At My Age You'd Think..............

At my age you'd think I'd have it all together.  I'm almost 38.  Old enough to know better and still young enough to know I'm not old.

Little girl is home today....not feeling great...and only a half day of school anyway.  She is watching cartoons while I attempt to figure this out some more.  I have no idea what we will do today, but I need to figure something out.  Using the tv for babysitting is getting old. 

That starts me on another gripe.  I am tired of technology.  I enjoy using the computer and networking sites such as Facebook, because my friends all live in there.  Most people it seems, however, have forgotten the fun of seeing people....real, live, people.  My kids are all obsessed with video games, television, computer, ipods and cell phones.  Trying to pull a family together to do things is like, I would imagine,  trying to tie your shoes with no thumbs. 

We have facebook accounts, msn accounts, twitter accounts and in the process have lost the rights to our life account.

The feeling of being disconnected from people is stronger even though with all of this technology it has made the world a "smaller" place.  You can video chat with someone absolutely anywhere in the world now...but will it ever replace the fact that you can't touch them?

I have no intention of giving some of these things up.  Perhaps I am a hypocrite of sorts, but the idea of giving them up and becoming totally alone in a world where everyone I know lives inside of these things, would be impossible. 

So, at my age I'm learning, you can't stop progress and if you want to stay connected, you better keep up.

Cheers! :)