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Post by Michelle Denouement on Apr 5, 2017 19:59:27 GMT -5
Ernest: Ever since the "Deadpool" incident, with stupid parents bringing their ickleing toddler to a showing, Hannah and I started going to Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco. No children under age 6 are allowed at R rated movies at any time or any movies after 6 pm. Kids under 3 aren't allowed, period. It's inconsiderate to bring a child under the age of 3 to a movie. They won't ickleing remember it. We took Harper to see "Moana" in December, a few months after she turned 3. ******* Violet: I'm a software engineer for a Fortune 500 Silicon Valley company by day and a grad student at Stanford by night. And by the looks of it, I'll be getting my Master's in Spring 2018. My husband Quigley and I don't plan on having kids for a long-ass time because of it.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Apr 25, 2017 13:29:36 GMT -5
Michelle: I'm 31 today. Tonight, I'll be going out for dinner and seeing "Hamilton" with my husband. Last year, I spent my 30th birthday shopping for summer clothes for my son, and drinking Sauvignon Blanc while finishing editing my Masters thesis. ******* Maureen: My 18 year old sister Tallulah just finished her first year at Indiana University-Bloomington. We just picked her up from college yesterday. She graduated high school last year a year early, so she started college at 17. Yes, she's out of state, four hour drive away, but she's a fiercely independent go-getter. When she turned 16, she enrolled in the CNA course at the local community college, took the exam, and got a job at a nursing home. She was also taking summer classes to finish high school a year early. I'm proud of myself and my husband Patrick, having raised her since she was 10 years old. ******* Michelle: My most recent tattoo is on my left shoulder blade and it is of Jareth from "The Labyrinth". "The Labyrinth" was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and one of my biggest influences as a musician and a style icon is David Bowie. I cried for 3 days when David Bowie passed away. My Jareth tattoo is my most intensive and expensive one, since it is a portrait tattoo. It turned out amazing, though.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on May 21, 2017 9:40:56 GMT -5
Jerome: My sister Elizabeth, her husband, and their 3 kids are moving to Israel in July, to be closer to her husband's parents who moved there in 2006. Both Elizabeth and Aaron have jobs lined up in Tel Aviv, but they'll be living in Ramat Gan. ******* Caroline: I'm a high school English teacher, and I also have a YouTube channel and an Etsy store where I sell Decoden phone cases. And I'm also a wife and a mom to an almost 17 month old little girl. Needless to say, I have very little social life.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jul 5, 2017 7:53:31 GMT -5
Michelle: I'm heading to Israel and Jordan with Maureen, Samantha, and Lissy for 10 days. No kids, no husbands. Just friends doing sightseeing together. None of us have been to Israel and Jordan.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Jul 8, 2017 10:33:24 GMT -5
Elizabeth and Aaron's kids are being raised Jewish, aren't they?
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jul 9, 2017 9:11:09 GMT -5
Elizabeth and Aaron's kids are being raised Jewish, aren't they? Yep. ******* Caroline: My husband, my daughter, and I are visiting my family in America right now over my Term 2/3 break. I'll be in mostly in Michigan, though I'll be visiting Illinois before my sister-in-law Maureen goes to Israel and Jordan with her friends. Whenever I go back to America, I experience reverse culture shock. Like everything is bigger in America than in New Zealand. The last time I was in America in 2015, we went to the Cheesecake Factory, and my husband and I split lunch, because the portion sizes there are huge. It also helps that my husband and I lived in Japan, and their portion sizes are tiny compared to American portion sizes. We also went to 7-11 in America, and I was appalled with the size of the largest fountain soda, the Double Big Gulp, at 64 ounces. Like who needs that much soda?!
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jul 24, 2017 12:04:58 GMT -5
Willow: My friend Rachel is originally from Israel, but she moved to America when she was 10 because her dad got a job at American University teaching Computer Science and her mom working for a company that provides research services to the Government. She took 2 years off after graduating high school, because her parents expected her to serve in the IDF, because they did as well as Rachel's older siblings. When she was 19, and chaperoning for a birthright trip for a group of students from Temple University, she met her now husband Jonah. After she got out of the Army, and he graduated college, they went on a backpacking trip to Europe together and eloped in Prague together, before Rachel started school at the University of Maryland for Bioengineering. Then she got pregnant during the spring of her Freshman year and had her son Elijah right after winter break started her sophomore year. Jonah works from home ******* Michelle: I'm really good at driving in a city. I got my drivers license at 16, even though I went to a boarding school. I practiced driving with my parents at home on the weekends, and had professional driving lessons at school. I took drivers ed during the summer between freshman and sophomore year of high school, but wasn't able to get my learner's permit until the end of October, at 15 and a half. And I can also drive stick shift, which was handy when Hugo and I went to Turkey for our honeymoon, and will come in handy when I'm in Israel and Jordan with my friends.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Aug 6, 2017 15:11:57 GMT -5
Klaus: That Nero. What a tosser! I mean 'Ooh, I'm Vice Principal Nero! I'm such a big, huge, massive freak! And then...' Is he behind me?
