And so it begins . . .

  
EGAD!  We've entered the dreaded "ember" months.  All months ending in "ember" are inherently depressing, belonging as they do to the slippery slope known to the rest of the U.S. as autumn but to Minnesotans as pre-winter.

So to celebrate, I did something I've been putting off for some time now . . . something that would remind me that I'm alive and I'd better keep putting one foot in front of the other, even if those feet are dragging heavy snow boots (which they will be before I know it) . . . 

I JOINED FACEBOOK.

(Now I'm looking for someone 

to design an app 

that will limit my use of it.)

It was a little frightening to see the rate 

at which my initial friend requests were accepted. 

Apparently, people spend a lot of time on facebook.  

It could be a problem.

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Currently, my list of work avoidance techniques looks like this:

1) bake cookies

2) clean something

3) wander around Target

4) peruse old magazines (although technically, I have designed my work so that this sometimes qualifies)

5) search for more old magazines on Etsy

6) blog

7) clean up old emails

8) write poetry for Magpie Tales

At least facebook will give me an additional option.  

It would look suspicious, for instance, if I were to bake cookies every day.  Perhaps less suspicious if I were to clean every day, but who wants to do that?

Online, however, I can keep a tab open for a quick switch to something useful while I actually sneak around time wasting and no one will suspect a thing.

Unless they read this . . . 

So I'm signing off now.

  

(And I did promise to send Hannah some cookies . . . ! )