<p>Well, since I was too late to post on the Andison-only congrats thread, let me just bring my continued celebrations here....</p>
<p>Andi - I cannot tell you how happy I am. I guess we all feel that way. </p>
<p>Oh, and SBMom, I went to boarding school for high school, still in CA, but I remember asking when I would come home, "Are we still boycotting grapes or are they ok yet?" Luckily, most of our cousins had also made the move to CA so we were spared the ridicule that would have been meted out in the East Coast homelands of my mother and father.</p>
<p>And, because it is so important, Andi, congrats again.</p>
<p>My mom considers calling the dog by her actual dog name to be a form of animal abuse. This could lead to giving the little darling a command, which would hurt her doggie feelings and cause her --the dog, my mom, or both-- to piddle. :o </p>
<p>Tomorrow is SluggJr's 18th birthday! I am officially off the clock as the parent of minor children. Wanna hear my giving-birth-without-drugs-and-what-in-God's-name-was-I-thinking story? Seems like just yesterday that I was screaming and trying to astrally project myself out of the building...ah, the memories. ;) </p>
<p>One double-layer Devil's Food birthday cake with whipped chocolate ganache frosting and sparkler candles...coming up! No baby carrots and melon balls for this crowd! :D</p>
<p>At the risk of stirring up trouble (awh, who am I kidding-- its worth the risk under such circumstances))- I'd like to return to jmmom's celebration plan for andi and andison. Apparently there are so many of us doing the happydance for them on cc that it seems to have knocked a few screws loose, technologically and otherwise.... </p>
<p>So, I hope I can speak for mootmom in offering up our celebratory (2000th post winner prize) beer bongs to the happy mother/child. A congratulatory drink in SA for the under-aged young fellow is in order on this special occasion . Who is in charge of decorations? Music? Party hats? I've already got the pengiuns booked for the entertainment, as mootmom pointed out. Any other ideas?/ Lets maake this a rip-roarin' gala, with allthe couth that an on-the-floor-under-the-orange-naugahyde-booths event deserves.</p>
<p>Oooh wait-- a double celebration-- a birthday party forr sluggJr and a celebration for andison! Let the god times roll! Is the cake big enough for everyone, slugg?? And, so as not to offend <em>anyone</em> or sound partial to any of the celebratory parties, how about if the inscription on the cake reads "Happy Bar Mitzvah Mohammed".</p>
<p>I think "Holy Bar Mitzvah Mohammed O'Reilly" would cover more bases, don't you think, jym? Decoration options could also be democratically and ecumenically politically correct if we each empty out the junk drawer of items we've been saving just in case: pop-up shamrocks, wax Stars of David, clay mini-Buddhas, lace doily hearts on red construction paper, ...</p>
<p>oh, alright, let's throw in a crepe paper mortarboard or two and some birthday candles with Barbie/Ninja turtle themes since this is a matriculation/birthday celebration ca. 1986 crowd.</p>
<p>jmmom-
You are DEFINITELY in charge of decorations! Were you a party planner in a past life? And oops-- I erroneously confused you with mootie in part of my post above. I stand (if I am still able) corrected.
is there a theme? Costumes? additional party favors beyond the wonderful array described by jmmom in the previous post? I will try to separate out the lint from the party favors as I pull them out of my pockets and from the back of the desk drawers. Hey.. I just found a stash of Y2K party favors, emergency watter bottles and canned rations. Happy to contribute them to the appetizer table.</p>
<p>ooohh-- silly me- I missed the party theme already clearly delineated. I have a huge box of ninja turtle pieces-parts that I will happily contribute. I have a ninja costume, clothes hanger and ... the piece de resistance.. a backpack/lunchbox combo, complete with holes, unidentifiable sticky stuff and marker stains. I thought that might make a nice graduation/birthday gift, but oh.. how do I decide who gets which? Can someone flip a coin?</p>
<p><strong>edit</strong> I do believe you have hit upon a winner for the cake inscription. Will it be written in english/hebrew/sanskrit?</p>
<p>Coming Thru, Coming Thru...wheel barrow filled with ice & cans of imported beer, balancing a silver tray of cocktail weenies on my head :).
Woohoo! What a Party!</p>
<p>Listen...I hear several marching bands converging at the far end of the Alley, they're heading our way :eek:</p>
<p>OK, I'll supply the music. We'll open with "Celebration", then segue into "Havin' a Party" and other classics. I do need to warn you that you'll need to get your hankies out when the closing song is "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", followed by Andi singing Karoake to "I Will Survive".</p>
how a propos, audiophile, as the segways were created at WPI. YOu are SOOO clever. And yes.. sounds like hankies will be a required element all the way around. I am crying already. Wait-- I think I stored onions in that old Ninja turtle backpack. I think I hear a chorus of Crosby, Stills and Nash's "teach your children well" in the background. Is that from the Kaplan SAT review class next door?</p>
<p>Coming straight from Texas, my W's famous mesquite smoked brisket puffs (sort of like a crab puff, only the size of your hand), Opa's mini hot links, and "Freestone County Peaches and Peach Schnapps" hand-churned ice-cream . Take your breath away AND cool you back down.</p>
<p>BTW I think I went to school with Mo O'Reilly, tallish short guy with lightish dark hair?</p>
<p>No, I think you've got him confused with someone else. Mo has curly red hair, olive-y semitic skin tones with freckles, hooked nose, and green eyes. Dimple. But, yes, he is tallish short.</p>
<p>Oh, and is curmudgeW available to cater Super Bowl parties?</p>
<p>jmmom and curmudgeon-
Mohammed O'Reilley is such a common name, you must be confusing him with <em>this</em> Mo O'Reilley. I believe, if memory serves me correctly, this Mo O'Reilley was an amerasian baby adopted from South Vietnam during the Saigon baby airlift. I can see how you might have gotten them mixed up.</p>
<p>*<strong><em>EDIT</em></strong> He is tallish short. Correct-o-mundo</p>
<p>jym, I will definitely contribute my half of the beer bongs to this event!</p>
<p>And music? Wait a sec, I think jmmom's son and my TJFH should provide the music! Hmm, wait another sec... that means there'll only be drumming. Hmm... we could invite andison to play at his own party, maybe... and doesn't SluggJr play something also? </p>
<p>I've got a Costco jumbo pack of foamy earplugs here, just mosey on over to the left side over there and find me reclining on the long chaise with the flocked velveteen....</p>
<p>Well, AluSon will happily play the saxophone, badly, as long as no one can see him. And BTW, I think the inscription reads, at least, Holy Bar Mitzvah Jose Mohammed O'Reilly Chang. I'm from CA, and the Asian and Latino communities rock out here. To say nothing of the fact that it's Lunar New Year and year of the dog tonight. Let the good times, well, um, it's a Slugg world, so let the good times ooze.....</p>
<p>TJFH = The Junior From H*ll. The affectionate initialism I sometimes use for that extremely tall, attitudinally teenaged, completely unfathomable male tornado that passes for my S#2. </p>
<p>Anyway, he's a drummer. We're putting together a combo here. Want some foamy earplugs?</p>