Grumpy, I'm about 2 hours north of you....I heard a rumor that you were a bobcat? We bleed OU green
Bobcat here.
I think I remember that I missed Joel by a year or 2 - when were you there?
I was 1990-1993. Lived on West Green and N.Congress St.
We still have some old blue laws on the books here in NY - can't by alcohol on Sundays before 12 noon.
Can't buy on Sunday in CT either.
Same here! They won't sell beer & wine in grocery stores either.
All the grocery stores in AK have a seperate entrance and cash register for liquor. Of course, it also has the highest rate of alcoholism and spousal abuse in the country...
(And no, it is not true that the
only reason I prefer
DCL is the presense of chocolate smoothies aboard. It's only one of the .... well, I'm sure there are at least a few other reasons... I'm sure it will come to me in a minute....
)
Your bar bill was probably as much as mine & you don't have the videos and blackouts to show for it.
Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.
This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...
My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.
I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.
I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!
I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.
Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.
If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.
A real week of ups and downs.
Paula - your aunt, your mom and you are all in my prayers. I read liver cancer and shuddered. I know how hard this can be on family. The worst day of my life was spent in a hospital room basically waiting for nothing else but my mom to stop breathing.
Congrats on the promotion!
I got you beat. We lived together for 11 years before we got married.
We had bought a house, had 2 kids-and then remembered we forgot to get married along the way. That was 8 years ago so we have been together almost 20 years now.
That is awesome! Did you have a big fancy wedding?
We go married 'young' after 5 years of dating. We were 22 & 23, but we'd graduated from college, both had grown-up jobs, & had moved 4,000 miles from home. I'm not sure what else we were supposed to wait for.
Lots of military academy guys get engaged during the Ring Dance (end of junior year). DH's invitation to the ring dance basically came with a - "just so ya know, I'm not going to propose..."
Thanks for the warning!
Lots more get engaged during graduation week...not us, we were broken up!
I was stalked. I was on actually on another date and DW managed to invite herself in on it.
Shella and I are going to get along great. That is sooo something I would do! (but not in a creapy stalker sort of way).
Have fun! I hope your son is posting on the kids thread -- I have a 10ds on the thread! He turned 10 in Feb.
One DS will turn 10 on the cruise, but I think DS8 is going to love Elvis. He hasn't done any real plays, but loved theater camp and the bit of acting he's had a chance to do.
Then DH would die.
He hates people looking at him -- but, I guess if we had 20 kids he would have to get used to that! LOL!
Oldest dd (24) always laughs when she hears me say *I only have 5 children.* She has said to me *You know most people think more then 2 is ALOT.*
We have started adding *And they all have the same mom and dad* Because we found out that most people thought it was a yours/mine/ours type situation.... Until they saw everyone together!
Beautiful! Maybe the yours/mine/ours comments come from the age gap, not the number. I'll admit that was my first thought. I have a brother 10 years younger (same parents) & I thought we had a huge gap! The good news is that we have always been close (even though I left home when he was 7). He's one of my best friends and I've really been his 'fill-in mom' since he was 15.
Oh I'm aware of the other....their new ballpark was on my list a couple years ago to get to. I loved the ballpark and the view of the city. I have friends here in Ohio who are die-hard Pitt fans; be it baseball, football or hockey....Pitt is only 3 or less hours away from us.
Sorry. No Steelers talk allowed.
Sorry Doreen but this thread moves soooo fast that the post has to end in at least 3 zeros to qualify as a pirate.
Well, geeze Diane. If you're gonna discriminate against people who don't post all the time...
And they are all lots of fun!!!
...dear dahuffy...we're right behind your 29 years...
I only stayed open for 4 hours today. My grand total for my slush fund or lush fund for Toal from my gargae sale is $378!!! 
You weren't a senior hanging out at the Greenery hitting on freshman girls, were you?? 
