Darling Notes: Beluga
Happy Friday! With that, I present to you my very first Editor’s Notes where I share things beyond home decor pretty things to you.
Written always with love.
Lolo’s Beluga text gave me a good laugh this morning. She said that she had a dream about me and Irma. Something about meeting with farmers, playing Barbie dolls and hosting lunch (played by me, apparently), and Irma’s 2-year-old son playing race cars that almost tripped everyone over in the room. See, Lolo, Irma and I constantly text on Beluga. We chat about anything you could ever imagine. From 2AM, 6AM, 9AM, 10AM, through 11PM and back to 2AM. Pretty much every hour. For an hour. While we multitask. We never sleep. Well, it feels like it when you are a mommy with a little one or a bunch of little ones. Even when we sleep, we constantly think of things that fold into randomly funny dreams. Then we wake up feeling like we never had the sleep. Mommies are constantly on the move. That’s why one day I thought we should have our own little pod of chatters by installing the free and fabulous PRIVATE mobile application: Beluga. As in a type of whale that is known for its high-pitched twitter. Perfect. This Beluga I talk about is not a real whale, however. It’s an app that does not cost us any extra bill to pay to the telephone company and it is addictive. This way, I thought we (Lolo, Irma and I) could remind each other that we are quite crazy, silly, delirious, exhausted, non-athletic but smart (yes, Irma, Lolo and I think that we are quite impressive with our individual strengths and even weaknesses)…strong, creative, energetic, fashion addicts, powerful and quite wonderful. Lolo and I occasionally call ourselves without shame: Wonder Women.
I suggest you try Beluga (if you have not) and create a pod for you and your friends who keep you going in good and bad times. The app, which works on iOS and Android phones, allows you to sign up via Facebook and creates BlackBerry Messenger-style groups for synchronous messaging with friends. This app has been our shrink, our shoulder to cry on, and our comedy central. Even if noone replies right away or makes any likable comments that the other one would wish. The fact that it is there for us, it’s comforting. We talk about so many random things. In different languages. But most importantly, our chat makes us laugh a LOT.
Of course, the app can also be used for a more serious, business-like pod of conversations. But we never really take things THAT seriously. Though we do get things done even more efficiently by Beluga-ing.
Enjoy your Beluga, my darlings.
Smooches,
Mrs. McM
Editor