<p>Hey HEY ** HEY!!!**
I didn’t see the original marmots reference in Alumother’s link. but I DID see that it was exactly a year ago and we were CELEBRATING JMMOM’S BIRTHDAY with margaritas!! Bring em on, barkeep!!! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY ya ol’ broad!!! Cinqo de Mayo celebration!!! Wahoo!!</p>
<p>alumother-
Could you write a birthday poem for jmmom? I tried to write one, but I defer to your exquisite skill in this area.</p>
<p>drink-maker to the world
user of emoticons
mother of a son-who-grunts
(and who through no fault of his own
attended three institutions that cannot be mentioned
in just two short years)
basker in the mexican sun
and jerry-rigger of wireless
she wears her senior member status
ever so lightly
all hail jmmom!!!</p>
<p>PS good catch, jym</p>
<p>Thanx, SBmom. Also noticed that May 12 is the anniversary of the start of this thread. More reasons to celebrate. Barkeep-- you’ll be busy.</p>
<p><strong>edit</strong>
Our little thread will be 3 yrs old. Time to start potty training?</p>
<p>A published author! Huzzah! There must be a drink for that.</p>
<p>** Wait. Wait. Wait! **</p>
<p>There are about a jillion posts between mommusic’s announcement of her byline in print and this post. </p>
<p>Give me a minute. I’m OLD! </p>
<p>I have to catch up. I might need a cane to mosey through all of these posts.</p>
<p>Wasn’t I clever to have cinco de mayo be my birthday, so you all would remember it so easily?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have :o!</p>
<p>All hail jmmom.</p>
<p>Here is what the 7-year old Alu would write.</p>
<p>I have a friend named jmmom.
She is so warm and friendly and never says anything mean.
I like to go to her house, I hope I can go to her vacation house too some day.
The reason I like jmmom is because she helps so many people.
I hope she has a happy birthday.</p>
<p>Good catch jym…</p>
<p>Alu, exactly right: she never says anything mean.</p>
<p>
DH might take exception to that absolute. But you can all set him straight :D.</p>
<p>On my birthday 2008, I have discovered:</p>
<p>Alu is a poet and researcher. I did not know those two went together;</p>
<p>You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time (see quotation above);</p>
<p>Old or new to SA, no diferencia, todos son funny y nice;</p>
<p>If you fiddle with drink names and jigger the recipes just a little, no one will mention that you have probably plagiarized them pretty much wholesale from Webtender MD;</p>
<p>It is not a good idea to press the Broil button instead of the Bake button when you put a birthday cake in the oven. But if you catch it in time and skim the burnt skin off the top, your friends IRL will still eat it;</p>
<p>Your friends in Sinner’s Alley won’t even know you did that; and their pieces of cake are each their favorite flavor because that’s how Virtual Cakes come out; </p>
<p>They still like you even if you’ve kissed goodbye to your last birthday that begins with a 5.</p>
<p>Wow, nice Cinco de Mayo party going on! We do know how to party here in SA! Real poetry & virtual drinks. Fine poetry & cheap drinks? Whatever.</p>
<p>I was away at a women’s discussion/meeting that included fabulous chocolates… I am perfectly content with the world.</p>
<p>But I still have room for a piece of jmmom’s virtual cake.</p>
<p>
Jmmom-
I am confused. Your birthday ALWAYS begins with a 5 :)</p>
<p>Nice try trying to sneak that b’day by us. </p>
<p>I like burnt marshmallows. Were they on your cake?</p>
<p>Good point, jym626. So much value added here on cc. Even outside of that useful Time Saving thread.</p>
<p>Belated Happy Birthday to jmmom! (In my defense, I’m only a day late, which is much better than how “belated” I am usually IRL.)</p>
<p>Like paying3, I often feel left behind here in the Alley. What I want to know is where so many of you find the time to keep up w/ everything throughout CC? Do you have that magic hourglass thing from Harry Potter – the one that lets you go back in time so you can then do twice as much in 24 hours?</p>
<p>CBBBlinker–we would probably find <em>certain</em> people are overachievers IRL as well. ;)</p>
<p>Happy Birthday jmmom. Sorry I’m late, but I had no time for SA last night - I got caught up over at the Vigil. What a great day to have a birthday - Cinco de Mayo!</p>
<p>“todos funny y nice,” exactly!!</p>
<p>I maintain that the genius of this thread (all hail, doddsdad!!) is the title. Keeps out sanctimonious/overly serious riffraff, and invites in all who are irreverent, funny y nice.</p>
<p>More recent SA arrivals: the main point of reading earlier pages is for SHEER amusement, never edification. But they’re like Lays potato chips-- I defy you to read just one.</p>
<p>If you do read, here are a few words of advice:</p>
<p>When you encounter a long post by sluggbugg, PUT DOWN your beverage. </p>
<p>When you encounter a long post by Alumother, TAKE UP your Kleenex. </p>
<p>When Mootmom discusses “core dumps” be not afraid, they are G rated techy somethings and they do not stink. </p>
<p>When you encounter a post by someone who no longer posts, put the umbrella in your drink at half mast and say a silent prayer of thanks for the wit and charm they added before moving on.</p>
<p>And give a special salute to the rare men who can sling em back with this posse of women.</p>
<p>jmmom, I’m having leftover cake today; it is wonderful! How did you know this was my favorite? </p>
<p>Here’s to you and many more returns of the day! An extra umbrella for all, please!</p>
<p>~Drinking her lunch (virtually, but there are some days when that does sound like a good idea…)</p>
<p>raising my peeps back to page 1 (for the moment)</p>
<p>jmmom, </p>
<p>I hope that you had a very happy birthday. Since your birthday was 5/5 and we are stil in the 5th month, I think that we should keep on celebrating.</p>
<p>Let steal some food from the vigil, and sing a couple of torch songs like we did back in the old days of SA.</p>
<p>We can take down some of those boas and sashay up and down the bar. Be don’t have to worry about falling off our high heels because we ain’t wearing no shoes anytime soon! (and with all the peanut shells on the floor, who would notice??)</p>
<p>Oh, you would not want any food from the Vigil. Currently, we are trying to solve the mystery of the “dishwasher poached salmon”, and there’s been some mentioning of “roadkill cookbook”, too.</p>
<p>If the drinks still come with umbrellas in 'em, make my umbrella an extra large one please. The sky looks like it’s gonna burst any minute now. What a novelty - rain in Seattle!</p>
<p>In the Alley we think cooking is when you open the top of the Cheetos bag very very slowly with a tool.</p>