Day 5 and I wish I could post onto FB how tired I am of rain.
It has rained, and rained, and rained this summer and I am so very, VERY tired of it! Our days of sun AND warmth have been few and far between this spring/summer and I feel like we're in this never ending tunnel of cold, rainy, dark days. Today is June 5 and our high is supposed to be 61. Thank God I don't live in Seattle.
So what have I done instead of waste time on social media? Well, yesterday I baked all day. A friend gave me Amish Friendship Bread starter a while back and yesterday was bread baking day. I had two starters going so I had four loaves of bread to bake. My family loves that stuff; one loaf is almost gone already!! Instead of four large loaves, I baked two large and four small loaves and sent two of the small loaves to Garry. We have eaten enough of that stuff already.
I'm also baking cookies for the guys while Lily and I go to Raleigh, and to send to my dad for Father's Day. I got a batch of chocolate chip baked yesterday and today I'm baking white chocolate macadamia nut and peanut butter.
I also made chicken noodle soup yesterday. It's been soup kind of weather; I'm even considering some chili!!!
I'm listening to a book on CD while I'm baking and cooking and cleaning. It's The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, who is one of my favorite authors. It's historical fiction about the US and Mexico in the 1930's and I'm completely engrossed in it. In a way, I'm sort of glad to be stuck at home because I have an excuse to be in and listen to my book.
I do keep receiving email reminders from FB about my friend's birthdays and about posts to groups that I'm part of. I haven't read the post reminders because that feels like I'm checking FB.
Wouldn't it be great to be a cat? Sleep, eat, sleep, eat all day. Of course, I would want to be a cat in my house. Or be a cat in my friends Monica's or Stacy's house.....we are all good cat parents. Being a cat in one of our houses would be my dream life.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
Day 3 Social Media is.......
Day 3 of no social media.....
But what exactly is social media? Does it include blogs? Emails? Yahoo home page?
Social media generally refers to those sites that are more like a social setting where there is interaction amongst the participants. Facebook would be the granddaddy of all SM sites and probably the biggest time waster in the history of the world. Not only can one interact with people one had never actually met, one can also play worthless games and give fake, as well as real, gifts.
I never was a huge FB game player. I did the garden thing for a while, and also that bar game. But I was never a Mafia Wars or Farmville fan. I keep receiving invites to play this new Candy Crush game (or something like that....I don't pay much attention to the names) and I see the notifications that so and so reached a new high score in some game. Good grief, FB wastes enough of my time - I don't need some game to suck me in, too!!!
Yesterday, I cleaned out my pantry area. It had needed it for a LONG time, and now I'm not embarrassed for someone to use the trash can in the side of it. I also got my floor mopped, ran 3 miles, did two yoga classes, cooked dinner, and did laundry. It's amazing what can be accomplished when I'm not searching Pinterest for some new Grumpy Cat meme.
(But I do miss Grumpy Cat. She's my hero.)
I am not including blogs in my social media fast. I'm not one who reads a lot of blogs anyway and those that I do follow I don't read every day. Email is a necessity in this day and age, and because my job and my child's school communicate that way, I couldn't give that up. And the Yahoo home page is usually where I get my news and check the weather, plus it's not really interactive. My belief is that none of the above - blogs, email, and Yahoo - are social media and I will continue to use these during my month.
I did hear a guy on NPR about two weeks ago who gave the up the Internet for a year. It was an interesting idea and his review of his year was fascinating; how his life was so very different having to rely on snail mail and the old research methods of reading books (gasp!). But he did say that it wasn't realistic for most people to be able to go Internet free in this day and age. Most people who have a job or are students could not go without the Internet, especially since most communication is accomplished via email. My college kids receive grades and do homework on their school's sites, and they have so many papers to write that research would be too time consuming without Internet research. (Some classes even require Internet research.)
Social media is as far as I will go for a fast, at least for now. Giving up more may come later.....maybe I'll even go live by a pond for a year.
But what exactly is social media? Does it include blogs? Emails? Yahoo home page?
Social media generally refers to those sites that are more like a social setting where there is interaction amongst the participants. Facebook would be the granddaddy of all SM sites and probably the biggest time waster in the history of the world. Not only can one interact with people one had never actually met, one can also play worthless games and give fake, as well as real, gifts.
I never was a huge FB game player. I did the garden thing for a while, and also that bar game. But I was never a Mafia Wars or Farmville fan. I keep receiving invites to play this new Candy Crush game (or something like that....I don't pay much attention to the names) and I see the notifications that so and so reached a new high score in some game. Good grief, FB wastes enough of my time - I don't need some game to suck me in, too!!!
