Without Facebook...

During the season of Lent, I have given up Facebook.  So far, so good.  I don't miss it that much.  Although today while  I was out to lunch with some friends, everyone started mentioned some riotously hilarious pictures that had been posted on Facebook.  That was a bummer.  Clearly, they'll still be up post-Easter, but that's the only thing I guess I'll miss.  The instant photos into the lives of my friends.  I sacrifice pictures for the sake of not wasting my time reading through boring status updates and Farmville stats.  It'll be ok. :-)

In the meantime, this past week has been fun.  I finally went to this little coffee shop, White Rhino Coffee, in Cedarhill.  I have wanted to try it for a long time now and it's as adorable as I imagined it to be.  I also saw a movie with some friends, tried out a new restaurant, Tillman's, in Oak Cliff, and sang some messy Korean keraoke.

To top it all off, I got to spend this afternoon with one and only, Cole.  Here all the way from France to grace us with his presence for an afternoon treat.  It was great.  Our usual gang reunited for a few hours.  Complete bliss.

I suppose if I were to put all of these things into Facebook statuses it would have gone something like this:

-I like Paul Rudd, but they wasted the title "Wanderlust" on a movie that could have just been titled "The Commune."
- I lay caramel delights.
- Fried mashed potato bites may be the best sides imaginable.
- I think the SoJu from the bar made me sing better... or just louder.
- Salt and Pepper team! A day with Cole!

My next move is to invest in a harmonica lesson book.  The internets are wonderful, but I've always been better at learning by book.  Sweet tunes are yet to come. 

Revival

During this season of Lent, I will be giving up Facebook, but setting a goal to update my blog at least once a week.  Perhaps the time I sit in front of my computer Facebooking can be used blogging or writing emails or writing letters, or having more face-to-face conversations.  Facebook isn't a serious addiction or anything, but I do feel like I spend more time looking at what my dear friends are posting on Facebook and not actually calling or catching up in a more intimate fashion.  I want to be more involved in the lives of my friends and not just relying on a new status or picture.  Facebook chat is fine, but I really want to revive the art of conversation.  So, friends and family, you should expect more emails, text messages, actual letters in the post, phone calls, skype dates, coffee/bar/dinner gatherings, and any other way we can communicate without Facebook.  My cell number hasn't changed since high school.  My address is the same.  I even still have an active Baylor email account. This shouldn't be hard... ;-)

Also, blogging is so soothing.  I don't know why I don't/haven't blogged more often.  Perhaps a few paragraphs every now and then will be more informative than a couple of sentences in a status update.  :-)