Mother daughter IM diablog
A portrait of Miss Speechless as a young shutterbug.
Perhaps it's just the joy of sharing the love for words with someone else that makes IMing with my daughter so much fun. We can almost predict each other's patterns of speech, we've lived together so long. From the first, my kids both have loved words. Talking, hearing stories, telling stories, putting on plays...IMing is still a recent phenom for me, though at 13 little Miss Speechless is a veteran IMer. When I'm off at work and she's at home she sometimes IM's me. I love it but on a day like today, it can be a source of terror too. See, Little Miss Speechless is at home with a case of pink eye. She just sent me an Instant Message at work. As a mother, instant access to the roller coaster ride of s 13 year old life is very helpful, but sometimes a little nerve wracking.
Little miss speechless: mommy!!
Little miss speechless: i cannot believe wat i just did
SPEECHLESS: Little Miss Speechless is that you?
SPEECHLESS: What did you do dear?
Little miss speechless: i could kill my self
SPEECHLESS: Is every thing ok???
SPEECHLESS: Don't scare me...what's going on?
Little miss speechless: i wrote this amazingly well written email to my friends about the hole pink eye thing
SPEECHLESS: Please don't ever EVER start an email or IM with "I could kill myself" again. That is very disturbing!!!!
Little miss speechless: and i was changing type sizes and i wanted to go back o the one i had had b 4
Little miss speechless: so i hit ctrl z
SPEECHLESS: Look can you go to Edit window, and press UNDO?
Little miss speechless: and it erased the whole thing
Little miss speechless: no
Little miss speechless: it was an email
SPEECHLESS: Or else you can do COntrol V and it is probably on a clipboard.
Little miss speechless: it was funny
Little miss speechless: and well written
SPEECHLESS: Try control v
Little miss speechless: with ammusing lines
Little miss speechless: and great discriptions
Little miss speechless: kk
SPEECHLESS: I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm sure you can come up with another brilliant effort.
Little miss speechless: 0it worked1
SPEECHLESS: TRY UNDO under edit, I think you can get it back!
Little miss speechless: !!
Little miss speechless: the ctrl v
Little miss speechless: 1
SPEECHLESS: You see I am a genius.
SPEECHLESS: A computer wizard
Little miss speechless: but it also got a bunch of other things
Little miss speechless: yea
Little miss speechless: ur the best
SPEECHLESS: Now before you do anything else, I want to read a written confirmation from you that you Little Miss Speechless will never EVER start an email on a small subject with a terrifying line like "I could kill myself"
SPEECHLESS: I thought you'd set the house on fire or poured boiling water on your brother, or taken daddy's motor cycle out for a spin or poisoned yourself.. All sorts of ghastly horrible ideas went through my head in an instant.
Little miss speechless: lol
SPEECHLESS: Never ever is not enough. I want a full written contractual agreement!!!!!!
posted by Speechless @ 3:20 PM
6 Comments:
Like everyone else, I've gotten fed up with spam comments. So, here's the latest addition, word verification...Good luck commenters.
Tough luck spammers!
This is so funny and heartwarming. Your daughter is beautiful and smart, and she's got a great and understanding mom.
right on mom! tech support!
your daughter takes a fine picture.
i insisted to my daughters that they could say "no thank you" but please not "uugghh' about the dinner i was cooking.
that was fun to read! i don't do much IMing, maybe i'll have a daughter someday to make it worthwhile
dr. c, my only observation is that having children is far more fun than IMing, and IMing with my daughter is far more fun --for me at least-- than the IMing I've done with anyone else.
I actually just unblocked my IM option recently. I find it the most intrusive form of communication I've come upon-- especially if one has an acquaintance or co-worker with a poor sense of boundaries.
I way reccomend kids over IMing, that's for sure!
Speechless-- There are options on IM that let you block people you don't want, or conversely, let you pick the people you do want to IM with. I was using it for work, and I always turned off those folks, when I just wanted to let my friends know I was on.
I like it for how quickly you can pass files back and forth. It is done with astonishing speed.
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