Connected!

Its been a week since I blogged, or even opened by laptop. A week since Oupa and Ouma left for Stellenbosch. As I type they are on their way home, and we are really looking forward to them being home, we’ve missed them! We’ve done really well this week and have coped just fine without access to a car or internet. But I am looking forward to being connected, and sometime tomorrow will post this blog and check out those dozen emails I’m expecting in the inbox, LOL!

I was just making a salad to have with our macaroni cheese for dinner tonight and thinking about how much I like to be connected. I like to be up to date with what is happening around me, whether it be in my immediately family, or in the country we’re living in or the world around me. My daily internet activity usually consists of checking the email accounts, the inbox and notifications on Facebook, a couple of blogs I like to follow (if they’ve been updated!) and a couple of online newspapers.

As I was making that salad, I was considering how many of my really close and special friends don’t seem to have this same need for connection. So many of my friends have recently commented that they don’t have time to follow blogs (and so I know they aren’t reading mine!) and I know that a huge chunk of my friends don’t even know that a lot of newspapers can be read online. In fact a lot of my friends and family don’t even read newspapers, or at least not with any regularity. I was also thinking of the friends I really miss a lot right now and how I’d love to know what they’ve been up to and what is happening in their lives. A lot of them have been verrrrrry quiet.

I’m looking forward to being connected again tomorrow and being able to have the option of connecting with family and friends. I definitely plan to awaken some dormant connections.