All hail, friends!

I decided to dedicate this blog entry to my friends. I don't know...I just woke up today in a really good mood and it was all uphill from there. I have great friends. And that point is driven home every day at work.

I have friends of varying degrees - those I've met and love and those I have never spoke to in real life and still love them I have friends from DMusic.com whom I care about and listen to their great music and wonder how they are. One of them, and Brady you know who you are, I miss very much because our lives have taken separate roads so we catch up on Facebook once in awhile. Yet, Brady has been a very important person in my life and I will always be very fond of him, no matter what. I'd like to think that if he needed anything he would know he could call me and I would do whatever I could for him. I also have Kathy from DM. What a great lady! So much fun and I'm not just saying that because I know she reads this blog either! I always felt we would get along famously if ever we were to meet. The same thing with good ol' Bo! And so many others at that website who have touched my life.

I have friends from a website called Community of Sweden. People, like me, who love Sweden and long to be there. Arsh, Eva, Asa, Ingrid, Gabe, Lilly, Marlyse, Barbro, Jun, Astrid, Olav and the rest! We met on a website and started corresponding and some of them have even met in real life We laugh together, cry together, dream together and I know any one of them would be there for me if I needed it. I would be there for them too. Funny how you can know and trust someone without really physically knowing them!

I have Facebook friends! Lots of them. Some of them, like those that Farmville, I don't interact with all that much. Just when I'm farming. Others, like Paul, Jamie, Joan-marie, Terry, and more keep me laughing and reading and interacting for hours! Facebook has been an overall positive experience for me. I even reconnected with friends from grade school and we've been getting together regularly and we laugh our asses off as if time stood still.

Then I have the friends who make my days great. My friends at work are amazingly silly, smart, funny women who don't let one single day go by without making me laugh so hard I nearly wet myself. Tracy, Kari, Jamey, Jenny, and all of the truly great broads here are the best. I only hope everyone has people like this in their lives.

The Internet has been a powerful tool in making connections and keeping those connections alive. For me, it has opened up my world to something bigger than I ever imagined it could be. It even brought me a wonderful husband and a whole other family in another country. I am blessed for all of this and whenever I hear ignorant people talking about the uselessness of the Internet or what a frightening stalkerish world it can be I want to thump them in the head...hard. I want to let them know that their own neighborhoods can be frightening places and that there are a lot of honest, decent, kind, intelligent people out there they have yet to meet...if they only open their minds and log on.