Round One Goes To . . .

Translation Key:
Purple=Lisa
Red=Maddie
Black=Everyone and Everything Else

Round One goes to moi.  Not that coNUNdrum solving is a competitive sport, but if we had to pick a "winner" for giving the best advice to Funky Facebooker, I think that I, Lisa R.S.F.W.H. Mikitarian, would clearly win that title.  FF had, as you will recall, become judgmental and arrogant in attitudes towards others on Facebook. Maddie told her to join MySpace, while I gave her a five-day assignment of searching out the most boring status updates, and then finding something good to say about each of them. Here are the results.



From Funky's Own Lips:  Well, coNUNdrum solvers (every time I see that word, I expect Whoopi Goldberg to start singing "I Will Follow Him")—this is how it is:

MySpace. It's got a good name, doesn't it? It's all Mine. Me me me me me mine. Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy space, to make all miiiiiiiiiiiiine. Maddie, if you'd given this advice earlier, I'd have taken it. But I'm pretty sure the one-week clause says I don't have to. Besides, Lisa's assignment was the best homework I've ever had to do (emphasis mine).  I hope that I'm now a sweeter and more understanding person, less judgmental and full of myself. I feel like I am, and I'm thankful for that advice. I truly, truly am.

Maddie, you'll get another chance next time I have a selfish life-crisis. We're both off the hook this time.

On the other hand, the daughter seems nicer (de-emphasis also mine) than the mother. In case anybody wanted to know my opinion.

Ha-Ha!

The mother finds that hard to believe, but as I'm extremely forgiving, I'll let it slide.  I would also like to say that I noticed a real softening in Funky Facebooker's attitude from the first report she sent till the last.  On Day #5 the report was filled with words like:  the old me would have said this, but the new me says this.  The reports showed a progression of increased humility, thankfulness, and love of fellow Facebookers everywhere.  I give this person two thumbs up and an A minus. I'd have given an A plus, but for that one cranky day where I felt the positive outlook was forced.  I have a keen antenna for sincerity.

The daughter (who is now speaking to you all in case you can't remember the color-coding system) would like to say that the old bumper sticker adage "I'd rather be loved than feared" is something that she takes very seriously.  It's important that I also "commit random acts of kindness and senseless beauty" on a regular basis, (like anyone's going to believe that) but especially on this blog.  So Facebooker, apparently I couldn't make you a better person with all that loveliness, but I guess "it happens".  And I'm willing to live with that.  Also, on an unrelated note: "I Heart Mountains."

Furthermore, we've been doing some deliberating, and in light of the recent membership upgrades that we awarded outside of the actual rules, we'd like to present Mari of www.marilavell.com with Stainless Steel Membership in recognition of all the wonderful work she's done on the mechanics of Connecting Now.

A tip of the hat to yooooou, dear Mari!
(I know you adore me, so I'm not even going to ask.)

Congrats, Mari!  Thank you VERY much for all your help.

Also, unrelated to Mari, but very related to this blog and other writers on it, I happen to love AND adore mountains AND small animals like squir  squirr . . . how do you spell this animal?

s-q-u-i-r-r-e-l

Thank you.

I do what I can.

On that kind note, it may be time to close this transmission. 

XOXO
Maddie
The Lines are WAAAAAY open:).