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[Nichole]

Oh Bale, looks like she is coming to visit your family in Oct. I think she could really use a drink, can you make that happen?

Shryke, I pity them as well. She just seems so young and clueless. Thank god I did not have the option of blogging when I was 21 so that the whole world could read about my stupid decisions.

[Shryke]

Nichole, on 02 August 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

Oh Bale, looks like she is coming to visit your family in Oct. I think she could really use a drink, can you make that happen?

Shryke, I pity them as well. She just seems so young and clueless. Thank god I did not have the option of blogging when I was 21 so that the whole world could read about my stupid decisions.

I like to think you wouldn't be dumb enough to blog about all the dumb things you did.

Everyone does dumb shit at 21. Including getting married apparently. Us geezers were just smart enough not to tell the whole fucking internet about it.

Edited by Shryke, 02 August 2012 - 11:12 AM.

[Balefont]

Elder Sister, so sorry for the thread jack!

Nichole, on 02 August 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

Oh Bale, looks like she is coming to visit your family in Oct. I think she could really use a drink, can you make that happen?

Oh gods, really?!  It will be so difficult to keep a straight face.

When they got married, they deleted their separate Facebook accounts and made a joint one.  Then a few months later, she quietly purged anyone that she didn't want Kyle to keep in touch including me.  I figured it out and sent a message and a new friend request informing her that I'm family.  Threat implied.

Though they look great in their pictures!  gods

[Monday]

Yikes! That reminds me- somewhere out there I have the most cringeworthy livejournal from my late teens/early twenties. I should probably find and destroy it.

[Shryke]

Monday, on 02 August 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

Yikes! That reminds me- somewhere out there I have the most cringeworthy livejournal from my late teens/early twenties. I should probably find and destroy it.

You meant find and share it with us I'm sure.

[Lightning Lord]

Bale, is that girl a teenager?  She actually writes the "like" into her sentences, as if she is dictating her own valley-girl speech patterns.  Damn.  Also, quite a blessing for them, being able to move in with parents as newlyweds.  Yes-indeed, the gods have smiled on their inability to pay their own bills.

[Nichole]

Monday, on 02 August 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

Yikes! That reminds me- somewhere out there I have the most cringeworthy livejournal from my late teens/early twenties. I should probably find and destroy it.

Recently I was cleaning some old junk out of my house and found my old journal from when I was in high school. I realized with horror that I could have died and someone would have found it and read it. I tore that shit up and threw it away fast.

[Elder Sister]

Nichole, on 02 August 2012 - 11:25 AM, said:

Recently I was cleaning some old junk out of my house and found my old journal from when I was in high school. I realized with horror that I could have died and someone would have found it and read it. I tore that shit up and threw it away fast.

I have done the same exact thing...seeing my teen/young adult thoughts on paper, and remembering the horrid hair/clothing of the mid-eighties makes me very glad there were no blogs back in the day.

Balefont, on 02 August 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

Elder Sister, so sorry for the thread jack!

No worries - it's not like we're discussing anything serious.    I have bad enough ADD that I'm always ready for a thread jack.

[Fragile Bird]

Monday, on 02 August 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

Yikes! That reminds me- somewhere out there I have the most cringeworthy livejournal from my late teens/early twenties. I should probably find and destroy it.

Shryke, on 02 August 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

You meant find and share it with us I'm sure.

Linky please!  Linky please!

[Mandy]

Balefont, on 02 August 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

Elder Sister, so sorry for the thread jack!



Oh gods, really?!  It will be so difficult to keep a straight face.

When they got married, they deleted their separate Facebook accounts and made a joint one.  Then a few months later, she quietly purged anyone that she didn't want Kyle to keep in touch including me.  I figured it out and sent a message and a new friend request informing her that I'm family.  Threat implied.

Though they look great in their pictures!  gods

You do realize this is how many of your "internet pals" are going to keep up with your life now don't you?  bahahaha

[A Song of Hound and Wolves]

Lightning Lord, on 02 August 2012 - 11:25 AM, said:

Bale, is that girl a teenager? She actually writes the "like" into her sentences, as if she is dictating her own valley-girl speech patterns. Damn. Also, quite a blessing for them, being able to move in with parents as newlyweds. Yes-indeed, the gods have smiled on their inability to pay their own bills.

Balefont, on 02 August 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

Well, I'm lucky enough to be personally involved.  *snipped for space*
My aunt is so distraught.  She blames herself for raising him so enmeshed in a religion imposed more by my uncle (they are now recently divorced).

But everythings gonna be fine.  It's all in God's plan.  Her dream career will fall into her lap as long as she prays long and hard for it.

