Online again - and giddy with delight
I finally went to Target, bought a $5.99 telephone cord, came home, unhooked the useless DSL crap, used the telephone cord to join the computer to the phone outlet, logged onto AOL - had to change my free bring-your-own DSL connection plan to a $9.95 per month dial-up plan . . . and VOILA! I am online again. I had forgotten just how SLOW dial-up is. So I am VERY slowly online, but I’m online. Here I am - blogging from home for the first time in almost two months. It’s incredible.
I haven’t checked my site meter - so I may be down to only a handful of readers, but at least I can write again. I’ve sure missed it, and I realize what a satisfying activity writing is. That is part of what I teach children to do - to write to express their ideas and feelings. And writing isn’t an activity that has universal acceptance. I’ve been a little disheartened since I started blogging by the people in my life who feel it’s a waste of time. They just don’t “get” why anyone would want to blog, and they seem to humor my interest in it. I no longer care. I’m just thrilled to be able to do it again.
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September 28th, 2007 (3 weeks ago) at 7:44 pm YAY! As for those in our lives who don’t see the value in our blogging, so what? Some of my family has the same opinion, and have expressed it, even though I’ve never asked for their approval. The way I see it, I don’t necessarily have to be interested in or approve of all their hobbies. My husband spends a minimum of 12 hours a week playing golf, my mother and SIL love to shop and my brother plays a lot of video games. Just because I have no interest in those things, it doesn’t mean they should give them up. It’s not my job to pick their hobbies, it’s not their job to pick mine. It’s your life and your time, you’re the one has to find the value in how you spend it.