Behold the power of the cookie.

Anyway, I wanted a little snack.  We went down the cookie aisle and I found these:

On a whim, I picked up a package–it was only $2.00, so if they were bad, it wouldn’t be a huge waste.  Besides, I could give them to the baby and she would probably eat them.  I was hoping they would taste like the Girl Scout thin mints.

I opened the package.  This is what they looked like.  Ignore the ring on the counter and focus on the cookie.  Kind of promising….

I took a bite to taste.  They look just like the inside of a thin mint…

And now that I’ve eaten one, I must stop eating the entire box.  They taste really close to the thin mints, and they’re cheaper.  Seriously, if you have these at your Wal-mart, you need to try them–especially if you are addicted to the Girl Scout Thin Mints.  I would have to say that this generic is just as good as the brand name.

Oh the deliciousness.  And with a glass of milk.  And more cookies.  And more cookies.  And more…

I thought it was a great analysis. We are adults now, we have to stay out of the childish arguing and stuff like that and rise above it–because we are better than that.

Anyway, that isn’t exactly what this post is about. This post is about facebook.

For a long time my 2 children and husband told me I needed to be on facebook. It was fun and you could talk to people you had lost touch with. I resisted. But I finally gave in and signed up for an account. I had fun looking for people I knew and looking at their photos and catching up. For awhile, I was on a LOT. But the novelty wore off and I check it once a day now. (Ok, maybe a couple times, but nowhere near as much as I did when I was first on.)

My problem is that facebook can be a good way to keep in touch with people, but it can also be a route to reliving the worst of your Junior High Years.

I thought it would be interesting to find out what people are doing and say hello. Whenever someone added me as a friend, I would go to their page and say hello and how nice it was to see them. (Even if it wasn’t, I’m not going to be a jerk about it.) My friends were added slowly and I only added people if I wanted to be their friend, not just to have a huge list of people I knew. So I write on people’s pages and on certain pages, I get NOTHING. Not a hello. Not a “how ya doin’?” Not even, “I’m busy now, so I’ll have to get with you later.” And I’m thinking, well, I’ll give it a couple of weeks, since not everyone is on here every day like I am.

Weeks go by. Nothing. I’m seriously feeling rejected–but not too bad–just a little. I hear nothing. There are some people who have NEVER said anything to me. And on my page it says, “Julianne and Snotty Susie are now friends”. It sits and mocks me.

I don’t get it. Am I not cool enough? Is my profile picture ugly? Are my status updates boring or worse, too religious? So after I think about this it just makes me mad. I have one “friend” that added me–(I didn’t add them.) who I said hello to and asked what was going on with them. I hear nothing, but see that this “friend” has written to a couple of my other “friends” and hasn’t said anything to me. And its not like I’m sitting by the computer waiting for my friend to talk to me. Weeks have gone by and I’ve given them plenty of time to respond and they don’t. This is someone I haven’t seen in years who I considered to be a friend. And it is more than just one person. There are probably 20 people who haven’t said a word to me.

I’m really not bitter. Just kind of irritated and the phrase “living in junior high school” came to mind. Do I really want to waste my time with people that won’t talk to me on facebook? I decided that no, I don’t want to waste any time or energy. So now, I have a couple of people on facebook I truly have reconnected with and had a great time emailing back and forth and I have some friends that comment occasionally, but are still in my life.

Then I have those stupid people I used to know that apparently just want a higher number of “friends”. I just ignore them. It isn’t exactly that it bothers me, it more irritates me that people haven’t grown up in the 10-20 years that I haven’t seen them. I feel like face book can sometimes be a big class in Junior High.

But I have moved beyond them. I have better things to do than worry about someone “talking” to me over facebook. And as I say that, inside, I am sticking my tongue out at all of them.

Maybe I have to move beyond elementary school…

1.  You will always need the diaper bag at this age.  The minute you do not have the diaper bag, is the moment the baby messes herself up her back and out the sides.  

2.  Do not take a baby, no matter how sweet they are, into a cave tour that lasts 90 minutes.  You can’t get out once  you get started because it is dark down there and the turn the lights out behind you.  Suck it up and stay behind.

3.  A nap is never as long as it should be.

4.  Losing weight at 40 is harder than it was at 30.

5.  People that tell you, “Call me to babysit!” don’t really mean it unless you are my friend Theresa.  Everyone else means they think the baby is cute, but for the love of God, please don’t call me, even as a last resort!

6.  The gray hair just keeps on getting worse–don’t expect it to get better.

7.  Going back is never as good as you thought it would be, in fact, it is quite a disappointment.

8.  Nobody I know will ever look good in spandex pants.  Really, even if you ARE going to work out, just put on the sweats.

9.  I hated high school when I was in it, and I never want to revisit that chapter in my life again.

10.  Your own kids are the cutest, even if they are ugly to everyone else, they are beautiful to you.  

11.  Don’t compare yourself to anyone else.  If you were supposed to be someone else, your name would be different and you would have a different life.  God made you just the way you are and you are his treasure.

12.  It’s ok to cry about losing a pet.  Losing a pet may be quite uneventful for some people, but I still cry when I think about our cat Slippers.  

13.  All that icing on that piece of cake will make you feel sick to your stomach, so don’t even attempt it.  Throw the rest out.

14.  You never know as much as you think you know.  And you always know more than you think you do.

15.  After eating  your fries and burger, the perfect drink is an ice cold coca-cola.  

16.  Being honest is no longer a virtue in this world.  Sadly.

17.  There are two sides to every issue and both think they are right.  The usually are both right in their own mind.  

18.  Texting is NOT a form of communication.

19.  Don’t use email to write out your thoughts to someone.  Use email for informational purposes only.  The words you type cannot be misconstrued this way.

20.  Most people talk behind your back.  Some people even stab you in the back.  Don’t do the same to them.

21.  As appealing as it may seem, the grass is never greener on the other side.  It is usually full of weeds.

22.  Babies really do like Baby Einstein.

23.  Don’t think you have it all figured out.  You don’t.  In fact, I still have a lot more to learn, so maybe I’ll share that insight when I learn it.  :)