Yay, Connie! I'm glad everything went well. Much recovery~ma to your DH!
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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.
sj - Nov 05, 2009 12:54:21 pm PST #29409 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2009 12:59:41 pm PST #29410 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I was talking about all this to one of my friends in the department this morning, she told me, "Calm down! You're so nervous you're going to have a heart attack!" She also said that her advisor has never said anything about her writing, since neither of them are native English speakers. (Her English is pretty good. Her advisor's English is atrocious. I have no idea who edits his papers, but his published papers are all written pretty clearly, while emails from him pretty much look like he just threw a bunch of words up in the air and let them land wherever they landed, and then randomly changed all the verb tenses around.)
Atropa - Nov 05, 2009 12:59:59 pm PST #29411 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Connie, I'm so glad that everything went well.
ION, someone stop me from browsing the Fluevog site. I can't afford more boots. Pete would kill me if I thought about buying more boots. But now that I know how comfortable the "Mini" heels are, wow am I coveting the Mini Lambchop boots: [link]
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2009 1:00:14 pm PST #29412 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yay for everything going well, Connie.
javachik - Nov 05, 2009 1:00:57 pm PST #29413 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
What a relief, Connie.
Barb - Nov 05, 2009 1:17:53 pm PST #29414 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Well, two things of note for me, one, the coat enabling from a couple of weeks ago finally kicked in and I ordered this duffle coat. I got black, even though I have two other black coats and a black leather jacket (I see Jill already raising an eyebrow and saying "Never too much black," with which I agree, actually.) I'm happy, because I've wanted a duffle coat for ages and now I'll be living somewhere I can actually wear one for more than two days out of the year.
Leading me to thing two of note, which is after much back and forth, post-inspection and the owners being just the teensiest bit cheap, we've settled on a final price for the house. Closing will be around Dec. 12th and we'll be moving early/mid-January.
MEEP!
Calli - Nov 05, 2009 1:24:47 pm PST #29415 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm so glad, Connie.
Re: kids sleeping. I don't remember much before 4 or 5, but at that point (at the latest) my parents were adamant about me sleeping in my own room. As far as how they made that work goes, well, I have no idea. I remember having nightmares, running into their room, and having Mom or Dad carry me back and staying with me until I fell asleep again.
Until I was in my 30s I had no idea that parents with more than one bedroom slept in the same room as their kids in the US. It was more of a "huh" revelation than anything—it just hadn't crossed my mind that that would happen.
Dana - Nov 05, 2009 1:25:47 pm PST #29416 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I have no memory of sleeping in my parents' bed. I suspect my dad wouldn't have gone for it. However, I used to sneak into their room in the middle of the night because they had an air conditioner, and I did not.
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2009 1:29:42 pm PST #29417 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can't remember ever sleeping in my parents' bed. Sometimes when I had a nightmare and went into my parents' room because I was scared, my mom would come lie down in my bed with me until I fell back asleep. I always had a few toys and books by my bed, and if I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, I'd play or read quietly until I was tired enough to go back to sleep. (My mom says my sister started sleeping through the night at about six months old, and the first time I slept through the night was in kindergarten.)
Laura - Nov 05, 2009 1:30:18 pm PST #29418 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Recovery ~ma for the hubby, Connie.
Skipped bunches, so hugs for y'all.
Hil, I can't even imagine how frustrating this advisor situation has been for you. I don't think he understands his role at all.
The boys slept with us until they didn't want to anymore. We had a king bed with a single bed at our feet and a crib pushed up against the side. Then we went through a period that lasted years of musical beds where I would need a good night's sleep and crash in one of the kid beds, or this one or that was on a couch. On any given night the 4 of us would be found in a different configuration of rooms. We have settled into our own rooms pretty much at this point, although the couches call our names from time to time.
The exception is now when we travel and can't or don't get 2 rooms for some reason we will sleep me and son Brendon together and Dad and Bobby together. It is a relative size decision. Sleeping head to foot for space purposes too.
The sleeping together when they were babies was a simple matter of convenience for nursing. Then they didn't want to leave and we didn't really mind. It doesn't really last very long since all kids do want to be independent at some point in time.