Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday dawench. Happy Birthday archdiva. May you day be blessed with joyousness.
So, I'm facebooking this morning. It's fun, I've been reunited with a high school friend that I haven't seen or heard from in 16 years. Wow! And she approached me. I was remembered. Yay!!! And I'm getting poked by someone else that went to that school, and I can't remember who the hell he is. Still debating on whether or not I should poke back...Don't know facebook protocol that good, to know what poking "complete strangers" is about...
But now I realize that facebook is a double edged sword. I found all these great people, plus all my present friends, and some work colleagues on facebook. But in that search, and joining groups, I also found evilness. People that I would've rather not seen (even it be on the internet) for the rest of my life. If I saw them at my funeral, it would be too soon. Some things you just don't recover from. And then it stares you right back in the face. Blech. But what is one or 2, when the benefits outweigh the cons?
And why is it that the people I most want to get in touch with are not on facebook? Not on LJ, not on MSN. Just can't find them whatsoever. Kinda' makes me sad. I have 1 number, but I'm just to chicken to call it. Oddly, the internets seems a little less intimidating. And a little more private. Heh, that sounds stupid. But think about it. Only one person can sit at the computer. Yes, someone can read over your shoulder, but if they don't they can't hear a word you are saying. No, I'm not talking about hubby. He know what I think, and who I talk to. I don't hide anything from him. But, I have lost one friend already to the jealous wife. My best friend from Alberta was lost to me when his wife discovered that Cam and I were talking. Thought that there was no sense to our friendship since I was in Montreal and he was in Ponoka. But in the same respect, we were so many miles away from each other, what was the harm of talking on the phone? I know that mentalities in Alberta are different from here, but it really hurt. I think the thing that hurt the most, is that she "made" him cut off all contact with my family too, and I think that things would've been different if he hadn't cut off from my family. I'm not talking about him. My baby sister idolized him. Thought of him as the best big brother in the world (regardless of whether or not she already had a big brother). Maybe if he were around, she wouldn't have gotten so bad. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows really? But at least she would've been safer. He was like one of my dad's best friends, even though he was my age. My dad loved him. Okay, they did try to convince me to marry him, but I think that was a ploy to keep me in Alberta. He wasn't the first one they suggested.
Eh, facebook is making me all nostalgic-like. Good and bad. It's fun though.
So, I'm facebooking this morning. It's fun, I've been reunited with a high school friend that I haven't seen or heard from in 16 years. Wow! And she approached me. I was remembered. Yay!!! And I'm getting poked by someone else that went to that school, and I can't remember who the hell he is. Still debating on whether or not I should poke back...Don't know facebook protocol that good, to know what poking "complete strangers" is about...
But now I realize that facebook is a double edged sword. I found all these great people, plus all my present friends, and some work colleagues on facebook. But in that search, and joining groups, I also found evilness. People that I would've rather not seen (even it be on the internet) for the rest of my life. If I saw them at my funeral, it would be too soon. Some things you just don't recover from. And then it stares you right back in the face. Blech. But what is one or 2, when the benefits outweigh the cons?
And why is it that the people I most want to get in touch with are not on facebook? Not on LJ, not on MSN. Just can't find them whatsoever. Kinda' makes me sad. I have 1 number, but I'm just to chicken to call it. Oddly, the internets seems a little less intimidating. And a little more private. Heh, that sounds stupid. But think about it. Only one person can sit at the computer. Yes, someone can read over your shoulder, but if they don't they can't hear a word you are saying. No, I'm not talking about hubby. He know what I think, and who I talk to. I don't hide anything from him. But, I have lost one friend already to the jealous wife. My best friend from Alberta was lost to me when his wife discovered that Cam and I were talking. Thought that there was no sense to our friendship since I was in Montreal and he was in Ponoka. But in the same respect, we were so many miles away from each other, what was the harm of talking on the phone? I know that mentalities in Alberta are different from here, but it really hurt. I think the thing that hurt the most, is that she "made" him cut off all contact with my family too, and I think that things would've been different if he hadn't cut off from my family. I'm not talking about him. My baby sister idolized him. Thought of him as the best big brother in the world (regardless of whether or not she already had a big brother). Maybe if he were around, she wouldn't have gotten so bad. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows really? But at least she would've been safer. He was like one of my dad's best friends, even though he was my age. My dad loved him. Okay, they did try to convince me to marry him, but I think that was a ploy to keep me in Alberta. He wasn't the first one they suggested.
Eh, facebook is making me all nostalgic-like. Good and bad. It's fun though.