Metal Meredith

Like most neighborhoods in the mid-eastern US, we are suffering from non-stop falling of leaves. It makes the sidewalk hard to find and the driveway difficult to navigate. Thank goodness thing falls under “Things Phil takes care of”.

Tody the Oxford dictionary named it most popular new words of 2009. This year, word #1 is Unfriend. For those of you unfamiliar with Facebook, who you are I can’t begin to imagine, to allow someone access to your profile, you “friend” them. And obviously, to delete them from this privelege, is to “unfriend” them.

I have been known to unfriend in the past. Sometimes, it is because the person stops contributing. Others, I have done it by accident, trying to create different friend categories. But as far as I know, I have yet to do it in order to hurt feelings.

This year, however, it was done to me. I, along with a group of my friends, were abruptly unfriended in virtual terms and then in reality. The former friend still claims that it was nothing personal and she was just doing some Facebook housecleaning. However, it hurt as much as a (non-virtual) friend dropping you with no explanation. I found myself going through the steps of grief, being pissed and sad, thinking about revenge and then coming to terms with the fact that this friendship was just over.

To this day I have a wide range of emotions when I think about it. I guess it is normal considering the friendship outside of Facebook was around 6 years old. I suppose it was all for the better.

With that lengthy story is the realization that “unfriend” is probably the perfect word for 2009. 

I just put a pillow on the middle cushion of the sofa, a kid on either side and said “No one crosses this pillow.”

Super.

Here at home, 3:11pm.