just before New Year's Eve rolled around again. we made a trip down to the cable store (one we had planned to make at the BEGINNING of 2012) and turned in all of the cable tv boxes we had in our house..
no longer are we slaves to the eternal boob-tube....our time is now our own and we will watch entertainment that WE CHOOSE when WE CHOOSE to watch it...
yes we no longer have access to cable tv with its millions of channels featuring the same old shows for ever increasing monthly fees.
no we did not go cold turkey and give up all venues of small screen entertainment......now we pay a fraction of the cable bill to Hulu Plus and Netflix to stream what we want into our tvs, computers, liPads and iPhones.
i admit that i was, at first, lost without my nightly line-up of comedies and dramas......i'd walk in the door after the long hellish commute and find that my 'friends' were not queued up on TiVo waiting for me.....but it only took a few day to discover and accept this new found freedom. now i can call up my new friends and ask them to stream something that i WANT to watch not something that cable scheduled for me to watch at its leisure.
i've also found i have more time to spend doing chores - my house might ACTUALLY be clean one day!
i have more time to catch up on various 'hobbies' like reading, photography, genealogy
and i have discovered that PERHAPS i will have time to attack my correspondence pile and write some VERY LONG overdue letters. you remember letters pen to paper alphabet strung together to form words. enclose & seal inside other paper types known as envelopes and then place a sticky equivalent to currency in the upper right corner......a person known as a mail carrier then transports this document to a distant (or not so distant) destination whereupon the receiver opens it and enjoys my witty commentary .....yea. don't hold your breath. BUT don't die of shock should you find one of these articles from me in your possession!!! i'm jest sayin' ;)
today, i was lucky to find i had a whole afternoon to myself and i used it to my advantage as i have been dying to do some research on ancestry.com.....i meandered through files attaching reports and data to various relatives.....but my biggest accomplishment was finally unraveling the puzzle of why one couple had two sets of children that were born WAY LESS than the customary nine month interval necessary for proper gestation. the first pair turned out to true siblings only somehow or another one of them had been logged in as being born a full year prior to his actual birthdate. (thanks to US PASSPORT APPLICATIONS that has now been resolved) .....the second pair of mismatched siblings was a little trickier......in this pairing it turned out they were NOT brother and sister but rather HUSBAND & WIFE!!!! the wife it seems was born to different parents than the ones i am tracing BUT she had the same last name!! ...found her AND her correct parents on an 1880 US Census and untangled this silly little knot :)
......and what did YOU do this fine freezing funday?
No comments:
Post a Comment