<p>Got some happy news, this morning. Went in for a mag-view (magnified) mammogram, and the results were normal. :) Yay!</p>
<p>Obviously your boobs are the only "normal" part of you, sluggbugg :D. Congrats!!!</p>
<p>Why, thank you very much, SB! :D Hey, it's HAPPY HOURS!</p>
<p>Congrats to Carolyn and daughter. Physical therapists sure can do wonders.</p>
<p>Opened a bottle of bubbly--they call it sparkling wine here! That stuff from the other part of France with the special name is a whole lot more expensive. My boy leaves tomorrow night. I remember someone here saying the second time they leave is bad! I am going away to the beach as soon as I know he has touched down in Wisconsin. (Can you believe it, he is going out to dinner with his girlfriend's grandparents!) I will need a major distraction--I have some good friends who have set it up already. I won't see him for 6 months. Cheers.</p>
<p>I have it straight from the horse's mouth on the Happy New Year thread!</p>
<p>So I am dusting up around here. Probably won't bother to fill up the salt shakers and ketchup bottles though. I don't think it's going to be an <em>eating</em> party. Do we even serve food?</p>
<p>Cur might be busy; he's filling out fin aid forms due 1/1. I told him he could roll up the danged forms into cones to make party hats. So, if he has time, he might supply those. If doddsdad doesn't show up, we may have to go self-serve on the libations. I'm sure we can handle it.</p>
<p>I expect great things from this party. The group has been known to dance on the bar with chip baskets on the feet when it's just any old night of the week.</p>
<p>What are you wearing?</p>
<p>Best Ever in Naughty--I mean Noughty Six. Not sorry to see the back of '05 although the second half of the year was better than the first....</p>
<p>Wearing? So it's that kind of party? ;) I assumed for New Year's it would be "costume/clothing optional." For food, I'll vote for those giant sour pickles, peanuts with shells we can throw on the floor and all the popcorn you can catch. </p>
<p>Cur, we'll gladly help fill out those forms, but only after midnight. You won't mind a little pickle juice I assume. </p>
<p>Overseas, yep, the 2nd time is hard, but numbers 3 - 5 seems to be a little easier. Hang in there and have fun at the beach. </p>
<p>Happy New Year's everyone.</p>
<p>Free drinks around - for the whole night! This is the night to forget worries (except for the forms due tomorrow). And we don't have to worry about designated drivers!</p>
<p>Hmmm... we might have to worry about designated typers.</p>
<p>I'll bring the 2006 glitter sunglasses and the Happy New Year tiaras and tophats. ::::whooopeee!:::: Let's ask the Mos Eisley gang if they'll provide the music for tonight. Should be a rockin' New Year's Eve! :)</p>
<p>I'll have to miss the virtual party in favor of First Night downtown (pronounced "DahnTahn"). My 7th grade S made a hippie puppet head that he will be wearing in the parade. Even got a vintage Greatful Dead tie dye shirt at the thrift store as part of the costume.</p>
<p>Enjoy some of the bubbly for me, as I'll be driving...</p>
<p>Our party covers all time zones, worldwide, m&sdad. And I'm thinking we may just stay here until all the usual suspects check in. So, don't miss it! You can wear DS' hippie puppet head here, after he's long through with it. Does it have a bandanna tied around the forehead? Straggly hair? Are there beads? Do tell.</p>
<p>A bit belated Happy New Year! I'm going to bed!</p>
<p>Happy New Year, everyone!</p>
<p>And there's a thread started in the College Search forum where the students are "creating" their own college - time to resurrect the Confidentialia College thread?</p>
<p>Here our New Year's will involve an early dinner and then the stragglings of teenagers deciding which houses they are decending on. I will join you in the Cafe for loud merriment but the likelihood that I will make it until midnight is low. However, since for Cheers and overseas and binx and others midnight has already passed, I supppose that is just fine.</p>
<p>Just dropped D off at a friends house for a 10th grade girl slumber party. S dragged through the door soaking wet and muddy after two days camping with his college freshman friends home on break (and I'm hoping he won't be asking to borrow the car tonight but will just stay home). I've been vegging out on Season 5 of the West Wing DVD I got for Christmas, pausing once in a while to sneak out back to the dog run and look in on our St. Bernard in his new inflatable extra large dog house. Yes, I did say inflatable (don't ask). I'm ready for the virtual party at Dig's house and to ring in a new year with you all!</p>
<p>I've just put the giant pan of scalloped potatoes in one oven, and the spiral ham is heating up in the other. The Dear Son's friend's are gathered around the table with him playing Magic, and our adult friends and the non-Magic playing kids are coming over after dinner. I'm just hoping there isn't a sudden migration to another house in the wee hours -- maybe I'll pull the boy aside and lay down the law . . .</p>
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<p>I'm still looking for the rug.... :)</p>
<p>Doddsdad is using it to reenact the scene from the Cowardly Lion's, "If I Were King of the Forest," speech. 'F...I, 'F...I, were King! Every year, it's the same darn thing. :D</p>
<p>Look at the top of this page. Look at the bottom of this page. Can you say happy context? Happy New Year to all of you. I am not yet down and out for the count:).</p>