After mulling it over this past year or so, I decided that I probably won’t get an iPhone until they are offered by another carrier.

So I got an iPod touch so that I can still do all I want while the boys are using the PC’s for their online school. I have become so dependant on the Internet for damn near everything, but there is no way that I need a laptop right now. It seemed like a good compromise and so far, it has been way too fun!

More posts to follow about the virtual school.

Welcome to my new blog. Quite exciting to have my own space, but I have a lot to explore. You’ll have to ignore the strange links and tabs because I haven’t done anything with them yet! Tell me how you like it.

Brian is encouraging me to move my blog to my own domain….with a super-exciting new WordPress template. Been on blogger for a long time though. Should be interesting.

No, not really, but I do consider myself a Digital Mom and I guess I’d better living out here in the middle of the damn forest! Kind of interesting since I am both a member of CafeMom and a loyal Dooce reader.

Some days it seems like I’m spending every free moment on the computer; transferring photos and editing them, posting on my blog and message boards and Twitter and Facebook, or just reading fun stuff. It seems like so many practical things are just easier on the internet. We don’t have any local weather report, so I get all my weather from The Weather Channel online. I have gotten blog reading down to a routine where I can read the latest post BEFORE all the ads load.

It might seem like I am spending an inordinate amount of time on the Web, but with a super-demanding, death-defying toddler under my feet, I’ll bet it rarely consumes more than an hour a day. While it is tempting to let my eyes glaze over during naptime, I still have to do the dishes and shower and feed the dog…

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I probably get at least one challenge or quiz from someone on Facebook every day and I know that’s probably nothing compared to the people who have a bazillion friends on there, but most of the time, they are pretty tiresome. I got one today from Scrapbooks Etc’s Melissa Inman and it was very cool.

Here’s the challenge:

1 – BAND NAME Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random article”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – ALBUM TITLE Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – COVER ART Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.