Subtitled: Online Friendships.
Stacy claims we are not the same person. Sometimes, I'm not so sure.
I was her introduction to blogging. This is a great honor. Although Stacy claims we steal material from one another on a regular basis, I prefer to think of it as "inspiration."
She led me to the incomparable Dooce. I led her to Faggoty Ass Faggot and RockStarMommy.
From reading both my blog and Stacy's, you would never guess that we have never met face to face. We have so much in common, you would think we were old friends going way back. We are both Michigan natives. We both are adoptive moms of daughters and indeed, orginally "met" through the adoption.com forums. We both had our wild side in our misspent youth. We both view work as a means to an end, not the rasion de etre. We are supportive of one another and the next time she is in Michigan, there is a twenty pound lasagna and a good bottle of wine with her name on it waiting at my house. We will no doubt laugh our asses off together, especially if she's still on the narcotic cough syrup.
I've made some very nice friends via the internet and blogging. Some I have yet to meet in person but the list goes something like this: Stacy, Holly (who lives in the same town and is married to someone I went to high school with), Christopher (whom I will raise a glass with later this month), Brian, Melissa and Amanda. My inspiration to blog came from Loretta at www.misfitting.com. I have had the pleasure of meeting her. I would love to meet Scott from www.findadeath.com as well, although that is not really a blog, it's one of my guilty pleasures.
I'm still waiting for Darr and Sarah to get moving on the blogging. They are wonderful women I am proud to call friends and they make me laugh on a daily basis.
I'm so glad Al Gore invented the internet.
Awwwww..! You know I love ya! Isn't it funny though, these blogging "friendships"? I always say things like "oh you know, my friend so and so from the blog". What constitutes a "friend" really?
Oh and by the way.. Swear all you want! And to think you are racist or a man hater? What is up with that?! I've never read anything you wrote that is offensive.. you just crack me up!
Posted by: holly | January 02, 2005 at 03:59 PM