The World Wide Web
Posted on 24. Apr, 2008 by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Personal
I am sitting on our bed in our motel room, wishing that we could get Internet access at our motel. Although, I am asking myself what I would actually do if I could access the Internet. First, I suppose I would check my email…which would have no new messages because I haven’t really sent any outgoing emails for the past four months; funnily enough, with no emails going out, no one writes back!
Then I would come here to our blog, and think, oh Lord, I have nothing to write because even though we have been working 10 to 12 hours a day for almost two months, we have barely any tangible results to show. No perky before and after pictures, because it’s been all electrical and plumbing and demolition and insulation. It’s productive, but it’s not very fun to share.
Next, I’d spend a little longer here at this blog, smiling over the comments left by you lovely people; I then promptly feel overwhelmed because normally I like to respond to every comment and I have not responded to any due to a lack of time combined with a lack of Internet access (or perhaps a plethora of laziness?).
Next, I would probably log in to Facebook, stay there for three seconds, get overwhelmed again and turn to Google.
At Google, I would ask myself, “Now that I have the Internet for ten minutes, how should I spend my time?”
Usually I’ve amassed a short to-do list, such as trying to find some used kitchen cabinets online or paying some bills. Often I will also have a few phrases to look up on Wikipedia, if time permits. For example, today, if I had the Internet, I would read about baby carrots, because I’ve been eating a lot of them of late and I am wondering whether they are simply small or just cut that way. Yes, all the information in the universe at my fingertips and I choose to read about daily minutae.
It’s usually at this point that Cameron will glance at my screen and say, “Are you just reading about baby carrots? It’s time for us to get to work on the house!” And so end my forays with the Internet.
Vicki
Apr 24th, 2008
Well you are still working hard I see! Well, electical & plumbing although boring means you are getting closer!! Remember you are building memories not juist a home!! I did email you by the way!!
Naomi
Apr 25th, 2008
I’ve always wondered that about baby carrots too! Just be careful you don’t eat TOO many though…I once had a friend who turned orange from eating too many carrots. I have caught myself wishing that I had NO internet access; life would somehow be simpler in a way. So I guess the grass is always greener on the other side! or is your grass still white with snow? Miss you!
Andrea >> Become a consultant
Apr 25th, 2008
What you should do is write a bunch of posts and then use the timing feature in Wordpress to have them show up when you’re not able to post them! :)
brenna
Apr 25th, 2008
yep, i’ve always wondered about the carrots too… i am sure they are cut because no carrots grow to look that way. let me know when u find out. wish i was there to help you guys… hang in there!!
Megan
Apr 28th, 2008
Well, who knew!
http://ask.yahoo.com/20040804.html
And less vitamin A!
Marjorie
May 2nd, 2008
Definitely ‘baby carrots’ so called from the packages in the grocery store are machine carved that way.
My dad and I used to plant carrots every year in our back yard vegie patch. (I feel like planting some this year!) Peter Leclerc plants them and they last through the winter in Qualicum – I’ll ask him his method of wintering them. Peter snacks on them every week as we are driving to rehearse in Nanaimo on Mondays. Sometimes he lets me eat a few too! yummy! I love carrot juice when it is fresh~
Toni
May 3rd, 2008
They are both grown that way sometimes, and big carrots cut sometimes. haha I’m such a loser. Miss you and hope you will have a warm bath and a phone to call me soon,