Wait a Second...

About a week ago, I got an email from a dear lady who has become a personal friend---a mom way off in NJ whom I've never met, but who helps me out with feedback on the Lit products that I work on and points out my errors before they hit the national fan. I had been working with her on one such error and she wrote back to give the "all clear." She also said this "I can not even imagine what your days must be like with all you have to do." Well that's a pretty normal comment for people to make, even people who know nothing about my actual schedule. However, she then playfully added,

"Does your husband ever want to crash your computer to get some attention?"

Um.

?

Did I ever give her the impression that I was....

.... you know....

Married?

Yikes.

Suddenly I found myself wondering if there was a husband in my closet that nobody told me about... whether I was married in my sleep... whether, in short, this:

I reviewed my correspondence mentally, and decided that no, there isn't and I wasn't. This is just the sort of assumption that sometimes occurs, especially between friends in the homeschool education community (where, let's face it, just about everybody is married), and especially if those friends have never met in person. I wrote back and 'splained, and playfully reminded her that,

"Single friends are sometimes more fun for married people than married friends. It gives you the opportunity to matchmake."

And I promise you, as a single with two sisters-in-law and a number of married friends, that is the truth. (Married friends, you know who you are. I hope you're blushing right now.) They get a lot more fun out of matchmaking me than I ever will out of being matchmade, but that's okay. I'm here to serve. 0:-) Just let's not go overboard, okay? Avoiding this would be good:

'Cause the fact is, finding "the love of your life" (see subtitle of picture above) is just about the scariest place you can be, short of not being right with God. And I'm not "registering to begin" (see picture above) on it. Not that I ever expect to be ready---I hear it's the sort of thing that happens to you on a "ready or not" kind of basis---but you can see why I'm not jumping onto the roller coaster. ;-) Besides, that lady in the picture looks like she's got a crick in the neck. Is this proof positive that if I do marry it should be a short husband...?

Yes, I'm kidding. They look happy and wonderful and not like a crick in the neck. :-)

Anyway, maybe it's just the soupy love-and-marriage stuff I've been swimming in for the last few days (including the fact that Brittainy just got engaged), but I thought that was hilarious. Also, it fits with my "happy blogs" theme. :-) And finally, whatever else it may be, it was certainly a new one and it had great shock value!