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.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Barb - Sep 10, 2009 6:10:15 am PDT #22519 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
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!
sj - Sep 10, 2009 6:19:48 am PDT #22523 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Barb, I don't think so. They mainly just don't talk to each other about anything important.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2009 6:23:39 am PDT #22524 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My father used to claim that we were distantly related to the Stuart royal family on our Scottish side, but I'm pretty sure the entire UK and most of Western Europe would have to be wiped out before we could inherit the throne. Maybe when Greenland finally melts enough to cause that mini ice age we've all been worrying about.
Laura - Sep 10, 2009 6:23:52 am PDT #22525 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Health~ma for your mom, Hil.
That is awesome, flea. DH and I are both the first college graduates on either side. None of our sibs graduated either.
Hil R. - Sep 10, 2009 6:24:27 am PDT #22526 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thanks, guys. It looks like she'll be OK, but she said that it took them about seven hours to stabilize her blood pressure. They're not sure what set off the allergic reaction -- as far as she knows, she's not allergic to anything.
Some of my ancestors (or, at least, cousins of my ancestors) were involved in a feud over leadership of the Frankfurt Jewish community. [link]
Gudanov - Sep 10, 2009 6:25:44 am PDT #22527 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
DH and I are both the first college graduates on either side.
I'm kinda the opposite. I was born while my parents were both in college.
Toddson - Sep 10, 2009 6:28:03 am PDT #22528 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Hil, glad to hear your mother's going to be all right.