Re: hi from Robert & Noelle

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 > From: "Doreen Stevens" <http://www.allvantage.com/~evens>
 > Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:20:37 -0500
 >
 > Hi, Robert and Noelle-
 >  
 > How are you?  I'll try to send this e-mail again.
 >  
 > Doreen Stevens
 >  
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Doreen Stevens [http://www.allvantage.com/~evens] 
 > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:36 PM
 > To: 'Noelle'
 >  
 > Hi, Noelle--
 >  
 > Congratulations on your marriage for benefits.  It's better than
 > marriage for brats!  Well, we got to pay for those credits for the
 > chiiiiiiillllllldren.
 >  
 > I'm glad you found a pet-friendly apartment that your cat loves.  Let's
 > see. . .have a hard time getting a place where you can have pets, live
 > anywhere you want with a bunch of shrieklings.
 >  
 > Yes, Mike is good at getting activities.  However, he's soft on the
 > childfree issue.  Did Robert say on Chronicle that CF people are smarter
 > than those who have kids?  If so, Mike didn't like it.

You mean, he didn't like my statement?  Oh, well.  Can't please everyone.
As long as the Chronicle piece brings in more people.

 > How was your dinner Sunday night?

It was fine.  This No Kidding event also went to a "cigar lounge".  We
skipped that part since we dislike tobacco smoke.

 > We had dinner Saturday.  Do you know
 > the reporter Carlene Hempel from The Globe Magazine?  She was there to
 > "observe" and ask questions during the dinner.  She also just had a
 > baby!  I still don't know the real reason why she wanted to join us.  I
 > didn't say much to her as I sat far enough away from her; there were
 > about 15 of us at a long table.  She seemed like an okay person, but not
 > in a CF way.

That's weird.  Did she at least write an article or interest piece about
the event?

 > Here's what he said about Carlene, cut and pasted from his message:  "I
 > think she's very cool. I told her she could be an honorary member of the
 > group, just keep the fact that she has a kid with a low profile... :-)"
 >  
 > Do you have any parents as honorary members of NK?  Would you and Robert
 > even consider having such a person as a member (even if it is
 > "honorary")?

I wouldn't.  But, that's me.  Apparently, even Jerry Steinberg permits
ex-parents (people whose children have all died) into the Vancouver
chapter.

 > I still have that job, and it still sucks.  During the dinner, I talked
 > about my work quite a bit.  Do you know Dennis Dowd?

I don't remember him.

 > He said that there
 > may be an opening coming up in January and offered to pass around my
 > resume.  I'll put it in tomorrow's mail as his e-mail systems don't take
 > attachments.
 >  
 > I like what you put at the end of your message about the numbers of
 > people killed in wars and accidents.  You can add 14 people who died
 > from flu!!!!  I'll send you an article after this letter about what they
 > call "the flu outbreak that is sweeping across the nation."  What
 > hysteria!
 >  
 > I'll say bye for now, and happy holidays to you and Robert.

Thanks!  You, too!

I'll add you to my Solstice message mailing list which is going out
tomorrow.

 > Doreen
 >  
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Noelle [http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg] 
 > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2:37 PM
 > To: http://www.allvantage.com/~evens
 > Subject: hi from Robert & Noelle
 >  
 > It was funny, we were looking at the Boston NK webpage and saw you in
 > some of the recent pictures.Then we saw Nancy who said you e-mailed her.
 > We got married Oct 24 at the  courthouse.I became  eligible for
 > benefits at work, amd Robert still is unemployed, so it was time to
 > marry and get the benefits.We are going to have a reception Feb 14 at my
 > dad's in Santa Barbara.
 > The cat loves it here.I found a pet=friendly apt complex so we had to
 > move there after I saw a cat lounging in the sun.Unfortunately, Dolly's
 > cavorting with the neighbor cats caused her to get some fleas.
 > It looks like Boston NK has had a lot of activities,which is good.
 > Do you still have your job or did you find another one?
 > My job is OK.I try to ride my bike there when I can.  It's in an
 > industrial park, so it's isolated,and people come and dump their trash
 > there, they don't think anyone is there.  And someone abandoned a stolen
 > car there last week.