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[li]Just like a guy. Bright lights, entertainment and boobs and they are all happy–to Hallgirl2 about taking the Newbaby to a Christmas concert and him nursing during it.[/li][li]You ask this every year…yes, I remember it. so does your sister who als asks about it every year.–To Hallgirl2 about the Living Christmas Tree in Tulsa.[/li][li]Sounds good. You are on!–to Hallgirl1, who proposed she’s pay to go tubing if I found a place to do it this winter.[/li][li]I know how he feels. I hate coats too.–to Hallgirl2 about Newbaby’s hate for coats.[/li][li]I know how he feels. I feel the same way. Have boats.–No clue what this meant when I sent it to Hallgirl2.[/li][/ul]
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“Dire snow conditions in BTR have caused a three kitty pileup in bed” (with photo attached to my Twitter account).
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“Scrappy and Newt touching.” (with photo attached to my husband - these are our two cats that despise each other. Snowy conditions and cold led them to snuggle on the bed with heated mattress pad prior to the full three kitty pileup above.)
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to husband, yesterday: “State offices officially closed. Glad I stayed home. Kitties doggie and I snuggled listening to globs of snow falling out of trees onto roof.” (Um, yeah… we had significant snowfall in Baton Rouge yesterday for the first time in decades.)
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To husband on 12/10, around 9:15am: “Happy anniversary? It snuck up on me.” (We had both forgotten our anniversary.)
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To husband, on 12/9. “My hero!” (He had found the accessories for the laptop computer he won at his company’s xmas party last Friday.)
I send maybe a couple text messages/month , so I wouldn’t even remember the context. Here are the last messages :
- What?
2)Congratulations!
- I couldn’t care less if she sells (this one I remember : it refers to my landlord threatening to sell my apartment)
4)XXXXXXXX (my phone number)
5)Next time…
- Good night
7)Good night. Kisses
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Yes
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Eaten
10)Kisses
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No
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Me too
13)Have a good trip
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Doesn’t matter
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Text message
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OK
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You’re right. You’re always and the head way too filled (
Doesn’t make sense in the original French either) -
Thanks
19)Thanks
- Well, listen : if you need to, call me
As you can see, not only I don’t send much messages, but I tend to keep them short.
- Consider yourself booped. Signed, The Boopist
- Hey, I got it, but thanks for being my backup, anyway.
- Nada, gracias. Will e-mail you, later.
- Oh, booooo! I totally believed you!
- It’s snowing like crazy, here. Hope you remembered your coveralls!
In sequence during a cab ride in Chicago, all to the same friend:
[ol]
[li]On my way 2 airport - cabbie suicidal. Also murmuring into headset nonstop [/li]
[li]If i dont make it u can have my snax[/li]
[li]Baby ruths. Just stopped @ offramp + some dude was hawking packs of socks. Wtf[/li][/ol]
Oh shit… “SENT” messages… I did it all wrong upthread.
No sent messages since I bought this new phone about a month ago. Nothing to share. Damn.
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Did you go straight home? - Asking my wife if she was at home yet from when she met me at the gas station. We met up so she could bring me the two kids I was taking to the theatre to work on our next show and so we could take maximum advantage of our gas discount we earned at the grocery store. $1.10 off per gallon. We ended up paying $0.46[sup]9[/sup] per gallon to fill up the truck, van, and our 5-gallon gas can we use for lawn equipment and if we’ve been too busy to get by the gas station in a while.
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Did you get recycle bags? - The previous message. I had been asking her to stop by the rec center and pick up the city-distributed recycle bags because we had run out last week. If she hadn’t already been home I would have asked her to swing by and pick them up. Instead I did.
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Heh - In response to a friend of mine who was watching her boyfriend’s kids recital and having to sit through all the other recitals before they got to his. It’s easier to put up with a eleven year old’s guitar recital when it’s your kid. Somehow the other thirty new guitarists tend to get old fast.
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Can you have someone open the gate, please? - My standard message(saved in a favorites) when I’m approaching the house and want someone to open the gate so I can pull into the back yard. We’re practicing keeping the gate shut at all times because we’re planning on getting a puppy soon and want to make sure the habit of proper gate maintenance is ingrained.
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Fuego! - It was sleeting and approaching freezing, so I texted the Spanish word for fire to let the family know I thought we should get some logs off the woodpile and have a nice fire that night. We’ve been doing this a lot recently and spending family time reading in a half-circle around the fireplace.
Pretty mundane stuff overall. Most of my messages are like that. Logistics for a large family can be easier to coordinate through texting than phone calls cause you can send them to multiple people at a time and multi-task easier.
Enjoy,
Steven
I sent one to a friend who could barely move due to a stiff neck:
use hot water or heat pk dont take tylenol use aleve & do tiny movements
This leads me to inquire:
How many of you guys who text use T9 phones or QWERTY phones?
Hard or soft keyboards?
I ask since I have a QWERTY phone and typically use complete sentences and good grammar/spelling in my messages, except for a few common contractions such as ‘kbd’ or ‘wknd’, for example.
The last message was me warning my guest to check the weather before she headed out driving since she doesn’t know the area and Puget Sound’s for lots of wind if not snow.
I just have a “regular” phone on which I press 2 once for A, twice for B, etc. It does have some sort(s) of predictive text thingies you can turn on, but I’d like them to get off my lawn.
I still mostly use real grammar and even punctuation, with a couple of exceptions sometimes, but not consistently. (“u”, “b4”) If I’m in too much of a hurry for grammar, I’d rather send a voice message. A girl’s got to have standards. (But I think I’ll get a QWERTY phone next time.)
