Happy Birthday To ME!

   So, today is my 26th birthday, and I honestly cannot believe that I am twenty-six. Twenty-six just seems so old, and way too close to thirty for my liking. But, regardless, of how I feel about getting older, and closer to thirty, I have decided  that I cannot obsess over it. If I do I think I will just feel worse about myself, and my shortcomings in life. So, I want to focus on the positive aspects of my turning twenty-six. I mean I should be celebrating the fact that I have survived twenty-six years on this earth without once ever being run over by a bus, car, or god forbid a herd of angry elephants. I think that is a accomplishment to be proud of and it deserves celebration, not mourning. So, today I want to celebrate the good things about my life not the goals I have yet attain.

 So, here's to surviving long enough to turn twenty-six, and living long enough to survive god-forbid thirty.

   Before, I end this post I just wanted to say thank you to all of my friends and family who have made this birthday truly wonderful and memorable. I truly appreciate all of the birthday cards, gifts, emails, text messages, phone calls, facebook messages, and tweets I have been receiving at an alarming rate throughout the day. I don't think my blackberry has ever worked so hard.  I am truly appreciative to everyone that took time out of their day to make me feel so very special today. You are all wonderful and pretty amazing.

   So, thank you to everyone who has made this birthday amazing, and for helping me stay positive when all I really want to do is wallow in my own self pity.

--Bridget

Here are some  picture of me on my birthday! The first picture is of me with the beautiful flowers my parents sent me for my birthday.:)

 

Internet:

     So, I came across a video by LittleRadge on You Tube not too long ago titled “A Day in the life of no internet,” and it really got me thinking. What would I do if the internet didn’t exist? How would I pass the time? How would I talk to my friends and family? How would I survive? The internet has become such an integral part of my life.Honestly, I really don’t know what I would do without it.

    Trying to think back I don’t really remember what I did before computers, and the internet came into existence. I am one of those lucky people that was fortunate enough to be born into a generation where the internet is kind of …well, everything, and computers were always around. It is so strange to think about what I did before the internet pretty much took over the world. I guess I did things like read and explored nature, and I’m sure I slept a lot more. Maybe I even used my imagination to play games like cops and robbers, or save the damsel in distress before she is slaughtered by the nasty pit bull next door.

    To be perfectly honest, I don’t really remember what I did to pass the time when I was growing up, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t include updating my twitter status every five minutes, or chatting with random strangers on Omegle. I do, however, remember playing computer games like the Oregon Trail. I swear, I think I died every time I tried to forge that damn river on my quest for gold and wealth. (If the river didn’t kill you the dysentery would.)

    Computers have always been part of my life. I still remember when my family got AOL. I think that is when things really changed for everyone. IM’s started to replace phone calls. Instead of telling my brother dinner was ready I could just IM him, even though, he was probably sitting two feet away from me.

    Soon after that everything just exploded, and websites like Google become essential to finding answers to everything you could imagine, even if you spelled it wrong. As embarrassing as this is to admit I use Google as a spell check...a lot.

    The internet has been a huge part of my life. Without it I don’t think I would have met 70% of my facebook friends list. I have met so many amazing people from all over the world because of the internet. So, I want to say thank you internet I am really glad you exist. Without you I would be friendless, and would have died of boredom before the ripe old age of 18.

Here are some sites I frequent:
 Facebook
Twitter
You Tube
DailyBooth
KATG
Mugglenet
Leaky
Digg
MSN
Last fm
and about a billion others....