[Post Five Unbelievable Things About Yourself]

I'm really late, but I want to play!!!

 

1. I was once a member of the Felician Sisters, an order of Polish nuns.

2. I spent a summer working as a counselor at a Jewish sleepaway camp.

3. I spent a couple of summers working in tobacco fields.

4. I spent a summer biking through New England.

5. I've climbed to the top of a hay silo.

[Do you ever feel like a]

No. You can only see how many people opened the thread. There's no way to know whether anybody read your post. I always feel like no one reads mine, and it is true that I rarely get any replies. I figure that is because of the time of night that I post -- often very late after the rest of you are done with the conversation. And I guess that's OK because I keep posting. :)

 

I'm reading yours now, and I know I've read them before.

I know the feeling you describe, though.

"If a woman in the forest types a post, and it gets no answer, was it ever heard?"

(or something like that. I hope you get what I meant!:))

[Do you ever feel like a]

The video had been online for 11 months, and only 740 had watched it during that time. Three hundred watched it after I posted. But no one said they liked it.

 

Slinking away....

 

I totally missed the link to the video, but I am very interested, and I'm sure I'll watch it now.

So I'll thank you in advance for such a cool link!

[Has anyone else tried Blue Agave Sweetner?]

I love Agave Nectar. I am sensitive to sugar, but because of agave nectar's low glycemic level I can eat it without a problem. Enjoy it!!

[Do you ever feel like a]

Exactly! There's just not much more to add, is there?:p

Nope, not much.

[From George Will: How important is "experience" for a presidential candidate?]

My dh forwarded this to me. I thought it was interesting on a historical level. I am not posting this to argue the merits of either Clinton or Obama. I am posting it because I think that Will has made a good point, and because in my ignorance I didn't know that Buchanan had had such a resume.

 

(Here's the link for the full article as published by the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002268.html?hpid=opinionsbox1)

 

Nothing, however, will assuage Clinton supporters' sense of injustice if the upstart Obama supplants her. Their, and her, sense of entitlement is encapsulated in her constant invocations of her "35 years" of "experience." Well.

She is 60. She left Yale Law School at age 25. Evidently she considers everything she has done since school, from her years at Little Rock's Rose law firm to her good fortune with cattle futures, as presidentially relevant experience.

The president who came to office with the most glittering array of experiences had served 10 years in the House of Representatives, then became minister to Russia, then served 10 years in the Senate, then four years as secretary of state (during a war that enlarged the nation by 33 percent), then was minister to Britain. Then, in 1856, James Buchanan was elected president and in just one term secured a strong claim to the rank as America's worst president. Abraham Lincoln, the inexperienced former one-term congressman, had an easy act to follow.

 

 

[Do you ever feel like a]

Exactly, what else is there to say?

[Memoir in Six Words]

This one is from a musical I love:

 

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

 

This is my own:

 

Make me go to bed....please!!!!

[Don't forget about the lunar eclipse tonight]

We just saw it, bright and clear. Very, very cool!! :D

[Lunch break question: Do you have nightmares?]

I agree about the hormone component. I occasionally have dreams like you're describing during normal times, but I had them *regularly* while pregnant.

 

While pregnant with my oldest, I dreampt that he popped his head out of the front of my belly, scowled at one of our friends (a guy who often annoyed us) and then ducked back inside.

It was strangely realistic.

[Lunch break question: Do you have nightmares?]

I do have very occasional dreams like that, but that doesn't mean you're not a crazy woman!

 

But yeah, I've had very realistic dreams, and sometimes they're about my dh and I've found myself punching him and not speaking to him until he promised me it wasn't true.

 

He doesn't like that so much.....

 

And I don't think it means anything untoward. In fact, it's probably the opposite.

[What's the deal with "reputation"]

You look so adorable with your green dress and new hair-do! I'm going to hate to have to flatten you on my way down the runway. After all, I'm getting voted in for Mean Mother of the Month as we speak! :p:p

 

Doran

 

Yes, and I can't tell you how much I wanted to lift that very picture and stick it in the other thread! I even looked around on emoticon sites to try and find one like it, to no avail. Maybe someone else can get you your very own!

[Grrrr. I'm so angry with my sister. May I vent?]

