group chat

So, Gmail has recently implemented a Group Chat feature, allowing you to essentially create a chat room on-the-fly with whomever's online. Just found out about it today. This resulted in two awesome things:

1) A "three-way" with my good friends Katy and Traci. Lewd humor, mimosa-talk, etc. It was hilarious and satisfying. I think I'll have more three-ways in the future. I find them easy and agreeable.

2) A long chat with my Mom and Sister and I. Yes, my mother uses Gmail (thanks to my constant lobbying for a hi-speed connection and for her to get a Gmail account about five minutes after she got the hook-up). We chatted for nearly an hour, all told. We talked about my upcoming visit, and going to NYC and Philly while I'm in the neighborhood. We talked about my sister moving to Portland, which is now almost a certainty (YAY!). We talked about my Mom's future after both my sister and I live far away from her (a subject we've talked a great deal about, because we love our Mom and want to make damn sure she finds identity and happiness without us...but that's another post for another time). My mother used the word "absofuckinglutely"...I nearly fell off my stool. My sister and I talked music. It was fantastic. Family moments. I love them, more and more everyday.

So, group chatting definitely lifted my day, as did the accomplishing of a number of errands, sleeping twelve hours last night (I NEEDED that), and listening to great music in my coffeehouse, reading and writing and doing Kevin-y things. In six days, I'll be in New Mexico. if all goes as I think it will, it will be the completion of my Restoration. I have literally not been my Self for about 6 months. When I get back from NM, I think I'll tell that whole story. Everything that happened. All the Old trying to steal away my New. I think I'll be ready.

In my weakness, in my strife, I am indeed over-matched. But at my best and brightest, I know I am up to all the challenges and pitfalls and struggles and trials of life. At my best, I know I can handle everything. And I know that my best is yet to come.

To resurrect an old favorite, "The Sleeper must awaken."