Did you just LOL?

This morning I received a text from my dad.  I finished the conversation with:  LOL!  THANK YOU!!.
This would end a conversation with most people given the circumstances. However, it was followed up with this response:

Dad (in all caps of course, I'm typing this EXACTLY as sent..errors and all):  I NEED 2 ASK?  THIS IS A POLL FORALL TEXTERS DO PEOPLE TRUELY LAUGH OUT LOUD WHEN THEY SCRIBE LOL OR R THEY JUST ATTEMPTING TO MAKE THE PREVIOUS SENDER FEEL GOOD???"?. JUST WONDERING

Well...then I had to think about it.  Most of the time I don't laugh out loud.  This is largely because it is awkward for me to laugh out loud for no apparent reason in line for coffee, at the grocery store, in the middle of class.  They call that just plain crazy.  Then you have to explain yourself to the strangers around you who are holding their children just a little tighter because crazy behind them is 'lol-ing' for no reason.  No dad.  I didn't really laugh out loud.
If I'm alone, or it's really funny..I laugh out loud.  I'm pretty sure lol is an 'appreciation laugh'.  If you were in front of the person you would recognize the humor by giving your automatic 'appreciation laugh' that is, in fact forced but it doesn't mean you didn't think that the party talking was funny.  They just didn't make you belly laugh.  You show them they are in fact funny and you appreciate the humor in your day with this laugh, or in text case-an lol.
In the cases where I DO lol at a text, I usually text back:  I literally just LOL!; or I REALLY LOL'd!!
Maybe this doesn't make sense.   Of course there is the passive aggressive LOL, as in 'thanks for calling me back last night, lol' ; 'are you ignoring me? lol';  'wow, you were drunk last night, my face doesn't hurt from you throwing that plant at it at the party at all, thanks for asking.  LOL'.  You get the point.
My response to my dad was this:
Me:  Sometimes I really laugh out loud....then I say- 'I really just lol'd!'.  Mostly llol means 'smiled to myself'.  STM.  Would have laughed if you were in front of me.  WHLIYWIFOM.  That is too long (to type)

Dad:  I THINK U should pretend I'm always in front of you when I text funny.  Just saying.

OK dad.  But, when I get stares for bringing out the crazy you know who I'm blaming in therapy this week.

Procrastination station. The Easter edition.

Signs of Spring.  I stood in MFC's window yesterday morning looking at about 6 Robin's hopping around the neighbors yard.  I'm always so happy to see those little red breasted birds!  Spring is here!  I am also fascinated by the way they hop..turn their head to the ground and listen for their prey.  Then MFC told me they hop so it sounds like rain to draw the worms to the surface.  I had never heard this theory!  Brilliant!  Then I found out he had never seen them 'listening' or heard that they do that.  Of course not one of the 6 birds would turn their head to the ground when I tried to point it out.  Now I'm not really sure that either of us knows what we are talking about!  Does anyone have the facts on this?
Speaking of Robins...Robin eggs...Easter candy.  Does anyone know how hard it is to walk by all the pretty Easter candy in say...Target????  Almost impossible.  Yesterday it seemed like a great idea to buy almond M&M's, Starbursts, or really anything just for the cute pastel package.
However, I walked away.  Why?  Three words.  Cadbury mini eggs.  Have I talked about this???
I once had a problem with the eggs.  First of all, they are nothing short of miraculous.  The chocolate is slightly salty, the shell the perfect crunch.  The best is if you suck on them.  Seriously.  It is a religious experience.
So, one year I bought a bag.  Then another bag.  It got so bad that I was eating them at 6AM on my drive into work, sneaking them in the car!  I don't know how many bags I ate that year, but let me tell you it wasn't pretty...there should have been an intervention.  So, now I have to walk away from them.
A friend of mine gave me a bag for my birthday.  That has been the only one this year.  It will stay that way.  However, the day after Easter they get marked down to a stupidly low price.  I will be chained up in the basement for the week.  I have to take precautions.