I\’ve been working on disconnecting. I pop on to Twitter from time to time. I close my email during the day when I\’m working and my chat program is set to away. I got rid of my smart phone. The cable is gone. To be honest, it\’s a little tougher to blog nowadays… For many reasons most of which will go away soon… Hopefully. \n\nHere of late I\’ve not felt that I\’ve been able to be me and I don\’t feel like pretending in my own home. So I\’ve stayed silent or posted such superficial things… It sucks. But like I said, I think things will return to normal, whatever that is, soon… Or at least that\’s my prayer.\n\nMy email over flows and I try to clean it out before I go to bed but there\’s just so much. \n\nBut I\’ve been trying to get to bed earlier and walking away from the computer. Which is wonderful except I stress over the email that sits there unread.\n\nSo what do I do? I bring my iPod touch to bed with me and worked through some of it and then wasted way too much time on facebook, which I hate by the way… And oh yeah! Anyone know what the best facebook app is? I don\’t think I have it. \n\nAnd now? I\’m blogging from this thing. Who knew?\n\nBut I\’m going to bed now. I need my energy to tackle the email in the morning.\n\nHow do you disconnect and stay disconnected? Or do you? How connected are you? Smartphone? Laptop? Do you want to be a little less connected?\n\nI\’m curious… This whole disconnected thing is so new to me…\n\nUntil next time…
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I have a laptop and a blackberry. I’m never fully disconnected. I haven’t gotten fully into twitter…blogging is about 2 a week now (which is more than I used to do)…as far as emails, well, I get them as they come in, but since I quit selling AVON, I don’t get nearly as many as I used to!
I have to have my time with the Lord first. The rest falls into place. But early morning when the house is quiet & before the kids come charging down the hall…oh, that is a sweet sweet time to meet with Him. My day is always always better when I give Him first dibs on my day. The rest just happens. Some gets done. Some does not. I haven’t fallen apart yet from not seeing the newest uploaded pics from my MS & HS friends on FB.
oh i wish we were less connected. i used to be. no tv in the bedroom, just a regular cell phone with no bells and whistles and i only used my computer for school work. well then, i fell in love with and married a super techie and everything has changed. some for the better and some for the worse. at times i think we spend more time with our plugged in devices than we spend plugged into each other. …..i mean really, when did i start having panic attacks because i left my phone at home?! and when did most of the communication between me and the hubs come through email?!
i wish i had more to offer you than you’re not alone in your quest to find the balance……it’s hard but i do think it’s necessary and you’ll find there is a lot to gain from plugging into yourself and your family rather than your computer.
I was just thinking about this! I want more family and sleep time. I am trying to limit things during the week to just blogging and commenting and do all the other online stuff on the weekends.
This may all go out the window when I get an iPhone…I’m sure you’ll notice as I’ll probably overstay my welcome around here. LOL
I stay connected/disconnected by staying away from all the extras…I have a laptop that I turn on in the morning, check email and a few of my favorite blogs, my bank account, and a couple of things like that, then I move on with my day. I don’t twitter, I just signed up with facebook, but I haven’t done ANYTHING with it yet. My cell phone is just a phone — not a smart phone, pda, texting machine. periodically during the day I check emails or blogs that weren’t updated that morning. I don’t even RSS feed my favorites…that way I’m not obligated to read it if I don’t have time. Then at night after That Other Kid goes to bed, once I take care of all the extra stuff I didn’t do I sit down and connect with my “blog friends” and check emails again. I’m a SAHM though so it’s probably easier for me to stay disconnected/connected than a “working” mom. Hope you find the right connections!
It’s tough. I have my laptop in the living room, so if Ladybug is playing, I’m on the computer. it’s hard to disconnect. once a week, hubby and i have movie night and that is mandatory no computer time. other than that, it’s always one. but my phone is just a phone. so if i’m away from the house, i’m away from a computer, so that’s good.
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