Sorry to get all serious and stuff…but may I offer some hidey advice?
I get the impression that you use this forum not just to share the fun you have in life with a bunch of strangers…but also to have a little hiding spot from your family. It’s a little hidey-hole for yourself, a place where you can write your private little heart out, and maybe write the kind of stuff that you can’t quite bring yourself to say out loud to them.
But , dammit Beck, there’s love in them-there words you spill. The kind of love that should be read not just by strangers on the internet.
One day maybe a couple decades from now, you won’t be around-- but the littlest wrecker and the rest of your family sure will be—and probably with a bunch of little grand-wreckers, too.
And there’s a great gift you can leave for them: a short note, “hidden” somewhere where they will eventually find it–containing a link to this site, with a simple statement that you posted here and called yourself Beckdawrek.
Let 'em get curious and check out this site… and start reading all 'bout you.
Better that my peeps find my words HERE than what I’ve got written elsewhere on the Internet!
I still cannot find a way to tell my family what I’ve been DOING.
(No naked picture, I promise. Just stuff I’ve written. And people LIKE it. But my imagination conjures up all kinds of disapproval, when all they’ll probably do is a shoulder shrug and maybe a snort of laughter…)
~VOW
I dunno. I get what you’re saying, chappachula and I agree there’s a lot of love there, but I’m sure Beck tells her family how much she loves them in other ways. It seems to me that knowing they would one day be reading her posts would change how she posts.
Haven’t you ever had friends you confided in about your SO or kids? Would you want that person telling your loved ones, “I remember when ____ said Bob had the stinkiest gas in the world.” Everyone looks at the blushing and humiliated Bob or “I let Joyce go on thinking everyone loves her macaroni salad when we all secretly throw it out.” Joyce stomps off.
Her family might also come up with their own painful (and inaccurate) interpretations of some of her more cryptic posts.
She could start a journal of loving little accounts for her family if she wants. That’d be a sweet thing to do.
I’ve got an online Journal for that. It includes a lot of family stories I’d like my kids, grandkids, etc etc to read someday.
Beck’s read my Journal. She likes it.
Actually, the stuff I write here on SD is fit for general readership. How I write here is what I’m like in everyday life. I’m rude, outspokem, down-to-earth, general know-it-all, and quite funny.
I do use a Samsung phone. Oh god.
I don’t keep anything nasty on it. Wait, wait…I don’t do nasty things!! (how dare you;))
I do have secrets. Sometimes a girl must. You know?
The lil’wrekker knows where all my journals are kept. It’s not easy to talk to her about these things. She thinks I’m being morbid when I do.
They know how I feel about them. I’m a lover/hugger. I just 'gross’ them out to no end.
And DIL found out about the Dope during one of my drug addled procedures. She checked it out. And approves, I must say we have her fooled:D
Y’all just tell them two I know their secret. They better pay attention, those names weren’t given, they were told and not ALL cats are reincarnated Royalty like they are. I had one who was a highly opinionated secret agent “spec-for” type, not drip nor drop nor dribble of nobility in his veins. He was also uncouth and a liar.
The reason it takes such a long time to translate Cat into .Human is because most of what cats acream is Swearing. Vicious, ugly, filthy, offensive swearing!
~VOW
