Okay. Most of y’all know that Emma Kate is my best friend from college.
And probably most of y’all know – because you read Sarah’s blog – that Erin is one of her best friends from college.
So about a month ago Erin, who has a blog of her own now, emailed me a sweet note and mentioned where she lived and I was all, “NO WAY – my friend Emma Kate only lives about 30 minutes from you.” We emailed some more, and eventually I gave Erin and Emma Kate each other’s contact info.
And today they’re going to lunch.
Does this strike anyone else as A BUNCH OF INTERNET CRAZINESS?
I mean, Sarah and I email almost every single day, and we haven’t had a chance to meet in person yet, but two of our best friends are getting together for lunch right about, oh, this very second?
Blows my mind.
Please feel free to join me in my astonishment and wonder.
I am astonished with wonderment…. at being the first to comment on this post, and at the serendipity of your friends’ meeting. I think that is so cool.
Well blow me down.
(Seriously, is that what blew you down? I always wonder about that when I see that picture.)
It’s amazing, the connections. Bev discovered that two of the bloggers she and I both follow and interact with go.to.her.church. Big church, but still, how amazing is that? And one of my favorite bloggers grew up 40 miles from where I live now and her parents still live there.
I thought it was funny when I told Rob that crazy woman who walks down our street in her bathrobe with big pink curlers in her hair is probably someone in my bloglines and I don’t even know it. But…..you know?
It’s a small world wide web.
That’s so cool! Any chance that Emma Kate will get on the blogging bandwagon?
L.I.B! (Translated for non-southerners: Well, I’ll be! ~ You have to stress the I…)
Only in blogland!
Kinda reminds me of that “Bizzaro-world” episode of Seinfeld.
Now there’s just one less degree in the six degrees equation. I’m sure you will connect to the Kevin Bacon one somewhere along the lines…
I don’t THINK I know a soul who blogs, or who has a friend who blogs. Seems like amongst my surfing, I never find anyone else in Virginia.
It’s a lonely life… ;-)
Dude I would be totally worried about what secrets were being told! LOL!!!!!! Are your ears buring??
Have y’all thought that was ME in the profile picture all along? It’s ALEX! :-) He was playing with the dogs.
I mean, I would love to be that wee of a woman and all, but….
:-)
astonishment and wonder
:-)
isn’t that neat!
That is why I belive Blogland is a Christian Mission field! God brings people together for a purpose! How fun to see a big world become small!
How fun!!!
This cyberworld stuff still blows me away!
Well I live real close to Sarah!! but will we ever do lunch???? Um probably not…. sounds fun though. I also live around the corner from jeana, and I even think I saw her once at wally world but I didnt speak. If we ever meet Ill let ya know. lol your post was cute.
Erin called me and left me a message right after the lunch, and I was like, NO WAY! ;)
Now if we four can just figure out a way to have lunch . . .
So fun:)
As Nena would say, “You mean to tell me you’re friends with someone you met ON THE COMPUTER?” :)
Well just how cool is that? I think it is wonderful.
But are you afraid of any deep dark secrets surfacing between them that we at Blogland might need to know about you and Sarah???
Oooo, don’t you wish you could join them?
And it was a most wonderful lunch. We only had an hour, but you know Southern girls can talk fast. Erin is absolutely wonderful and I look forward to when we can ALL (Boo,EK, Sarah, and Erin) get together. To add to the astonishment of it all. Erin asked me if I knew Karen Smith. I said “Are you kidding me?” Karen, Boo, and I were all in the same Chi O pledge class. Good friends. Erin’s husband and Karen’s husband are great friends. God’s world is full of unexpected delightful surprises.
That is pretty wild. I haven’t had a chance to meet ANY of my online friends yet…
I am astonished and overwhelmed with wonder. :)
Seriously, that is really neat.
And I’m one of the bloggers Barb mentioned – that goes to the same church as Bev (Blessed Beyond Measure). I almost fainted when I realized that the blogger with the granddaughter about to have surgery was the same person as the woman mentioned in our church’s prayer list. Unbelieveable.
But totally cool.
Total sweetness!
Boo, you mean that’s not you in the profile pic????????
*laughing*
BooMama, I LOVE your friend, Emma Kate!! And, I think it is so fun how the four of us have all gotten connected! We had a great time, talked about you, Sarah, and a billion other things. . . I am thinking that one day the four of us should go away for a really cool getaway weekend!! :-) We could even invite Karen (Smith) Permenter if you’d like!! How funny is that!! Small world! :-)
Astonishing!! but terrific. I am constantly amazed at the way God puts people together. I think it makes Him smile.
So the natural question would be when are you and Sarah going to lunch? I know she’s up for the lunchdate any time you name it. And Barb, that woman walking down the road in her bathrobe and curlers, if she’s one of our bloggers I’m not sure I want to be friends with someone who still wears curlers when they invented curling irons about 20 years ago. A bit scary.