[Dulcey]

-Copa Cabana isn't a Barry Manilow song.

-Entertainment on Mon-Friday is the boards

-The phone rings and you want to strangle family and friends for calling.....Don't they know we're waiting for "The Call."

Ok friends add a few more.....................

[JosieWales]

...when you count everything that happens in your life from the day you entered PGN (such as, "ok, we entered PGN on March 28, a Wednesday, so March 13th must have been a Tuesday..." or "we get out of school on May 24th, and by then we will have been in PGN for 57 days...")

...when you have or a margarita or any umbrella drink and think not of a fun drink but instead, of PGN Copa members

...time stands still...and yet suddenly you've been in PGN for ____ weeks and you're still not out

[carlyincali]

You know your in PGN when...

Nothing in your house is clean except for the computer screen.

[Cherrytex]

You know you're in PGN when you get really annoyed at friends & family for not know what it is..... (E.g. PGN=Papua New Guinea )!Several friends of mine have asked why do your papers have to go there?........Der!!!... wrong letters!!!!

Cant you tell my patience is running thin????

[myguatbabes]

You know you are in PGN when...

You dread the weekend and can't wait for MONDAY to arrive

or

You are afraid to travel anywhere without your cell phone and even when you do travel with it, you check it to make sure it has a signal every 5 seconds!!

[dac_cincy]

Your meal of choice every night is chocolate ice cream and diet coke.

If your sister calls you one more time to say that she is shopping that the children's consignement store, you might disown her.

You shut the door to the baby's room and cry each time you walk by it.

[Gatos]

Mylanta is your beverage of choice.

[ncurry3]

dac_cincy, that's already my dinner and we're just waiting to get out of FC!!!!

[mksilvermoon]

you know you are in PGN when you ...

develop a strain in your index finger by hitting the 'refresh' button so many times!

you develop a very selective attention span (hours for online forum-work, five minutes for anything else)

you spend many hours each day imagining you will get the one 'nice' reviewer in PGN or maybe just get one in a 'nice' mood the day your file lands on their desk ...

you forget that everyone else has a life outside of 'waiting for the call'

.....

MK

[gwenrenee007]

You don't call anyone in your family because they think you are calling to tell them that your baby is coming home.

When the cashier at the grocery store asks you how you are today? and your response is, "well I'd be a lot better if my baby girl would just get OUT of Pgn."
Yes I did this - and I think she thought PGN was prison or something!

EVERYONE at your work asks why is it taking so long? When is she going to be home?

and if one more person asks when she is going to be home you are going to strangle them.

[metro93]

When you think of other names for PGN (prison gone nuts)

When you try to convince yourself that you will be out in the next month only to watch that go by too.

When you have gained 10 lbs.

When you feel that your closest and most understanding friends are on this board. (Thanks)

[kerriv]

You can no longer see the letters on your computer keyboard because you've rubbed them off spending so much time online waiting for news.

[dac_cincy]

Well you might need to change it up a bit then. M&M work great a sub for the ice cream and occasionally Bailys can sub for the diet coke, but you don't want to go overboard on that.

I have heard that cheesecake can be sub for another other food item- so thank goodness the cheesecake factory is not close enough for me to drive to or I would be in big trouble.

I saw you blog yesterday and I am glad to see that Asa is doing fine.

Love to you,

Originally Posted by ncurry3

dac_cincy, that's already my dinner and we're just waiting to get out of FC!!!!

[CurlysGirly]

...You refuse to plan anything further out than a week just in case you get out, get pink and have an embassy appointment in the next week.

...You've cried so hard on your way out for some "retail therapy" that eveyone at the store thinks you have a cold/flu/some kind of runny nosed disease.

[Michelle Smiles]

Another hair turns gray every time someone says "Oh wow, that went by fast" when you say you've been in for x weeks.

You check your missed calls log in your cell phone 3 times a day.