Yes. 3/17 is the birthday of a friend who died last year. I couldn’t help but post to wish him a happy birthday anyway, and I was very much not alone. It’s a strange social media phenomenon.
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Digital mourning.
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As you should. Plus it’s a good day to raise a pint glass or a glass of Irish whiskey in honor of your friend. 
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The older I get, the more I’m reminded: Our loved ones continue to live as long as we remember them.
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What freaks me out is finding out a friend or more passed away….several years after the fact. It’s happened several times and you can’t do much.
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Which is why, as painful as it can sometimes be, that I keep posting for FB Memories to show up, so I don’t forget. I just haz a sadz today because it is my late brother’s birthday. It just hits harder on “those days”.
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I just found out a couple of weeks ago that a friend/former co-worker/carpooler passed away in December 2024. His radio silence for the last couple of years was concerning, but it wasn’t until I heard from his son that he was gone.
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That’s what happened with a former CH I recently posted about. She’d been dealing with a long illness & hadn’t been participating much in my WFD Fb group due to lengthy hospital stays 
It took another former CH & Fb group member to check her page, which is when she/we learned about the sad news.
I still leave a bday msg on my mom’s Fb page every year.
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I’ve had that happen too often in the last few years. I find myself scouring findagrave when no one notices anyone.
On a lighter note: I am plagued on a daily basis by scam calls insisting that I applied for a loan and it’s time-critical that I call back to finalize the approval. I screen them all out. But the voicemail transcript from this morning’s scammer contained a gem: “I’m dialing you from the qualification analysis death.” 
Again, nope.
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I like to fuck with those scam txts that often start with a random “hey (insert name), are you home?” to which I always reply “yup, what’s up?”
Sometimes it’s “hey (insert name), are you going to the party tomorrow?” which of course I emphatically respond to in the affirmative, often offering a ride.
Then the inevitable next line is “oh, sorry, I think I have the wrong number.” Having already confirmed that I am, in fact, (insert name), they keep insisting that they mistakenly texted me, and ask for my name.
The most recent one ended with me saying “IT’S ANNE NOW FUCK OFF AND SCAM SOMEONE ELSE.”
Hey, at least I wasted their time for a while 
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My favorite flower! So many types and color variations.
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The Hand Doctor said Sunshine is healing nicely. She only has to wear her hand brace at night (while sleeping). Although, he told her to take it easy, he wants to start using that hand a little more.
So good news today!!
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Progress! I HATED having to wear the sling in bed for almost 6 weeks, so it was such a relief to finally be able to take it off.
Yay for Sunshine!!
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Alas, fucking with those scam calls and texts at least partially gets you MORE calls/texts. Any response indicates “this number reaches an actual human who will answer”.
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It’d been forever since the last one, TBH. I get them maybe every 2-3 months or so, if that.
H & I were on the bus yesterday, and a woman behind us was having a loud phone conversation with a colleague. During the course of it, she spoke of being the only non-Jewish person in a work group. Then she added that Jews were known to be liars and robbers. I turned around and told her that was offensive and antisemitic, and then she and my husband and I had a 10:00 fight about this, until she got off the bus. You can probably guess most of it: her conversation was none of my business, she can say whatever she wants because America, she’s sure I say similar things about other ethnic groups.
Obviously this was profoundly upsetting to me, not just because people think like this - of course they do. But because they feel comfortable announcing it at full volume on a crowded M22.
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People can be real shits. I’m sorry you had to listen to that garbage, and I’m glad you and hubster called her out on it.
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Thanks. I’m also glad I didn’t get beat up, always a possibility. I usually keep my fat trap shut, but I dunno, this time I just couldn’t.
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