facebook is time consuming and addictive

holy crap was the phrase of the day yesterday. if you haven't tried facebook, you could never know...it's like an onslaught of six degrees, the six degrees' mothers have six degrees. you type in your info (name and where you went to high school and when) and then it shows you pictures of people you might know. then more pictures. then you find some you know and look at their friends, then you find twenty people you know and you look at their friends...all these people you used to SEE EVERY DAY! it's insane. it made me giddy and sick at the same time. and yes, i easily found tony ray! and a million other people. mostly i wanted to find tony and jodi, and i did. so i'm happy. but damn if that thing isn't addicting in it's astonishment factor, and the voyeuristic thing of wondering what people are up to now that we're in the realm of thirty.
rodney and i have to joust for a chance to go check our facebook pages and then it's just this constant echoing yell from the back of the house: "holy crap!" "oh my god!" "(insert someone pasty's name here)" (and that was PAST-y, like from the past. yeah.)

i am grateful for:
connections
whimsy
good bread
butter
my bike

oh yeah, and loki for telling me how to get photos in the body of my text. doh!

fortness and other random stuff to suck up time

hey cool--i was checking out loki's blog (at kid drop-offs and pick-ups we sometimes commiserate about how inadequate we are at maneuvering the blogosphere--can never seem to figure out the EASY way to do stuff!) and i was pleased as punch to see that she had done a piece about the girls' woodsy fort (as in, yay! now i don't have to! scritch--that's me crossing it off my really, really long to-do list) here it is, check it out cuz it's cool and there are some great pictures of the girls being all empowered by their creation: http://lokikohall.blogspot.com/2009/03/back-to-land-kid-version.html

as i mentioned i've been sewing up a storm lately and am right this minute in the process of posting some new pictures to my flickr site (see how capably i can multitask)...and i've recently learned about a new thing i have to do: facebook. yeah, i knew it was out there, but ignored it totally. last night rodney got a call from one of his back east best buddies--who we haven't seen since the wedding. he encouraged rodney to sign up with facebook because a lot of their old friends are on there and within the span of an evening he had located a couple dozen old friends. damn! i found out my DAD is on facebook. huh? the thought of re-hooking up with that many old high school friends (actually i don't think i even HAD that many friends in high school) is really weird, but there is one or two people i always wonder about and hey, it's worth a shot. (tony ray, where are you?!)

okay, i'm off to finalize that flickr download and then rodney is taking the kids for a bikeride so i can sew...oh yeah, i'm in mass-production now! i stayed up til two in the morning making peas the other night and today i'm making a bunch of tomatoes. sweatshops unite!




i'm grateful for:
the new bed
the sunshine today that lets a bikeride be possible
computers
wonderful friends
hope