over the course of this summer i've had some big moments!! it started in may when my cousin, don't make us stop this car, gently persuaded me into the world of blogging!! this was quite a step for me!! after our may trip i came home needing to find internet for the first time in my life! you see, i'm the baby in the family so i still enjoyed some of the benefits even in my 30's. we had dialed into my parents company for internet use. i know it was dial up, but hey it is free!!! and for a budget conscience person like me i could deal with it!!! so i hunted around and just couldn't believe the cost of it all - so i decided to be internet free. that decision lasted about 3 days before i settled on the cheap $9.95/month netzero dial-up!! so far so good, slow, but faithful!!!
then, it was time for cell phone. yes, another benefit of being the baby, my parents still covered our cell phone. now, you should know it is the exact same phone i had in 1996. not just the same number, the same phone! we only used it in the car for emergency purposes or for a few phone calls when i was out and about. but, it wouldn't hold a charge so you had to keep it plugged. now imagine, if you can even remember, the size of a phone in 1996. do you remember the bag phones??? this one was the next phase that came out! my dear friend laughed like crazy every time i pulled it out b/c it was soooooo huge!!!!! so hubby and i started talking about getting a cell phone, but once again the budget didn't allow any of those plans and we weren't willing to do with out out our land phone. so tracphone was the decision. on our trip last month, our cell phone wouldn't even charge or turn on...we knew we were definitely in trouble...plus, i am in my 30's...it is time to grow up. so i called my dad and said cancel our phone!! and a few days ago purchased our tracphone!! i feel so cool!!! don't ask me why - i just do!!
but that got me giggling with my friend last night about how out of date i am with technology. so here are the other things that have never ventured into our simple little life...
computer: we still have the one with a huge monitor, no special features, can't save anything to a disc, and if you have 3 programs opened at once will freeze!! it is an old office computer from hubby's office - atleast a good 10 years old!!
printer: bubble jet...remember those...this one is super special!! you have to stand there and feed each paper through - the first time it comes straight out and you feed it through again to print!! talk about a process!!!
tv: a little 19 inch with built in vcr. no tivo or divo. not even basic cable. we did get a free portable dvd player last summer. it is amazing the choices we have at the video store now!!! only 1 tv in our whole house!! oh yeah...it is not for use with high density or whatever that stuff is they are changing everything to!!
we have no ipod, mp3 player...the cd player in the truck doesn't work and we have cassette only in the car....
if you are wondering if we have this or that....then the answer is most likely no b/c i don't even know enough about it to acknowledge we don't!!!
mapboy does have a cd player in his room so he can listen to odyssey and princess still has the little kids cd player so she can listen to music!!
all this to say...that sometimes i feel really silly in some conversations...but i don't really feel like i'm lacking anything in my life!!!! and maybe someday we'll upgrade...but in the mean time. we just enjoy being maybe a little too simple!!
then, it was time for cell phone. yes, another benefit of being the baby, my parents still covered our cell phone. now, you should know it is the exact same phone i had in 1996. not just the same number, the same phone! we only used it in the car for emergency purposes or for a few phone calls when i was out and about. but, it wouldn't hold a charge so you had to keep it plugged. now imagine, if you can even remember, the size of a phone in 1996. do you remember the bag phones??? this one was the next phase that came out! my dear friend laughed like crazy every time i pulled it out b/c it was soooooo huge!!!!! so hubby and i started talking about getting a cell phone, but once again the budget didn't allow any of those plans and we weren't willing to do with out out our land phone. so tracphone was the decision. on our trip last month, our cell phone wouldn't even charge or turn on...we knew we were definitely in trouble...plus, i am in my 30's...it is time to grow up. so i called my dad and said cancel our phone!! and a few days ago purchased our tracphone!! i feel so cool!!! don't ask me why - i just do!!
but that got me giggling with my friend last night about how out of date i am with technology. so here are the other things that have never ventured into our simple little life...
computer: we still have the one with a huge monitor, no special features, can't save anything to a disc, and if you have 3 programs opened at once will freeze!! it is an old office computer from hubby's office - atleast a good 10 years old!!
printer: bubble jet...remember those...this one is super special!! you have to stand there and feed each paper through - the first time it comes straight out and you feed it through again to print!! talk about a process!!!
tv: a little 19 inch with built in vcr. no tivo or divo. not even basic cable. we did get a free portable dvd player last summer. it is amazing the choices we have at the video store now!!! only 1 tv in our whole house!! oh yeah...it is not for use with high density or whatever that stuff is they are changing everything to!!
we have no ipod, mp3 player...the cd player in the truck doesn't work and we have cassette only in the car....
if you are wondering if we have this or that....then the answer is most likely no b/c i don't even know enough about it to acknowledge we don't!!!
mapboy does have a cd player in his room so he can listen to odyssey and princess still has the little kids cd player so she can listen to music!!
all this to say...that sometimes i feel really silly in some conversations...but i don't really feel like i'm lacking anything in my life!!!! and maybe someday we'll upgrade...but in the mean time. we just enjoy being maybe a little too simple!!
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we didn't succomb to most of it until about 2 years ago.
on another note, i have a big box of 4T clothes ready to ship to you. however, we're leaving in the morning on vacation for a week so i won't get a chance to send it until i get back. i'll let you know when it actually hits the mail.