The Boy Can’t Help It
Luke and I had the most hilarious conversation yesterday and it involved you girls – yes, you whom he lovingly refers to as my Imaginary Friends.
Apparently he hasn’t read my blog in a few days so he decided to catch up. After a few minutes he turned around to me and said,
“I absolutely can’t believe you blogged about your toe. And more than that, I can’t believe anyone even cared! I can just see me, a guy, telling the world about my hurt toe and some other dude actually replying (in an effeminate voice), “Oh, I’m so, so sorry about your toe…I hope it gets better…”
Oh, the boy just doesn’t get it. Does yours?
That’s the beauty of blogging. It’s girl talk on steroids. You know, my toe pain consumed the better part of my whole week. Affected how I walked, how I whined talked, how I moved through this world. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a sharable moment. And whether you really cared how much it hurt, I don’t know. But you were sweet enough to act like you did and for that I am forever grateful. BTW – It’s all better.
As for now, I’m washing piles of laundry in hot preparation for leaving on vacation Sunday afternoon. We are still in a ball tournament an hour plus away. My other boy is having a ball party Thursday on the same night as our Church Girls’ Group so there will be some creative attendance going on there. BUT the good news is that my editor no longer wants my book manuscript early which means I am back on schedule – further proof that there is a God in heaven and He loves me very much.
Hope you girls are enjoying these last few weeks of summer and that it’s been full of great times with your family. See ya in a bit!
My husband doesn’t understand the blogging thing either. By the way, isn’t it great you will get to do all that laundry again after you get home from vacation.
Hello…visiting from Lysa TerKeurst’s blog today…
your comment about Dumb and Dumber made me come check out your blog…
Preachers wife…Dumb and Dumber movie and not wanting to mention it in church…
I LOVE your sense of humor!
Priceless :) Blogging is a wonderful thing.
Happy Vacation (and laundering)!
Lisa,
Well I was concerned about your toe! :) In fact, I feel like I have missed you so much since I finished “I Am”.
Blessings
Michelle
My guy doesn’t get it either.
Sharing about your toe was a perfectly normal girl-thing. Something else we do is, when in public places, we go to the restroom in pairs/groups, right? Most guys don’t get that one either.
Enjoy your laundry room and have a blessed day!
Sherry
You can do laundry on TUESDAY before going on vacation on SUNDAY? Wow. I’m impressed.
Tell Mr. Luke we are even greater friends since you have not even seen us. He should know get that since he’s a Preacher Man. “Blessed are they who have not seen and yet believe.”
And I toetally felt your pain!
Yeah, they just don’t get it, do they? My DH often says, “I can’t believe the stuff you put on there. I wouldn’t put HALF of that out there.” Well..duh!
Have a great vacation.
:-) Susan
Nope. He doesn’t get it. But that’s ok…I might be a little concerned if he DID. :)
Girl talk on steroids, indeed! And I think talking about your toe is a perfectly acceptable topic.
HA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh man your hubby is hilarious. And I am anything but imaginary, Mister! LOL!
Anyway, my husband actually blogs. You can find him over at http://worshipwithmylife.blogspot.com if your hubby needs a man’s blog to read. They can both laugh at us over there!
Because, let’s face it, even though my dear hubby blogs, he still makes fun of me (and corrects me) on mine.
Ooh, ooh… so I’m writing my first book and I have NO CLUE what the heck I’m doing. Right now I’m just writing. But I have no clue where or to whom I submit or even what the manuscript must look like for submission. NEWBIE OVER HERE! I don’t like to bother other people, but maybe when I’m closer to finishing I can ask you about the next step?!
I don’t know if my sweetie entirely gets it, but I think he’s relieved that I use up some of my many words here in blog-land rather than inundating him with them all! And he does have his own blog (with FAR fewer words than mine~ his is mostly a photo blog) so he does get the part about having blog friends.
{smile}
Oh goodness our husbands must be brothers. My sweetie just can’t get over the blog thing at all. Some of my biggest laughs this year have been over his hilarious sarcastic humor about my blog.
Men just don’t understand!
I am just sad that I missed your toe post. I’ll have to go and read it now.
Blessings, Joanne
What a fun post.
Hello, I’m Sonya and I’m stopping by from Lysa T’s site today. May God bless you with a safe and refreshing vacation!
“girl talk on steroids” LOL! It sure is–love it!
my man kinda gets it. However, when Melissa Moore Fitzpatrick got married he wondered why I didn’t get invited, seeing as how Beth is my (pretend)BFF and I am an official member of her “posse”.
Posse – there’s a word I never expected to hear my mild mannered city boy say.
So now everyone in Blog land is a member of the bloggy posse!
It’s that man-woman thing. It’s why we need girlfriends.
(If Luke and Corey ever meet, they’ll spend the whole evening trading stories of “You won’t believe when my wife did this! I totally don’t get them!”)
Its the whole guy-girl thing. Guys just don’t get it. Like you never hear a guy ask another guy to go to the bathroom with them…but girls go in groups…what don’t guys get about that???
I am thankful for blogging and for girlfriends…they understand all my craziness!
Happy vacation. – Laurie
No mine doesnt get it…fully. He looks kind of puzzled when I talk about ya’ll (the blogs i read)as though you had personally called and talked to me that day…until one of “ya’ll” dropped him a comment on his blog and he was like “oh yeah! so and so dropped my blog today!” and I said, ” who? i thought they were IMAGINARY!” lol I too think “girl talk on steriods” is a great way to state it. Lots of fun. Happy vacation.
We need this thing called a blog. They’ll never get it. They truly think they are way cooler than we are! Ha!
Have a super vacation! Where you headin???
hugs~
Fran
Ok that is funny
At least your hubby reads your blog
My hubs has not checked in for months :)
He does get the blog world and my love for the SIESTAS but it took awhile :)
Much love
Kim
Oh please don’t say the last few weeks of summer! I don’t want it to be over with! I will listen to your toe stories anytime! They make for a light heart! Sorry to laugh at your pain, but you weave a good yarn!
Oh, it IS girl talk on steroids. And what a fun girl talk it is! Love ya!
Linds
I appreciate the “reality check” articles in your blog! You put, ever-so eloquently -still yet southern, almost exaxctly what we all go through and it makes it all go into perspective! YOU ROCK! Tell Luke to let us all know if he ever gets a sore toe, and we’ll all pray for him and “hope it feels better soon”!LOL!
You truly brighten my day with these stories! I feel like you’re not so far away by reading them! We still miss you guys here in Georgia!!!! Thanks!
Tell him he should just be glad you aren’t blogging about HIS toes!
p.s…I love it when he does the senarios of the “dude” talks, FUNNY!