*Written offline then posted later on
Gone are the days I could tell you straight to your face that I couldn’t live without blogging because at one point in the past, I really lived to blog. I couldn’t imagine how I’d live my life 5 years ago when I never knew what blogging was all about. Thinking back, I realised that back then, I spent most of it chatting online instead. 
I was hooked on chatting back then and I could go on for hours if my body didn’t need food or water. After all, I always had people to talk with from all around the world - the beauty of having friends in all the different time zones.
And then Friendster came along and I was adding and accepting multiple friends requests that up to one point, I realised that there were so many people in my network that I really didn’t know. Although many will say that networks like Friendster and Facebook are used for finding new friends, I personally think that it’s best to keep and maintain the friends you have rather than add so many new acquaintances. I had to delete many of those people because they were just adding up to the number of friends I already had in there. I can honestly say that the people that I now add to my Facebook account are people I genuinely know from the past and present. And a small number are new friendships which I forged for my obsession with snail mail and postcards - yes, I still have penpals whom I write to and I still get letters in my postbox. 
Also, I must add that my blogging has suffered tremendously for various reasons ranging from the fact that I am responsible for Arianna’s being hence blogging time is rather restricted, to the fact that I’ve lost the spunk for blogging as I’m as dry as the Sahara and lack ideas and thoughts to pen down, to spending a huge chunk of my spare time playing Scrabulous and if you are still in the dark about Scrabulous in the USA, there is the all new Wordscraper which I don’t really fancy that much but it’s still fun to score a 276 point word. With so many distractions, I’ve pretty much lost my focus on what used to be my favourite past time.
However, for the next couple of days, because we’ve gone over our monthly bandwidth limit which was most likely my fault, I’ve been banned from using the net until Sunday. This will indeed give me time to “be more productive and not play Scrabulous the whole day”. But I bet it’s not really my fault….sometimes must be sucking the bandwidth - our service must be scamming us la! We never used to go over our limit of 1GB back in our old place but apparently 2GB seems to be just pouring down the drain like water. Unbelievable! In any case, I hope to make use of this time to try and get back on track to some good ol’ proper blogging and be more productive as Ted has pointed out to me. The perils of being a SAHM…hehe, please don’t quote me on this though. There are many successful mums out there who are doing a great job of balancing housework, kids, internet and some even have their own business. Sadly, I’m certainly not one of the posse!
