For several years( really? years? yes I guess thats right) I tried to post a blog a day, pricipally on my Yahoo 360 page. Well that ended horribly when yahoo dumped 360, well, except for Vietnam, which i understand is still having Yahoo 360Plus (vn.360plus.yahoo.com/ ) Any way, so I moved over here to Multiply, and tried to stay up on my blogging habit until about a couple of months age my cousin comes back from Iraq and starts a Facebook page, trying to get the rest of the family to have one as well so we can all "stay connected"...which was really nice for awhile, especially catching up with his half sister, whom i had not seen in 25 years. Then we all got together in October, and there was the whole family again...and looking at the pictures, I realized something obvious..damn we're all old. My uncles are 80 and 75, my mom is 77, I am 56, my brothers at in their 50"s....my cousins are all in their late 40's or early 50's, except the one, she is 38....And then there was my niece and her two brothers..They are all in their 30's and have kids. And suddenly I felt old, as I checked facebook everyday and found these snippets of life...almost like that insipid Twitter...
And i find myself sounding like a cantankerous oldster, asking my niece why she allowed her 13 years old to pierce her nose, or dye her hair purple, and why does she let her dress like...I dont know what. Pants so tight nothing is imagined, and so low riding that a stiff tug would drop them to her knees.
Or my other niece, who is nearly 18 and thinks everyone older than her is simply so boring, and she has some exclusive view on reality...
And so I gave up on the Facebook page I had for my family, and started to think more about this page. About where i seems to have found a diverse group of people who frequently share, share opinions, views, ideas, and often don't agree, but mostly agree that being disagreeable is unacceptable. (Or you get blocked
)So like a friend of mine said, in this month of Thanksgiving, we have much to be thankful for.
Thanks for listening and being there..
It's great to have you here hon. I look forward to many more good times. (((HUGGZ)))
ReplyDeleteI've several times been invited to Facebook, but tried to set up a page and realized "Good heavens, this site is so boring and just down-right ugly"), and so I dropped my Facebook site after less than thirty minutes. They'd have to pay me---and I mean really good money---to go there, it's just dreary and plain and so so so boring.
ReplyDeletetotally agree...
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