June 27, 2009

• Laugh out loud, spit your soda out your nose funny stuff here!

  I hope this translates as well in print as it does in person, because THIS. IS. FUNNY.

  So last week (after being contacted by MANY of my moms friends from 'back in the day' to try and get in touch with her through me) I finally got my mom set up with a Facebook account.  Seriously, I don't mind that any of her friends have contacted her through me - its actually been kind of fun, but why not take out the middle (wo) man? 

  It turned out to be a pretty involved process.  Facebook has changed quite a bit since I first signed on, and things are not the same as they used to be to get things set up.  So first I have to get her signed up for a new e-mail account, then get her signed up for Facebook....only to be told when she tried to log into Facebook and start learning her way around that she needed some kind of access code to confirm her account.

  Now I am quite certain that there are other ways to obtain said access code, but for the life of me I could not find a way other than having it texted to a cell phone.  Which presented a problem due to the fact that my mom's cell doesn't receive text messages at all.

  At this point I am a tiny bit frustrated and am just about done with the whole thing...so I decide to just put in my cell number so that they could text her access code to me and be done with it already.

  What I DIDN'T realize is that when I did that, it would automatically switch all of my texting options for Facebook (getting updates, mobile status updates and the like) to my MOMS ACCOUNT.

  So fast forward to this morning.  I am working in the living room, and have the TV on in the background because MTV was running all Michael Jackson videos and clips and I was loving the music. 

  So I decide that since I don't have my computer with me, that I will just update my Facebook status with my cell phone, and this is what I texted...

  HAVAH (or in this case my moms name)...
  
  

  ...is feeling a LOT more nostalgic about Michael Jackson than yesterday, as I have MTV's marathon of his videos playing in the background and I relive most of my teen years through the music...

  
  Now keep in mind that I haven't talked to my mom in a couple of days, and have NO IDEA that my status update texts are now showing up on her page and with her name.

  So a couple of hours later I hop on Facebook and am paging through my friends updates and see this status update from my mom...

  (Havah's Moms name here)...  (with added emphasis from me)

  Yeah. I don't have any idea how that bit about Michael Jackson got on my page- I wouldn't be surprised if one of my darling children put it there. It certainly wasn't me. I don't own anything by M.J., nor do I listen to anything by him, unless its by accident, in passing. Didn't he do a song called Beat Me, or something? Nothing against him, and I'm sorry for his family's loss.

  BAHAHAHAHAHA.

  'Beat me'?!?!?.  Ummmm - mom, that's actually 'Beat it'.

  She makes me laugh, and this shall be one that she hears about for a LONG.TIME.

  (For those of you wondering, I did in fact go to her Facebook page and apologize for the mix-up.  But only after I laughed at the 'Beat me' comment ) 
  

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