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<p>CC still wont let me rep you yet, Vamom :(</p>
<p>Sorry, I dozed off a bit in the back, wiping peanut shell off of my face. Congrats on retirement an the potential short work week.</p>
<p>glad to see thread back up front… drinks on me…S1 just finished his documentary…1 1/2 years in the making, and now being submitted to festivals.</p>
<p>P56, congrats to your S!</p>
<p>Well hello everyone. I’m sure we’ve still got some peanuts in the back room. Let me just spiffy up the naugahyde and whistle for the marmots.</p>
<p>This thread was one of the most creative and fun places I’ve ever been on the Internet. Never forget:). Both my peewees have now graduated and are working on the East Coast.</p>
<p>Here’s a toast of cardomom coffee (we’ll lace it with something, but shhh don’t tell!). We spent a week in Jordan, and know why S2 likes it so much, we’ll all have the holidays together, then he’ll be off again in January, but in Amman, which at least is further from Syria.</p>
<p>Just found the recipe for Moose Milk, so have a glass. There are no calories during the holidays, right? </p>
<p>Got the tree up and decorated tonight! DS is home and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!</p>
<p>I’d like to invite you all to my 50th birthday party. Of course, it starts in 44 minutes, and it’s on a cross country all nighter flight on American Airlines. But still… the drinks are free (if you’re sitting in first class).</p>
<p>Happy Birthday busdriver11!</p>
<p>Thanks for thinking of us. :D</p>
<p>Happy birthday to you bus driver. Enjoy your trip! </p>
<p>Sent from my DROID RAZR using CC</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I’m always thinking of you at cc, of course.</p>
<p>Can’t imagine any better way to spend my birthday, than a midnight flight and a 3 1/2 hour layover in DFW at 5:48am. Whoo hoo, party on!</p>
<p>Party time cotinues in SA! Happy b’day busdriver! I’m gonna give you greenie points towards a green square on your page for your birthday!</p>
<p>** Was able to give you the rep points but alas, not yet another green square. Ladies, help her out.</p>
<p>Why, I feel so special now. Gee, greenie points, my favorite (and only) birthday present. Geez, the flight attendant didn’t even offer me a drink (in the free drink section). Water only, cutbacks are at hand. But at least I was able to party in the skyclub with a bowl of oatmeal. Yes! An appropriate celebration of my new elderly status. Don’t even need to put my teeth in to eat oatmeal.</p>
<p>I’m just kidding, I’m not really whining because I’m not a celebration type of person, I don’t generally even remember my birthdays. But as my husband said, “30 was no big deal, because you’re still young, even 40 isn’t very old…but 50, man, that’s old!” Of course, he can say that because he’s got six months to go until I can torment him.</p>
<p>Maybe someone will put some Bailey’s in your coffee, busdriver? Celebrate life in any way you can. It can be precious and fleeting, as we know.</p>
<p>^^Funny, I overheard the bartender tell someone, “No Bailey’s until 7:30am.” So no luck there for now. Yes, life is precious and fleeting. You never know what can happen. I am appreciating every minute with my kids home from college for a month.</p>
<p>Baby Busdriver, will you be on that AA flight to Dallas next week? I will be, and would be fun to tease you about feeling old at 50.</p>
<p>Happy birthday, busdriver! I’ll send you some greenie love as soon as CC let’s me spread the love again. Here’s hoping your birthday doesn’t get lost in the holiday shuffle. An early morning round of drinks for busdriver!</p>
<p>Yeah, I am a whining baby, bookworm. Nope, not gonna be on any more flights this month. Coming home Tuesday, and that’s it! </p>
<p>Thanks, 12rmh, but my birthday has always gotten lost in the holiday shuffle, and that’s totally fine. Funny how 50 doesn’t seem that old to me anymore (nor 60 or 70). It all seems to be a state of mind. I see some people who seem really old at 50, and others who are very young at 70. My youngest did say, that he wasn’t trying to suck up or anything, but that he didn’t think 50 was very old. It’s just those decades passing is kind of freaky…I don’t think 51, 52, etc, is going to bother me at all.</p>
<p>Happy birthday, busdriver! Sent you a greenie for a present.</p>
<p>My DH’s birthday is Christmas day. Talk about getting lost in the shuffle…</p>