Quitting Facebook?

As much as I don't care to admit it, I am addicted to facebook. I love reading about what everyone is doing, seeing their pictures, watching their kids grow. Part of what I love about Facebook is watching people air their dirty laundry. Watching someone share pieces of their life that should (in my eyes) kept private. Even though I think these things should be kept private, I still read about it. 

Another thing, Facebook can both make you feel better and worse about your situation that the same time. These people airing their dirty laundry? They are way worse off than I, because I don't really have that dirty laundry to air. But then their are the people who are in a great place, maybe a place you want to be, physically or emotionally. Maybe they are super fit, or they are living in some wonderful place, or maybe they are just really happy with themselves. 

Then there is all the random shit on facebook. I am so sick of seeing "give this kid with cancer 1 billion likes" or "like if you love jesus, ignore if you don't". Seriously? neither cancer nor jesus care about facebook likes. Then all the "woe is me" stories that turn out to be pathological liars? Where someone was discriminated against and thousands of people donated money or gifts, and the person turned out to be a liar? Those make me me a little jaded about all the "oh no, poor me" stories on facebook. Who can you really trust when we are all behind computer screens?

Recently, two private groups I am a part of had serious drama. Drama that has caused people to leave/be removed from both groups. Although I wasn't directly involved with either dramatic instance, I found myself lurking and reading all the posts, almost feeding off the drama. I found my heart racing to see what would be said next. Looking back at these I think I need to stop caring too much about other peoples lives, and focus on my own. 

I'm not leaving forever, hell I will likely be back on tonight. But I need to scale back the presence of facebook in my day. I need to refocus and not have facebook be the first thing I look at on my phone each morning. I need to not take a bunch of pictures and have my first thought be "that'll be a great profile picture!" And mostly I need to stop caring what drama is going on in other peoples lives. I am half tempted to leave all the groups I am a part of on facebook, but some of them have real good friends, and it's nice to have a private place you can go to a group of like minded (or at least similar minded) people to weigh in on something, like parenting or christmas gift ideas for your husband. 

I will not deactivate my account, I am not going to lurk and just not post, but I am going to step back and refocus on what's important on the internet. 

Cats. 

We have Internets!

Well I have internet again! and we are mostly unpacked! and we have a huge section of 'Yard Sale' stuff! I'm still trying to catch up here at the house though. I'll try to get some posts up in the next week, but I still have lots going on here. But I'm almost back! Huzzah! 

I'll be back

I'm on a hiatus because I am running out of Internet again.
Not much of a life you've been missing. I was sick for a while and I've been working a lot. Trying to plan surprises for my sisters bridal shower and bachelorette. I am very excited she is getting married in a month. She is a big girl now.
Hopefully I'll have full use of my Internet again soon and I can visit more!

Xoxo

I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN!

and everyone cheers!

It has been a very long two weeks. But I have internet again! And it's my day off! however this post is going to be brief, but fear not! If I can find it in me I will post several posts throughout today, just right now I am fixin to go to the PetCo because my cat needs food. Then I need a pedicure like woah. And I am almost out of vodka.


Thank you for being patient with me. I have so much to share, I have done so many things without internet. I cannot wait to share my kitchen adventures, pictures, and work stories with you.


Oh and I checked my Google Reader today for the first time in 2 weeks. 954 unread blog posts. I guess I need to follow more blogs, I was sure that number would be well over 1,000, I have it down to 920 now. It's going to take me all three days I have off to catch up on all my unread blogs. 


Last thing, just before I lost all internet I joined pinterest (if you want an invite just let me know. But yOu should go find me on there if you are on it. I am in love. 

Source: etsy.com via Alana on Pinterest

still no internets

i know i promised i'd be back on the 1st. but i was wrong. here it is the 4th and i am still lacking internets.

if you are interested this is what I am dealing with: http://www.wildblue.com/fap/index.jsp

I am currently at 82% hoping to dropping about 3% a day. so maybe by next week I will be below the 70% and able to use my internets again. hopefully.

And then the internet ran out.

No Seriously.

See my internet is beamed in from outer space by aliens, because I live in the boonies and there are no local internet providers that will provide for me.
So we are alloted a certain amount of internet a month, so we don't hog it all. Once we reach that amount our bandwidth is restricted and we are slower than dial-up. It's sad. Yesterday (my birthday) we ran out of internet until the 30th. So you'll have to wait for such exciting posts as: Pesto-Chicken Pizza of Awesomeness. & The Amazing Steak I had for my Birthday Dinner. & The Bug that Ruined My Life Day. Because all of those posts will have pictures, and well it would take me a light-year to even upload one picture, let alone all of the ones I know you are dying to see.

So I'll be back on (or around) the 30th.

Around the interwebs

I spend an awful lot of time on the internet. But with P being gone, outside of school I need to keep myself occupied. Here are some of my favorite sites that give me a good laugh.

(some are NSFW)

Failbooking

Texts from Last Night

(262):

dude this girl next to me farted in the middle of a quiz and denied my high five

(1-262):

bitch

People of Wally World

Epic Win

Oddly Specific

Failblog

GOOGLE IS EVIL

i swear every time something goes wrong and i google it the first things that pop up are terrible, example one: my cat has a sore on his face, google tells me that its feline leukemia! damnit my cats been vaccinated and he isnt in contact with other cats so its not FIV but i am still sitting her on the verge of an anxiety attack. example two: dog got a rash, google says dog has horrible disease and is going to die, okay maybe not but its still nerve wracking.  i feel like crap i've now got to take the cat to the vet to rule out any illness though i am pretty sure the dog bit him. i am so freaking out right now. ugh i hate anxiety!