Passionate About Punctuation

Let's look on the lighter side, shall we?

Another little known fact about me: exclamation points bug my life. How odd is that? That I'm irked by punctuation. But it's true. I think it's because when ever they are used, ESPECIALLY in excess, the voice in my head (yeah, whatever - you have one too - like maybe right now perhaps??), anyways, the voice in my head sounds like a 13 year old girl, all spazzy and giggly and shreeky. GROAN! See? Did you see that? One. One exclamation point and you get my intention. One is respectable, two if its a really big deal. But this:
You are soooo super!!!!!!! That was the best time I have ever had in my whole life!!!!!!!!
Catch my drift? Add that many and suddenly I have the urge to throw in a pile of 'Oh my word!'s and half a dozen 'like's.
'Oh my word!!!!!!! Did you, like, see him?!!!!! He was, like, sooooo checking you out!!!!!!! He was all, like, uh huh!!!!! And oh my word!!!! I love grape slurpees!!!!!!!!'
Gag.
I am so not a spaz. Tried it out a couple of times but I kinda wanted to smack myself.
What I am though, is happy. And I love to smile. Which is why I, almost to the point of obsession, use the quirky little side-ways happy faces. Like this :) I use them a lot because I smile a lot, or at least a lot more now than I used to. Anyways, I have a bunch of different smiles. Happy, sarcastic, coy, teasing, interested, shy, playful, I'm sure there's more. Either way, smiling is good in my books, so if I'm actually smiling when I'm writing a txt or facebook message, or even in a note in my kids lunch boxes, I include a :)
So basically !!!!!!! is grating, juvenile, and gives me a headache, while :) is fun, comforting, and enjoyable.
So says me :)