My Technological Clock is Ticking...

My computer clock says that the time is 11:18 p.m. on September 30. If I hurry, I can actually have 3 posts for September, which is the most I've had in a month in a very long time. So, I figure if I have 3 posts, maybe people will come back and read again, and I won't be the "lame blogger friend." Of course, many may feel I am just crying "wolf" and that October will be another disappointment. Never fear! I am having surgery on my foot in 2 weeks, so I will have a lot of downtime and plenty of awkwardness in my life to warrant a few posts. Just the fact that the name of my surgery is "Bunionectomy" is enough to provide at least a week's worth of material.

Digiscrappin' with Beck

It's been almost a year since I did any digital scrapbooking, partly because Peanut (our daschund) chewed through my laptop cord 7 months ago. I finally found a good deal on a new cord, so this week I decided to do a little scrappin'. Thanks to Jofia designs at The Shabby Pickle for making such great stuff to play with!

All the World's a Stage

Being a mother of teenagers, and a woman who does a lot of work with teenage girls, I decided to enter the world of Facebook. Besides making me feel very "cool" (hip...phat...whatever), I can keep track of all the young people in my life. They don't seem to mind, either. My son Kyle is the one who sent me the invitation to have my own "Facebook." I have 77 friends, many of whom actively send me Flair, Poke me in many different ways, and invite me to beat their score on the "Hardest Disney Quiz Ever."

Last week, however, I realized that I will never fully embrace Facebook, the way my younger "friends" do. I logged onto my profile and discovered that my son Kyle had written on my wall, or left a message, for all the world to see. About a week before this post, we dropped Kyle off at BYU to start his Freshman year, and of course, we had to shop at Wal-mart to get him the necessities of life before we abandoned him. Several days later this post shows up on my Facebook page: "you left some tampons in the bag from wal-mart. I don't know what to do"

Bwahahaha!!! I still chuckle when I think about it. We are a modern family with many means of communication available to us. We have a family cell phone plan which allows Kyle to call home on the regular phone or on my cell phone. We have unlimited texting, so he can shoot off a text any time of night or day. His Macbook has ethernet, so any email he might choose to send would arrive in 2.3 seconds. But NOOOOOO! My son posts a question about what to do with the tampons in his room on the front page of my FACEBOOK!!!

That's okay. I can roll with it. I'm flexible. I just posted this response:
And you chose to post this on FACEBOOK for all the world to see!!!???!? Bwahahahaha--Kyle, you are, indeed, random! Well, I'm not going to teach you how to use them, so I suggest you give them away or throw them away. Or decorate your room--no--just throw them away.

To which he responds:
Hmm. Ok. I think I can handle that. I could attack someones room with it.

My sister Sherrie and my friend Kirstin got in on the action:

Kyle... I am sooooo proud that you know what a TAMPON is! You're future wife will love you (cause you'll know what to look for when she sends you out to buy them). Have fun decorating your room. :D

Kyle...as per your comment on your Mom's facebook...I'd suggest keeping them and using them for any nose bleeds you or anyone you know might have. If that doesn't work...soak 'em in water and throw them at people! HAHAHAAAA...

One of the younger people in my life even suggested that he soak the tips in water, at which point they "bloom" into flowers, providing him a lovely bouquet for any occasion.

I don't know what he did with them, but I'm glad I'm old enough that very little embarrasses me anymore.