This love affair is with a Samsung netbook. It is small and cute. It has Windows 7, which I really don't mind. The screen is nice and bright and the keyboard has nice action. It does seem to be incredibly slow! Which I don't really understand. Will have to do some research on that. But it's portable and best of all it was free. A gift from my sister in law. Since it has the ability to video conference, my husband will be able to use it when he goes to see his father at the nursing home. He will Skype with his sister who lives in Georgia and then she can see her father more often. Win-win!
The first computer we had was an Apple II. It was very basic. No color. Our first email address was through Buffalo State College. It was text only, no graphics. Back then no one used their name in an email address, so our first one was Bishotti. Not sure if we spelled it right. It was Italian slang for taking a dump. Nice, right?
Our household has slowly grown to include 5 computers. Four desktops and a laptop and now a netbook. Including the smartphones, we are more connected than you can imagine. We have a wireless network in the house, so you can access the internet from any spot in the house and also from outside on the deck or front porch. It's an amazing world we live in.
It has been an incredibly long week of work. We are in a transition of moving some things around and changing certain rooms and their functions. So there is a learning curve that goes along with that. It takes time to adjust to the new set-up and remember that things that were once one place are no longer there. And where did we put them?
I like my job. For the most part. It is the first job I have had outside the home in 20 some odd years. I had a part time job doing bookkeeping for a liquor store when the kids were really small. But that was on weekends and Paul would stay home with the kids. My current job is in an ophthalmologist office. I started in the file room. I figured that even having been out of the workforce for as long as I had been, I could still alphabetize. That worked its way into answering phones and booking appointments and finally working at the front desk checking people in and out. It is pretty routine, once you have the routine down. A lot of paperwork. A lot of redundancy. It is interesting coming into a place and seeing how things could be run better or at least differently, more efficiently. Sometimes that can be frustrating. Especially when you don’t have the power or control to make changes. I’ve always been the kind of person to make changes anyway. Most of the time it works out in my favor. Occasionally, not so much. But I figure it’s always worth a shot. Otherwise you just spend your days , trudging along to the beat of someone else’s drum. Where is the fun in that?
Now that I am working full time, I find I don’t have the energy for projects at home like I used to. It makes me sad, because there are still lots of things I’d like to do around the house. And the thought of using a vacation week to do a project just seems wrong to me. Vacation, by it’s very name, means not doing anything. Right? Lay on the deck in the sun. Sit with your feet in the pool. Drink Peña Coladas. Work? Then it’s not vacation. But if you don’t use a vacation to do a big project then you are left using your weekends to do it. And since Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, that leaves Saturday. And really, do you know how many Saturdays it is going to take to redo that bathroom? It hardly seems worth it.
I do miss the freedom of not working everyday. Being able to get together with my sister for lunch and shopping, while the kids were in school. Days seemed to go slower then, too. Now it feels like every time I turn around we are half way through another month. Years are flying by. I wish there was a pause button that could stop time for a little while. Just to give me a chance to catch up. Oh, and redo the bathroom too.
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