Mortaine’s Blog

After a VERY preachy week of Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis gives us this?

I am *this close* to taking it off my bookmarks, I swear.

I forgot to mention something from Christmas Eve….

We went out to drop off presents at our friends’ houses. We do this every year, and have done so for the last, oh, 3 years or so.

Some friends whom we don’t often see are Al and Alison. They have a new baby (born April of last year), who requires a lot of extra care (she was very preemie and has an underdeveloped immune system, I guess).

Anyway, we do see them at Christmas because we go by there on Dec. 24 to drop off their presents. This year, they told us that, when 4:30 rolled around and they hadn’t heard from us, they started to worry. They had the baby out (last year she was too young for company and hadn’t left the house much yet, despite being 8 months old), and she was crawling and walking around and poking at stuff and being, well, a twenty-month old baby, I suppose.

But I was touched by the fact they wondered if we were coming. I thought it showed that we’ve now established a holiday tradition with our friends– a tradition that, maybe, they count on, from us. I like that. It makes me feel good and happy about things.

A suggestion from that I’m taking:

Between now and the end of the year, if you want to defriend me, you can do so without any drama on my part. If you want me to defriend you, you can post a comment here and I will do so– again, without any drama.

Now, this is not to say that I typically have any drama or angst over friending/defriending. In fact, there’s been only one person I really wanted to re-friend me cause I kept wanting to comment to her, but never could.

But if you ever worried that dropping would make me feel bad, you can do so right now, before the end of the year, and you can be sure that I won’t feel bad about it; I won’t be upset if you ask me to defriend you, either.

Consider it a winter airing out of your Friends list.