Okay, we'll see how long this resolve lasts. The last week has been crazy, and I've even been crazier. In spite of a long list of "to dos" I've been spending an unreasonable time clicking, clicking, clicking on Facebook, chasing after Hatchling eggs, racing against the clock to see how many I can collect in 15 minutes, 20, 40, oh my gosh - 60 minutes later I'm still clicking! It is insane!!! Yes, Hatchlings can be a mindless relax time, but really, 60 minutes? And that was just the first round. In one week I've amassed over 7,000 eggs. That's 300 minutes I could have been doing something else! Something else a whole lot more fun!
So today I quit. Well, not entirely. I'm sure I'll still dabble a little, but I officially drop out of the race. Dawn and Jay (leaders for Provo, UT network)I officially turn the reins over to you. Have fun battling it out between each other. I am no longer going to play your game. And that's okay. Because I really do have a life, and I need to get on with it!
Goodbye to Hatchlings and hello to everything else I've been putting off the last few weeks (months, year?): hello to finishing scrapbook pages. Hello to doing yardwork, and cleaning house, and working on our remodel, and projects at work (though I try to leave Hatchlings totally alone while I'm at work). Hello to my church assignments and to playing with Grandchildren, and to keeping in touch with family (though I'll still probably chase eggs while I'm on the phone with kids - it is mindless, after all). Hello Hello Hello beautiful world! Hello to exercise and to scripture study and to catching up my sadly sagging journal and to blogging and to writing my book which has been simpering in the corner for months now. HELLO LIFE! I'M CLAIMING YOU BACK!!! (and in the background I hear, in the corner of my mind, cheers emitting from the four corners of eternity. Yay!!!! I can do this!)
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I have actually avoided starting a Facebook account because I have heard that it is a time sucker. I have too many of those already. Good luck with your other endeavors.
It is okay to do something mindless once in awhile though, right?
Time sucker yes. Okay to do mindless one in a while? Absolutely. As long as it's what we really want to do. I just find myself always wishing I was doing something else. Mindless. And I will continue to do Hatchlings, I think. If I can control myself. But it's like a piece of lemon meringue pie for me - can't stop at one bite, ever!
Yeah. It's amazing how much I can get done when I leave the computer alone.
Julie, do me a favor. Pull up Tonya's blog, scroll to her Disneyland pics, and tell me if I am the one there, not her. Freaked me out, and will definitely freak her out!! But the light haid (I call it silver, not gray or white) and dark eyebrows--like I said, freaky!
Ann
Opps--spelled hair wrong.
We've often commented how much Tonya resembles you, Ann. What a beautiful set of genes you both inherited!
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