Things that make me cry
Sad cry?
1) Easter
2) Stories about the soldiers trapped in submarines after Pearl Harbor was bombed
3) Technical stuff going wrong on my website
Things that make me happy cry?
1) Easter
2) Football movies
3) People who help me fix technical problems on my website.
Oh yeah Eric, I’m talkin’ about you.
Mwah.
Tomorrow I am going to write about something that doesn’t involve Eric or football.
Eric because I don’t want to go overboard with my gratitude and scare off the fixer of all broken links.
Football because I know most of you really don’t care.
Which, incidentally, saddens me tremendously.
You have no idea what you’re missing.
Back to the crying, though. I really don’t do it often. I don’t know why, it’s just not my thing.
I like the idea of it. I like that line from Steel Magnolias – ‘I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.’ Sounds good to me… but. If you cry in my presence, you might well be crying alone. My body just doesn’t seem to form tears like other women do. {More on this another day}
Generally if I shed a tear, it comes as a complete surprise to me, too – always at an unexpected moment, or for an unexpected reason.
Annie made me cry this past weekend, with a surprising and insightful comment that caught me off guard. She does that to me a lot.
I love that kid.
Oh, and by the way – her luck? Ran out. In the wee hours of yesterday morning she, too, succumbed to the barfing.
It was inevitable.
Here’s hoping for a vomit-free rest of the week!
Tags: Annie, crying, Eric my love, Steel Magnolias, technical problems, things that make me cry
This and That | Heather September 22, 2010
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By mary b, September 22, 2010 @ 10:16 am
Eric may cry if you stop talking about him!
I am not a big crier either but darn if I don’t well up at things like school activities when I have to watch my boys perform or get recognized for something. Otherwise it may be during the random movie…including football movies ; )
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By Darcie - Such The Spot, September 22, 2010 @ 1:44 pm
You’d be SO proud of how far I’ve come on the football front. I actually enjoy watching games now, as long as it’s the Cardinals playing. I have equally strong (though negative) feelings about your favorite team, though those feelings stem not from the team, but from my obnoxious mother-in-law.
Are you planning a post about Annie’s insightful comment? I understand if it’s something too personal for the blog, but I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed your post about her and her friend at school. She is an amazing little girl.
Darcie – Such The Spot´s last [type] ..Llama Llama- Lick Your Mama
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Heather Reply:
September 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I won’t be blogging that one – too real, too sad. I’ll tell you about it, but I just don’t want it ‘out there’ for me to have to look at for all eternity.
She’s a remarkable kiddo, no doubt. I wish I were more like her. I think she is my Grama, up one side and down the other. Grama had that same kind heart.
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Heather Reply:
September 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Oh, and that football thing? You’ve got to get over the mother-in-law. I feel you, I really do, but you can’t blame the Steeler Nation for that trainwreck.
The Cardinals? pffft!
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By Becca - Our Crazy Boys, September 22, 2010 @ 4:22 pm
Blog issues could bring me to tears, too..
And I just looked at the price of having my favorite blog designer re-design my blog theme… that almost made me cry!
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