Internet as Life Companion 101

Today, I’m a wee bit crabby.

Okay, not just a wee bit.

I’m more like crabby to the tenth power or crabby with extra vinegar or crabby: return of the grrr.

I can’t really seem to shake the grouchiness, although I don’t know if anyone around me actually knows I’m crabby, save for Catherine, who has received the mother of all emails and several small whiny texts. But don’t worry — she can handle it. And she knows I’ll cook for her and do an interpretive dance in our living room if she waits out my itty bitty storm.

I’m not a huge fan of taking my moods out on people, but venting to roommates? Essential.

I do need to cheer myself up sometime in the next few hours, though (so I don’t bite a bus driver or attack the man who sells flowers when he waves carnations in my face and says, “FRESH!”)

I was trying to think of how I could accomplish this, and suddenly, the solution was clear: GET THE INTERNET TO DO IT.

I mean, there are millions of you out there. Surely there must be one or two of you who aren’t feeling el snarko?

Even if you are, join in the love:

  1. Please point me to a web site that will make me genuinely blissfully happy in some way, shape or form.
  2. Tell us a joke that will make me giggle like a fiend.
  3. Say something nice about my mother. That always makes me happy — and also! Her back is out and she is stuck in bed! Poor Mom!
  4. Give us a link to a picture that will make us all smile.
  5. How about a recipe suggestion that will lead to utter and complete bliss for my palate?
  6. JUST DO SOMETHING. I DON’T CARE, ANYTHING REALLY.

love thursday comes around again.

Best thing ever. From Chookooloonks.

I posted last week as well.

This week, a little collage, courtesy of this awesome spot:

This is me with my girls (in clockwise order) Carys (the top two), Josie, and Olivia. Carys is the gorgeous daughter of Lorelei and Orlando, Josie is Kim and Matt’s beautiful girl, and the very sweet Olivia belongs to Jaime and Brad.

I have gazillions of photos of me holding my friends’ babies. I’m always amazed at how dramatically they reflect their parents’ personalities, appearances and moods. Sometimes it really feels like I’m holding a little Lorelei or a wee Jaime.

It makes my day to make them laugh, really. Or to give them a bottle. Or to watch them fall asleep.

Being Auntie Meg is one of the best things in my life.

Now I know it has all been practice for when someone who doesn’t look like me is placed in my arms for me to keep forever.

These babies I have to give back, as much as I adore them. But that one?

That one will be mine.

And I will love it more than life.