Welcome Back To The Cocktail Party!

Welcome back to Willoughby's Blog Style Cocktail Party. I hope you will find some new blogs to follow and expand your circle of blog friends. I know you're all anxious to mingle, so I'll get right to it.

I'd like to introduce Liz in Virginia from the blog 21st Century Housewife. I know you'll enjoy her blog as much as I do.

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GLAD YOU
ASKED!

Liz in
Virginia


Mom of three, wife of
one, lover of books,
making it up as I go
along -- and not afraid to
tell you what I think.

Deal or Steal?

This is a a little self-portrait I dashed off right after I opened our first "texting-activated" wireless phone bill. We had this cool plan where the first fifteen texts per month are free! After that, each text you send or receive only costs fifteen cents! Doesn't that sound great?! Guess how many texts my son sent or received in that first month? The grand total was 1762. Texts. In a month.

Here is a typical text "conversation" from those early days:[Do I know this because I took his phone and read his messages? Yes!]

Her: What's that girl's name in that song?

Him: Delilah

Her: I love that song

Him: U R a dork.

Her: No U R

Him: no U R

Her: UR cuz you are lame.

Him: I am not lame b/c I am awesome.

Her: No you're not.

Him: Yep

Her: Gotta go

Him: Bye

Her: Bye

Him: Dork

Her: Dork

So here's my analysis of this interaction:

1. I think this counts as some sort of flirtatious courtship ritual, but I'm not sure.
2. I love that Delilah song, too.
3. They are both dorks.

This exchange used up our "fifteen free texts" for the month. After this he could have sent her the complete lyrics to that Delilah song, and as long as they were contained in one text, that text would cost fifteen cents. Bargain! Or he could keep it simple: "Dork!" Fifteen cents, please. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . . ." Fifteen cents. "No, U R . . . ." Fifteen cents.

So now we have Free Unlimited Family Texting, which has really changed our lives and which is not actually free, but whatever. Here is a more recent self-portrait:

I call it "Self-Portrait with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome."

Image credits: Edvard Munch: "The Scream," 1893, The National Gallery, Oslo

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Portrait in Yellow (Annie Miller)," 1863, The Tate Gallery, London

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Thank you Liz for being a guest on my blog.

The cocktail party will continue on Sunday with a new guest blogger. It's not too late to RSVP if you haven't already. You can send your submission to me at thisstopwilloughby@yahoo.com. I would appreciate it if you could send me your post in html format. If you are submitting a new post, create it on Blogger as you would any post. Save, but don't publish it. From there you can click "edit html" and copy and paste your blog into the body of an email. If you are submitting a previously published post, go into "edit" and follow the same instructions. This makes it much easier for me to display your blog post the way you have written it. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.