamom, we’re honored to have you. </p>
<p>and to any other lurkers who have not yet announced themselves: Welcome! Pull up a stool! Have yourselves a double.</p>
<p>You have entered the fray-free zone. Ahhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>We like it here. Men will discuss hotflashes, women will politely ignore… er… digits. </p>
<p>Kinda like the first digits of all of our ages will be ignored-- <em>POOF</em>– all gone.</p>
<p>Here, we can tell it like it is about our slackersons, our grey hair, our abysses, our phantom long lost babies, our personal summers, our personal winters, our evilneighbors, our red desks, & our kids who say “Ugh.” </p>
<p>WE ARE THE ANTI-CHANCES THREAD. </p>
<p>We don’t give a hoot about our chances, because we’ve been there and done that, and we know that as long as you are alive you have infinite chances. </p>
<p>Here we drink: sans hooks. Warts and all.</p>
<p>However, we ARE the essay question. We are very much the essay question.</p>
<p>And marmots, and the bon mot, and a good laugh wherever possible.</p>
<p>Because we’ve seen the rocks up ahead, and we know we need to squeeze in a whole lot more laughs before we get there.</p>
<p>And we are nothing if not LYRICAL around here, too.</p>
<p>A toast. And not in the Rocky Horror sense, either.</p>
<p>well, if you insist that we lurkers enter into the fray – here’s one for alumother’s seasonal blues…</p>
<p>[I</a> miss my depression - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2007/11/20/i_miss_my_depression/]I”>http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2007/11/20/i_miss_my_depression/)</p>
<p>still, a good pinot grigrio conquers all…</p>
<p>Here’s to you SBmom - v. nice, v. nice…My favorite image from Greek mythology has always been Scylla and Charybdis. The rocks ahead occasionally have teeth. And dog heads. But we will write the essay anyway here because as Homer knew the story told to friends will live on.</p>
<p>ivoryk! welcome! I have never been actually depressed but I have lived through a black night of the soul and my cries I believe were heard, albeit through the walls, here in the Alley. I prefer cheerful myself, but I appreciate that article.</p>
<p>Every time I have seen your user name I always think of ivory-billed woodpeckers. Do they live where marmots live?</p>
<p>Okay, I qualify for 10% Tuesdays. Both in the official cc counting method and in one or two of the more lenient IRL age cut-offs. (Yes, m&s and SB… I will buy your drinks for you on Tuesdays, since it will be <em>eons</em> until you qualify. You can reimburse me out back when no one is looking).</p>
<p>I have settled on my cyber age: 40. Okay, some of you young ones may be aghast at that selection. But at 40, I looked… GOOD. And DS had come along by then and was toddling around and chattering, so my world was complete. </p>
<p>Fair warning: if we ever post photos in the Alley, it is my 40-year old photo that is going up. I hope at least one person can figure out that it is I.</p>
<p>Any advice on how to wait up for your S who is driving home with a carful of other teenagers on the way home for Thanksgiving? They decided to leave school at 5:30 p.m., take someone’s girlfried to the airport, and then drive the 12 hours home? If I have a little glass of wine, I will sleep. If I wait up all night, I will be particulary grumpy for the other kids who still have school tomorrow. Oh, I guess a few more gray hairs aren’t fatal.</p>
<p>^^^^ Did they make it home ok??
Last spring I stayed up all night (well almost-- traded places with DH at 4:30 am) when s#2 hosted the after prom party. Wasn’t too hard to stay up to monitor that, and wine was necessry AFTER the party ended! I stayed up by posting updates here!
Hope they got home OK. Have a happy holiday.</p>
<p>My virtual age is 47. Good work/life balance. Involved with the kids, but life no longer revolves around them. In the best shape for the past decade at least. </p>
<p>Lots to be thankful for.</p>
<p>IvoryK,</p>
<p>Interesting article. D has battled depression since high school. I am sure she does not share the author’s perspective.</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving all, and safe traveling.</p>
<p>Jmmom, Headed to Baltimore? If so, we may pass each other yet again.
And thanks for the sneaked hooch.</p>
<p>“…we know that as long as you are alive you have infinite chances.”</p>
<p>SBMom–I’m going to have that framed & posted somewhere! </p>
<p>Life in a nutshell.</p>
<p>alu – actually my screen name is why I rarely post – didn’t put enough thought into choosing it and it’s a little too close to reality, if you know what I mean. I tried once to have it changed, but guess I didn’t go about it right. another ccer thought I taught piano. I do have a piano but play horribly. I do like woodpeckers, but frankly, they’re eating me out of house and home. Latest tally is that it’s costing me $2/day to feed the birds – far more than my cat, who would like to feed on the birds but is too stupid. And that’s even after the wonderful addition of a for-real squirrel-proof birdfeeder.</p>
<p>the depression article may have been inappropriate in these environs – but I thought it was well written and resonated with SA musings on the changing of the seasons. As for depression – yeah, well, it’s a long road I’m unfortunately too familiar with.</p>
<p>But I’m putting off baking. I’m in charge of providing desserts for Thanksgiving… have five recipes to execute today. One calls for using a double boiler. We did finally find it behind the 25-year old dusty wedding presents, but I have no idea how to use it. (insert scary face)</p>
<p>Another calls for 2 tablespoons of Grand Marnier – an expensive 2 tablespoons – but provided the excuse to head to the liquor store!</p>
<p>forgot to mention that this week in my daily romp through the newspaper’s Word Jumble (definitely proof that I need to get a life!) I came upon the following: TROMAM. Go for it, all ye revelers.</p>
<p>I.K.</p>
<p>I see a critter in there…</p>
<p>Yay for our mascot!!</p>
<p>Happy holiday SA’ers and marmots!</p>
<p>LOL. I got a chuckle out of TROMAM too.</p>