Facebook, bye, bye!

Last week was a very emotional week for me.  Rick was away with Karsten on the northwest history trip, and there was a lot of local controversy over things that had nothing to do with me, but still hit close to home.  I found myself losing any kind of peace.  I decided that I need to get off of Facebook and spend a little more face to face time with the important people in my life.  I can say that the last five days have been much more pleasant.  Good riddance!

I suppose blogging about the evils of social media is sort of hypocritical, but I have tried to whittle my blog readers down to the people that I do actually know and interact with.  I hope I don't come across as a bestower of all wisdom, because I only know what I know, which isn't much.  I am going to try very hard not to delve into any topic that I haven't actually experienced, because as my friend Paula said, "maybe you just shouldn't..."  Great advice!

What I love about getting off of Facebook is that my true blue friends call me.  They really do care about what I am doing and they want to interact with me.  That is so very encouraging to me.  I think it is easy to think you have friends until you really need them and discover that they are just likes on a page.  I need people that don't feel like they need to agree with everything I say or do, but still like me because I'm me.  Don't we all want those friends?  I want friends that aren't afraid to laugh at me when I am being a dork.  Most of all I want friends that aren't afraid to laugh even when it seems inappropriate, because I need a lot more laughter.  My friends that laughed with me through Eden's labor are the best!  Of course my brother provided a lot of material for that one.  Thanks Brant.

I am thankful for good friends, good food, good laughs, wrinkles, grey hair, many things forgotten, birthdays, wine, good books, and extremely patient husbands.  Let's face it girls we aren't easy to live with even on our good days, but chocolate chip cookies hot out of the oven go a long way.