I’m getting itchy. I keep grabbing my computer and opening up a browser and then remembering that I can’t do that right now. I sit on the couch in front of the TV and feel like I’m wasting time to just be watching the show and not clicking away at the same time. My definition of multitasking has changed. Now it doesn’t mean watching news on TV while reading the news online. I have been more productive overall. I made these cardboard guitars for the kids I babysit for. Technically I made them Thursday night but I was off the Internet already by then. Also, one was too big so I've renamed it an upright bass and "decorated it" accordingly. This is the type of thing I would have posted online to get impress the masses but the warm fuzzies I got from watching the kids playing with them was more gratifying than any possible ‘Like.’ Husband and I spent Friday night with friends at the county fair. A post on all that is wonderful about the county fair is coming soon. Fact: going to the county fair when I wasn’t allowed to post pictures and make comments about the experience while IN the experience meant I actually EXPERIENCED THE EXPERIENCE! Deep. I spent most of Saturday and Sunday outside in the heat and the buggy garden. I finally got the front yard mulched and ready for the lawn section to be put in at some point. Some point when it’s not 90+ degrees and we have a way to water it that doesn’t involve me pulling a hose around from the back yard. I have Googled a few projects and I have looked up vitally important information like who lives in the house near us whose property is so big they have a driveway circle with one-way in and one-way out sign? With a gate preventing us from driving up that one-way driveway to the house we can’t see because it’s so far from the street and surrounded by trees? Who? Well, I still don’t know who actually lives there but who ever they are, they live on 9.7 acres, bought it in 1995 for a million dollars and now the three bedroom, five bathroom house is worth almost two million dollars. Information that really means nothing to me in my every day life but was totally necessary that I know right then and there so it counts as being under my “research” exception. I completed five online puzzles. Yeah, that puzzle addiction still a problem for me. I am not counting that as Internet usage. I’d have a real puzzle going if Husband wasn’t OCD about stuff on tabletops and Tigger the Dog didn’t have a tail that should be classified as a weapon. And I can think while I’m doing them so really, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. And I washed the dog and all her hairy dirty babies and bed sheets. She’s not too pleased with that last one but when she rolls around in her own pee, she loses the right to have an opinion. Husband has enjoyed teasing me with all things Facebook and Internet trash. “There’s a real kerfuffle on Facebook today.” he’ll say. “You’re missing so much.” During one of my searches, the web led me to a Facebook site and I saw that I have notifications and that is more annoying than a fly in your house you can hear but can’t see. I can’t read them. It’s forbidden. But I know that they are there, waiting for me to click on them and see who said what to who posted whatever. The fact that it’s bothering me so much shows me I was right to disengage. And yet, what if something awesome happened and I’ll never know? Or something tragic happened to a friend or a friend’s family or a friend’s family dog and I’ll not get the opportunity to give them a virtual hug? What if, what if, what if? Day four and it’s very clear to me why I’m doing this. Only twenty-seven to go…
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