Got a new texting buddy. I’ve known her on PB for years. She's 38 and has also had her gallbladder removed. She works in health care and has a son. Not sure if the guy is just a boyfriend or a husband, but she has a husband who has practically zero sexual appetite, and that has frustrated the hell out of her. Once upon a time, I could relate! At her age, it would still be hard to deal with because you haven’t lost your horny hormones that young. Not unless you’ve got something going on with you physically or psychologically, anyway.

Anyway, I guess texting is kind of a hobby of hers, and she’s got several other texting buddies. I don’t usually give people my number, but when I saw on a survey going around PB that she was into texting, I gave her my number and told her she didn’t have to feel obligated to text if she didn’t really want to, and I wouldn’t be offended.

But when I got up, there was a message from her. I told her I had just woken up and figured she was in bed, being an hour earlier in Minnesota. But she had been up all night texting someone, even though they lived just six miles away.

I hate to hope that Aly can sort of be replaced because I know she can’t be—Aly was Aly, and everyone is their own individual. But it would be nice to have a close friend like that again who is just as smart, tolerant, and has a good enough memory, but definitely more honest than Aly was. That was her one downside. Even she admitted she had a problem with lying.