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Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

  • I'm cheering for Michigan, of course

    Votes: 8 15.4%

  • My team - they're still in the game

    Votes: 20 38.5%

  • My team is out, so I'm cheering for my conference

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • My team is out, so I'm cheering against my conference rival(s)

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • I have divided loyalties, and am just planning to enjoy some more hockey

    Votes: 13 25.0%

  • I am boycotting the hockeys now

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • John Wayne was tall

    Votes: 21 40.4%

  • Freddy hacked my TV and computer so I will watch nothing and like it

    Votes: 23 44.2%
  • Total voters
    52
  • Poll closed .
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

bigblue_dl said:
I never check in with my parents. If they want to know what I'm doing, they can call me, if I feel like it, I'll answer. I'm pretty sure I go on entire trips without them knowing. When I was in high school I had to tell them, and when I was at home during breaks when in college I told them, most of the time, and just as a courtesy. At this point, I'm on my own, and they realize that.
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To be fair, except for the Grand Forks trip, I hadn't talked to my parents since Christmas.
 
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Brenthoven said:
To be fair, except for the Grand Forks trip, I hadn't talked to my parents since Christmas.
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My parents call and bug me too much for me to really avoid talking to them. My mom calls a couple times a month just to bug me, whenever my dad calls he either has a good reason or he wants to tell me something about his golf game.
 
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nmupiccdiva said:
No joke. Or posters coming back out of the woodwork.

I want to rant again, about one of the "new" NMU guys. He's going to the Xcel this weekend as the director for the pep band. That wouldn't be so bad, except for this interesting tidbit: his wife (yes, I said wife... and he's still in a college pep band even though this is his EIGHTH year of undergrad) is 36 weeks pregnant, on bedrest, and they're watching her blood pressure because they're concerned she might have pre-eclampsia. And he's STILL going.

Am I out of line for thinking this is... well... not the most responsible choice?
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I hereby authorize the SCSU Sports Band to make a giant sign advertising these facts to the arena.
 
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Eight years of undgergrad is not as hard to do as it sounds....:o

However, this guy's a moron. Life of Wife and unborn child >>>>>>>> hockey.
 
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nmupiccdiva said:
OK, I have to pose a question to the Lodge, but especially to anyone here who has older, "grown" children:

Do you ask or expect them to "check in" after travelling?

I guess I can pose this to the Lodge as a whole--are you unmarried, young people of the Lodge expected to check in?
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Eh, I'll check in every once and a while. My Mom knew I was going to be a pretty free spirit the first day of Pre-school when I ran off to go play with the toys while everybody else was still clinging to their mom's legs. Usually, she just calls me if the weather is nasty, and sometimes just to hear what the final score is. Dad occasionally as well. They both figure we'll show up sooner or later. Garrett's been known to stay over at his buddy's house for 2-3 days at times.

Twitch Boy said:
My parents (specifically my mother) STILL ask me to at age 26. Hell, she demands I e-mail her copies of my itinerary when I fly.

A few years ago when I worked at Mosquito Control, we had a post-Friday-shift party at the foreman's house. Being 20 at the time, I considered myself an adult and didn't want to call my mom in front of everyone anyway, and ended up crashing on the foreman's couch for the night. My mother CALLED MY WORK THE NEXT MORNING to track me down, and my foreman told me she was looking for me in front of everybody.

And you wonder why I wanted the hell out of that house.

Clingy mother, accountant father, family is relatively tight with money...I think I'm secretly Jewish.
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If your junk doesn't have a hoodie, you better be getting a Kosher Hot Dog to put on your head, ya schmuck! ;)
nmupiccdiva said:
Thanks for the input, Lodge.
My family and I have never really gotten along super well (not anything too out there, I'm just definitely different in a lot of ways from all of them), so despite what you might see through photos and such, I don't feel like I'm super close with any of them.
But, when I was in school, if I went anywhere I called or messaged when I got there and when I got back. Even if it was just a small trip--camping somewhere, for example. And, obviously when I was in France I checked in every time we changed cities and when my plane landed back in Marquette. It was, on my end, more of a "keep them happy and keep myself out of trouble, seeing as how I'm still quite dependent on them" viewpoint.
However, lately, I've been travelling most weekends, and I've stopped checking in, mostly because even though I'm not completely stable I'm more or less completely independent of them. My parents, apparently, are not pleased with this. So, instead of picking up the phone and calling me, my mother goes to Facebook and leaves a string of passive messages.
I have no problems with her being upset. I do have problems with her addressing this over a Facebook wall post for the world to see instead of through a more personal method, such as the aforementioned phone call.

