<p>Page 4 rescue!</p>
<p>Pour me one of those slushy drinks with an umbrella. It’s awfully hot & humid.</p>
<p>CBB, I also like being an adult at a family camp, even if there’s lots of jello and mac-and-cheese experiences. One year I used the opportunity to try out rinsing my hair red (carrot-top red). I lived with it for the week, realized I couldn’t handle it, and changed it the last day. Nobody from home ever knew.</p>
<p>Also I remember a vacation, at age l0, with an aunt, so that made 6 cousins, 2 moms, and 2 bedrooms in a seaside shack. We arrived and it was pouring rain. My aunt opened the window and just yelled, “Help.” I could not understand why she thought we were in trouble.</p>
<p>Pouring mommusic and all SA compadres double umbrella drinks. Who turned on the steam sauna up here in NY??? Man it’s HOT! and HUMID! I thought I left that stuff in the south. Nope.</p>
<p>Did anyone get to Billy Joel’s last concert in Shea Stadium on Fri night? I want to hear about it. It sounded incredible-- with amazing guest appearances, toppoed of by a finale with Paul McCartney.</p>
<p>^^^<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/540201-unsatisfying-phone-conversations-your-kids.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/540201-unsatisfying-phone-conversations-your-kids.html</a></p>
<p>An unlikley name for a thread that turns out to be about the concert</p>
<p>Missing the party atmosphere!! We need a block party, a reunion, or some strip poker PRONTO!</p>
<p>“Unsatisfying phone conversations with your kids”…</p>
<p>There is another kind? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>—signed,
MOS</p>
<p>^^^aka</p>
<p>MOTSWG</p>
<p>Mother Of The Son Who Grunts</p>
<p>WDHMTDISB</p>
<p>who drives his mother to drink in seedy bars</p>
<p>Grunting would be a veritable soliloquy from my personal DS. </p>
<p>Cones of Silence 'R him.</p>
<p>This weekend he took a bunch of friends up to the family camp on a nearby lake. He did tell us that this was going to happen, which we love. Guess who I learned any other details from (precious few at that)? Mother of Another Son, who tells a little bit more.</p>
<p>Too bad I didn’t know any of the Mothers of the Girls in attendance.</p>
<p>Of course that could have led to TMI. </p>
<p>Pick your poison.</p>
<p>THanks for the link, mafool. Just posted in that thread. </p>
<p>SBmom and jmmom- I think girls talk on the phone to parents. Boys… well, they call when they need something. My h and my s’s can complete their phone conversations in under 30 seconds. They are not ones to talk on the phone. My bro in law can talk your ear off. S’s will text, and one will (begrudgingly) IM, but they arent big talkers (except to girlfriends and other friends, not to parental units)</p>
<p>Our sons are brothers in spirit, jym.</p>
<p>Add my S to the “strong but silent” group! He’s currently at a summer program at WPI. We called him at night on his birthday, but of course his phone was off. (I often wonder why we got him a cell phone at all!) He did finally call back, though, and talked non-stop for about 5 minutes. From him, this was an amazing, newsworthy event! Clearly he’s having a great time. He also talks to our D – she reports back w/ all sorts of new and interesting tidbits of info. However, I have no illusions that he’ll ever be as chatty as D.</p>
<p>Bringin my peeps up from oblivion!</p>
<p>I saw “Mamma Mia” (the movie) yesterday. What fun! I was a total newbie–not having seen the musical or read any spoilers…I knew most of the songs, of course. </p>
<p>Now I want to go to Greece. Ahhhhhh.</p>
<p>I saw Mama Mia Friday night. I saw it in a theater full of “women of a certain age.” There were a few H’s and teens there, but mostly women, hootin’ and hollerin’. The plot was contrived, the singing was fairly pathetic, and all in all, it was great fun!</p>
<p>I don’t usually go to movies. If I seem something at all, it’s usually several years later, on DVD. However, this is not a movie I would have liked watching on TV, surrounded by my kids, who would undoubtably criticize the music, and be embarrassed by the thought of people in their 50’s talking about sex. <gasp></gasp></p>
<p>i agree that the plot, acting and singing were not “top-notch” but i went with two friends and their mothers–we had a blast. absolutely a delight. just a lot of laughs! i want to go to greece, too! in fact, i might just have to look into that…</p>
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<p>Thanx, mommusic – once again I was afraid I had closed down the Alley! :)</p>
<p>I have very clear recollections of the early days of my first post-B school job. I used to crank up ABBA to help get me pumped up as I drove down the highway. Every time I hear that music now, it takes me back. Can’t wait to see the movie!</p>
<p>I discovered yesterday that my older S’s cellphone has been broken for a couple weeks. That would explain why he never answered when I called.</p>
<p>He claims the replacement will be in his hands today. Anyone want to start a pool on how long it will be before he’ll call us from it?</p>
<p>Mootie,
^^^Probably about when he needs something (money, something shipped that he left behind when home, etc. 
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<p>Totally off the subject (did we have a subject?) but I just discovered how my H of almost 30 years manages to get his towel so wet after a shower. Sure, he’s bigger than I am…and hairier…but the towel SO wet that it almost instantly mildews, while mine stays sweet-smelling for days??? ;)</p>
<p>He dries off INSIDE the shower. The water’s off, but it’s like a sauna still, and he probably dries the sides of the shower as much as he dries his hairy body.</p>
<p>After 30 years, I’m not even going to attempt to modify this behavior, (and I admit to having quirks & bad habits too), but as the song says in Fiddler on the Roof…“after 25 years, it’s nice to know.” :D</p>
<p>This thread has been dead for a while. The sinners must have turned into saints… Bringing it up!</p>