People?
I got so many fabulous posts this past week. So many. Happy sighs.
I love that.
If you want me to read a post and leave a comment? Make Me Come.
Send me a link. To new stuff, to old stuff, to someone else’s stuff. Send me a link.
Make Me Come repeatedly . . . I love when that happens.
From the posts that were submitted to me, I have chosen two posts to feature. Yes, I know . . . last week I said I would only be choosing one from now on. Ignore that inconsistency and read these amazing posts.
Anne from Bringing Borya Home
In Meeting My Babies, Anne tells the story of meeting her daughter Natasha for the first time.
I don’t even have words to tell you how much this story touched me.
You know how just the memory of a story gives you goosebumps?
Yes, like that.
It’s the best mother-daughter story ever. Seriously. Ever.
Please go read and leave a comment . . . Anne is amazing and you need to read this story.
I am all happy inside that I get to help share Anne’s post.
Yay!
Kelly from Writing With Chaos
Kelly wrote Beneath the Water – Seed of a Dream as a response to a writing prompt from The Red Dress Club.
The Red Dress Club is well worth checking out, by the way . . . whether you are looking to build your skills as a writer or just looking for a reliable source of amazing writing.
Anyway, the prompt asked the writers to take 600 words to write about something ugly and then find the beauty in that ugliness. Kelly’s unique spin on this prompt is breathtakingly beautiful and speaks to the lonely imaginative child in me. In all of us.
Happy sighs. Read and comment, people.
Becky from Steam Me Up, Kid
OK, here’s the deal on this post. I clicked a random link on Twitter several months ago and visited a blog I had never seen before. Read the post that had been linked and laughed my ass off. That doesn’t happen too often . . . it is harder than you might think to make me laugh out loud with your words.
The post is called It is so science. Aero… oncolo… molecular gaseocabinetry. ology. That’s what.
Because I am me? I forgot to make a note of this hilarious blog. No big deal, right? There’s lots of funny stuff out there . . . not like it’s an emergency that I find this woman again.
Except I kept thinking about this post. It was that awesome.
So last night, I spent some time on Google . . . I typed in words I thought would take me right to the post I wanted.
Hospital plus Pringles plus cancer plus fart plus friend
Make a note, people . . . not only did I NOT find the post I wanted (even after scrolling through 20 pages of results), I was forced to the same conclusion I believe I have made previously here on Pretty All True.
Namely, that the world is filled with sick motherfuckers.
So I went to Twitter and I asked, “People? A stupid question . . . several months ago I read a post that contained a hospital room, Pringles, and farts. Ring a bell?”
Nothing.
For about 20 minutes . . . and then Kairi sent me a link.
The link!
READ THIS POST AND LAUGH YOUR ASSES OFF, PEOPLE.
Seriously.
It is so awesome I am willing to risk your asses.
Yay!
I read Kelly’s post last night. There are no words for how amazing that was. Beautifully written!
I’m off to read the other two now! :)
Back to say that I read, I commented, I loved. Great post choices. That last one made me laugh so hard that my nose ran. That’s some serious funny there!
These posts this week?
They brought me so much joy in a week in which I had none of my own.
I am so grateful to all three of these writers.
Happy sighs.
You should have googled “nose-vacuum!” Duh!
That was hilariously awesome.
Erin -
I so should have.
I didn’t remember that phrase.
Sigh.
I am so glad I found that post . . . It is just as perfect as I remember it being.
YAY!
So glad Kairi rescued you cause I was way curious about them Tweets
Karen -
I did not really think anyone would remember the post, but I was going nuts at not being able to find it.
I love Twitter!
I love Kairi.
Happy giggly sighs.
fantastic reads :)
Frelle -
So many fabulous submissions this week. SO many.
I needed some joy.
These writers made me joyful.
Love that.
Okay, I’m a bit speechless. I clicked your tweet to find the hilarious link that everyone was talking about.
.. and found ME! ME!
I was not expecting that, especially not after saying you’d only choose one each week – that post nowhere near the “hysterically funny” category.
I’m so glad my post touched that lonely child you once were. There is comfort in knowing I was not the only one who went through such times. The imagination is truly a remarkable thing – something I’d forgotten until my children reminded me.
Thank you so much for featuring me. I’m glad I didn’t chicken out on making you come.
Kelly -
As I said on Twitter?
You are in very good company, but YOU are also very good company.
You wrote an amazing post, and I am delighted to share that post here.
