I don't know how many lurkers there are from my area but I think I've pretty much met everyone I would run into. In fact, I think there was a weekend when I saw looneylunalovegood like three times around town.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
Really though, if I see any of you out somewhere you'd best believe I'm saying hi. I should get an official photo ID with the name 05heel on it since most of you have never seen my face. That will make things legit and not at all awkward. I'm also a hugger, so gird your loins accordingly.
Really though, if I see any of you out somewhere you'd best believe I'm saying hi. I should get an official photo ID with the name 05heel on it since most of you have never seen my face. That will make things legit and not at all awkward. I'm also a hugger, so gird your loins accordingly.
You mean that's not you in your avatar?
Well obviously I meant my face without bangs! Duh. This forehead requires fair warning.
DO NOT say hi to me if you see me in public with my husband. Please. You have no idea the levels of paranoid panic he will reach upon a stranger stopping us in Target to say that they know me from the Internet.
YES. Very much so. I'm actually very friendly and engaging in person! If I'm really happy to see you I do a little run in place thing as I move in for the hug. Or the Cabbage Patch if you're on old, trusted friend.
I have another, much smaller, board that I frequent and most of those women and I have gone on trips together, so my DH would be pretty used to that. And even though I don't post much, I do mention stories from here once in awhile, so I don't think he'd think it was weird.
But yeah, the internet friends I vacation with? Friends from "school" to anyone else. Never mind the decent age difference.
ETA: but I'm with chilerellanos - if I saw someone on here in Nebraska I'd be shocked.
FYI, if anyone every recognizes my neck-down self, that's cool. We're "friends from college" or you're also a "lawyer," which works well with my family. Since I'm the only lawyer they accept that perhaps nearly all women attorneys may know each other because of vague women attorney associations and things.
All lady lawyers look the same...especially the Asian ones :-P
I told my mom that you are all my mommy friends. She was super suspicious and asked what I talk about since I don't even have kids. I said, "well, the ones who are TTC just talk about the hows and whys of sex all day". She never brought it up after that. LOL.
The rest of you were Anglos I met in Quebec and you all live in Ontario now, lol. Hmmmm. Travelling. I also use that for the obscure people. Where have you been, lol. One of these days I should tell someone IRL that I interact daily with Internet strangers, but I probably won't.
I am dying!
I've finally come up with a good explanation for you people that doesn't make me feel like a jackass when I have to reference this place - you're my "online mom's group".
This seems to be socially acceptable by all my IRL peeps as no one has questioned me. Unless H is around, who usually goes "do you mean THAT NEST place?"
This is exactly what I say if I ever talk about anything from here.
DO NOT say hi to me if you see me in public with my husband. Please. You have no idea the levels of paranoid panic he will reach upon a stranger stopping us in Target to say that they know me from the Internet.
I'm totally going to walk up to you two and exclaim, "OMG! This is perfect! I've been wanting to make a new lampshade forever!"
Or....walk up and say "hey, I'm looking for a house cleaner. Could you make a recommendation???"
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
If anyone sees a cute, bespectacled toddler with curly hair out with a supafly honeydip with impeccable style and an aura of greatness, please say hello!