Life is a bit of a bugger without the Internet. It is just one of the little things I used to take for granted - just switch on the laptop and i was connected to the world outside and knowledge was at my fingertips - but then it goes down and i realise how much I rely on it being there. It made me also think about other things in life that I take for granted but would be completely lost without.
1. My Credit Card. I buy a lot online. What with working full time and painting, writing, hillwalking, doing stuff with minimi and him indoors being here at the weekend, I don't have time to shop (GASP!). I was online at work the other day (sshhhhhh - dont tell) and wanted to buy something but realised i had left the wonder card at home on the table. Well - talk about having a hissy fit! I would have been less upset if someone had cut my right arm off.
2. Arabella Piggy. Arabella Piggy was out of commission just before Christmas as she had a burst brake cylinder. It was a whole week before I could get her sorted and it just made everything seem so much harder! It is so easy to plan and go places without having to consider how you would get there on public transport. Yucky. Not an experience to be repeated.
3. Notepad and Pen. I make lists. I am a listee. If it needs to be organised or done, I will make a list about it. I have lists of music, books I have read, housework to be done and when, things i want to do before i am 30, things i want to do before i am 40 and so on. When I mentioned on a walk through Kirkhill Forest that i would make a list of all the hills and forests we had walked him indoors asked if I had a list detailing my lists and was it cross referenced. Lucky it was a forest and not a hill otherwise he may have had to take the express route down!! i also use it to scribble down things that flit in and out of my head. Some are pretty bizarre. I also get ideas for characters and short stories and sometimes poems. Pretty much anything gets written down really.
4. MP3 Player. Can't walk at lunchtime without it. Exercise is poop when all you have to listen to is the roar of cars on the A90 whizzing past you.
5. Carol the Sat Nav. Cause I could get lost in my own house. Seriously
6. My Laptop. It has my life on it. Photos, Music, Email addresses, contacts, notes, lists, everything.
7. Handbag. It's huge, as I do like to be able to slip the kitchen sink in there, Current contents are: Notebook and Pen, purse, Bach's Rescue Remedy, Eucalyptus Essential Oil, glasses, car keys, house keys, gloves, chewing gum, mp3 player, car air freshner (??), Map of Bennachie range (??!!??), sat nav, 20 gazillion other pens, lipstick, pencil sharpener and hand cream. And thats a 'light' bag!
8. Minimi and him indoors, Not that i take them for granted, just couldn;t do without them!
9 My torch. I have a pathological fear of the dark.
10.Sketchbook and Pencil. I like to be able to draw when the muse strikes me. I wish i was a millionaire so it could strike me more often and not when i am at work LOL.
Appreciate what you have - i'm off to insure all of the above.
Laters
