Friday, January 15, 2010

Eli and the Dinosaurs

I was talking to Eli about the dinosaur show coming to Spokane and he was asking if they were in cages. I told them they were like robots. He still wanted to know if they were in cages. I explained that they were on remotes and that they weren't real.
Eli: where are all the real ones.
Me: all the real ones died.
Eli: Yeah, because of their eggs.
Me: What do you mean their eggs?
Eli: They all stinked.

Too hilarious. Get it extinct. He was thinking eggs stinked. What a funny little boy who makes me laugh.

Deactivated

This may sound a bit overdone but I deactivated my facebook account. I can't remember why I had started that account but I left it alone for months. Then I got an email from my uncle saying happy birthday. Apparently it had notified him it was my birthday so he posted on my page which sent me any email. At the time I had maybe 3 friends on facebook. Didn't think much of it until a few months ago when I needed something I could do while babysitting. I couldn't start any project or read without interruptions. I could look through fb while standing so 10 kids wouldn't fight over my lap. It was mindless and that is what I needed. Something to break up my child filled days of child filled conversations. Well I quit daycare about a month ago. Now with a bit more time on my hands and could sit in front of the computer I found myself sitting. Derek started playing farmville which I got familiar with when I helped Alexandra set up her farm. I decide if I set up a farm I can help Derek get farther on his. Anyway anyone who knows someone who plays farmville knows it can be quite addicting. Earning money and points and ribbons. I used to think my brother was silly for playing but then I found myself on it all the time. Not so much because it is so fun but because it was easy and distracting from all the other things I should be doing. As I sit at my computer I have my back to a table of photos and scrapbook supplies. I do not care to scrapbook anymore but promised myself I would finish all my kids baby books. So as I walk into the room to work on these books i would sit at the computer instead. When I should be getting my kids ready for bed I would be harvesting strawberries or looking at photos of people I haven't' seen or cared to see in 15 years. A week ago Derek asked if I wanted to share an account with him. I thought that was sweet but then I would have to give up my farm and I had "worked" very hard to get to level 33. But I did consider giving up my account. then i considered just checking mine every 4 to 5 days. then i tried to go a day without checking it. since i couldn't I deactivated it. How funny, I thought, that I was hooked on facebook. And when deactivating they give you a few options as to why you deactivate. and yes "I find myself spending too much time on facebook" was the option I checked. My day has been unbelievable awesome. I feel so much better not getting on. I cannot tell you the amount of housework I got done. Plus I played board games with the kids. It used to drive me crazy when they would ask me to do things when I was on the computer. So why didn't i stop getting on facebook earlier. I guess I justified it as being my hobby. The one thing in the day I did that was sort of for me. Anyway I am happy to be off and hope to blog again. but in a way that it will be a journal for our family to keep.