E-pistolary

This site is a continuation of my online novel-in-email, xo bri xoxo me xoxoxo love you christy. Call it a soap opera in email.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Maura's birthday

From: Christine Kelly-Morone (christyswims@yahoo.com)
To: Margo (ledoux67@aol.com)
Date: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: Maura's birthday


Hi Margo, feeling a little sad and lonely today, miss Maura and wish she was here so we could have cake (and then go out for a beer or have a glass of wine) to celebrate together. She is such a great young woman, I am so proud of her, I feel sad for her lately because she is alone, I get the feeling she really loved Todd and just couldn't find a way to make it work. Don't think she really wanted to break up with him. But like leaving the restaurant she had to do it to move forward in another way.

I sent her a card and put money in it so she could go out, I know she had friends up there, I hope she doesn't feel funny that I sent her money. Just love her and wanted to buy her a drink or dinner (she'll be able to buy more than that though, maybe she'll go get some chemicals for her darkroom).

Maggie misses her and last week made her a card at preschool and we sent that too, hope she gets them today. Nothing worse than not getting cards on your birthday, esp when you're far away from home.

I have the feeling she misses it "down here," I would love for her to move back but don't want to tell her that, I'm afraid she MIGHT instead of doing what she wants and needs to do which is trying to establish her own identity in a place of her choosing, not a "home" that her mom picked for HER reasons. (one of those reasons of course BEING Maura way back when)

ANyway that is what I'm thinking and feeling today and what is between the lines of all those things I put on facebook today, just didn't want to post them on a public message board. I mean you see all of the "friends" Maura has? They can read everything we post and I don't want that, I don't know who these people are. I don't think SHE does either, people who like her butt, probably.

Don't tell her this but I'm glad she changed that photo.

She said she got a friend request from someone that said "Are you into porn?" And I said "And???" "I didn't answer it." "Well did you DELETE it?" "Not yet." So who knows what she's thinking?

All I know is I love her and I miss her and feel sad that I can't give her a birthday hug today.

But as Kathy asked me and she's right, "it feels different from all those years you were having trouble with her, doesn't it?" Yeah, so that's nice.

Funny though how I can go online and have this casual contact with people through email facebook etc etc, and I express things I'm feeling, but then when I turn the computer off I'm just as alone, missing them, as I was before. Maybe that's why people turn the computer on and leave it on and check it constantly.

Dryer just buzzed. Yes, I'm doing laundry. Do you want me to wash your snuggie, lol

Talk soon and hope you have a good work week. I miss you too, always makes me happy to see a little comment or message from you on facebook (and of course to talk to you, I'm glad we still are so close, I love you Margo)

Talk later! xoxoxoxo love you christy

Re: Internet

From: Christine Kelly-Morone (christyswims@yahoo.com)
To: Margo Pressley (ledoux67@aol.com), Rita LeDoux (ritaritasenorita@yahoo.com), Brian Pressley (brianpressley14@aol.com)
Date: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Internet

I waste too much time on here, particularly on facebook, I got so into the habit of having the computer on constantly when I was working at the Y. I'm not as bad as I used to be now that I have Maggie, I spend my mornings usually doing other things while she's at school and in the afternoons we do things together, but a lot of mornings (like today) when I'm feeling a little blue (missing Maura, today's her birthday) I turn it on out of boredom for companionship, just clicking around, and next thing I know the morning's gone and Maggie's home.

Fortunately that doesn't happen too often.

As we've talked about my sisters (Mary and Betsy) are online ALL THE TIME. Like I said, they have it on at work and then come home and turn it on, keep it on all night until they go to bed and are checking it constantly, even when they're on the phone. I call them and I can hear the keys and the mouse clicking in the background. Plus they just get that creepy preoccupied detached tone to their voice like they're hearing you but not really listening, their mind is somewhere else, in cyberspace, except like Kath said once, they're not really paying full attention to THAT either. It's like they don't want to be ANYWHERE.

I just signed on this morning to wish my daughter a happy birthday and now an hour later all I've done is post stupid comments on facebook pages, lol. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, it's fun. But I don't see how people spend all that time in front of it either, no.

Anyway. Go Steelers, lol. You think it will be a turnpike super bowl? See if it is, they should have the game in Happy Valley, not California or whereever it's going to be. Stevie and I were talking and he said he thinks that they shouldn't announce the location of the game until the two final teams have been determined, then they should put it at a neutral site that is close to being midway between the two places. Something else for our new president to straighten out, lol.

Talk soon all! Or see you online, I have it on all day, lol. xoxoxoxo love you christy

Internet

From: brianpressley14@aol.com
To: Ledoux67@aol.com, ritaritasenorita@yahoo.com, christyswims@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Internet

No, I just don't get it. I hate to sound like the luddite I used to profess to be, but I just don't get it. I just can't sit at the computer like this, clicking and surfing. I was on Facebook this morning looking at "groups" and "pages" for solar, wind power, electric cars, tree farms, music etc, all of the things I'm interested in, and THAT lasted about ten minutes.

Because... I would rather be out DOING those things than sitting at a computer reading about them or writing comments about them.

I dunno. It's just a big bore to me.

About the only thing I like about it is that I can complain easily to you all about it, haha.

Talk later! xoxoxo bri