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Nov. 8th, 2009 11:20 pmDH and I were helping a friend of ours get setup on Facebook yesterday. We helped her search her class and find friends to connect with or not. It seemed however, some of her classmates appeared to have turned into dogs (cute ones though) based on their profile pictures!
She showed us her HS yearbook. It was interesting to see the similarities between hers, my DH's which I've seen and mine. She's class of 76, DH is class of 79 and I'm class of 80 - DH and our friend are from Bergen County, NJ and I'm from Nassau County, Long Island (NY) - so we are about the same age and same geographic region. The graphics/layouts back then were trully cut and paste with scissors and glue! And the people seemed to look younger at 18 then they do now.
I kind of like the idea of being able to find old HS and other childhood friends on facebook. Even if you don't want them to be friends in real life, it's nice to see how they turned out and if they look anything like the way they used to. Since I don't have my mom who knew many of my friends to run into them or their parents for news or to share stuff with about them wiith it makes me feel less alone. My DH has shared his HS friends on facebook with me, sometimes I've glanced at them thinking *I* should know them (we've found no common facebook friends from the past, although DH does know someone I went to college with - which when we figured this out a few years ago was amazing - DH's parents parents were friends with my classmates parents as they come from the same county in NJ.)
At least I am unwinding from work stress. I face a stressful week of unresolved problems and broken software (Q/A expects broken things to test, but this is really bad) - at least Wednesday I have off. DH plans to take off and we plan to take a bus to Atlantic City and do everything but gamble much (check the shops, eat a buffet, walk around - maybe a show). But the buses don't seem to be as promoted as they used to be. Maybe they aren't so popular with other options to gamble away $.
Personally, for gambling stuff - I'd either buy a lottery ticket or I'd rather spend 20.00 at a horse track. I like horse racing and am very happy with a tiny bet on a race. When I go I figure 20.00 is my budgeted spending money. If I lose it, I'm fine. If I come back with any of it great - but not trying to earn money or blow money needed on important stuff either.
Better crash soon so I can be awake tommorrow.
She showed us her HS yearbook. It was interesting to see the similarities between hers, my DH's which I've seen and mine. She's class of 76, DH is class of 79 and I'm class of 80 - DH and our friend are from Bergen County, NJ and I'm from Nassau County, Long Island (NY) - so we are about the same age and same geographic region. The graphics/layouts back then were trully cut and paste with scissors and glue! And the people seemed to look younger at 18 then they do now.
I kind of like the idea of being able to find old HS and other childhood friends on facebook. Even if you don't want them to be friends in real life, it's nice to see how they turned out and if they look anything like the way they used to. Since I don't have my mom who knew many of my friends to run into them or their parents for news or to share stuff with about them wiith it makes me feel less alone. My DH has shared his HS friends on facebook with me, sometimes I've glanced at them thinking *I* should know them (we've found no common facebook friends from the past, although DH does know someone I went to college with - which when we figured this out a few years ago was amazing - DH's parents parents were friends with my classmates parents as they come from the same county in NJ.)
At least I am unwinding from work stress. I face a stressful week of unresolved problems and broken software (Q/A expects broken things to test, but this is really bad) - at least Wednesday I have off. DH plans to take off and we plan to take a bus to Atlantic City and do everything but gamble much (check the shops, eat a buffet, walk around - maybe a show). But the buses don't seem to be as promoted as they used to be. Maybe they aren't so popular with other options to gamble away $.
Personally, for gambling stuff - I'd either buy a lottery ticket or I'd rather spend 20.00 at a horse track. I like horse racing and am very happy with a tiny bet on a race. When I go I figure 20.00 is my budgeted spending money. If I lose it, I'm fine. If I come back with any of it great - but not trying to earn money or blow money needed on important stuff either.
Better crash soon so I can be awake tommorrow.
