Random Thoughts IV

[ImJustKCClone]

When the ex & I first moved to Ames, ISU gave us the equivalent of a month's salary for moving expenses as the "hiring bonus". Wasn't nearly enough to get professional movers, so we loaded up a UHaul truck and my car and schlepped everything here from the SF East Bay area (Albany, to be specific).

We stayed in a hotel the first night in Ames. The next morning, one of the faculty from the dept my ex was joining met us at our duplex with about 10 grad students and five large coolers of beer. They made short work of the unloading AND the beer. When everything was done, a couple of the students gathered up all the cans on the lawn, put them in a couple of large garbage bags and gave them to me, saying "Welcome to Ames - here's a housewarming gift for you!". They must have noticed my confusion and had to explain the "gift" to me. California didn't have bottle/can deposits, so I had no clue they were handing me two bags worth of "pocket change".

 

[CloneinWDSM]

Are you breaking the news to DH on Father's Day that you are prego CG?

 

[jcyclonee]

Well, if you really want to close the deal and lock these Wisconsinites as friends, you could also make a bunch of sloppy joes and then call them barbecue. I mean, a little piece of your soul will die, but how badly do you want to assimilate with the Wisconsin friends?

My mother-in-law from Wisconsin always referred to them as "hot beefs"

This may not be the right thing to bring up in the midst of this high-society crowd.

 

[cowgirl836]

Well, if you really want to close the deal and lock these Wisconsinites as friends, you could also make a bunch of sloppy joes and then call them barbecue. I mean, a little piece of your soul will die, but how badly do you want to assimilate with the Wisconsin friends?

what if they aren't originally from WI? what do I make them then???!?!?


maybe I should do an experiment and find out what they call it.

 

[cowgirl836]

Are you breaking the news to DH on Father's Day that you are prego CG?

I think that's the way to do it. I'll make a nice meal of baby carrots, baby potatoes, and maybe a nice can of pureed peas and see if he gets the hint.

 

[jcyclonee]

I think that's the way to do it. I'll make a nice meal of baby carrots, baby potatoes, and maybe a nice can of pureed peas and see if he gets the hint.

With some sort of slightly sweetened milk to drink.

 

[Fitzy]

Cowgirl is preggo???? Congrats! Are you naming it DB?

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I think that's the way to do it. I'll make a nice meal of baby carrots, baby potatoes, and maybe a nice can of pureed peas and see if he gets the hint.

Knowing DH as we do, my guess is he wouldn't pick up on it.

 

[cowgirl836]

With some sort of slightly sweetened milk to drink.

I was just thinking of finding one of those milk donation centers nursing moms can give to. See if I can snag some.

 

[jcyclonee]

Beer & Pizza are the perfect moving options. Bonus: you don't need plates, forks or cups; a couple of rolls of paper towels and some garbage bags complete the picture.

Beer and pizza are a generally accepted form of payment for almost anything. They're practically legal tender.

 

[cowgirl836]

Cowgirl is preggo???? Congrats! Are you naming it DB?

I'm in pre-pregnancy stages, so it'll be at least 10 months. So far symptoms are mild and include wanting to sleep in and get ice cream.

I think we'll work on a better nickname than DB.

 

[cowgirl836]

Knowing DH as we do, my guess is he wouldn't pick up on it.

he's pretty astute and he doesn't much like carrots (probably why he needs contacts) so if I served him carrots, he'd wonder why.

 

[00clone]

what if they aren't originally from WI? what do I make them then???!?!?


maybe I should do an experiment and find out what they call it.

No, too early for you to be the one who starts arguments. If you start a poll, of course the people who call them sloppy joes will ridicule those who call them barbecue (for good reason), and then it'll be a thing, and everyone will talk for years about how 'remember the meowing girl? I totally thought she was gonna be cool, and then she brought the drama with starting the sloppy joe/barbecue argument RIGHT away....man, we dodged a bullet on that one...glad we found out up front"

 

[Fitzy]

I'm in pre-pregnancy stages, so it'll be at least 10 months. So far symptoms are mild and include wanting to sleep in and get ice cream.

I think we'll work on a better nickname than DB.

I suppose the other babies might start calling it ****** Bag... So I understand.

 

[cowgirl836]

No, too early for you to be the one who starts arguments. If you start a poll, of course the people who call them sloppy joes will ridicule those who call them barbecue (for good reason), and then it'll be a thing, and everyone will talk for years about how 'remember the meowing girl? I totally thought she was gonna be cool, and then she brought the drama with starting the sloppy joe/barbecue argument RIGHT away....man, we dodged a bullet on that one...glad we found out up front"

phew, glad I was talked out of this.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

I'd name it CB for Cowbaby

 

[cyrocksmypants]

he's pretty astute and he doesn't much like carrots (probably why he needs contacts) so if I served him carrots, he'd wonder why.

We've seen him have that window for sex slammed down on him far too often for me to ever believe the astute part.

 

[cowgirl836]

I suppose the other babies might start calling it ****** Bag... So I understand.

babies can be real ******** so it's best not to give them any leverage.

 

[00clone]

I'd name it CB for Cowbaby

That's a calf, WDSM...jeez, did you even Iowa State?

 

[00clone]

We've seen him have that window for sex slammed down on him far too often for me to ever believe the astute part.

This paints a very painful picture.