I don't think there is any royalty or anyone famous in my family history. My Italian side were farmers in Italy, and the Irish side doesn't talk about family history.
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
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sj - Sep 10, 2009 5:38:58 am PDT #22513 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hil R. - Sep 10, 2009 5:52:51 am PDT #22514 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just got a call from my dad. My mom's in the hospital. They're not quite sure what the problem is -- allergic reaction to something made her blood pressure drop really low, but they're not sure what she's allergic to. I talked to her, and she seems OK, but they're keeping her in the hospital another night.
flea - Sep 10, 2009 5:53:13 am PDT #22515 of 30000
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I am a little bit embarrassingly proud of the fact that on my father's mother's side, I am the 6th generation of women to attend college (and all women's colleges, too - my great-great-great grandmother attended the seminar that became Mt. Holyoke college in the 1840s, her daughter went to Holyoke, hers to Wellesley, hers to Radcliffe (my grandmother), my aunt to Radcliffe and me to Bryn Mawr.)
I can has uppity women ancestors!
ETA: Hil, hope your mother continues to get better.
Trudy Booth - Sep 10, 2009 6:05:04 am PDT #22516 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
StuntHusband, that is epic.
Hil, I hope she's home soon. I'm glad it looks like she's going to be fine.
flea, that's pretty rad.
sj - Sep 10, 2009 6:09:18 am PDT #22517 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
(((Hil))). -ma for your Mom.
Fred Pete - Sep 10, 2009 6:09:41 am PDT #22518 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Health~ma for Hil's ma.
Barb - Sep 10, 2009 6:10:15 am PDT #22519 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
the Irish side doesn't talk about family history.
That means there's something good in there.
Hil, I hope your mom continues to improve.
Ginger - Sep 10, 2009 6:14:52 am PDT #22520 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I am a little bit embarrassingly proud of the fact that on my father's mother's side, I am the 6th generation of women to attend college
I don't think it's possible to be too proud of that. I am in the first generation on my mother's side. My first cousin went to Old Miss about 7 years before I went to Vanderbilt, so in my snarkier moments I say I'm the first woman to go to an institution of higher learning. My grandfather's sister, who had a club foot, went to college and moved from rural Wisconsin to California, where she became a supposedly prominent educator.
StuntHusband - Sep 10, 2009 6:17:17 am PDT #22521 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Health~ma to your mom, Hil.
I'm not sure how I feel about this part: I'm the first male member of EITHER side of my family not to enlist in a branch of the US Armed Forces in 6 generations.
SIX.
(I toyed with the idea when I was 18, but then thought that viewing boot camp as bootY camp would be a negative-sum proposition.)
Toddson - Sep 10, 2009 6:18:36 am PDT #22522 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hm ... according to one family geneologist, we have a Plantagenet waaay back in the family tree ... non-legitimate, but there. I'd take this with a grain of salt ... a big grain. Supposedly one Scottish ancestor was honored for bravery at the battle that put the Bruces on the throne and an English one killed the last of the Bruces at whichever battle that was.
Family legends ... if they aren't interesting, make something up!