More than delighted.
Thank you.
Kris
What??
Comment eaten?
WTH?
Oh, well.
Came to say glad you had yesterday.
Also, know of steam me up…love her, and Writing with chaos.
Often to meet Borya’s now.
xo XO xo
You will love Anne’s post.
It makes me shiver.
I have read it many times, and every time?
Shivers.
I can’t believe you featured me! Ohmygod I can’t believe you featured me!
Never in my wildest dreams….
[I'm wringing my hands]
[I'm tearing up]
I’d like to thank my parents. I’d like to thank the Academy. And of course I’d like to thank God.
[I'm doing that little tissue wipe move just below the lower eyelashes so as not to smudge the mascara]
This is the highlight of my blogging career.
I can retire now. I can die now.
Kris, I am sending worship bows to you. I love you and your whole bloggy world!
I’m so glad you came. Your coming has caused many others to come.
Whay a joyous world we live in…..
Anne -
Your post made me cry.
Joyful happy tears.
Your post gave me goosebumps.
I was all shivery.
Really.
I wish I had a way to make everyone read your post. To experience your words as I did.
Just . . . magic.
I can’t believe I’m listed in the same post as yours… That was an amazing story (left a comment on your blog).
Looking at my post up there next to those other two is like watching an elementary school Christmas chorus perform Away in a Manger and there’s one chubby kid in the back row in sweats and one of those t-shirts with a tuxedo printed on it and he’s got Cheetos dust all over his face and he’s making exuberant armpit fart noises and you’re like, “Psst! Christopher! CHRISTOPHER! You! get! down! here! right! now! we’re! leaving! mister!”
But thank you, I’m really flattered that you liked it, and that you went through the trouble of tracking it down. Of to read the others!
Dear Becky -
You are all falsely modest and filled with genius.
You know damned well you are a genius.
You so know that.
You had better know that.
Geez.
Kris
Met Kelly through Red Dress Club and love her, how could anyone not? Off to read your other two pics, I have yet to find a funnier pic of yours than Moog though.
Moooooog is perfection.
But guess what?
So is Becky.
You’ll see.
So you know exactly how many o’s go between the M and the g? Because I never do so I just put two and called it good. I’m now trying to recover from Anne’s post so hopefully Becky can help.
I believe there are 6 o’s in there.
Not that I counted or anything.
That would be odd.
Ahem.
Dude. That’s definitely my sister’s name in that post above! You also said that you love her in a comment! That is so… so…
I’m NOT EVEN going to say awesome. She always gets the publicity! Cue the sibling rivalry!
(I love her too)
Silly you.
Love you as well.
That’s what they all say… but alas, it is too late for your making-it-up-to-me love…
Also: woohoo! I knew it! Love for everyone! Love all around!
KJ?
You are a loon.
That’s why I love you.
Loved that you featured Anne at Bringing Home Borya. We were in Kazakhstan together when I adopted my daughter and she adopted 2 more children. When she tells THAT story, how she searched for 5 years to find the little boy she met during her first adoption, you’re going to need IV fluids.
Lori -
Just went to read (but have not yet commented on) that post.
Swoon!
Anne is fabulous.
Three amazing picks. Oh, I loved them all. Nose-vacuuming farts almost KILLED me.
As for it being maybe your favourite three ever? Yeah, I can see that. They ARE awesome.
But actually, remember that one time you featured Nichole and CDG and hmmm, there was one other writer…oh man, who was that? She was good, as I recall, funny, poignant and I could tell, just by reading, that she was really attractive……
Angie -
You are so silly.
You know what? These three (although they are all fabulous writers) are not my favorites because they are better writers than the other bloggers I have featured.
That’s not what I meant. I just mean that in a week of sadness and vulnerability, these three posts lifted my spirits. Really touched me. Made a difference in my life in a positive way. Brought me joy when I needed a little joy.
So they are my favorite set because of what I brought to the experience as a reader.
That’s what I meant, babe.
Silly attractive you.
I was just fucking with you which I know you know – but I love you for clarifying anyway. Probably just trying to relive the glory of having been featured – and with Nichole and CDG, no less. Only with hindsight have I been able to fully appreciate the magnitude of that.
I so get what you’re saying though. I had a similar experience where I had been ‘Bad Mumma’ all day long and stumbled across two blog entries that totally reset my inner computer. It was such a wonderful feeling. So yes, I get it.
Happy sighs that you get it.
Thank you, babe.