Yesterday, I cleaned out my pantry area. It had needed it for a LONG time, and now I'm not embarrassed for someone to use the trash can in the side of it. I also got my floor mopped, ran 3 miles, did two yoga classes, cooked dinner, and did laundry. It's amazing what can be accomplished when I'm not searching Pinterest for some new Grumpy Cat meme.
(But I do miss Grumpy Cat. She's my hero.)
I am not including blogs in my social media fast. I'm not one who reads a lot of blogs anyway and those that I do follow I don't read every day. Email is a necessity in this day and age, and because my job and my child's school communicate that way, I couldn't give that up. And the Yahoo home page is usually where I get my news and check the weather, plus it's not really interactive. My belief is that none of the above - blogs, email, and Yahoo - are social media and I will continue to use these during my month.
I did hear a guy on NPR about two weeks ago who gave the up the Internet for a year. It was an interesting idea and his review of his year was fascinating; how his life was so very different having to rely on snail mail and the old research methods of reading books (gasp!). But he did say that it wasn't realistic for most people to be able to go Internet free in this day and age. Most people who have a job or are students could not go without the Internet, especially since most communication is accomplished via email. My college kids receive grades and do homework on their school's sites, and they have so many papers to write that research would be too time consuming without Internet research. (Some classes even require Internet research.)
Social media is as far as I will go for a fast, at least for now. Giving up more may come later.....maybe I'll even go live by a pond for a year.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Day 2 - No Social Media.....
It is day 2 of my no social media month and I'm thus far experiencing no withdrawal pangs and have not had the shakes or any other adverse effects. Apparently there is life after Facebook.
Since I don't have Facebook to vent, I will start with my rant here....
It's REALLY cold again! June 2, and I'm wearing layers and sitting under a blanket because it's so stinking cold! Today is Ride the Drive in Madison, a Sunday when the city of Madison closes down many of the downtown streets and people can ride their bikes or run or whatever without fear of being hit by a car. There are all kinds of music stages and other activities set up and it's really fun. Lily and I were going to go, but I don't think it's warm enough. Right now at almost 11 AM, it's 48 degrees. And cloudy and windy. Yuck....
One bad thing about no Facebook is that I am going to be missing birthdays. Today is my sister-in-law's birthday and I'm going to have to email her...such a bother! Hahahaha!!! I know a few birthdays this month - like my BFF Monica - but I know I'll miss some and I'm sorry if I miss yours.
This is the last week of school. I am so looking forward to not fighting with Lily every morning to get her up and ready. I have a feeling she is going to get bored pretty quickly, though. She is dancing and playing softball and taking piano lessons, and she has a writing camp in August, but she likes to be busy. It's going to be a challenge to keep her engaged all summer.
I did some weeding yesterday, but it barely made a dent. With all of the rain we've had, the weeds are going nuts. And those awful helicopter seed pods are EVERYWHERE right now! UGH!!! I was hoping to get some more weeding done today. I will have to dig out the long underwear if I'm going to spend any time outside, though.....
I just realized....I hope I don't need any of my recipes from Pinterest this month....
Since I don't have Facebook to vent, I will start with my rant here....
It's REALLY cold again! June 2, and I'm wearing layers and sitting under a blanket because it's so stinking cold! Today is Ride the Drive in Madison, a Sunday when the city of Madison closes down many of the downtown streets and people can ride their bikes or run or whatever without fear of being hit by a car. There are all kinds of music stages and other activities set up and it's really fun. Lily and I were going to go, but I don't think it's warm enough. Right now at almost 11 AM, it's 48 degrees. And cloudy and windy. Yuck....
One bad thing about no Facebook is that I am going to be missing birthdays. Today is my sister-in-law's birthday and I'm going to have to email her...such a bother! Hahahaha!!! I know a few birthdays this month - like my BFF Monica - but I know I'll miss some and I'm sorry if I miss yours.
This is the last week of school. I am so looking forward to not fighting with Lily every morning to get her up and ready. I have a feeling she is going to get bored pretty quickly, though. She is dancing and playing softball and taking piano lessons, and she has a writing camp in August, but she likes to be busy. It's going to be a challenge to keep her engaged all summer.
I did some weeding yesterday, but it barely made a dent. With all of the rain we've had, the weeds are going nuts. And those awful helicopter seed pods are EVERYWHERE right now! UGH!!! I was hoping to get some more weeding done today. I will have to dig out the long underwear if I'm going to spend any time outside, though.....
I just realized....I hope I don't need any of my recipes from Pinterest this month....
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