You know Bale, on the same day you tipped us off to your relative's self-absorbed, empty-headed and immature blog, I happened to also read this essay.  This thoughtful piece was written by a young lady who is probably the peer of your cousin's wife.  She's newly married and has very young children and she is an evangelical Christian.   I was very much struck by the dichotomy of the worlds in which these two young 20-somethings are inhabiting.  Your cousin's wife writes as if she's 14, gushing on in her vacuous way about puny, insignificant daily activities.  She has no idea how inconsequential she is; on the contrary, she writes with an enthusiasm that suggests she is imparting the wisdom of the ages to the world.  In case we the reader don't catch how important her thoughts are, she uses plenty of exclamation points to wake us that fact.

I contrast this, as I said, with the essay by her contemporary who from writing style alone would seem to live in two different countries.  Her essay on "Nostalgia" is poignant and painful and shows a keen awareness of her limited place in her own community, let alone the world.

Interesting.

Former Lord of Winterfell, on 02 August 2012 - 08:41 AM, said:

Guess I'm kind of missing out on why making fun of this woman is so entertaining.  The smug/nastiness quotient is really popping through the roof today.  Well done, all.

I didn't really think I was being "snarky" but I do stand by my comments earlier and above.  It's one thing to be a dolt on FB but to have the self-preoccupation to publish as a blog is, to me, quite amusing.

Nichole, on 02 August 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

Shryke, I pity them as well. She just seems so young and clueless. Thank god I did not have the option of blogging when I was 21 so that the whole world could read about my stupid decisions.

Monday, on 02 August 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

Yikes! That reminds me- somewhere out there I have the most cringeworthy livejournal from my late teens/early twenties. I should probably find and destroy it.

We should fund a contest to find this!

[Elder Sister]

@Song of Hound and W.- awesome essay.  Thanks so much for the link.

[Starkess]

I've kept an online journal since I was about 14 or 15...yeah, it's interesting. My boyfriend said he spent 6 hours reading it last week and that it was hilarious. Sure, it's a little embarrassing in some ways, but I actually like having a record of my life, even if I was a fucking idiot. I also have several old paper journals that I've kept through the years, although sadly some of the oldest ones (I've kept a journal literally as long as I can remember) have been lost.

[Tears of Lys]

Ha!  I never kept a record of my past life.  Do you think I want someone to find out where the bodies are buried?

When I go, my secrets go with me.  

[WrathOfTinyKittens]

My favorite part was the post about the hot dog place that she will "defiantly" visit again.

Edit - Nevermind. That's far from the worst spelling / totally-wrong-word error in here.

Edited by WrathOfTinyKittens, 02 August 2012 - 10:38 PM.

[Guy Kilmore]

MinDonner, on 27 July 2012 - 03:38 PM, said:

Indeed. Text invites, fine. But instructions as to what kind of gifts should be brought to the party? That would be rude even in a hand-lettered invite delivered by a courier in a Batman outfit.

But if the courier arrived in the Batmobile.  Totally cool.

[Salome Sand Witch]

Shryke, on 02 August 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

You meant find and share it with us I'm sure.

You know, I do know Monday's "real" name.    (Didn't help though. Couldn't find it).

[Balefont]

Thank you so much for sharing that link, Song.  It was a
Lovely, well-written piece.  I think I might have to slip the link to a certain Facebook inbox.  

[Gillio]

Elder Sister, on 02 August 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

@Song of Hound and W.- awesome essay.  Thanks so much for the link.

Balefont, on 03 August 2012 - 05:58 AM, said:

Thank you so much for sharing that link, Song.  It was a
Lovely, well-written piece.  I think I might have to slip the link to a certain Facebook inbox.  

[Fragile Bird]

A Song of Hound and Wolves, on 02 August 2012 - 08:55 PM, said:

You know Bale, on the same day you tipped us off to your relative's self-absorbed, empty-headed and immature blog, I happened to also read this essay.  This thoughtful piece was written by a young lady who is probably the peer of your cousin's wife.  She's newly married and has very young children and she is an evangelical Christian.   I was very much struck by the dichotomy of the worlds in which these two young 20-somethings are inhabiting.  Your cousin's wife writes as if she's 14, gushing on in her vacuous way about puny, insignificant daily activities.  She has no idea how inconsequential she is; on the contrary, she writes with an enthusiasm that suggests she is imparting the wisdom of the ages to the world.  In case we the reader don't catch how important her thoughts are, she uses plenty of exclamation points to wake us that fact.

I contrast this, as I said, with the essay by her contemporary who from writing style alone would seem to live in two different countries.  Her essay on "Nostalgia" is poignant and painful and shows a keen awareness of her limited place in her own community, let alone the world.

Song, I really have to say thank you for that link.  Awesome doesn't even begin to describe it.