Little Women… February 20, 2007

Compliments of Sarah Perkins!!! I love ya Perky, and thank you for being my hero and for making me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW- I nominated Sarah for Hero of the Month about a week ago, you can vote on my site. Thank you!!!!!

Post by Sarah, Photo by Melanie….

In “Little Women” [at least in the movie], the tutor John Brooke informed: “Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed.”

I offer you, my faithful post readers, a glimpse tonight beyond that veil. What kinds of conversations would YOU think take place between 3 girls on an average Tuesday. The featured females are SARAH [who should be writing], MELANIE [who should be studying], ME [who should be getting better], and AMY [who has learned not to put things up her nose]. Enjoy…. [hee hee]

You, my guest, now enter into a normal, every day IM conversation between Sarah and Mel:

Melanie: …Random info…Talking to Amy…apparently they had some kind of shrimp for dinner…nothing major….but anyway…got my mom on the topic of Red Lobster…

Sarah: Yeah?

Melanie: And so Amy said that she remembers once when we went she was little and stuck the straw up her nose and then she breathed.

Sarah: LOL!

Melanie: BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!! I remember that…it was SO FUNNY!!!

Sarah: She sucked up her COKE!!!!!!!!!!!

Melanie: Dr. Pepper, actually.

Sarah: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In her little nostrils!?

Melanie: yup!!!

Sarah: Bless her heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! explains a lot huh?

Melanie: LOL!!! hee hee…

Sarah: THAT’s how the AIR got up THERE!

Melanie: ROFL! I GUESS SO!!

Sarah: It’s OK When I was teeny…..My Uncle Billy tossed me up right into a door frame (or something similar) and I have never been able to sit still for long since.

Melanie: ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how funny!!!

Sarah: And once when Cat was little,she had a pillow up her nightgown…..and dad would punch her in the pillow….She would fall over and laugh…..But once, when he swung…..She sat. :-O

Melanie: oh no!!!!!!!!!right in the NOSE????

Sarah: Somewhere in the face..Poor dear. AND SHE has liked chocolate ever since.

Melanie: oh my word. that’s tragic.

Sarah: AND ONCE……When cat and I were younger, we were in a tree eating little plums….Her above…..me a little lower…..She spit out her pit……And it stuck…..

Melanie: in your HAIR!!!!!!

Sarah: Between my eye and my glasses lens.

Melanie: ACK!!! SCREAM!!!! LAUGHING! that’s soooooooooo funny!!!

Sarah: I am cracking UP!!!! *breathe* AND I….have never much cared for squid since.

Melanie: * LaUGHING!!! * oh my SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah: And now you know.

Melanie: man…that’s incredible.

Sarah: Yes……SO tell Amy we understand. *insert look of compassion*

Melanie: oK!

Sarah: AND ONCE……When my parents were younger and Cat was teeny…….The guys from dad’s work trapped him in a porto-potty….Loaded it onto a truck….

Melanie: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah: And brought him home to mom.

Melanie: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!

Sarah: And he STILL doesn’t sing in the shower!!!

Melanie: oh man….ROFL!! I told Amy and she said…”Tell her thanks for understanding”

Sarah: Anytime. sigh Some of us just suffer…

SO THEN…Melanie e-mailed me….And this is my saga….

“…That was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like beyond HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, I can SO relate because when I was little my Grandma had this BIG jar of pennies and I would dump it out and count them and ever since then I haven’t liked chicken…….no joke. I’m dead serious!!!!!!!!!!!! It all makes sense now huh?? Yeah, I thought so too….”

SO THEN…Melanie replyed to me. And THIS is Melanie’s saga….

“…YAY!!! I’m so glad it made you laugh!!! I’m sorry about the pennies and the chicken. You know, I always KNEW there had to be something behind that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Course, I can understand too, cause once when I was little, I was going down the hill on my bike, and a car was coming, and I couldn’t stop…so I kept going straight, and got to the other side before the car reached me, but at the other side there was this CURB…so I flipped, and scared the poor man who was driving. And ever since then, I wear a helmet and walk into poles.”

And Sarah was there when Mel walked into that pole while wearing her helmet. So she can verify the accuracy of her account!!!!! You should have her tell you that story………it’s HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then later, I made another discovery about myself:

“Once, when we were on vacation in Arkansas, my brothers and I went on hike without Mom and Dad and we found bear tracks in the woods and ever since that moment I’ve had a thing for sunflower seeds, shelled, no salt. Bear tracks do the weirdest things to kids………….shaking head………..”

Don’t things make more sense now, my friends???? And now I ask, have you learned anything from this little glimpse beyond the veil??? Have you discovered anything about yourself? We’d love to hear about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please tell us, “Your Story”.

And now, the Little Women of our story when they were, well, Little Women……….*smile*