*** Big decision made today... I have decided I've been spending WAY too much time on Facebook. I have left it open on my desktop 24/7. I can't walk past the computer or even anywhere close to it without checking to see who's commented. I have to admit that I am addicted to it.
*** I have so enjoyed reconnecting with family and friends I haven't seen or even spoken to in years and years. I've visited with old high school chums and even one from grade school. I've become "friends" with many of my cousins, nieces, nephews, sisters-in-law, a brother, mountain-community friends, ward members, Valley friends, Utah friends, friends of friends, friends of family members, friends innumerable!
*** However..... I'm not using my time well... My life seems to be whizzing past me at breakneck speed and I don't feel like I get anything done of any import because I spend so much time checking FB. I realize that I'm going to miss out on a lot of fun stuff. I love to read the comments my Friends make... they make me giggle and feel like I'm connected to the outside world and lives other than my own.
*** However... like I said, I'm not using my time well.
*** There are so many things I need to do. I love it when I've actually read the Sunday School or Relief Society lessons. I actually look forward and am excited and anxious to go when I've prepared. I really need and want to get into genealogy. I feel really silly that we've been temple workers for so long, but do not take in our own family names. It's kind of embarrassing. I would really like to actually read the Ensign each month. Go figure! I have piles and piles and boxes and boxes of issues dating back years and I'm really embarrassed at how few of them I've read completely and how many never got read at all.
*** I have hundreds and hundreds of family photos that have been sorted into stacks of my siblings' families, as well as my own, that I intend to scan and put on CDs so they can be saved, protected and given to the various family units that need to have them. This is my family's history! These stacks have been sitting here in my office for several months since my brother, Tony, came up and helped me with the sorting.
*** I have countless projects I want to do: Knitted and crocheted items. Quilts. And I'd like to actually use my Cricut machine...
*** I want to work on my journal... I have started journaling many times, but rarely make it further than a few days into a new year...
*** There are just so many things that I want to accomplish and none of them can be brought to fruition if I don't make some serious changes in the way I spend my time. I'm almost 60 years old and I don't have time to waste... (oh, my gosh! That makes me gag to say!! 60! Agh!!) I digress....
*** So, something had to give, and giving up Facebook was the biggest time-eater I could eliminate.
*** I plan to try, yet again, to be more regular with updating this blog. I don't lead a very exciting life to record here, but maybe if I spend a little more time thinking about my my life, the things I do and maybe some of my accomplishments with this change in my life, I will have something worthwhile to share...
*** Wish me luck, hang in there with me, and check in when you can...
*** SOOOOO..... Good bye, Facebook. It's been fun. Maybe when I break the habit, I'll check in once in a while, but probably not! :) You know how addicts are... can't go near the temptation... I don't want to get caught up in it again...
XOX
8 comments:
You are one smart cookie- I always think about just not doing it but it sucks me back in. Hope you enjoy all the EXTRA TIME you will have. Maybe I will take a Facebook break as well!
Awww..we'll miss ya! I know what you mean though.
So now you know why I seldom comment, although I read selectively every other day.....life is too short to sit in front of the computer. There are way too many things to do before you can't do them anymore.
Nice. And why exactly are you keeping piles and piles and boxes and boxes of old Ensigns? It sounds like great kindling to me!
Karen, that's a very good question. I'm not entirely sure why I keep them... just seems kind of sacrilegious to through them away since we as a Church consider them to be scripture! I know we can get them online later if we want them, but I just can't throw them away! Crazy, I know!
i will miss you, but thank goodness for blogs! :)
Well addict, I mean Mother..... I finally figured out how to comment, so I will try to check you out more often. Good luck on all those pictures. I'll be checking my mail every day. Lova ya, Julie
Tina, I am so glad to hear you say what you did because it has helped me make an important decision. With my retirement coming up in 10 weeks, and then my trip, I had reluctantly decided to get my Facebook name spelled correct and get into it. I have had reservations; my 2nd councelor has admitted to being addicted to it as well. Having worked the biggest share of 50 years I am not sure I want to enslave myself with Facebook; and so my final decision is made: Keep me on your email list because I am not going to waste my precious time on Facebook so that I can do all those things in my to do list!! My time is even shorter than yours so THANKS for your very timely post, dear friend!!! With the new Temple in Payson just 5 minutes from my house my hope is to work there after it is built and there are a lot of family names to be done. My sister is doing a great job but we have a lot of family who needs their work done ~ but first the research has to be done so I will spend my time on the computer to researching family names!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Love to you dear lady. Juanita
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