Today was a profoundly happy day, and also a profoundly sad day.  Well….. “profoundly” is a bit on the strong-worded side.  Maybe “uncommonly” would be better.  Mulligan.

Today was an uncommonly happy day, and also an uncommonly sad day.  Better.

First the happy.  For the first time in my entire life…. in all 29 years………….
………………..  ………………………….. OK.  “Twenty-Nine” is a bit on the strong-worded side.  Let’s just say I’ve been around the block a few times.

Back to it.  The happy part.  For the first time in all my days of blue-yondering, a young man showed up at my door with a paper bag filled with piping hot Chinese Food.  Yes, RIGHT to my door.  Delivered.  A miracle, I think.  What a concept.  A container of ‘Happy Family’, ‘Steamed Rice’, ‘Spring Rolls’, and more…. right on my stoop.  As one of the oldest and most prolific men in history once proclaimed:  “Yabba Dabba DOO!!!”  This was Christmas-Morning good.  I did a little happy-dance in the foyer!  I kissed the dog.  Chinese Food delivered to the house…Call it what you will,  but I say it is sensational and marvelous…. yes, phenomenal.  Somewhat mind-boggling, and yet totally, out of this world.  Much bigger than the “World’s Largest Ball of Yarn” in Cawker, Kansas.

This will happen again, that much I will tell right here and now.  I mean…. we EVEN got Chopsticks (which I put up my nose and acted like a Walrus.  That’s what a Crazy-Good night this was…..)

Now…. to the sad.  Sit down.  Please.

Charles M. Fenaoui un-friended me on Facebook.  I am not sure when it happened, but I just found out today.  Remember Chuck?  I discovered his name badge on the street corner, all-miseralby-abandoned.  So, of course,  I was worried sick about him… and then I was lucky enough to FIND him on Facebook.  From there, I asked him to be my friend, and he “friended” me right there on the spot.  Be that as it may….. somehow, our relationship has dwindled over time. Soured.  Maybe we no longer had the same interests…… or maybe it was because I was “poking” him too often…. or that I have WAY more BFF’s than he ….. or, I don’t play Farmville, and Charles does….relentlessly.  Or, perhaps, we just fell out of “Facebook Friendship”…. but whatever the reason…. HE ended it.  Yeah……. I told you to sit down. So there it is.  Out in the open.  Everyone knows….  and I cried.  I cried right in the foyer.  I did little a sad-shuffle.  I kissed the dog.
The highest mountain…. and the valley…. so very low.