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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I’ve got mad fever!

No, I am not talking scarlet fever or hay fever… It’s SPRING fever around here! Thankfully we’ve kicked our cold (I should say E and I kicked it, N might be coming down with it now). So things are more productive here especially since the weekend was warmer than usual, basically it was NOT jacket weather [...]

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The day of red

18 months ago, thanks to my Fertility Awareness Method charting I knew I was pregnant, before I’d even missed my period. Now, over a year later I am back in the world of fertile women and am reminded of how bad it sucks to have “that time of the month” again… Oh and we have to [...]

Monday, January 25, 2010

Road trip adventures Everly enjoyed.

Whew! After a week on the road we needed a day to decompress after getting back to Evansville. Yesterday we sat around in our PJ’s, did many loads of laundry, scrubbed cat vomit from the carpets, cleaned cat boxes… You know all the chores and stuff that go undone while you are away. Everly was a [...]

Friday, January 22, 2010

The last time I showered in New Mexico…

What is it with shower situations in New Mexico? We are spending the night in Tucumcari, NM this time around. We got a cheap hotel to spend the night in and unfortunately it only has a shower. You see it’s a cheap hotel, tiny, clean and shower-less with a super loud heater… You get what you [...]

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Forging ahead – Bringing our car home from Arizona

We are on the road in our newly fixed car! After flying here and hanging out with family and friends it’s now time to make the trip back home, in our car. We spent much time this morning debating weather or not it was a good idea to make the trek up north to I-40 [...]

Friday, January 8, 2010

Live Blogging: Cat Swallows Needle

Here are my tweets as they played out during the night and early hours of the morning. I didn’t realized it would reach so many people. At first I was just tweeting so my husband would know what was going on, then I kept tweeting to be sure I didn’t leave anyone in the dark. [...]

Monday, January 4, 2010

Dazed, anxiety ridden and plagued with ham disease.

It’s true. N and I got the holiday ham that keeps on giving. It seems we have food poisoning or something… It’s been an ongoing thing for over a week now. We just tossed several pounds of ham leftovers after we figured it was the culprit, also tossed the spinach salad just for good measure. [...]

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009 as parents.

I never thought I would be such a gingerbread cookie fiend! Last week we made up a ton of cookies to get in the holiday spirit and also so N would have cookies to take in to work for everyone. We’d been trying different gingerbread cookie recipes each year, nothing was particularly impressive and I thought [...]

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Someone is excited about the holiday!

She’s not even walking yet and she’s already being a stinker about opening gifts early. After her gift snagging earlier in the week we moved all the gift bags and stuff with ribbon away from her reach. We thought the paper and curly ribbon was attracting her attention. Looks like she’s smarter about this gift [...]

Saturday, December 19, 2009

A twitter addiction? Confessions and talk of loss.

I have a confession. I am fairly certain twitter is killing my creativity! I’ve been having issues with blog content since Everly’s birth. Sure I am a busy mom who is working part time in addition to caring for a new baby. Yeah, computer time is limited these days… The thing is it’s not the time that [...]

Friday, December 4, 2009

Baby leg warmers crochet fun

I’ve been working on making E a pair of baby legwarmers since October. I just finished them today which is kind of a big deal. You see I tend to start and never finish my knit and crochet projects… Today will probably be the only day she’ll wear them since it took me two months to [...]

Friday, November 20, 2009

Sunday Stealing: The Dating Profiles Meme

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans…

All the trees are naked and it is very close to freezing at night now. Thanksgiving is just right around the corner and we aren’t really sure where the year has gone. Life is blowing by so fast and it just feels like we are standing here in a blur while it all swirls around us [...]

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Today we are proud home owners!

Well, we’ve done it! Several years of planning and thousands of dollars later… We are now the proud owners of our own home! N was bummed that we had no “sold” sign to pose with out on the front lawn though… We may just have to stage it anyway, kind of like this: We went in [...]

Friday, November 13, 2009

Sigh… Rest and recuperation are in order.

This will be the first weekend in probably a month or so that we’ll have to relax and get caught up on things. Marching season has come and gone, my 9th marching season is now over. Sure winterguard plans and ideas are in the works but it wont be until January when the performance madness picks [...]

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A twitter addiction? Confessions and talk of loss.

Posted on Dec 19 in Featured, parenting, parenting advice, personal stories, societyby TalinaPrint

I have a confession. I am fairly certain twitter is killing my creativity!

I’ve been having issues with blog content since Everly’s birth. Sure I am a busy mom who is working part time in addition to caring for a new baby. Yeah, computer time is limited these days…

The thing is it’s not the time that is my issue. It’s the focus. When I have time I am usually juggling like a million things all at once. Got my gmail up, my hootsuite for twitter, my facebook, my various other emails, my blog… and that is just the computer distractions.

I’ve got oodles of real life distractions too like the TV, phone, Everly’s needs, the vomiting/ pissing pets that run a muck, my own personal needs and the mounting to-do list running in my head.

Honestly though, Twitter is the issue. I mean I’ve already checked it twice since sitting down to write this! It drains my focus and creativity. It’s a distraction!

All sorts of debate is going on these days about the appropriateness and place of social networking in real life situations. Some companies are jumping on the Twitter bandwagon while some employers ban tweeting on the job.

Right now there is a HUGE controversy revolving around Twitter user Shellie Ross (aka Military_Mom) who recently tweeted the loss of her son soon after his death. Some people are attacking her and blaming Twitter for her son’s drowning, others are trying to rally and support her in her grief.

While I don’t think announcing the death of a child or asking for prayers in time of crisis is out of line I do think tweeting can go way overboard and we all need to really take a look at how it’s shaping our lives.

I won’t let tweeting (or blogging, texting, email etc.) take precedence over caring for my family or myself. That said, I did tweet portions of my daughters birth. I am sure some would find that outraging but it worked for me.

It’s a fine line you see and it’s each adults responsibility to determine what works and what doesn’t.

Who are we to criticize and determine what is or isn’t appropriate for others? Our energies are better spent determining how we will do things for ourselves and our families.

For me, having twitter up and running while I work on certain things is totally a distraction for me, I’ve learned this. When I sit down to blog or pay bills or whatever I wont be on twitter. I now know that I need to get better at managing my twitter time while on the computer.

My point is that twitter is addicing and it CAN be a hindrance in real life if we let it. Rather than judging I was able to hear the story of Shellie Ross (@Military_Mom) and take something positive from it. I wish others would do the same.

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One Comment

Donna B. says:

December 19, 2009 at 8:21 pm

The best invention this century IMHO was the answering machine and it’s lovely companion, caller ID. I say this because it freed me from the tyranny of the telephone. I no longer HAD to answer to find out who it was, and they could tell me what they wanted without input from me.

Cellphones took back a bit of that freedom because now everyone expects your phone to be nearby… but just to keep people from getting used to the idea that I’m always available, I don’t always answer.

For the same reason — expectation of my availability — I’ve hated any form of instant messaging from the very beginning also. Note that I’ve been “online” since the mid-80s. Twitter’s only saving grace is that apparently no one expects immediate response, but that doesn’t take away the annoying distraction of being “intruded upon” incessantly by another’s need to communicate.

I tried Tweetdeck for a few days, and simply couldn’t handle it and I was only following a few people.

But, pay no attention to me – I am aware I am a grumpy old lady most of the time!