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Rep Retirement Lodge #173: (Insert Title)

Rep Retirement Lodge #173: (Insert Title)

  • Exactly 1000, as is written.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Less than 1000.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • None at all since this is lame.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than 1000, but no more than 1100.

    Votes: 7 17.5%

  • More than 1100, but no more than 1300.

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • More than 1300, but no more than 1500.

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • More than 1500, but no more than 2000.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than 2000.

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • It will never be closed.

    Votes: 4 10.0%

  • This is Math! :eek:

    Votes: 22 55.0%

  • Just as many as needed for Freddy Meyer to hack it.

    Votes: 15 37.5%

  • The obligatory Giada option.

    Votes: 17 42.5%

  • Other.

    Votes: 7 17.5%

  • None of the above.

    Votes: 5 12.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #173: (Insert Title)

leswp1 said:
Just back from the Sr Sports Banquet. Lil was the only boy to Letter all 3 seasons all 4 years. :eek: There was only one girl who lettered 12 times too. Very Proud!! :D :D :D

Take that all you ba5tard parents who said my kid wasn't good enough/would never be anything because we wouldn't spend thousands to develop our kid. They spent the dough, their kids were arrogant about being on select this or that and the kids never made varsity. Feeling vindicated!!
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Congrats to lil and the proud parents! :cool:
 
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Morning Lodge.

Congrats to lil! SOH - :eek:

So wait, after I went to bed the Hawks managed to lose?????

ETA: So my convalescence room (guest bedroom) is set up. Bought a 32" LG HDTV and a Roku, signed up for a month of free Amazon Prime and will add a free trial month of Netflix. Have the laptop dialed in so I can VPN to my work computer. Plan to put in about 24 hours/wk of work after the first week of recovery. Have about a dozen books purchased and stockpiled, all appliances acquired - crutches, cushion to keep ankle elevated, knee scooter, shower chair. What have I missed?
 
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You missed the remote controlled refrigerator, or at least easy access to cool beverages.

Good Morning, Lodge!

The next few weeks at work are going to be crazy. We are in the process of hiring a new customer service person, and there will be tons of cross training with the remaining customer service people. That means that I have to move to customer service temporarily. Oh, and the order entry person is gone for a week which means I get to enter orders.
 
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goldy_331 said:
Morning Lodge.

Congrats to lil! SOH - :eek:

So wait, after I went to bed the Hawks managed to lose?????

ETA: So my convalescence room (guest bedroom) is set up. Bought a 32" LG HDTV and a Roku, signed up for a month of free Amazon Prime and will add a free trial month of Netflix. Have the laptop dialed in so I can VPN to my work computer. Plan to put in about 24 hours/wk of work after the first week of recovery. Have about a dozen books purchased and stockpiled, all appliances acquired - crutches, cushion to keep ankle elevated, knee scooter, shower chair. What have I missed?
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Pain meds and bionics?
 
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Must not have been quite as intoxicated as I thought last night. I feel fine, and I'm definitely not still drunk. Pretty happy about it. Good morning!
 
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I'm getting really upset that my fiance's mom keeps telling my fiance that the wedding is not about her...not about THE BRIDE. She thinks it is about all of her friends, that "helped my fiance get to where she is now", including some that my fiance has never even met before! This has come up several times, including an argument last night, and now they're texting about it today, and I'm getting texts from my fiance, that she's really getting upset about it. :mad:

PB, don't mention anything to her. We will have to figure out a way to deal with it.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I'm getting really upset that my fiance's mom keeps telling my fiance that the wedding is not about her...not about THE BRIDE. She thinks it is about all of her friends, that "helped my fiance get to where she is now", including some that my fiance has never even met before! This has come up several times, including an argument last night, and now they're texting about it today, and I'm getting texts from my fiance, that she's really getting upset about it. :mad:

PB, don't mention anything to her. We will have to figure out a way to deal with it.
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It is about the union of 2 people esp if you are going to do it in a church. If it is a churchy thing have the Pastor talk to the Mum.

Best advice I got as a bride is
1. tell everyone thank you for your advice and do what you want
2. if anyone makes a stink the day of the wedding someone else will chew them out.
3. never, ever agree to anything without saying "I will have to talk to [fiancé] because we are planning everything together." even if it is a little thing because that means they really mean it and no one can say it is only a little thing. If they still make a stink- "why don't the 3 of us meet to talk about it." Usually the MIL will back down because she only has the balls to bully her child, not the incomer.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
The wedding is definitely about the bride and groom. The reception is a thank you to those that came.
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The wedding, the whole day, is about the bride and groom. At any point in that day, they are the most important people. I, being the groom, want the day to be as perfect as possible for my (future) bride. If she wants something a certain way, her and I should discuss it (like les said), and once WE make a decision, that is the way it should be, and WILL be.

One of the big sticking points is the invite list (which has been set for about 4 months, and is still a problem). Both of our parents had huge lists of people they wanted to invite. Luckily, on my side, my sister got engaged shortly after I did, and that helped take the pressure off. We took the hard line with my parents on it...and since they had another wedding to deal with, they didn't fight it. My fiance's mom is still pushing for a whole bunch of her friends and coworkers to be invited, many of whom have never even met me fiance, much less me. We want people that are important to us at the wedding, people that at the very least, one of us have met before. And this is 3-4 months after we sent out save the dates, and 2-3 weeks after we sent out invites.

The drama on my side of the family lies with my cousins on my mom's side. My mom is the youngest of 7, and her brothers and sisters are all quite a bit older than her. My cousins, of which there are about 35 (including wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends) are all older and most have kids of their own, some already graduated from high school. Because I'm not as close with that side of the family, and because of simple numbers, we only invited my cousins, no kids. We really don't want a bunch of kids running around our reception, and that is something both of us agree on. (both of our mothers think we're completely unreasonable here, but we don't care) Some of our close relatives are bringing their kids, and a couple of my aunts are bringing their grandchildren as a plus-1 instead of my uncles. No big deal. My mom tells me that 2 of my cousins want to bring their kids, I say no. Mom doesn't like that. I told her that if the kids show up, they better go to McDonalds, because there will be no meal for them. THEN, another cousin on that side (one that is a real mess, drugs, baby daddies, the whole 9-yards, whom we didn't even give a +1, at my mom's suggestion, because her boyfriend is like a convicted sex offender, or something) sends back her RSVP with 6 people attending. Uh, no. You get 1, yourself. If that doesn't work, stay home.
 
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That sounds like a lot of people. Even if all our invitees brought their families we would be hard pressed to hit 40 guests.

Which I am happy with.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
That sounds like a lot of people. Even if all our invitees brought their families we would be hard pressed to hit 40 guests.

Which I am happy with.
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We invited about 285 (which doesn't include my cousins' families or extra kids anywhere, or a big chunk of my fiance's mom's friends that she wants to invite), hoping for 200-220 to actually show up. Now you can see why we are trying to keep the guest list under control...because it is already bigger than it should be!
 
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