Five Days Unplugged

Saturday morning, in the middle of planning our anniversary date, we got a pop-upmessage alerting us to a virus found on our computer. We "x"ed it out, but that was apparently all it took to start the "rogue bogus antivirus" from taking over our computer. Unfortunately, I neglected to do several things, the first of which was to make recovery disks for the computer when we got it a year ago. Secondarily, and more important to me, I put off backing up all of the photos and videos of Julia...for the past year. So, I'll just get out out of the way: "poor me!" There...that feels better. Now, until I can get the photos backed up and the computer fixed, I'm obviously not able to be online other than using this smartphone (and I can assure you that I didn't name the device as such...). I had been talking about "giving up" facebook for the month of November, really meaning the games I played on the site which had begun to take up to much time. I made a list of all the things that I was missing out on by panting virtual crops and digging for imaginary treasures. Tea parties Coloring books Exercise Clean house Crafts, sewing Reading Going to bed at night with my husband...not hours later When I told a few people about it (not many...if I failed, I wanted to fail in front of the least amount of folks possible!), I was mostly laughed at. Darling Hubby actually snorted. DH said, through the laughter, "Yeah, right...that'll *never* happen!" Now, those who know me know this for certain: If you want to get me involved, just say I can't do it. I like a challenge, I hate to lose and there's not much I like more than proving you wrong if you doubt me. So I started to *really* consider it. Said I would only get on via the phone (which is almost like not being on at all!) And I started this blog, because the reason I like facebook is because its almost like a diary for me...and I can share photos. Well, here we are halfway through day five, and I'm looking around thinking, "Wow...look at all I have been missing!" The house is getting clean and organized each day, I've completed several sewing projects and have a few more started. All of the laundry is done. I'm reading a book. I watched a couple movies. Not that I didn't do ask of those things, I just usually ended up glancing at the clock, funding out what time it was and, in panic mode, tried to cram a while life in half the time, not giving anything the attention it needed or deserved. Bad wife. Bad momma. Bad me. So, I'm determined now, even when the computer gets fixed, to budget my time better. I only get one shot at this. I sure don't want to waste it on the virtual version when I can live the real one...unplugged. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless