ACKNOWLEDGE!

Mona: (droning on about something I don't remember)

Me: (doing my work and nodding to make Mona thinks I'm listening)

SHORT PAUSE

Mona: Acknowledge!

Me: What?! I was nodding my head!

Mona: Yeah, like this...(Mona stares straight ahead holding her neck stiff without moving)

Me: Umm...so you're saying I wasn't nodding my head?

Mona: No.

Me: Are you sure?

Mona: Yes.

Me: Um...Well...in my head I was nodding!

Mona: (rolls her eyes at me)

This "Acknowledge" shouting is a new thing Mona's doing. For some odd reason she doesn't like it when I listen to her without giving her some sort of affirmation that I am in fact listening. It's usually when she asks, what I think are, rhetorical questions. Like "Where do you want to eat?" or "What do you think about that?"

So, when she asks these rhetorical questions and I don't answer right away she shouts out "ACKNOWLEDGE!" to get me to respond.

I've been trying to acknowledge more without her prompting, but apparently that isn't working so well.

Conversation with Mona

I thought I would share a public Facebook conversation that Mona and I had yesterday to help you see into the type of sister relationship we have. 

Mona LaBlue>Luna LaBlue
So last year for "your" birthday you took me to Maine! I am excited to see what you do for me this year!!!

• Mona LaBlue:  I can have all monday off

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• Luna LaBlue:  I tried to get monday off, but I can't

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• Luna LaBlue:  And you are a terrible sister. You didn't plan anything last year. I had to do all the work!

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• Mona LaBlue:  I had to plan myyyy own birthday party! You are the terrible sister!

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•   Mona LaBlue: I gave you my company! That is priceless!
  

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• Luna LaBlue:  priceless=worthless that's why I didn't plan anything for your birthday

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• Mona LaBlue: Baaa

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  We have a wonderful relationship!

  
  

  After our heated public birthday argument, Mona and I spent some quality sister time together. We talked about life and work and lack of sleep. And let me tell you...when you get the two of us together, while we are both extremely sleep deprived, we are hilarious! We were cracking up each other up! It fact we didn't really talk all that much. It was more just weird, uncontrollable, and if I'm being honest, unattractive laughter. Other people, if they saw us in this state, may call us crazy. But why bother with technicalities?

  
  

   I really do love that crazy girl.

  
  

  And just to let you all know...Mona wanted to plan her own birthday party! I could have had a wonderful huge extravagant birthday extravaganza planned, but I just wanted her to be happy and do what she wanted to do on her birthday! I think that's being a pretty wonderful sister! 

  
  

  (And yes my birthday is this Monday...feel free to send me gifts)