I know. Can you beweave it?
Along with her cell phone, Megan (12, going on dangerous) also has her own domain name, friends-only blog and email address. In an effort to keep her safe, I set the site and email up with the explicit agreement that I would, on occasion, monitor her activity while respecting her privacy as much as possible. A girl's got to be able to bitch about her parents to her friends without fear of reprimand or arranged marriage to a General Authority, afterall.
Occasional monitoring means checking her blog for spammers, sex offenders, Republicans and other such deviants. It also means manually scanning her email from time to time for questionable messages, just to be sure she's not sneaking around selling herself into Bosnian slavery without giving me my commission and stuff like that. Unless there is a questionable title, unrecognized sender/recipient or some other red flag, I don't read the actual content of her correspondence.
I made an exception when I saw the following in her sent items folder.
Subject: your ugly
From: ********@********.***
Date: Fri, February 2, 2007 8:35 pm
To: strongbad@homestarrunner.comHi Strongbad. your ugly.
love *****
I love this girl more than I will ever be able to express.
Filed under - Family | TechnologyThat reply to him was absolutely awesome! Sounds like she has a gift for words too. And getting your point across in a concise manner.
She is charming!
An arranged marriage to an old RICH General Authority that is close to crossing over to the other side doesn't sound so bad. As long as there isn't any consummating... *horrible*.
One old man is as good as another. Also, let me introduce you to Brigham Young. There's a rich old guy who would have been thrilled with Ms. Funbags.
GOT to have those passwords and monitor those accounts! My daughter balked at first, but it's imperative - you will be amazed at what some of these kids talk about.
If I had to hear, "Everybody! Everybody!" one more freakin' time, I think I would have stabbed my eardrums with an ice pick.
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that is awesome! So much homestar runner...