We only just got here. See you later. In response to someone we were meeting held up by the same bad weather/traffic as we had been last night.
Well done grandma. To a friend whose bombay cat had 4 kittens.
Perfect To a friend inviting herself around to my place.
5.30 at the club In response to the response to the next one.
Dinner? In response to “What are you doing after work?”
Cool - In response to my friend, Amy, saying she was on the way to the pub.
Nope, I’m good. See you about 6:30 - In response to Amy asking if I needed her to pick anything up for me at the yarn shop.
Really enjoyed lunch with you today. Maybe next time we won’t be interrupted by beggars. 
- To my friend Joe, after a lunch in which we were asked for money by a vagrant.
Just exactly what she said, in response to what kind of phone and grammar usage.
-I’m already in my PJs. Thanks for the invite. Maybe next week if you go. Tell Joe I said Hello.
-It’d be safer to sleep first
-You should sleep before you drive.
-Maybe. I’m exhausted though. Can I take a raincheck?
-Hitting the road home? or to CA?
-No problem
-Ok. Let me know if you want me to start coffee.
-Are you coming down? I have pie.
-Big Fat Dennis, Curly, Mark, Paul and 2 strangers.
-Anita is back in full force.
-It’s called a kindle. I don’t think they’re sold in stores, but you can buy them at Amazon.
-(myemailaddress)
-Thanks. you didn’t need to get up. Beau wants to read them when you’re done.
-Sure, no problem.
-What’s the title of that book I lent you?
-I’m good. How are you? They’re not fighting, but they’re not drunk yet either.
-Yes. Yes and yes.
-Eventually I’m going to have to be the bitch and boot him. what a loser.
-Screaming is fun. I will take it up as a hobby soon.
-No just black tea. And generic at that. It’s pretty good though, want some?
-How many ounces in a quart?
-Ok. Good plan.
Thats the last 36 hours or so.
I use T9, but I think I should probably upgrade.
I have a full QWERTY board, so my texts tend to be long. Last 5, from newest to oldest (and, to show how rarely I text, most of these are from around Thanksgiving):
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It’s ok on the email, I’ll probably get a chance to reply to it on Tue. And now you know how much driving Jessie gets to do on weekends
– To my friend Melody, who had just apologized for sending me a long e-mail and was complaining about how long the drive was from Indianapolis to visit her b/f on base in St. Louis. -
Yeah; work was horrifying, but once i got out, it was great. Slept a lot, ate a lot, finally started my internship applications, etc. Shame i have to work tonight – Also to Melody, who’d asked how Thanksgiving had gone.
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Let me pop some ibuprofen and start showering/shaving/etc. while you guys shudder put up the tree, you can text me when done or vice versa – to one of the many Heathers in my phone, regarding a game/movie night at her place
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The man dragging the bag is at the bridge just north of Beech Grove, still at it. – to Heather, regarding a creepy man I’d seen earlier on the way to her place, who was dragging a large bag the size of a human body.
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Probably the crying lady – Heather had replied to #4 above that “maybe he has a new victim,” and “the crying lady” was another person I’d seen earlier on the way to her place. A lady was in the middle of the road near a strip club, walking and crying, with a policeman nearby.
I really liked their first CD but the latest one is a bit ho-hum.
Last one I received was some sort of spam - months, if not years ago.
I don’t know if I’ve ever sent one. Then again, my phone lives in my car and gets used rarely. People can reach me on my land line if they need me.
In chronological order:
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Joda, R kommer. Beklager at jeg glemte å svare! (Norwegian: Oh yes, totnak will be coming. Sorry that I forgot to reply1 Our younger son had been invited to a birthday party for a classmate and I forgot to RSVP. Answer to a text message from the dad hosting the party.)
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The guy who sells the red wine salami is here again. Should I pick up a log for you? (To my husband, while I was waiting for our elder son to do his Christmas shopping. One of the stalls that shows up only around Christmas time sells some darn tasty salamis. He said no thanks.)
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Ouch. (Elder son had texted me to say there were 22 people in front of him in line at the record store.)
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Are you finished, or do you have more stores to go to? (Sent to elder son again, this time when he said he made it out of the record store alive.)
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Ok. I’m going to Deli de. (Two minutes later, when he told me he still had at least one more store to go to. I figured I might as well find a snack and a place to sit, right?)
Mine are pretty boring…
My last 5 sent from oldest to most recent:
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Sorry! I just saw this message. I’m at PriMed with one of our sick students. (One of our TDY students got a stomach virus.)
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What ever made me think that inviting my uncle was a good idea? (My uncle is odd, lonely and stress-inducing!)
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Bal (texting bank to get account balances)
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Are you asking me to come get her? (My ex came in town to see my daughter. They were staying in a hotel. She got upet and wanted to come home so he texted me that she was upset and crying.)
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If you call please wait until after 2030. (My daughter goes to bed at 8 so I knew she’d be asleep by then, so I could talk undisturbed.)
I really need to get a life!!
QWERTY - on a touch screen phone (Samsung Instinct) - before that it was T9 on my last phone.
My last 5 incoming text messages -
You coming to Stir?
hey did you send that picture from last night to flickr?
hey did you get that email from jeff about moylans on friday?
I’m thinking Moylan’s around 2ish.
Are u at rrbc?
Wow, so out of my last 10 messages, 5 in and 5 out, 8 are about a bar/pub/lounge, and 2 are about food.
Nice.