Things that make you go "hunh?"

Stayed up till 2am Sat night with my three girlfriends I've had since elementary school. We laughed so hard we almost hyperventilated. One has three kids and lives in Jersey, the other has two kids and is in Mass., and the third I see a lot because her parents still have their house nearby, and I still live in the area we grew up in. We do this once a year, and I swear the good brain chemicals and hormonal secretions from all that laughing and unconditional love will add a few years to our lives.

So tonight, my son goes on his new obsession/Web gaming site -- runescape. He's too young for it, but he lives and dies to play it. While he's playing, he says, "hey mom, my brother, S, just said hi to me. He's on runescape right now." So my son asks me to respond for him -- he doesn't type fast enough and his phonetic spellings are often indecipherable. The "brother" he's referring to is his soon-to-be stepbrother. His father is, somewhat suddenly, getting married next month to a woman with adolescent kids. My son worships them and they seem very nice. I end up calling my ex, who is out of town with his fiancee, to ask him for the phone number of my son's future stepbrother so he can call him and chat while they're on runescape together. He calls back with the number, and the next 45 minutes are spent on speaker phone with the boy and his sister, taking turns, helping my son navigate this complicated online world. On the screen, I see my son's "guy" and his future stepsister's "guy" (who's actually a girl) walking together in cyberland, trying to fish for shrimp in a pond.

All I can think is "hunh?" This is my life.