Written yesterday…At the moment, I am sitting in the woods listening to a bill moyers talk on the price of war. The husband’s family has my kids and I am almost able to ignore the twisting pain I woke up with this morning.

It has been a long weekend. I wish I had some fun stuff to report but I have been cranky and things have not gone very well. Actually, now that I think about, there were good times once I push the ants, ttops behavior, and the dog peeing on my bed aside. We took the kids to the big lake and played and swam. We went to a big competitive potluck where my mil won “best dish to pass” around. Baked beans that were gone as soon as they hit the table. We saw cool fireworks and the kids were all much more mature than last year.

I decided yesterday that I am well enough to start working a little bit from home this week. Hopefully my doctors will agree because I have to work enough to cover my health insurance premium.

I also decided that my mind is becoming mushy and I need to walk away from the timesuckers and mindmushers. I took twitter off the blog, cleared out all who I was following, and started locking down my facebook account. I am also going to finetune my reader. I erased all the games on my computer and iPod. I’m also going to cancel our satellite tv service. The husband and I only watch netflix and the kids watch an hour tops of tv each week. All that stuff was great while I was sick over the last year but I am quickly getting better.

Instead, I will focus on maintaining my health, improving our family’s diet, growing our own food, improving my mind with great literature and nonfiction, and continuing with my family focused research and volunteering. Not to mention continuing my efforts as a patient and therapeutic parent which is filled with failures as well as successes. I even quit mountain dew so this is serious.

I am not saying this in judgement of anyone else. I just feel that some of this social technology has caused me to lose sight of my true interests and passions. A lot of this technology probably enriches many peoples lives but I feel like I am losing focus on what is important to me because of it.

In a related note, I downloaded kindle onto my iPod for free. I downloaded a free book to test it and I am loving it. It took a little getting used to but now I can’t get enough. I read voraciously and fast. I usually bring a paper grocery bag to the campground filled with books cause I can clear out one a day. Now I don’t have to lug around as many books and I can read at night in the dark next to the campfire. Most of classic literature is free and so is classic childrens lit. I love reading to my kids and now I will always have new stuff at my fingertips. Very cool. Plus my iPod is fairly invincible. Love it.

Sent from my iPod