I had met all three of H's sisters and both of his parents several times on my frequent trips to California, and both of my parents had met his dad when we was here on business last year, so I'm pretty sure nobody was nervous about meeting each other, but I think it went well; everyone seemed to be laughing, talking and enjoying themselves—we stayed for two and a half hours and closed out the place, and then had a lovely walking tour of my construction-addled downtown.
One thing I don't think my parents were expecting was just how much H's family already knew about all of us because they read this blog. His peeps initially checked it out to see if this random girl in Illinois was good enough for their only boy, but after three years they're some of my most loyal readers. And their Web savvy comes in handy sometimes, like when my twitter updates revealed we were trapped in the bayou of Alabama for hours in the dark. His parents started researching news updates to find out what the heck happened so we'd know how long we'd be stuck. Unfortunately, Alabama isn't quite as savvy, so there weren't any updates to be had (and oddly, the only news radio station that we could get was WBBM 780, in CHICAGO.)
My mom and dad don't really read the blog. I attribute that to their slower-than-molasses dialup and reluctance to come home and look at a screen. Plus, I talk to them at least once a day, so anything they'd read will already have been old news. But after finding out that other people were in on all the scoop because of it, my mom passed along the address to her tech-friendly pals. I had to remind her of what it was, letter by letter, over the phone.
She calls back a few hours later because her friends are asking how they'd know it was really my blog* because neither my photo nor my real name is on it. I told her to tell them to look for all the green and the photo of the cornfield across from our subdivision.
"Oh yeah, I remember that. And your name on there is Cod-zee, right?"
*Welcome, ladies! Feel free to look around and click the links on the right to see some of the old stuff.
5 comments:
Codzee. I love it.
That reminds me of the medicine, Cold-Eeze.
My parents have become so hooked on SuperSchnitzel that everywhere they went on their recent two-week vacation they hopped on at the first Internet connection. So cute! They didn't even know what a blog was three months ago.
I always knew you were a secret agent, Code Z.
My mom loves to read every word of my blog because it means she knows more about me now that she ever has in her life.
Come on, Codzee, don't you just love it when parents read our blogs? :)
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