Thydney

more like it

dunroving

Now you're in big trouble - you know rule number 223G, Subsection 4, part III, Commandment Seven, now, don't you ("Thou Shalt Not Alter a Quote")?

I give it 10 minutes before the mods come and give you a good spanking (Ooh, Betty).

Sally Redux

Scary to think you're right.

Englishtart

I hated school, every bit of it! I was never in the same one longer than 2 yrs. All the friends I still keep in touch with in the UK, I met through the jobs I had after school, have at least four that I have known for over 20 yrs and we still chat regularly and visit when we can

Hubcaps

I don't keep in touch with anyone from school...or really from anyone from my past which is why I suppose the move to the US was much easier for me and the things others seem to miss about the UK (friends and family wise) I won't give a second thought to. It's not that I don't have friends (I do, honest) just that I've never felt the need to have people constantly in my life. I suppose I speak to my Dad once every couple of months or so, my brother and his wife (who was my best friend at college) I haven't spoken too at all the last few months as they've also moved and have no internet access. I haven't even told my mother I've moved here (but that's a long story).
Lots of people have said they'll come over but I doubt they will, as much as I enthuse about the PNW I can see they thinking "but it's not NY/Florida/other touristy place".
My in-laws are hoping to treat our place as a second holiday home and are currently planning three trips over here "to see the grandkids" with various East Coast stop offs to feed their nicotine habits. This is really pissing me off. These are the same people who wouldn't have the kids overnight when we had an 8:30am visa appointment (in fact have babysat less than 10 times in 14 years) but are now ringing every other day and never bloody off Skype (if I forget to close it down). Bah bleedin' humbug

Apart from that I'm loving it here

AmerLisa

It will get old soon enough....we've been here almost 6 years and things are tapering off....

Leslie

People obsessed with meeting up with people from the past send cold shivers down my spine.

Hubcaps

6 years...I'll be banging on the door of 50 then

Honestly though...1st trip they're going to Niagara Falls (that's near us isn't it? Canada? )
Second trip, via 5 days in New York. They might drive from NY to WA as they'll be able to smoke as much as they like on the way. Not in any rental I've seen.
Third trip they're going to sail/cruise across and then drive if it was ok last time if not they'll fly.

AmerLisa

Well at least your in-laws will drive once over here.... My MIL won't drive, so guess who is the taxi driver? And guess who conveniently has to work at least a week of her stay? We've done every conceivable touristy thing over here....sigh. She didn't come this year (she only comes on my vacation time off....) she had a better offer coming up from her daughter who lives in Hong Kong.

My in-laws are divorced, so we only see my MIL. Although FIL did come once with his American wife, that was interesting.....

Sally Redux

I know what you mean, but then again sometimes it's nice- my Mum still travels to meet up with 3 other old school friends a few times a year, they have all been supportive of eachother through thick and thin for over 60 years.

How was your sabbatical?

meauxna

Thank god. I thought I was the only Scrooge around.

Hubcaps

I think we're in the majority

Leslie

I still have some friends from way way back. It's just the whole Facebook stalking and internet searching for somebody (ANYBODY!!) from the past that gives me the heaves.

My sabbatical was quite foggy (actually it was my head that was foggy which necessitated the sabbatical) but I think the clouds are parting a little now. Thanks for asking

Leslie

It all just smacks of "needs badly to move on" to me.

meauxna

Well it's this creepy Facebook/Classmates phenom now. The most distant, random people pop up where least expected. And this is such a small town, only two degrees of separation.
A woman popped up in the FB post of someone I know from the neighborhood. Like, barely know. But the new name was SO familiar, I clicked through. Sure enough, I worked with this woman in 1982 (she looks exactly the same!) and I just found a photo of her in my stash last night. Now I have the dilemma of whether or not to be in touch, but I don't have anything to say to her! (except, here's a photo of you from a million years ago where you look the same as today minus the tattoos)

Ex-boyfriends. Ex-girlfriends. Lifetimes ago. Isn't there a good reason we never stayed in touch? Or, if we'd had the technology, we'd still be fast friends? I dunno.