Captured by the 'net

Yes, even *I* now have - drumroll please - a Facebook page.  At first I only did it because my friend Michele pestered me.  Hell, I don't have internet at home and Facebook is a banned site at work.  So how the heck could I manage to keep up?  I figured I'd do it to get her out of my hair, but I quickly became intrigued.

To my (very pleasant) surprise, I managed to make contact with a few people I never thought I'd see again.  One is one of my bestest guy friends from high school (Otsego, not G-A) who joined the army (ostensibly to meet people and kill them!?) and he just never came back.  To be honest I had given up on him, I mean geez, it's been fricking TWENTY-FIVE years....!  More than half our lives, seeing as how I was about 18 when we saw each other last.  Now suddenly it's like we never parted.  Too weird, but way cool.  It hasn't been three weeks and already James and I are bantering and poking and picking on each other.  And what's really weird is that he just reminded me of the nickname he used to call me.... and would you believe "Shortcake" is what I call *my kiddo now??  Coincidence, you may scoff.  But I don't think so.  I'm just way happy to be able to chat with him, even if he is in blasted Germany!  BTW, James is probably about 6'3" so I come by my nickname honestly.  Actually I can't remember how tall he is, once anyone hits close to 6 foot, from my perspective you're all 10 feet tall.

Another one was kind of a blindside hit... another dude I was casual friends with.  Mostly we rode the bus together (to junior high at G-A).  In seventh grade, I was Mrs. Santa Claus and he was the Jolly Old Elf for our school play.  That and some occasional chatter in ninth grade were about the extent of our interaction.  Admittedly I didn't have much of a personality at that age... it was pretty much all suppressed by my evil parental unit.  Save that for later.  But after a few chats and reading of each other's pages and blogs, Vince sent me just the *nicest message about how we have a lot in common and he wishes we had been better friends back then - and totally blew me out of my socks.  I'm amazed and think we both have a new friend!

Now the lack of access to this darn Facebook thing is bugging me because I just want to chat with James and get to know Vince better.  I think we all have the same twisted sense of humor, and I can't wait to amuse and be amused.  For example, I think puns are the highest form of humor.  The worse, the better.

Vince writes long involved chatty notes which I absolutely love.  Actually just the whole renewing friendships thing is pretty great.  I've been way too introverted for way too long.  And now I'm so dang busy I'm not sure how I can keep it up.  And then there's Roberta (who threw me for a loop because now she goes by Bert and I could NOT figure out who she was at first!).... and I'm still looking for Kathy and Shelly and Robin.  Not to mention more who may be hiding out in the woodwork.....!

Later!