A day without friends
I don’t know if you have read my most recent blog entitled TO SURVIVE, or even HUMANS ARE PUZZLE PIECES, but if you have, you know how important I believe friends to be.
Well, today, with Twitters breakdown, and losing over 70 followers and 70 followings, I was frantic.
You may thinking, “Wow, she has NO life for her to be frantic over Twitter”. *shrugs* Maybe I am. Maybe I’m not. I’m a homeschool mom of two kids, two dogs, a cat and a snake. My husband is away with the Marine Corps, so it’s me and my kids and my animals, all day every day. My two babysitters both just moved out of state, so I have NO opportunity for any time for just me, except when they are napping or off to bed for the night. And then still, I’m usually cleaning up their messes.
All that being said, Twitter, MySpace, and a USMC wives forum board, are my ONLY links to communicate with adults. Sure there’s family, but we’re not that close, and you HAVE to love family. My friends mean the world to me (cyber or IRL) because I chose them. They make me laugh, cry, smile, and relax. They inform me, educate me, enlighten me, humor me, entertain me and I’d like to think appreciate me. I mean, after all, it’s not as if I forced myself upon them.
So, Twitter lost all my Tweeps today, and I found a few, but on the whole, I could not remember all 80 of them. Who could? So, I was very sad, I missed them. Even though some may find it stupid or silly, I have grown quite attached to my circle of friends.
And I have a confession to make. This is only going to serve to further your thoughts of thinking I am rather juvenile, but so be it. There are a few people I am following that make, draw, direct, etc comic books for Marvel and/or DC. OMG. I’m so starstruck, even over the vastness of the wonderful worldwide web. and when I randomly twitted a few of them about nonsense, and they replied… yeah, I lost it. ROFL. I called my husband and told him. What can I say – they don’t call me GeekGirl for nothing!
Tonya H. said,
July 25, 2008 at 12:13 am
awww…. missed you, too! And, even though I can’t draw comics (or anything else for that matter) I’m glad I was missed. (You were referring to me, right???)
lymari h said,
July 25, 2008 at 1:24 am
Well, I started “following” you today, so there, you have a brand new friend!
I homeschool two boys, my whole family is thousands of miles away and my hubby was a USN chief, so please believe me when I say I know what you are going through. And there’s nothing wrong about being hooked on Twitter!
We’ll “see” each other around…
Senseless Babble said,
July 25, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Awesome post – I too was hit hard by the loss of my tweeps. I too depend on the internet and my online “friends” for adult an adult “connection”. I’m a stay at home dad during the day with two small kids, and I work at night. Unfortunately, my job provides little “human contact”, so during the day, as the kids play, with laptop in lap, I can feel “connected” (and keep a piece of my sanity). Sure, on Twitter, it’s all to a bunch of strangers who i only pass a sentence to two to, it still means a lot to me. – Anyway, dont know why I’m posting this. Just wanted to say hello, in another form, other then Twitter. So, hello! – - Ps, Your Twitter bio reads.. “D&D rox! Comic book GEEK! Star Wars Freak! Video games!” As a fellow D&D player, comic book reader, video game game playing, Star Wars aficionado… Gosh darnnit, your husband is a lucky guy to be with such a cool GeekGirl!
Chris said,
July 26, 2008 at 1:09 am
The first words that come to mind are “Honey, hush!” Lol. I feel the SAME way you do. I check our forum first thing every morning just to make sure it’s STILL THERE. ‘Cause it has to be!! And I know we don’t see eye to eye on the Facebook thing…. lmao… and I don’t even spend a large quantity of time there… but it NEEDS to BE THERE or I will cry.
I get what you’re saying. I’m there with ya. Haven’t gotten the hang of Twitter yet but I do love reading YOUR updates and I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it!