I can’t believe how great the weather’s been. I love the warm days and cool nights…wish it could be like this all the time but I know that snow is right around the corner *sigh*.
Let the lower veggie garden go at the last frost. We’ve definitely harvested and saved as much as we can of the tomatoes, tomatillos and eggplants. Squash, okra and cukes came up a month ago, so we’re down to the peppers, brussels sprouts, beans, black beans, Swiss chard, onions and artichokes. Loving that we still have cherry peppers turning red, as everyone looks forward to them stuffed with prosciutto and provolone at the holidays. We have poblano’s and anaheim’s coming out of our ears but we’ll figure it out…we always do.
I still have herbs to dry and cannas to dig up; maybe next weekend, eh? We finally got the other apartment in our rental occupied and that’s a huge stress reliever. I’m looking forward to doing some inside projects this winter, such as painting and decorating. Jim’s uncle gave us a gorgeous desk that I’m looking forward to updating with some new hardware and a maybe refinishing.
Got to go to our annual Chicago Bears game last weekend and the Bears beat Carolina in a pretty great game. Devin Hester is just an amazing athlete to watch and, aside from the other season-ticket holder jackasses behind us, we had a lot of fun. Chad and Sarah came along and experienced their first Bears game, so that made the day that much more special. Lots of laughs, lots of expensive stadium food made the long day well worth it.
And on to the “other thought’s” segment of this post.
Much unnecessary drama unfolded on Facebook last month. How and when Facebook became the place to air all of your dirty laundry and insecurities is beyond me but that’s what happened. I’m not going to lie – I “friended” someone I shouldn’t have; someone I didn’t even know but was a friend of a friend that had sent me a friend request and I did what I don’t normally do and accepted it.
Suddenly I was privy this very insecure persons’ every thought and action.
It started out with a message: My friend would love it if I called them (my real friend).
My response: My friend knows how to get a hold of me and if they want to call me, they will; my (real) friend and I were in continued communication and I don’t need someone I don’t even know telling me that I need to call my friend. This original message reeked of someone who likes to control things and act like they are privy to the nuances of something that they’re not. Not a great way to make me like you. This already smells like teen spirit and I left high school behind a long time ago.
To make a long, boring story shorter, this person decided that an eventual knock to them on their wall was akin to treason and freaked the hell out. Suddenly every post from them was about how they’d been “attacked” and “assaulted” and each of these posts became a rallying cry for help and assistance and back up. They were a good person, weren’t they? They were a misunderstood artist! (of what type of art is still in question. Unemployment?) They were soulful and deep! They were not *gasp* transparent, were they?
Yes. Clearly and utterly transparent.
I could throw all of this under the rug if, in the midst of this, they didn’t decide to throw my real friend under the bus.
Under a bus filled with friends of both of theirs and some of her family members, including her children.
And it continued to happen, even after I “unfriended” this person…screeching, banshee-like, plaintive wails of how they’d been wronged. Pushing the blame on others – including my friend, on alcohol, on the complete wrongness of the gods of the universe.
Telling notes: when you have over 300 friends on your Fakebook page and only a handful come to your defense…you really don’t have a lot of true friends.
And you don’t come off as any sort of artist, you just come off as someone very insecure about who they are and who is as transparent as the day is long.
Once again, Fakebook strikes and strikes hard. Sad that some people don’t understand the repercussions of the permanency of a simple post.
But today the sun is warm, the earth is warming and the world spins on. High school is far behind me and I’m blessed to know that I do have real friends that respect me.
Much peace to everyone.
well put !! : )