Fun.

I only listened to one, I'll go back and listen to the other. Is this the same son that is in Australia?

thats pretty cool music..

Nope, just boys. But I have a really good relationship with my daughter-in-law, and with Laura, Nick's gf, who lived here with us for a few months while she was saving up first and last months rent for the flat she rented. And I kind of suspect she'll be back here when the two of them finish their trip to SE Asia in the late fall. They'll be broke, probably.

And I loved Mike's first wife, too. It was so sad they couldn't make it work. I think I told you they split up because she wanted babies asap (she was a few years older than Mike) and she ended up having another guy's baby before their divorce was final. Very weird situation. The lawyer went mental and didn't file the papers, and last December they had to start from scratch, over a year after they decided to end the marriage. They didn't even make it to their second anniversary, but had been together since Mike's second year of undergraduate school. It was really, really sad.

My d-i-l is due November 9. Tony's house is a 7 minute drive from me if I use the arterial streets, but I don't, so it takes me closer to 13 minutes to get there. Toronto traffic freaks me out. He's right on the subway line, super location.

My husband does work, and drives me nuts sometimes, too, lol. He works most mornings from home...until lunch. I got him out the door nice and early today.

Nick is in graduate school, finished up his first year of it before he took off. He graduated with a BA in anthropology a year and a half ago - he fast tracked through high school and I think was a little too young to be at university, but he did okay.

Tony (and his wife) graduated from Dartmouth (where they met) with a degree in physics. He moved to Boston, got a good job with a company that got gobbled up by another and now heads the Canadian division. But he has to be in NYC a lot, and later this month he has to go to Rawalpindi (sp??) for some conference or another.

Mike is in the PhD programme at U of Toronto. He took 2 years off, travelled for one, came back here in September. He studies linguistics, speaks a whole buncha languages, but mostly French, Spanish, Italian and German. He's disappointed he didn't get a teaching job this year, research instead. Seems he slightly pissed off one of the professors with his travel time.

Sorry, I'm really proud of my kids. You got me started, lol.

No, I don't any longer. We used to email a little for a while, but I think she'd rather just get on with her life. She's a lovely person, and an opera singer! Voice of an angel. And gorgeous, too. She and Mike still communicate ocassionally as their break up was amicable. She writes to my d-i-l from time to time. They were good friends. It's just sad.

But Mike has started dating again. He ran into an old classmate of Nick's at an alumni band concert last month. She's in law school now, and they really hit it off. Nick's really happy about it because he and said girl are friends, even still. They skied together over this past winter while he was a weekend instructor at a club in the Collingwood area. Her mother lives up there now.

My husband is the resident genius. He graduated from Harvard and Wharton way back, was a classmate of Tommy Lee Jones, and yes, he is a fair bit older than me. I think our sons got their smarts from their dad. Maybe a little from me, I hope. I can chew gum and walk at the same time most days, lol.

How many do you have Shelly, I thought you just had a daughter, Jolene is it?

So have you been trying for another one, or waiting til she gets a little older?

What's AA? Is it college? And 27 isn't too old at all! At least you have some life experiences behind you - helps you understand exactly what you want out of school.

What are you studying?