<p>hahaha…finally watched it! Very funny!! I can relate to the “I’m turning into my father” and the “I thought I was responsible for global warming”!!!</p>
<p>Way too funny! Another vote for the “global warning” bit! Maybe she’s onto something w/ that – growing number of women reaching “that” age + hot flashes = global warming.</p>
<p>Bringing up from page 2…</p>
<p>Thanks astro – I’m not on here a lot, but I had this awful feeling I’d somehow managed to shut down the Alley!!!</p>
<p>FERRET ALERT! </p>
<p>I saw a commercial on tv this week for kraft bagel somethings… and one of the main characters is carrying a ferret in a front pack (like a baby pack that some of us former hippie types MIGHT have used when we carried our infants around). It’s hilarious. I can’t imagine eating these bagel things but the commercial is funny!</p>
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I think that’s just not possible, in this universe or any other. Be of good cheer! (And pass the good cheer around!)</p>
<p>It is May 1st.</p>
<p>Out in the larger wider world of those institutions we do not mention, children are taking a step towards adulthood. Both more and less significant than they know right now.</p>
<p>Postcards and checks and bits and bytes are wending their ways to offices where said children will in future be enrolled in said, unmentionable, institutions. </p>
<p>All is both right and terrible.</p>
<p>Childen are leaving us. Children are choosing. Children are taking paths.</p>
<p>Ivy, cement, brick, glass, stone, wooden beams, dorm rooms, old windows, coffee shops, floors covered in spilled beer, lawns, streets, tshirts. Lots of tshirts.</p>
<p>And the choices of what to think, what to know, how to belong, how to stand out.</p>
<p>And my little baby boy will be gone from me and joining the throng. His throng. Ah love. Ah children. Ah their eyelashes and their deep voices and even their broken out skin and clumsy knees.</p>
<p>Ah love.</p>
<p>Bartender. Set me up a row of shots. One for love. One for tears. One for joy. One for me. And another 20 for my friends here. It’s on me.</p>
<p>Kahlua and cream, here.</p>
<p>Thanks, Alumother. ‘their eyelashes and deep voices’ , thanks for that</p>
<p>beautiful post.</p>
<p>Sorry, didn’t mean to neglect the alley. Just took a brief detour into the “meta” and “vigil” threads on the forum. Most enlightening. Most entertaining. And, because they are in the forum rather than the cafe we get to shamelessly increase one’s post count by posting over there. I think is it a hook. </p>
<p>And CBBBlinker, join the crowd. At the NYC cc get-together, we asked who felt that they were a thread-killer. All hands immediately shot up. Then asked who felt that they’d posted something significant, it got totally ignored, then someone else posted the exact same thing a page or so later and got fawned all over for their brilliant insight. Again, all hands shot immediately into the air. At least we are a consistent bunch.</p>
<p>A round for all on me. Its May 1 – decisions are in!! Now have to fill iout health forms and go shopping. Time to resurrect the shopping thread.</p>
<p>Oh wow. By the time I finished typing and correcting my usual slew of typos, Alu had already celebrated May day. So I’ll let you pick up the tab in here today, alu. Thanks. Make mine a double. I hear there are some killer cosmos being poured.</p>
<p>eyelashes & deep voices & nascent beards growing on those soft cheeks! <em>sniff</em></p>
<p>And BTW when I saw that ferret commercial all I could think was aaargh imagine nursing that critter and its sharp pointy little teeth?</p>
<p>Hey, I’ll have a shot of something strong – to celebrate D’s successful appendectomy last night while H & I could only wait by the phone for updates! Talk about nerve-wracking! H is now w/ D in the hospital (700 miles away), and everything is fine, but … (You can read more over in the forum – which of course I did to up my post count.) :)</p>
<p>Glad all went well, CBBB.
Looks like many are taking a respite in the forum threads. They serve a lot more food in the vigil thread, but the drinks are better here. In all fairness, the meta thread is a riot.</p>
<p>my peeps on SA</p>
<p>you know that some days we need to come with warning labels (hate the thought of having to post rules in a place where we live to break the rules).</p>
<p>hazard to small animals
no sharp objects allowed
cannot come with in 100 yards of hair clippers
no drinking while reading the allowed while reading the meta thread (the chortle is not a very ladylike sound and yes, we must clean up after ourselves after spewing liquids all over the place)
Alu, gets to send no more kids off to college as I get too emotional over the stream of red hair waving, now eyelashes and deep voices (it seems like yesterday they were these annoying son’s from hell. Where did these fine young men suddenly come from??)</p>
<p>CBBB,</p>
<p>I am glad to hear that you D is on the mend.</p>
<p>Hugs and popsicles to your D, CBBB. Appendectomies are not like they were when we were kids (at least when I was one!), but still painful, scary, and all those other awful adjectives.</p>
<p>Jack Russell terrier update: today Spot brought home a jack russell terrier puppy! I guess this pup belongs to a silly neighbor who thought she could just put her J.R. out in the non-fenced backyard. Well, Little Sophie wandered into our yard and Spot invited her in to antagonize Suzette-the-wonderdog and to tinkle on my living room rug. How nice.</p>
<p>I sent Sophie home (D took her), with a stern warning about floor tinkling. I also hugged her and whispered that if her wayward mother lets her out like that again, just ask Spot to bring her back and we’d adopt her. Surely, she can’t be much more trouble than those irksome twins of mine who signed up for those unmentionable institutions this week. :(</p>
<p>I’ll have an Irish Whiskey tonight.</p>
<p>jym, at least you correct your typos. Not me.</p>
<p>::raising hand:: </p>
<p>Uh, I still have an annoying son from hell. In fact, two.</p>
<p>Alu that was a beautiful post!</p>
<p>Sybbie - I will cherish the virtual bag I carry from your D all my life. It makes me feel cool. And SBmom - I am passing you the torch from the God of Mute, he who becomes the Amazing Hulk overnight, who goes from grunts to poetry one moment while you are sipping your sauvignon blanc and almost don’t notice…</p>
<p>Maybe I will have to get an annoying dog so as not to miss my boy.</p>
<p>Or not. Bottoms up!!!</p>
<p>Oh, and I have no more kids to send to college. Tears. And whoopee.</p>
<p>Cheers and sweet dreams to one and all. </p>
<p>We are off tomorrow to retrieve DS from school. Two days each way. He’ll be with us only 1 1/2 weeks, then off he’ll go to an out-of-state internship.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>Please pour something that mixes well with gratitude, pride and a large dash of nostalgia. And a round for my friends.</p>