*Klaus turns to see Nero*
Klaus: Did you hear any of that?
Nero: Oh yes.
Klaus: Can we start again?
Nero: As you can see from his rather natty badge, this is your new classmate, Klaus. As you share most of the same classes, Quagmire, you will be looking after him.
Duncan: Sir, that's not fair!
Nero: Lesson number one at Prufrock: Life isn't fair.
Duncan: Sir, look at his blazer for starters. He's got an actual briefcase! His shoes are clumpy. His hair's a bit gay. And that badge. I mean, the badge alone.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Aug 15, 2017 18:24:28 GMT -5
Willow is Michelle's daughter, right?
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Aug 16, 2017 11:05:06 GMT -5
Willow is Michelle's daughter, right? Yep, second child of four Hugo and Michelle eventually have. ******* *Thea's Snapchat Story* Thea: Hey everyone, I'm at a school uniform store in Ramat Gan. I wanted to show my aunt Esme and uncle Jerome, and also my friends back in America. I go a public school with a STEM focus, and like every public school in Israel makes students wear t-shirts with their schools logo on them, and for bottoms, my school requires black or navy pants or skirts, which I have plenty of thanks to going to private school in America. Shoes and socks are whatever. The shirts here are pretty cheap, ₪20 for short sleeve and ₪23 for long sleeve, so like $5.50 and $6.50 each. I'm getting a white shirt, because every student needs a white shirt, according to my neighbor Stav who's also going into 10th grade at the same school; a navy shirt; a purple shirt; a green shirt; and a royal blue shirt. These ones are all short sleeved. I will be buying long sleeved shirts later, but right now, my parents only gave me ₪100. And then after I pay for them, they take them over to that thing where they iron on my school's logo. Not gonna show it, because I don't want strangers to know where I'll be going to school. ******* Violet: I work for a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley as a Software Engineer, and I usually wear nice jeans, plain t-shirts or button down shirts, my Patagonia fleece, and sneakers to work, and my hair is tied back. Like an undergrad, but nicer. Nobody wears suits to the office in Silicon Valley.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Sept 15, 2017 0:05:20 GMT -5
*October 19th, 2017. Michelle and Hugo make a vlog.* Hugo: Hey everyone. So my wife and I have a huge announcement. Michelle: We're going to be parents for the second time. Hugo: Baby #2 is coming at the end of May. Michelle: Which makes me about 8 weeks along. Hugo: Jordan will be 5 by the time this baby is born, and it will be nice to have a baby in the house again. Michelle: We had an appointment with my midwife, and we got to see the baby. Right now, it's a little bean. Hugo: Michelle cried when we heard the heartbeat. Michelle: I was potato ing bawling my eyes out.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Dec 25, 2017 9:05:53 GMT -5
Michelle: Hugo and I are hopefully finding out the sex of kid #2 on Wednesday. We're taking Jordan along so he can see his brother or sister. Both Hugo and I think we're having a girl, but who knows. It's still a surprise either way, whether you found out at 13 weeks through a blood test like my friend Samantha did, or you're waiting until birth, like my friend Maureen is doing.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 15, 2018 11:51:38 GMT -5
Michelle: We are going to Morroco next month for mid-winter break. I'll be 26 weeks pregnant during the middle of the trip. It's Jordan's last trip as an only child, before his sister Willow is born in May. ******* Caroline: I made a "What I pack for lunch" video, and people were like, "Oh, you're so tiny, yet you eat a ton. The two liter lunch cube is huge." It's because I'm pregnant, of course, I'm going to be hungry. I'm growing a baby. Plus, all the tuck shop sells is crap.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Mar 3, 2018 8:54:41 GMT -5
*High school Willow is being scolded by Mrs. Martin, a teacher she hates* Willow: I am working my ass off, while dealing with a teenage pregnancy. Mrs. Martin: If you haven't gotten pregnant in the first place, you wouldn't have been in this mess. Willow: Well, salsa happens. And I didn't want to go to the alternative school because there are no AP classes there. Mrs. Martin: Having a pregnant teen in the school is a bad influence to the other girls. Willow: Well you know what? Unless if you can be a straight A student in AP classes and deal with morning sickness and the tiredness that comes with being pregnant, you can stay out of my face. Mrs. Martin: Good luck. And good riddance. Willow: Suck it, Mrs. Martin! *storms away* potato ing great.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Mar 12, 2018 23:12:39 GMT -5
And Willow didn't even get punished for swearing?
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