<p>Our girl is post #181 on the master list of acceptances (I lurk the thread every now and then just to keep up with things).</p>
<p>However, she still should have come over to tell all of her Sinner’s Alley mamas. We may be drunk half the time but our memory is long.</p>
<p>jmmom got #9600!</p>
<p>Go sybbie for ranting to the airline!</p>
<p>And congrats Yemaya, even though I don’t know ya!</p>
<p>OK, over New Year’s my father was in the hospital with pneumonia, in a small town that shall remain unnamed. My question is, if nobody on staff can spell or pluralize words correctly, should we have been worried about the quality of its medical care? :eek:</p>
<p>soup’s of the day
Sweedish meatballs</p>
<p>and other offenses, but mostly involving unnecessary apostrophes. These were not hand-printed signs, but were made on the computer and printed out in color. My kids were LOL and I had to shush them. :D</p>
<p>Edit: I know, we’re a family of terrible grammar nazis.</p>
<p>jmmom - your Weep-No-More Cocktail sounds amazing. If I had the ingredients in my house, I would be tempted to try it out tonight…lol.</p>
<p>Sunday was my birthday so I doctored up my coffee with hot milk, a dollop of chocolate chip ice cream, and a splash of Kahlua. 
DH likes his coffee straight, but even he was impressed and envious.</p>
<p>mommusic,</p>
<p>maybe the hospital has a bunch of prople like me who are terrible typist or maybe they have just had a few too many (okay, this is as nice as I am going to be on monday morning).</p>
<p>A belatd happy birthday to you. It’s morning so lets have a round of those musicmom coffees.</p>
<p>Your drink sounds nice. You know there are a couple of cold days left and this nice drink can warm us up. We can even sing happy birthday (because every day is somebody’s birthday-whether or not we know their names) and we can just have on continuous celebration.</p>
<p>Continuous celebration sounds good! This time of year, after my birthday things are pretty boring until DH’s birthday and then Valentine’s day. (We go around looking for excuses to eat chocolate.)</p>
<p>There’s also that Disney song about our 364 other days–
“A very merry un-birthday to you, to you,
A very merry un-birthday to you, to you.<br>
It’s great to say to someone and I guess that you will do–A very merry un-birthday to you!”</p>
<p>I should have bought a round for all on my birthday. So what if I’m a day late? ;)</p>
<p>Happy first Monday of the New Year! Back to work, back to school, back to Home Depot. Everything fell apart over the holidays:</p>
<ol>
<li> The furnace stopped working. Had to replace it on Christmas Eve.</li>
<li> The tool drawer split clean up the middle and caved in on the wedding china. The wedding china survived.</li>
<li> The 3-year old TV died for no apparent reason.<br></li>
<li> The Berlin Wall blew down in last week’s storm (a.k.a. the fence between us and the sluggneighbors). Gotta replace it.</li>
<li> Two other fences started to lean toward the creek.</li>
<li> The arbor with the rose vine on top blew down and needs to be replaced.</li>
<li> The dryer went out last night.</li>
<li> My gray is showing…again.<br></li>
</ol>
<p>I think that’s it. :p</p>
<p>Luckily a stiff martini fixes all of the above!</p>
<p>Wow, sluggy…are you going to try out for Queen for a Day? Nice list of replacement needs you have there.</p>
<p>Does anyone recall the lonely Maytag washer repairman? Sluggbugg might see if he’s gotten himself a cellphone by now.</p>
<p>Sluggbugg, are you sure that the Berlin Wall didn’t squash the Wicked Witch of the West when it fell down?</p>
<p>Dunh, dunh dunh,dunh dunh, duhn…</p>
<p>Spoke to yemaya13 via PM. What a sweetie. Says she hasn’t worked up the courage to drop in to the Alley, as she’ll never get anything done if she gets sucked in here.</p>
<p>How come a teenager is wiser than we are 
?</p>
<p>Happy New Year!</p>
<p>We came back from vacation to find that our fish died while we were gone.</p>
<p>So, we replaced it with a hamster. I warned the nine year old that it was risky, because we have a cat. Kitty was unaware of the hamster for a couple of days, but the door to the girls’ bedroom was left open last night, and the 14 year old reported that she woke up in the middle of the night to see the cat sitting next to the hamster cage. The hamster was staying very still in its tube though she could see that it was breathing rather rapidly.</p>
<p>Aiee, what have I done!</p>
<p>mstee, no problem. Now you just get a row of dogs to guard the hamster cage from the cat. </p>
<p>Please, if you have any other problems, we’re here to help and simplify your life.</p>
<p>So I’m apparently not so smart, jmmom. But I just came here because your inbox is full and I had to let you know. Thank you all for thinking of me! I miss it here! And SBmom, yemayo has gotten rejected from all of the schools he’s heard back from. Not a huge surprise there.</p>
<p>Our little Subaru is at the mechanic’s today. Let’s see, the door latch on the passenger’s side is shot (I knew that – it was held closed with a canoe tie down strap), both front brake rotors need turning, both front inner CV joints are shot (I suspected that), both front struts are leaking fluid (I strongly suspected this – the handling and ride had both gone bad in recent months), the valve cover gaskets are dripping oil on the spark plug wires (I did not suspect this, but Subarus are known bleeders – this and the rear main seal are common sites of leaks in old Subarus) necessitating the replacement of spark plug seals (I am not making this up) and wires. All told $2,100. I’ll have an Alaskan Amber please. Maybe two…</p>
<p>arg. I hate car repairs. They are necessary evils, but it still sucks paying that much money out. On the other hand, my sister rarely repairs cars. (or has them serviced). She drives them until they literally fall apart, and then whines about having to buy a new one. </p>
<p>Re: cats/hamster cages…the neighbor’s cat sat and studied the hamster cage for a few days before figuring out exactly how to OPEN the door and remove its contents. ewwwww!</p>
<p>this reminds me…of sinners at the hands of an angry god</p>
<p>A cat can open a hamster cage? :eek: Goes to show what a little motivation can do for a critter . . . Should have just named the hamster “cat food” I guess.</p>
<p>I would love to get a dog. My husband would not. So that’s why we get hamsters and cats and fish . . .</p>