<p>Beautiful weather here yesterday, too. So much outdoor work to be done, but unlike fencersmom & ivoryk, I decided to be slacker mom. Went to the driving range – frustratingly fun. Still trying to get rid of the slice in my recently resurrected golf game. Aches & pains, so bring my drink over to the hot tub, please.</p>
<p>Welcome gladmom!</p>
<p>Well, you folks have listened to me whine about this for 3 years now, and it is finally here… the day has come. I took DH to the airport this morning-- off to attend DS#1’s college graduation Saturday while I simultaneously attend DS#2’s here at home. Waaaah. He took a small video camera and we have preordered the videos from both events, but it is not the same as being there. This sux. Pour me a double bourbon on the rocks, please.</p>
<p>That does suck, jym626! Absolutely unfair and lousy timing all around. You can have a double/double for this Saturday’s madness.</p>
<p>jym, definitely poor scheduling on those schools’ parts. After all, it’s not like this snuck up on them. They had 4 YEARS to solve the conflict problem. Shame on them.</p>
<p>Have S1 pop into Sinners Alley when he gets back. Bring the cap and gown. We’ll have the Poet Laureate whip something up and sybbie will hand him a diploma in a chip basket (or a chicken bucket, I forget which).</p>
<p>You will be seated Front Row, Center.</p>
<p>CBB - there’s a poet’s corner somewhere in this place, and a hot tub and a Naugahyde massage chair and I forget what all else.</p>
<p>No reason why you and I can’t start a Golf corner. There are no slices in our swings when we recount them here in Sinner’s Alley; and we all shoot our age - for 18 holes, not 9. </p>
<p>Maybe more of the guys will come back more often if we let them talk sports.</p>
<p>jym - I’m so sorry about your scheduling conflict! What a shame. You got me thinking though - my kids are four years apart, and that could happen to me (though not as likely as since our high school graduations take place in late June). </p>
<p>We’ll just have to celebrate both graduations here. Congratulations, by the way.</p>
<p>Hi all.</p>
<p>I’m in NYC today.</p>
<p>Love it here.</p>
<p>I will keep my eyes out for a place that can be one of our SA avatars…</p>
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<p>By my calculation, if you are getting shorter, you are losing weight, too! (don’t know about the locating your nose part, though, but it will help if you are stopped on the way home for a sobriety test)</p>
<p>Happy NYC, Alumother! I love it there, too.</p>
<p>I recently arrived home after a round-trip drive to North Carolina to retrieve number one (and only) son. The drive through WV was spectacular: Various shades of new green punctuated here and there by shining white dogwood blossoms.</p>
<p>Now the house is strewn with son-stuff as he “sorts” (right!) prior to heading off to his internship next week. </p>
<p>Too much too soon for this barfly. Another round for my friends, barkeep. OOPS. I think I just grew another inch! The oxygen is getting a little thin…</p>
<p>Thanks LIMOM, jmmom and Momof3.</p>
<p>Did I mention that DS#2 turns 18 tomorrow?? I have the combined “Happy birthday/Happy graduation” balloons (the mailbox is festooned), yard signs outside, cake, card, etc. Just a divided family with too many joyous occasions on one weekend. Oh-- mothers day?? Fahgeddaboudit!</p>
<p>jmmom-
Apoem… ahh that will solve all my woes. Thanx. I shall await our poet laureate’s return.</p>
<p>Celebratory drink, please! D is back from school – minus her appendix and still w/ some final exam papers to write, but she’s here! The good news for us is that we didn’t have to drive all the way to NC – she got a ride to Philadelphia.</p>
<p>jmmom – golf corner sounds great. As for shooting my age for 18 holes – well, all I can say is look for me on the pro tour!</p>
<p>On our way to Urbana for graduation weekend! The weather is supposed to be cool and rainy–wouldn’t you know it! Doesn’t matter what I wear, I’ll have a poncho over it.</p>
<p>A celebratory cookout is planned at S’s house. We are bringing–steaks! And a few bottles of appropriate libation, tho they tell me perfectly drinkable wine comes in cartons these days.</p>
<p>Happy Grad/Birthday/Homecoming to all!</p>
<p>And Happy Appendectomy to Blinkerdaughter! :)</p>
<p>jym - Happy Birthday to your S, and Congratulations to everyone else in your family on the graduations - what a fun weekend you are going to have. I’m sure they won’t overlook Mother’s Day - but maybe just celebrate on a smaller scale.</p>
<p>Alumother - you should have told us in advance that you were going to be in NYC - we could have had another CC get-together (although it is hard at this time of year). If you’re still in town, I’m sorry you have to be here in the rain - but at least there are plenty of cool indoor places where you can hang out.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son and family to mommusic - enjoy your S’s graduation weekend!</p>
<p>CBBBlinker - yea for your D coming home from school, and for you not having to drive all the way to NC to pick her up.</p>
<p>CBB-
Hope your daughter is doing well. Kids that age bounce back from surgery pretty quickly. Ahhh, to be young.</p>
<p>mommusic-
Have a wonderful time at graduation! Hope the rain holds off for you.</p>
<p>LIMOM-
Thanks! Too bad I can’t get a loaf of that yummy chocolate bread for mother’s day!</p>
<p>Alumother-
Enjoy NYC! It is a great place. Lots of wonderful places to go and see. I eagerly await your return and poetic prowess…</p>
<p>I just picked up DS’s Graduation/18th Birthday cake. What does he want to do today now that he is 18? Buy a lottery ticket!</p>
<p>Aaarggh! Trying to provide sound long distance wise parent advice to DS #1, currently finishing first year of grad school. (He’s soliciting the advice-THEY DO GROW UP.) He’s looking to upgrade to an apt. he can see himself living in for the next four years. Currently in a 368 sq. ft studio, has finally conceded that he needs a bigger place so that he can actually invite people over for dinner. I can tell that he’s losing his enthusiasm for going out to look at places and just wants to pick one. I’ve asked as many questions as I can long distance re: things he would never think to look for, and his father is a real estate attorney who can read a lease for him, but that’s about all the help we can offer.</p>
<p>jym626,
Happy Birthday to your son! Make sure you and the DH chip in to buy him a winning lottery ticket!</p>
<p>momof3 - get the info on how city of choice, budget and any other criteria.</p>
<p>We’ll convert Golf Corner to Craigslist Corner - we’ll find a place for him!</p>
<p>jmmom, he needs to be in the Hyde Park area of Chicago and I have been refreshing the area craigslist as well as the University’s own listings on a regular basis. I called him within 10 minutes of an interesting listing going up and he went to look at it last night and liked it. It’s just that trying to get him to describe places over the phone, and then I ask questions about what’s on the floors, windows, etc., and I’m sure his head is spinning with details. He’s already been jerked around by someone who said they’d rent to him, weren’t interested in selling their condo, strung him along for a while, and then sold the place. Of course they’re entitled to do that, but he let himself get strung along. Having lived on campus all four years of undergrad, he’s a little naive when it comes to this sort of thing. It will all work out, but he’s on a fairly strict budget because he has a measly graduate student stipend and he isn’t really capable of figuring out everything he’ll need to purchase, what needs to be replaced, cost, etc. Well, at least we’re hearing from him, as opposed to rarely hearing from him when he was in college. ;)</p>
<p>Momof3sons, I know what you mean. I hear more from my post-BA kids when they have to choose a new apartment than for any other matter. I wish they’d move more often.</p>