Heads Will Roll

MY GOD!!! This is a woman a person could fall in love with. In fact, my friend fell in love with her.

When I first saw Tawny on Richard's page it was something like, they were having a baby or getting married. I hadn't really spoken with Richard in a while so it was news to me but it also seemed to be news to a bunch of people posting about how quickly their relationship was moving forward. Upon first glance you need to understand that all Marines (and most people who serve our country) are just hot by title. Marine- automatically hot. Army- You're pretty cool but not hot like a Marine. Airforce- I've got nothing. Maybe Brains come to mind (hahahaha no pun intended). Geeze, when I was talking about this with Tawny today I completely forgot to mention The Navy... I just remembered them right now (no offense). Anyway, so when I saw she was a Marine I thought, hell yes, a woman Marine. She must kick ass. And it made so much sense that Richard would want to be with her. She was covered in tattoos, she had a motorcycle or at least liked them and she was HILARIOUS. He was also a Marine so I'm sure that was something they could relate to one another with. He needed an equal and from the first time I read one of her comments on his timeline, she was it. I was ecstatic about this relationship. I even told Rick how much I really liked her for him and that I thought she was super cool. I had no idea who she was but she was pretty and swore like a sailor (see how I just added the Navy there? Alright, Navy can be hot too) and that was just what my old friend needed.

As time went on she would post things to (Richard) Rod's page and she was hilarious. She would post random creeper status' and pretend stalked her husband. It was adorable. She was creepy and she made it cute. She also posted tons of pictures of their boy, who is really cute, and very close to my sons age. A lot of what she posted were memes. Every once in a while she would post these long rants about something that upset her. This one time she posted a story about something that happened at a mall. She confronted a young mom about the way she was treating her child. That's when I started to really like Tawny. She didn't give a crap what you thought. She was going to tell you if you were out of line. She was going to help you see the error of your ways because nobody taught you better. And she might be nice about it but you wouldn't ever be able to tell anyway because she would probably swear at you. It's just who she is. And I appreciated that amount of honesty. Don't get me wrong, I didn't know her and called her out on a judgment she made of people but she took it in stride and didn't fight me about it. Maybe it was the matter of respect for a difference of opinion or even an understanding that she focused on which meant she wasn't particularly prideful that made it very easy to like her. She had morals and values that showed through even when she wasn't saying anything and this was something I could respect.

Tawny almost tagged me to this pic via fb. Great minds...

I added her after her rant about the person she confronted. I think she was the first person I had never met in person that I added based on her posts on someone else's page. At some point, because she and I had very little interaction to her adding me, I told Rod that I was in love with his wife. And honestly, she has yet to let me down. When I first asked her via fb if she was up for doing an interview for the blog she was all in. I wasn't sure how it was going to go but man it was incredibly easy. I knew it would be just by the way she was on fb. So I started off a little nervous but I asked her about how she and Rod met. He was why I added her, after all. She went on to discuss a short courtship followed by a baby and a courthouse marriage. I discussed how I knew Rod, how we were friends a long time ago and there was a slight interest but the timing was always off. We were pen pals and I still have some stuff from when he was in Okinawa. She was easy going and she so freely shared about every question I asked. I asked about their baby a little bit, about her step daughter and learned a little about baby mama drama. We discussed Gay marriage, Pentecostal and Non-denomination religions. I openly admitted that I was Pro-life and that I hated the word Anti because it felt negative and she was totally in agreement. She has the same values which is pretty hard to find. She wholeheartedly admitted that swearing was 'wrong' but she knew it and was working on it. She was interrupted by children but never once sounded annoyed as she pointed out a movie to whom I believe was her stepdaughter. She was graceful and articulate and everything I hoped and wanted from a fb friendship. Truth be told we discussed almost every facet from each other's lives (except not so much about her family and not the couponing conversation we originally intended to have). We discussed finances, working, being homemakers, house hunting and a little bit about her marriage. It was effortless. It was like we were friends and hadn't seen each other in years and just picked up where we left off. It was a great conversation. This conversation was what I wanted from this experiment. I wanted to get to know someone and make a friendship outside of memes (yes I'm aware that this is covered in memes). I wanted to learn who a person on my friend's list was because I want to have friends on my friends list not just random strangers. I was taken a back a little bit when she told me she added me just because I requested her. I don't know when we will hang out but I discussed Dinoworld and it sounds like that could be a possibility. She is waiting to hear back from a job interview so it might be sometime before we meet in person but she's only in Ohio. I like road trips. According to Mapquest, she is only 5 hours and 19 minutes away. It's doable. I'm glad this went as well as it did. I would've hated to remove her from my friends list because the memes she posts are very funny... oh yeah, and she's ok too!

OH and one more thing, we were on the phone for almost 2 hours. That's a long time to be on the phone with someone you haven't met in person. It's also incredibly personal considering the way we communicate with people these days.

Listening to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Album: It's Blitz: Heads Will Roll. Also listening to all Yeah Yeah Yeah's albums.