Friday Klatch 4/22/06

[Laura]

Happy Earth Day!

I can't believe I am starting the klatch. This weekend will be consumed with going to a swim meet for DS in Denver. It is the first long course meet (meaning they swim in the 50m pool as opposed to a 25 yard pool), which is always interesting because they have not been practising in a 50m pool. Other than that I have massage today at noon. I have been having a lot of back/hip pain so SO got me a gift certificate. I am really excited. How is everyone else?

[LakeMartinGal]

Can I play?

I'm going to the 'big city' (Montgomery) to shop! Whooee! Sam's, Kohl's and Fresh Market, here I come! :D

DH is staying home to clean the house! I'm loving this! ;)

[tbb113]

Good morning Laura and Kay

Where is everybody???

Not much planned here. The weather for the past few days has actually been spring like :) but today they are forecasting isolated showers :( I am so ready for this rain to be over. I have a feeling we aren't ever going to get a spring here. We will go right from rain to summer

I'm still on the bench. Have heard from my new manager and he is finishing a project on 4/28 and then will get with me via the phone (since I think he is in So Cal). Does this mean I have at least one more week on the bench with full pay? ;) :D :cool:

Michael has a track meet this weekend. He was disappointed with his efforts yesterday so hopefully tomorrow he will be happy with himself.

Heard from the new guy. He is having custody/support issues with his ex and needs to focus on his daughter right now. At least I know why he hasn't made an effort to see me and I agree that his daughter is more important then me.

[Laura]

Kay, when I lived in Jackson Hole we used to make a trip to the big city, Idaho Falls, for the same reason. How fun that you get to shop and come home to a clean house.

Tyra, well at least you are getting paid. When do the boys get out of school? If I remember correctly, CA usually gets out in mid-June right? Glad you heard from the new guy. Perhaps things will kick back up when his custody issues even out.

I don't know everyone else is. I should be working, but just got some frustrating news from my supervisor, so I am ticked at my work. With any bit of luck I will be out of here within 6 months.

[tbb113]

The boys get out mid June (I think the 16th or whatever that Thursday is).

I agree...being paid to sit home and do nothing is a pretty good deal. There is some on-line learning and when I can find 2.5 hours I'm going to do one on project management.

A friend of mine has asked me to cook for her as well (she is gluten sensitive as well as having GERD and anemic). So, I made some things earlier in the week and proposed a menu for next week. Best thing is she is paying me to do this :)

[Gracie]

I am actually doing work today!! :D I logged on earlier but didn't see the klatch and didn't have time to start one then.

We have sun today but it's still in the 50's. We will also not have spring and go from winter to summer.

This past weekend Erin and I went to the Red Sox game on Easter and to Wicked Wednesday night. I really liked Wicked - much more than I thought!! - and all of you who said I'd like it were right! :) We had very interesting seats - they were way on the side and right up close, but not so close that we couldn't see part of the stage. The vocals were excellent and I loved some of the lines! Erin loved it.

I took the day off since this past week was school break and we went to the Museum of Fine Arts for the morning, out for pizza, then shopping, then to Wicked. We skipped dinner, having split a very large pizza for a late lunch. It was a really nice day for walking around the city - almost 70 and sunny.

This weekend should be extremely low key. Erin is going out for Ethiopian food with her friends and one mother Saturday night. I feel like inviting myself along - I've never had Ethiopian food!

Loren

[tbb113]

Loren - glad that you and Erin liked Wicked. I can only think of a couple of plays in my entire life that I disliked.

Ethopian food is good. I had it a couple of times and Michael and his friends went to Berkeley for it a couple of weeks ago. Let Erin know that traditionally it is eaten with her fingers. :)

[Gracie]

Finger food is always fun! Erin loves trying new ethnic restaurants. A friend of mine and I used to take her out in Boston every 6 weeks or so to a new authentic place. She called it Food Adventures and she was only 9 and 10 at the time.

One of her favorites is still Korean and the Bi Bim Bop (or something like that!) that comes in the stone bowl with the fried egg on top. I never made the one CL put in their Korean section last year or the one before to see how it compared for her.

I was so busy this morning and now I'm dying for the end of the day! I wish someone would pay me to stay home! ;)

Loren

[colleency]

Hopefully everyone is out enjoying the weather today! I think this is the lightest klatch ever.

Loren, I'm glad you liked Wicked! I haven't been to a play in way too long.

Tyra, enjoy your stay at home time.

(((Laura))) Sorry for the frustrating news. (I think tomorrow is Earth Day.)

LakeMartinGal, Have fun shopping!

Tomorrow I'm doing another charity event at a local fashion museum. There's a display of movie costumes, so we're dressing up in various movie costumes to mingle with the guests at a fund raiser for the Philharmonic.

Sunday we're having a potluck bbq with most of the people who will be involved with the show we're putting on in August. We're repeating one we've done before, so thankfully we don't have to write it. But we will have to make 2-3 cancan dresses, rechoreograph, and tighten up the dialogue. The worst part is, I have to get my back yard and house cleaned before the bbq. :p

Every weekend I keep saying I'm going to dig out the small pond that I can't keep clean, and I keep putting it off. I really can't keep doing that.

[Lauren]

:D Hello all and Happy Friday!!!

I'm off today hanging with the kids who are on vacation this week. Not much planned for the weekend, which is so wonderful for a change. I was informed this week that I'm being riffed at work. My last day will be 6/2. I'm so excited about taking some time off during the summer no less! I've been there over 5 years and have known for awhile it's time to move on. So, I'm totally ok with it. I will miss my friends from work.

Loren - my Mom saw Wicked last week, too. She loved it. The story sounds interesting, not what I had thought it would be about.

Tyra - glad to see you're here. DS#2 is going to a Bar Mitzvah tomorrow. First one in his class. What is appropriate to give? Should I do $18 or $36? When DS#1 had his, there were 16 kids in his Hebrew School class, so the Mom's all got together and agreed to pitch in for a class gift. Each kid got the same gift, a shofar, on their special day. He's not particularly close with any of the kids or I would do something special.

Laura - enjoy your massage. I have a gc and hve been meaning to make an appointment at the spa.

[tbb113]

Lauren - either would be appropriate. Our temple asks that the kids don't give each other gifts. Instead each family is asked to donate $234 ($18 x 13 years old) to the 7th grade fund. This fund is then used by the kids to fund 2 or 3 grants to the community at large on a social program that the kids pick. Alex's class did health and child welfare if I remember correctly. So, if it is good friend, I would give $36 otherwise $18 is sufficient.

Good luck on the job search. By then I'm sure I'll be off the bench and hunting as well.

I went to lunch with my mom. It was nice. Came back to a phone call from the marketing person wanting to make sure I had heard from my new manager. I told her I had received an email and she was glad. Guess I'm still on the bench :)

Colleen - have a good weekend. Sounds like fun!