Jody’s Blog . . . a life after chronic fatigue syndrome

Friday, July 3, 2009

It’s my husband Alan’s birthday today.

He is celebrating by having an emissions test done on the car, and going to get a licence sticker for it.

Birthday dinner tonight is steak with mushrooms, broccoli with cheese sauce, coffee with cream (18 %) and caramel chocolate chip ice cream for dessert.

He has seen son Jesse today, who gave him his favourite junk food as a gift. Later, our daughters Rachel and Sarah should be breezing in for a bit. And tomorrow our son Duncan and his wife Carmel will come by – with cake.

I know, I know, junk food, ice cream and cake … they are evil.

But it’s his birthday, you know?

Happy Birthday, Baby.

 Thursday, July 2, 2009

I feel like Rip Van Winkle, after he woke up, looking around at a changed world.

I speak of the virtual world of the internet.

Two months ago I set out to have my own website and felt rather smug that so much was familiar, even after six years absence. However, the longer I’m on here the more I realize, I am an antique.

About the time I went to bed for my long unrestful sleep, things like RSS feeds began to come into usage. And blogs had not been around for long by the time I’d pulled down the shades on the world. I’d heard of them and read a few, but they were a relatively new thing.

Six years later, I am clueless. But I’m following my bunny-slope of a learning curve, very slowly learning a little bit about this brave new virtual world.

I am learning. Look, see?

I am writing on my own Real Blog.