Friday, October 1, 2010

a quieter life

I enjoy blogging.  I like Facebook.
But I would have never considered myself an internet junkie.
Until now.

For the third time in two weeks, we are without internet and phone service.
I am at my mom-in-laws to satisfy my "needs."
And in all sincerity, I am expecting three e-mails about times/meetings for this weekend.
It would be bad to show up at the wrong time somewhere.

But those three e-mails aside, it's really not a necessity to update my blog, read all the blog feeds, check facebook, or visit a website or two.

And the scary thing?  I've gotten a whole lot more housework and projects done since our internet has been so skittish this last week.  As much as a I love the world wide web, I am astounded at how much of my life it has absconded.  Seriously.

Like chocolate and sweet tea, I'm not ready to give it  up, but I am starting to wonder if it's time to enforce the "moderation in all things" mantra to my life.

Excess, indulgence, gluttony...they're all the same thing, aren't they?

He must increase; I must decrease.

I'm taking a deep breath as I type this, but I'm imposing a time limit for the computer this next week.  Now if I can just figure out how to enforce it. :/

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

I always feel lost when my computer is down....especially having email.

Richpo the Unmagnificent said...

Good post, Monica.

But if you're doing "religious" things then you don't need to feel bad about your Internet addiction. ;-)

If you get to feeling too bad about it then Mr. Bobby will have to install some software that limits you to X hours per day. Let me know if you need any help with that...

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