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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:24am

So, this is the year the Things graduate from college. On consecutive weekends, of course. One at the end of April, and one the first weekend in May.

Thing1 is up first. His business school has a ceremony on Friday afternoon and then the gigantic entire University commencement ceremony is Saturday morning. Business school ceremony has a 4 ticket limit. they will go to me, DH, Asshat and Money-Ka. Of course, my mom is bitching about being excluded...

Big ceremony has a 10 ticket limit.

Also, because I don't feel like driving back and forth on Friday and Saturday, I have booked hotel rooms for me, DH, DD25 and her husband, plus my mom and Thing2. I worked my ASS off with Money-Ka and DD25 to plan the very intricate dance of who gets tickets, who has their celebratory thing with said graduating kid on what day, etc. The plan we crafted is truly a thing of beauty.

So, the ten tickets for the Big Ceremony will go to: me, DH, Asshat, Money-Ka, DD25, her husband, my mom, Thing2, and my dad and SM. My mom is bitching about my brother, his wife and my niece not being able to come. I am working my network of friends whose kids are graduating and who are not using all their tickets, but so far I have come up empty handed. The Commencement this year is a very special commemorative year one with lots of interesting guest speakers, so the tickets are hard to come by.

I had dinner last night with a former co-worker whose kid is graduating, and she thinks that she might be able to give me three of her tickets. I come home and tell DH this and he says, "oh good, so now BabyVoice and KarateKid can go?"

Uh - nope, I was thinking my brother (Thing1's god father), SIL and niece could come. DH gets a little bent out of shape, which I kinda get, but come on, dude. I am having a HUGE family dinner that evening and of course, BabyVoice and KarateKid are included in that, but sheesh. I am supposed to tell my brother and his family "no" so that BabyVoice and KarateKid get the tickets over them?

I don't think so, buudy. Pout all you want.

By the way, Thing2's graduation is much simpler. No ticket limits Smile The dance that DD25, Money-Ka and I had to plan for this one was far less intricate Smile

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:40am

my niece is 16 and wants to attend this University. She is very close to Thing1. She would definitely want to go. It's a pretty prestigious University.

I can say with certainty that BabyVoice would just sigh and whine the entire time.

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:44am

the Things and my DD belong to me and Asshat. Money-Ka is their SM, and she has been involved in their lives for a long time, and they like her and she likes them.

BV and KK are not related to the Things or my DD.

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:47am

My mom actually told me that Money-Ka should not be invited because - wait for it - "she isn't their mother."

No, she isn't, but she contributed greatly to their educations and their upbringing. Oh, and also, I am not a total psycho BM like my mother is.

It's ALWAYS fun with my dad and SM are in the same room as my mother - ugh. She is such a GUBM PASer extraordinaire.

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:54am

Oh, I am sure I will be blogging about it.

She's already bitching that my SM is being invited to DD25's baby shower. Again, she thinks she shouldn't be invited because she is "only" my "father's wife."

Of course, as we all know too well here, that is PRECISELY why she is invited Smile That, and the fact that she is totally awesome I and really dig her. She's the one my dad left my mom for, and we all have moved past that into adult relationships except for my mother.

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:52am

we tried - lol! Hell, Asshat and Money-Ka aren't bringing their 3 kids to the first graduation because there isn't enough tickets for them and two of them are kinda young!

It literally took the three of us two days and hundreds of texts to get it all figured out.

Thing1 - BSchool graduation attended by me, DH, Asshat and Money-Ka. They do their celebratory dinner with Thing1, Thing2, DD25 and her husband that night. Next morning, Big Ceremony, and my celebratory dinner with the Things, DD25 and her husband, my dad and SM, and the rest of the folks who couldn't get in to the ceremony.

Thing2- Friday night dinner with my family and Saturday lunch with Asshat and his crew. They are bringing their three kids to this graduation because there are no ticket limitations.

I have booked hotel rooms for everyone, made dinner reservations for everyone - it's like a game of Jenga. If one thing moves, it could all come tumbling down - lol!

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:59am

WOB, is *buudy* Somalian for *buddy*? Evil

Or does it translate to *booty*?

Silly DH.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 12:19pm

WTH, that was supposed to be the little devil emoji. How the heck did *Evil* show up there instead??? :?

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 1:01pm

sometimes when I use an emoticon and then copy and paste the text/emoticon, it translates it to the word for the emoticon.

For example, if I said "that made me laugh :-)" and then copied and pasted that sentence, it would read "that made me laugh smile"

Did you copy and paste??

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 3:02pm

You know what, I DID. I was typing it on the wrong blog (I had 3 open). Teach me to open multiple blogs!!

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 3:31pm

LOL!!!

you gotta get up pretty early to pull the wool over these eyes, Aniki Smile

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 3:38pm

I have not had a drop of coffee today. Not one. I am obviously paying the price. I'm heading home to get that whiskey!

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 12:58pm

My daughter is the one who came up with Thing1 and Thing2 - she was not the least bit happy when her twin baby brothers made their world debut - lol!!

My mom is a giant pain in the ass. Still bitter party of one after 32 years of being divorced. World class PASer. She even tried to PAS my kids against Asshat and Money-Ka...she just, ugh, I can't even with her.

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Submitted by DaizyDuke on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 12:30pm

Are your kids and skids even remotely "close" why would skids even want to go? Or is this just your DH assuming?
what is he going to do with them while you're gone?

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 12:56pm

My daughter has never lived with the skids and really doesn't know them at all.

The Things lived with the skids for about 18 months, every other week at my house. They are not close to them.

I can't imagine that the skids would want to come. DH is just assuming and thinking that we should all play happy family. Uh, nope.

We'll be gone for one night on each of those weekends. We'll leave them at home by themselves. KK is a total nerd and very responsible, and BV won't even ever leave her room...

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 2:06pm

I am not weepy at those kinds of things...I DID lose it while doing a reading at my daughter's wedding, though.

I probably will cry, now that I think about it, TEARS OF JOY BECAUSE THEY WILL BOTH BE OFF MY PAYROLL!!!

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Submitted by Livingoutloud on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 2:01pm

Oh graduation drama.

My DD had TWO tickets for her graduation. You could buy two more and that was it. It was ridiculous. But it helped to avoid drama of who wants to attend. And she didn't go to her graduate school graduation because her husband passed away right at that time and clearly it wasn't her or ours priority.

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Submitted by WalkOnBy on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 3:34pm

Thing1's University is my Alma Mater and a really prestigious school. The draw is always the speaker, and this place has had Presidents speak there while they are still in office (the year my daughter graduated from the school).

This year is the 200th anniversary, so it will be quite a show of alumni.

I am actually really excited to see what they have planned Smile