Happy snow dogs, lemme tell ya!
Day … whatever of Life Without Facebook and I don’t miss it at all 🙂
Finally the snow has come for the winter and hopefully more to come – my dogs were BORN for this, they LOVE it!
Even Gina sheds her normally stoic exterior and becomes a nutcase in the snow!
A little quiet around here with husband away, but we’re used to it. It’s only really difficult at night – but the dogs like the extra space on the bed! 🙂
Stay frosty!
As I wait for the US to “come online” I count down the minutes until my Facebook account disappears forever.
Not discontinued, but actually gone. Deleted. All trace of me removed. I feel a bit weird, but also good. Had a strange dream last night about it – cutting a line, flying out into a grey/black world like a kite let go. I could see lights down below, but I was… free? Alone, but free. I think I had wings, but I don’t remember. I looked down, not up.
Today’s the day.
I tried to give up dairy too, as I am a vegetarian (lacto-ovo… sparingly) and I know what goes down in milking sheds/factories.
But then there was macaroni cheese. Linguine pasta with creamy alfredo sauce and portobello mushrooms. Chocolate milk. Ice cream. Whipped cream on apple pie. I know it’s wrong. So very wrong.
I tried soy milk.. it was ok – but tasted weird after a while. I tried almond milk – didn’t like that at all. Even tried rice milk (nearly gagged) just so I could say I had. Â I’m not a vegan – I wish I had the discipline, money, time to be. But I am still a vegetarian. Â Some days are harder than others (I gave up meat because my conscience/heart wouldn’t allow me to enjoy it anymore, not because I don’t like the taste) and I struggle. But I’ve seen my health/body change already in just a few months of being serious about it again. Â Lost weight, lost fat, feel lighter and more energetic. I just get so _bored_ with the options available here. Â That’s what makes it difficult – lack of choice and variety.
So maybe when we move back I can get into it better.
Big things ahead. We are hopeful, after such a long time.
Stay frosty.
2 days to go until my Facebook account is deleted.
Tick tick tick
Have I had any second thoughts? Yes, the first five days I definitely had a few “oh I need to send a message to so-and-so”  or “I wonder what such-and-such is doing?”  but the last few days, most certainly not. Not a one. It’s actually pleasantly easy now.
Just wanted to put it out there that letting go of Facebook is hard, but once you do… it’s actually quite easy to carry on your life without it!
You certainly learn who your real friends are.  People who give a sh*t what you are doing and how you are doing and where you are. 🙂
I’ve accomplished quite a lot recently without the need to broadcast it on Facebook (or twitter or anywhere else, actually – not even Google+) and just taken a few photos and enjoyed the moments for _myself_
Lots of things happening in my life, and my husband’s life (And the dogs, of course, because they are our family) and lots of decisions being made and the future looks kinda hopeful now.
Cool, man. Cool.
Stay Frosty.
So. I did it.
2 Days ago I finally pressed the “delete account” button for Facebook.
Day 3 of Life Without Facebook and I have to say, I still have the habit of sitting down in front of my laptop in the morning and think of clicking the link to check my FB, but it’s waning very quickly. This morning I didn’t even open up my “daily” folder.
I opened email, checked Ello, and then had a chat with some friends on slack (new school IRC, basically – same good old friends and channel though) and continued with my day.
Sunday means dog park play date, and I also made breakfast for my husband who is on 24/7 duty for a week. Fun stuff.
We headed off, breakfast warm and cup of fresh coffee in hand for him too. Dogs said hi, we hung around for a little bit and then met our buddies at the dog park for an hour and a half of running around in the mud and rain. It was great. Dogs were great.
So I am _slowly_ getting used to Life Without Facebook, and I am starting to slip into a _new_ life routine. It’s pretty cool actually. I have moments though, I will admit, where I think about it… but it passes and I move on.
I was on Facebook for 10 years… seems both shorter and longer. I was a beta tester, so I got to iron out the bugs and see it change. Not all changes were for the better. The recent influx of complete idiots (this new generation is just unbelievably stupid… seriously) has also soured it for me. And the privacy issues and copyright issues and the whole limiting access to your network unless you pay them… just nicked my “mafioso” nerve and I’ve just had enough I think.
I had a lot of excuses/reasons for staying on, but I was brutally honest with myself and realised that the people on Facebook would do fine without me – my rescue organisations would be taken care of by my good friend Nicole (Even more so, as she’s a volunteer at many of them too) and my Berner groups are so large now they would barely notice the absence. Besides, my husband is still on it and he’s still in the groups, so he will let me know if I miss anything.
I haven’t posted photos in a long time, and I removed all my information a long time ago. Â So it was no big jump. Just a few moments of heart fuzz and then it was all over.
I still have about 11 days left to “change my mind” until they actually delete all the information etc… but quite honestly – I don’t miss it.
I’m getting back in touch with the “old school” – even writing letters by hand (just to my mom for now, but I’m happy to write to anyone who wants me to) and living my life for ME.
Hoping my inspiration will blossom again – for my photography, my sewing, my running, my yoga.
It does feel like a weight off my shoulders. I don’t know why, as I was not really very involved anymore (only checked it once a day for 5 minutes) but it does feel like I’ve let go of something that I didn’t need. Which is a nice feeling. If a little scary for me (if you ever have time to listen, I can try and explain my “unable to sever” dreams/daydreams/thoughts) generally.
Life goes on, and so do we.
Stay frosty.