i remember having to take a typing class when i was a freshman in high school. (14 years ago! ) i did not have any desire at the time to try to keep my hands on the "home row" and not look at what i was doing. so i didnt. i refused to type the correct way and still managed to pass the class.. i just wasnt interested in getting to know a box named qwerty ....

when i was about 21 i would use instant messenger a lot to talk with friends and i hated how long it took me to type out a sentence, so i made myself not look at the keys and keep my hands in position... after a few months i was typing 70 words a minute..... but i didnt include apostophes and capital lettering.. oops! so to this day i dont make an effort to capitalize and use apostophes and such... but i was pretty impressed with myself when i was able to type so fast! all that to say i never liked computers or people who were so into them that it consumed their lives!like playing video games for 3 days straight or your best friend being a mouse...... i vowed never to get involved with a guy who had any interest at all... (kind of extreme i know) but i really was serious! so when i was friends with justin i pretty much ruled him out in the beginning because i knew he was interested in that whole business..... but i ended up marrying him anyhow (= and let me tell ya, i know more now than i ever dreamed or cared to know about computer stuff! i have sat in on some of his tech podcasts and actually found myself interested in them.... ahhahahhahaa that is hillarious! he just built a computer and made a tevo thing and told me all about it.... i told him i was at my limit of information about 2 minutes into the conversation, my brain only can process so much unwanted boring data at a time(=

i had a hard time in the beginning of our marriage because of the time he wanted to spend in front of the screen, but i was being unreasonable and just associating being on the computer with stupid boys in my past who had issues... but i also blame my emotional unstability in the beginning on "the pill" and "little italys" (= now i am much healthier and relaxed about all that crap and am glad that i know what i do about computers.

which brings me to one more thought.. it seems that older people seem to have trouble with us younger generation and all of our new ideas and thinking thoughts other than the "traditional". things progress and the old way isnt necessarily the right way... i just dont want to be an old grandma who is so stuck in my generation that i cant grow or learn anything from the youngins and their creative minds, i hope that i can related just a little to my children when they are older and not force old ways onto them...

if that made sense then i am glad, but if not, it is probably because i can barely see straight and it is way past my bedtime!

so i was just about to hop into bed and then i remembered my original thought that prompted me to write this entry in the first place. Elton John said the other day that we should turn off the internet for a few years so people will get out of their houses and talk with people..... now i dont know the context of that comment but i will still comment myself on it. i can understand thinking that the internet causes people to be less interactive and such, but as a mom i find it so useful.  when i have a concern about anything, like odd symptoms my children are having or how to get rid of a cankor sore, i just google it.... so helpful. if i didnt have the internet i would be running to the library all the time or bothering our poor doctor. i also have been doing a lot of shopping online. i dont get much time to go out right now so it makes it a lot easier to just look around and see what is out there before i go to every store. i would rather have a conversation with the sales clerk than ordering something from their website but in my situation it just doesnt happen that way. but i agree that too many people do spend way too much time indoors at their desks. anyways, i seriously need to go to bed!