/rant. Pass me a beer.
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Thats why I don't have my mom as one of my friends. If she wants to know, she can talk to me.
leswp1 said:
Since we are posing scenarios- Found out about the 8th grade class trip at PTO tonight. They bus close to 400 kids to the local amusement park. They do not pre-pay. Basically they supply the bus that drops them off at the park, the kids are told to meet at the end of the day. They are responsible for paying to get in, eating etc, policing themselves. The chaperones just wander the park looking to see if anyone is doing anything wrong. (The chaperones are not familiar with the kids so I am not sure how they monitor anything.) The principal told us that some parents just don't understand that the rules are not the same on this trip as on other trips or during the school year. If a kid is smoking or swearing "what are we going to do? We aren't going to punish them this close to the end of school. What are we going to do? Tell them they can't participate in graduation?"

I was speechless. I can't imagine why something truly interesting hasn't happened so far on this trip. Or more likely it has but no one would ever admit it. I am not particularly worried that lil will do something stupid but I have significant doubts about a few of the kids that I know.
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Ummmm..... yeah, that's just a recipe for trouble there. They let us cretins at Clinton High do that in Eight Grade, 3 cherries probably would have been popped, 8 guys started to us Dip, 10 started smoking and I'm **** sure that at least 4 would have either missed the bus or be really late for it because they were out, Littering.... Littering.... and Smoking the Reefer.

Not to scare you Les, because we're sure that Lil is smarter and wiser than to do all of that, and if not, there's plenty of muscle around for ya to knock it into him to be smarter that that. But honestly, 8th Grade, not really all that smarter than some of the rank noobs running around on the D1 side right now.
nmupiccdiva said:
No joke. Or posters coming back out of the woodwork.

I want to rant again, about one of the "new" NMU guys. He's going to the Xcel this weekend as the director for the pep band. That wouldn't be so bad, except for this interesting tidbit: his wife (yes, I said wife... and he's still in a college pep band even though this is his EIGHTH year of undergrad) is 36 weeks pregnant, on bedrest, and they're watching her blood pressure because they're concerned she might have pre-eclampsia. And he's STILL going.

Am I out of line for thinking this is... well... not the most responsible choice?
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He had better have arranged somebody else there to have stay with her while he's out of town. Somebody thats really responsable like one of their mothers.

Sounds like one of the guys in my massage class. His wife is about 36 weeks already and started to have contractions Saturday morning before class, so he called in and let em know that he wasn't going to be in. He came in Sunday, didn't have anybody there with her as she was back home not quite ready yet. There's several mothers in the class aready and looked like they were going to run him outta the room on a rail if he didn't grab his stuff and beat his butt back home. Last we've heard, no baby as of yet for him.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

Howdy folks
Rainy day dream away
Is it nap time yet
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Two things...

1. EIGHTH YEAR of undergrad? At NMU no less? Please tell me is not a full time student. Christ, even if he is in education or nursing (NMU's two respectable programs) that's a big stretch.

2. Yeah, that's not the right decision.
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1. Yeah. I know he was part time for a few of them and took one semester off. For the longest time he was a music performance major, but I think he's history now, and is supposedly graduating in May.

2. OK, good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

'Morning, Lodge. Happy Birthday to Flashy Man!
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

Good morning boys and girl!

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! wobbly wednesday is here.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

Morning Lodge

nmupiccdiva said:
OK, I have to pose a question to the Lodge, but especially to anyone here who has older, "grown" children:

Do you ask or expect them to "check in" after travelling?

I guess I can pose this to the Lodge as a whole--are you unmarried, young people of the Lodge expected to check in?
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Yup. Not so much "expect" as request. We ask them to let us know when they're back from a trip safely. It's easy with our "kids" (25, 23, 21), we just ask them to send us a text and they nearly always do.
Mrs. Gonzo and I even call her 89 yo mom when we get home from visiting her in Duluth. She usually leaves us a message wondering if we made it home safely an hour before we're home. She's 89. It's OK for her to forget that it takes over two hours to get home from Duluth. :p
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 106: My Team I Do Deeply Dig

Morning!

My parents always ask me to tell them I got home from a trip to see them. So that is totally normal. But, I don't have to check-in with them for any other trips. That would be odd.

Day 3 of the 4 day work week. Leaving for the airport directly from work tomorrow. It's going to be a looooong day.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Eight years of undgergrad is not as hard to do as it sounds....:o

However, this guy's a moron. Life of Wife and unborn child >>>>>>>> hockey.
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Umm, yeah. :o

C'mon we should cut this couple a break. I mean how likely is it they'll have another chance to see NMU in the NCAAs in their lifetime? They can always have more kids. ;)
 
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Ughhhh.

So I have 28 total credits to finish up my degree next year (Normal? Nope. I've done 40 each of the past 2 years). Why is it that there are several conflicts between classes I need to take being in the same time frame or not offered in the fall?

I'm seriously struggling to piece together a schedule of 12-14 credits. This is bad.
 
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