There are definitely other issues going on there, and I think that your bil is part of the issue. It sounds like all along he has shown her that she can pout and throw tantrums and then he'll jump and run and beg and roll over and play dead for her. Which is maybe why she loves the dog so much.

 

He may be the tops in his field, but there are obviously problems at home that haven't been dealt with. There is such a thing as being too much of a nice guy. Being nice is not the same thing as being a patsy.

 

I'd encourage him to go and I'd also enlist the aid of other relatives to do likewise. If he still gives in to her, well I think that speaks volumes.

[This is SO funny....]

Very funny! Thanks for the laugh. My kids loved it too!! :D

[Will someone give RoughCollie a little rep for me?]

Thanks GS - I figured it out - It took me two tries to figure out I could add a comment. I feel so smart now.

 

Hey Amy,

I was going to give you the same answer that gardenschooler did. Was I helpful? Does that mean anything to you? :D

[Someone please tell me I'm right.]

Yeah, you're right. I wouldn't let her go either, but I would try to find a way to reschedule it if possible.

 

Hey, look at the bright side:

 

You are the winner of today's Meanest Mom in the World Award!

Stand up and take a bow!!!!! :D

[Should I get involved in my daughter's college mess?]

Not that it really matters, anj, but I was thinking that the concensus was that Ria should get involved with that situation. Maybe I'm mis-remembering.

 

Really? I thought not. Maybe I'm only thinking of my thought. Oh well. Never mind.

[Should I get involved in my daughter's college mess?]

[Should I get involved in my daughter's college mess?]

Kelli,

You know I love you.

But you have got to send Bekah back there and she has got to fix this herself.

This is so hard because I actually remember being in that Limbo-land where Bekah is living right now. She is legally an adult, she wants to be an adult, doesn't want to be treated like a child, yet she wants to run home and have her parents and family accommodate her wishes.

 

But she's been on her own for awhile now, and she has to deal with this. I don't think you should call the school, I think she needs to do that for herself. If she cannot get the college to step in, then she needs to humbly go back to her room and find a way to get along with her room mate for the next three months. And that's all it is, really. Not forever.

 

If she's in a sorority, there ought to be someone there who would be willing to help her, don't they have a house?

 

You are only hearing one side of this story. And you know your girl. You've just said that she isn't easy to live with. Her roommate (despite her sloppiness) has experienced that difficulty too.

 

Last fall when Ria's dd had the pregnant roomie, we told her to stay out of it. I think that the same advice applies here.

 

[What is so great about Le Creuset cookware?]

Someone, I think it was Ria, posted that she loves hers. Try pm-ing her in case she doesn't see this thread.

 

I'm thinking a drive to New England would be worth my while if you two want to put yours up for adoption!:cool:

[Memoir in Six Words]

Spend so much rep. on this thread, that it's all gone.

Me too. Spread rep, all gone!

[Memoir in Six Words]

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You need more words, Laura. Doncha?:D

[Who knows someone famous?]

Oh, and how could I forget??????

 

I met Susan Wise Bauer at a homeschool convention in NJ!!! :D

[Memoir in Six Words]

There is a very cool thing being circulated around the internet right now. NPR is doing it, bloggers are doing it, there's a book about it:http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

 

The legend is that Hemingway was asked to write a novel in six words and he is said to have written the following:

For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn

 

So I thought it might be fun if we did that here. Write your own memoir, in six words. It could be either a capsule of your life, or just the way you're feeling right now.

 

Here's mine (it's just about how I'm feeling right now, not the story of my life, or maybe it is...):

 

Vicious cycle. Tired, push, push, tired.

[Who knows someone famous?]

Since people are mentioning all kinds of Christian singers, I remembered something. I used to belong to a religious group that was founded by John Michael Talbot. I have visited his monastery in Arkansas a couple of times for group gatherings, and also promoted a concert that featured himself, his brother Terry, and Barry McGuire (of Eve of Destruction fame.) I have met and been around JMT quite a few times, and I met Barry and Terry twice. Once I was flying home from Arkansas and JMT and his wife were taking the same flight, so we sat and talked. A man walked up because he recognized JMT and introduced himself as Oren Paris, Twila's dad, so I met him.

 

Oh, and when Barry McGuire saw how interested my (then 3yo) son was in the guitar, he gave him an autographed copy of a children's music concert that Barry had taped.

Barry is a really, really nice man, and an incredible performer.