4 Feb, 2009
big ben disneyworld happiness happy i'm okay job layoff life superbowl WW friends you're okay
Okay, not really. ( The Pittsburgh Steelers won (yay! congrats soupy meg and other steeler nation peeps!)
You know the ad. “Big Ben, you just won the super bowl, whaddaya gonna do now?”
And Big Ben (or insert winning quarterback here) says “I’m going to Disneyworld!!! Tm”
So I didn’t win the superbowl and I’m not going to Disneyworld, but stay with me… it’s a metaphor.
Cause the thing is, I kinda DID win the superbowl, in that I’m looking around and I see that I have Read the rest of this entry »
13 Aug, 2008
bliss engagement good news happiness love social media spreading technology viral media where I've been word writing
Sorry for the delay. There’s been a lot going on!
ta da! here's washwords
BTW: stop yer complainin. You just saw washwords (till I take it down. the interweb is a scary place.)
And speaking of the interweb…it IS a crazy place, and mostly not in a scary, but just in a fascinating way. And nowhere did I see this more than in sharing my very good news.
In 1997, if you became engaged, you called people you wanted to know. Those people usually asked who they should/could tell and the word spread to exactly those people. I think I did send a few emails to the friends of friends. My email address was v01269b3x7@. I’d heard of cell phones. Old people and wealthy people had them in their cars. Sometimes.
In 2008, when you tell the world you’re engaged, you TELL THE WORLD. At once. Meaning my long-lost elementary school playmates found out about the same time as my bestest DC bud’s hubby, my former Read the rest of this entry »
