Archive for November, 2007

brandspankingnew

20071126 19:47

You know you’re officially a grown up when you are overjoyed because your husband purchased you a brand-spankin’-new dishwasher.

Yes folks, I can now retire from dishwashing.  My hands will only wrinkle and shrivel in the bathtub. Yippie-yi-ky-yay!

Anywhosit…..
Been feeling quite nauseated.  If I’m pregnant, I’m going to have a major conniption fit.  Brandon?  He’ll probably have a heart attack.  Buuut, we’ll get over it and get use to it.

R i g h t ?

But, it’s quite likely that I just feel crummy because of the weather.  My throat is sore and my body aches.  Plus, I can hardly turn my neck without major pains reverberating through my body.  Good news?  We had the thingamabob on the dealy whopper lit so we now have heat.  (Yeah, gas heaters suck.)  Pretty cruddy to be without when a cold front comes a’knockin’!  So, now I’m all toasty and no longer have to warm myself with my hair dryer.

Ahhhhhhhhhh.

Oh to live without the Internet!

20071102 16:04

Life without a computer is so early 90’s. Remember the days when the mobile phones were restricted to your automobile and computers were still a giant hulk of a machine- you know, before television and computer monitors came in flat or widescreen versions? Those were simpler times. You could go out to eat without the interruption of annoying ring tones or the beep beep of walkie-talkie cellphones. Internet was just becoming popular, but wasn’t considered a necessity. People still used landlines and old fashioned snail mail for the majority of their communication needs.

Many kids these days have no idea what life without computer technology is like. Just watch their fingers fly over their trendy Motorola Razor phones as they text their friends. (No offense to any of you texters, but it seems more reasonable to call and chitchat live or leave a voicemail rather than text back and forth, but that’s my personal opinion.)

I can remember life without the internet. I didn’t get my own personal cell phone until I moved out of my parents’ house at seventeen years of age. I used slow dial-up until I got married.

However, once you get hooked by modern conveniences, it’s hard to turn away. So, when my laptop was shipped off to HP headquarters for major repairs, I yearned for its return. The first few days were fine. No biggy. I have plenty to keep me busy anyway!

That is, until I realized I was missing important emails, wishing I could chat with fellow bloggers and read up on their lives, and needing to look up information on the World Wide Web. I had forgotten how much I used the internet for little “errands”!