Friends

I talked to Gulley today and she told me that my post about Nena has the whole town buzzing with excitement. Well, maybe not the whole town, but you know…their family and friends which is pretty close to being the whole town. Apparently her mom is there visiting right now and she told Nena and the family that I wrote about Nena on “the computer”.

Nena said “you mean to tell me she wrote about me on her computer? Oh, my goodness what did she say? A blog? I never heard of such. A blog!” Next thing you know she’s on the phone with her friends telling them that I wrote about her on “my computer” and people “we don’t even know” read what I write. Yes they do, and all eight of them now know about Nena.

So Nena wanted to read what I wrote and since she doesn’t have a computer, they called Mary Jo. Now Mary Jo is the computer savvy one of the bunch seeing as how she’s the only one who owns a computer, so they were going to see if “Mary Jo cain’t figure out how to print something off the computer.”

Gulley hasn’t gotten a report back on whether or not they were able to “print something off the computer” yet, but I promise you that I will be getting a thank you note from Nena in the next few days.

All of this happened today and I just noticed a few minutes ago that Boomama has linked to my post about Nena on her Thursday Thirteen. Nena’s famous! She’ll be so tickled. Thank you Boomama!

In other Nena news, apparently the Bryan news has this special contest at noon everyday where they’ll call someone who sent in a card and they win a gift certificate to CJ’s Barbecue. Grandaddy has sent in multiple cards and if you call the house between 12-1:00p.m. and you’re not the news…he’ll just hang up on you. This has caused Nena an immeasurable amount of grief already and now that she’s got big news to share about her computer fame…she may be spelling a few cuss words to Grandaddy.

I’m editing this to add that I just got off the phone with Gulley to tell her about Boomama linking to Nena’s post and I got the update. Apparently, Mary Jo couldn’t get “the blog to print off the computer” so Nena’s friend Dorothy Kay came and picked them all up and drove them to her house to read it off of her computer. Nena was indeed tickled and they decided they were all having so much fun that they loaded back up in the car and went to see The Devil Wears Prada.

I have a group of girlfriends that get together once a month for Birthday Club. We started it a year ago when went out for Gulley’s birthday and decided a night of laughs and margaritas is something all of us mom’s need everyday but we’ll settle for once a month. Our husbands love to ask how we have a birthday to celebrate every month even though there are only six girls. I’m not sure why putting a child to bed ONE night in every month is so difficult, but apparently it stresses them out.

Anyway, we went out last night and though there were only 4 of us there, we had a great time. We always start off with the usual chitchat but as the margaritas start to flow we get down to the real stuff. All of us are struggling with our own things, but it’s nice to be able to talk about without feeling judged or like you’re crazy. I think women do each other a great injustice when they get so busy playing the superior mother/wife/employee etc. that they forget to share how life sucking all of it can be. Perfection is a great goal, but we’ll drive ourselves crazy because it’s also impossible.

It makes me feel better to know I’m not the only one who feels like I’m about to lose it after having a 2 1/2 year old and 3 dogs needing my attention all day. I have a tendency to get “peopled out” and I thrive on silent downtime, which is something I don’t get very often. By the time I left to go out last night, I was yelling at the dogs “to please just leave me alone”. It was confirmation that once a month I need my birthday club to regain my sanity.