1st Post - One resolution accomplished!

Wow! I'm so excited to be posting my first BLOG entry and it is only January 5, 2008 (Ok, technically January 6, because the clock struck twelve a couple of hours ago, but with this type of excitement, who cares!). Now, for those of you who have grown up with computers or embraced them while I was praying they wouldn't last any longer than pet rocks or mood rings, this might not seem like a major accomplishment. But let me be the first to explain to you why this is such a big deal. First, I made a commitment to myself that I would learn how to blog in 2008 and, tah-dah, 2008 doesn't even have a week accounted for and I have begun. So theoretically, I am above average right off the starting line for 2008 since the average person does not achieve any New Year's Resolutions or changes! I'll be 10 years old for a minute here - "Yeah, me!" (Head tilt, cheesy smile, flippant attitude all included for same price.) Let me tell you, it is not without internal conflict that I have made this step, but I can now officially add to my well-rounded (perhaps slightly elliptical) resume that I am a blogger. (Of course when I was praying that computers would go away and pet rocks would come back, a 'blogger' would have surely been a shame-filled title and no one would have admitted to it anyway!) Next, I don't want to claim living in fear, but what happens when everyone decides that these computers are too intrusive and quits using them and no one knows where to buy an inkpen anymore? I mean, do you remember the insanity of 2000 when people stocked the cellar pantries with survival paraphernalia just because the century was changing and computers might have collective breakdowns? What would happen if the desires of so many were fulfilled and people just turned them all off permanently? Would people know where to buy inkpens or would they have to attend auctions, .com closures, and garage sales to buy the bulk promotional pens bearing obsolete URL's, www's, @'s and so on? What about paper? And let's consider the "peace on earth"....with great credit to the electronic, digital, 'interactive' age, many people have forgotten, lost or never learned the art of communicating person to person, live, in living color. I was talking to my best friend today and we both are amazed and frustrated at how even the cashier at the local grocery store is seemingly incapable of holding brief, pleasant conversations. Now, I understand that talking to me, the paying customer who helps make it possible for the nice lad to have a job, is probably not near as interesting as talking in garbled code to his co-worker who likewise doesn't realize that I am actually living and breathing right there before their very eyes, but wasn't talking to the nice 'old ladies' what the teenage sack boys of my youth excelled at even if it was motivated by the desire to score a monetary acknowledgement. And face to face conversation wouldn't be the only silence experienced. Can you imagine if there were only 3 or 4 television stations, maybe a half dozen radio stations, and vinyl records? Ok, let's get real carried away with this make-believe silence.....no cell phones!!!!! (Granted, one of our employees would swear that my truck wouldn't go in reverse if I don't have the cell phone to my ear, but I'm willing to try if only we could get back to more personal communications.) Well, it is that time of night when people all around are dreaming, but they are sound asleep and I am wide awake, so I just have to snap out of the fantasy of the electronics age coming to a silent halt. I will rejoice in my new accomplishment and revel in the joy! You see, my first blog is almost as exciting as my first child because I know I have once again passed a threshold of no return. Granted, my first child can probably design the page with half the effort and twice the flare, but sometimes a gal just has to go with gut instincts without reading all of the instructions. Trust me, there is plenty of time to get shown up by the firstborn because my whimsy desires a electronic demise of the grandest proportions, but my brains have finally grasped the reality that the computer age is going to be around much longer than the stone or pet rock age! PLEASE consider this my official "personal" invitation for YOU join me as we live abundantly, learning to embrace all good that comes our way! 2008 will be a memorable year - especially if we blog our way through it! In Him~~ Suzanne P. S. Some day we'll tackle getting our computers set on the right time zone so that posting times will actually correspond with reality! Oh, yes, the topics just keep pouring in!