Fun Monday, Caught in a Web(site)
Ann, For The Long Run, is today's FUN MONDAY HOST. What she asked:
I want to hear about a web site and not just about any old web site. I want to hear about a web site that's changed your life. A web site that you can't live without. A web site whose inventor you'd like to see win a McArthur Genius Grant.
Maybe you want to sing the praises of a dating web site for helping you meet your spouse. Maybe the only thing getting you through the dark days of winter is an Internet comic. No story is too big, no story is too small - I want to hear it all on Monday.
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This was NOT an easy Fun Monday assignment. There are so many ways one could take this subject. I'll try not to become garrulous.
A web site that has changed my life?
This has to be my own blog. It demands my time and energy. Writing and taking photographs made me more observant and caused me to look deeper into the world around me. That includes probing my own responses and feelings about things.
Nope - can't live without my blog. At least, as of this writing, I feel that way. (My eldest daughter, Karmyn( Dreaming What If's...) can be blamed for introducing me to this addiction.
Because of it, I have many new friends. I still cling to my very first blogging acquaintances.
Peek at the list on the right side bar (My First Dustmites and Dust Reads.) I read and enjoy many others, but, I haven't updated my blogroll. Many of those people started their blogs about the same time I did. I believe that beginner blogging buddies (say that three times) find each other and swarm like bees. Eventually some resign their blogs and I can't bring myself to delete their abandoned link.
As for Who should win a McArthur Genius Grant? I would have nominated them all. Really! However, one blogger who has truly mastered the craft is Pioneer Woman. When we met (in cyberspace over at Once Upon a Blog, who has morphed into A Dingo), she was just feeling her way like the rest of us.
She has since won a coveted blogging award and turned her blog into a career. On days she has a photo naming contest she receives thousands of comments.
A Dating web site? I don't think so. Contrary to what my grandchildren think, I did go through that phase in my life. There were no computers, there were no cellphones, and if you wanted to listen to music - well there were LP's and Stereo's that took up the whole side of the room.
We wrote letters on paper with pens and had phones attached to the wall! (Does anybody remember Party Lines?)
I appreciate reading the news at my convenience. The weather web sites are great (but their forecasts still undependable) . Some of them are even Out of This Word!!
Who can't be enticed by web sites such as You Tube. The extent to which intimacies and experiences are shared around the globe aren't all positive. But, this and many other entertaining sites get you through the dark days of winter.
I have been reluctant to add the more recent gadgets to my life (Facebook as an example). The world is moving too fast.
Be sure to Click here to catch up with the other F/M participants.
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(and of course I remember party lines!)
xo
Who peeked at my list... Y'all.
Since I really have nothing to do the whole day besides a very little cooking (mostly I have to warm up in the microwave) and I have a cleaning women once a week I have more then enough time for blogging and now at least I move ! I go to expositions or on a flee market just to have something to write about and that makes me happy !
The first time I had ever heard of party lines was reading a Judy Blume book. I think it was Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself. I was quite shocked at the idea of sharing your phone line. That Judy Blume taught me a lot.
I guess my blogging friend who passed away this past year...that definitely had an impact on me. Huge. She was a young mom who'd been by my side during one of the most difficult times in my life, and she was going through the same thing in her life.
I feel so guilty sometimes because my situtation got resolved and hers didn't. And she did everything she could to give her children such an awesome life. Only to be struck down by cancer.
I will never, ever, forget that or get over it, I think.
hahaha I had to come here to read about an81 year Aussie nabbed for selling drugs..Well I must say she get no sympathy from me. selling her dope to young kids.
But yours? Yeah, I still cling to it :). Funny how those we "met" early on are the ones we can't let go. I know there are some GREAT blogs I'm subscribe to, yet I'm not always able to read them; my oldies? well, it might not be daily, but I always go back, read in Bloglines, catch up, even if I don't comment to every post. (Maybe I should've added Bloglines as a fourth....).
And, yeah, I remember Party Lines...I wondered what happened when we couldn't "do" it anymore (I was young).
Your Fun Monday is tops as always. Good one.
i thought of my own blog as life-changing, too, because it really did open up the internet and the world for me.
but then i figured the very first website that got me beyond just doing email (irish peat) was more accurate. even though everyone continues to vote for my dog!
I remember party lines, my grandma had one for years. I think hers was one of the last ones to go. As a little kid I sometimes listened in. shhhhh. :)
PS - I wrote my little camera thing for you and I'm so happy it seems you recognized it.
Then I met you. One of the most caring, sensitive bloggers I've "met."
Dating was very different for me as well! I cant imagine doing it again at my age, but if I were a kid... I would think all the technology is super!! A great way to get to know someone! PLUS it makes the world that much smaller... the proverbial sea of fish got a lot larger with the internet!!
Lisa
I love that movie.
Have a great Monday, Pamela!
I think my web site I can't live without is my bank web site for online banking LOL I check it everyday.
I love the way we blog almost in a community with many of us reading the same blogs. I get as much pleasure and laughs from reading comments as I do from posts.
Also I'm like you about facebook. I'm quite happy with the blogs I visit so another type of account would be wasted as I don't have the time.
Have a good week, Pamela!
Are Ree and Peter(WT) the gateway drugs for bloggers?
Great choices!
I guess I am carbon dating myself but we used to have party lines. It was the late 70's or very early 80's when they finally changed our phones to individual lines. And now I use a VoIP line. How things have changed.
I really enjoy reading yours even though I don't comment very often.
do I remember party lines? Not only do I remember them, but we still had them in my town when I got work as a telephone installer, and I had to learn all the wiring schematics to make them work! Hated that.
I like your website too.
When I started blogging, I never dreamed of the people I would be so lucky to meet...especially the ones hundred of miles away.
It was also a great suprise when I realized, these people are not only interesting but I like hearing what they've got to say.