The Text Files

Greetings Friends~ I thought I would update you to our status. We are still very cold, very snowy, and yes I must, have to, know matter what, get in my car today to take my daughter back to University. It's nail biting time as I go over two mountain ranges. At least my ipod is charged and I've just loaded some good books and music.

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Which brings me to sort of a confession and realization. Our household is a techno mixed bag. My children are very agile and adept at using any kind of media.My husband sends emails and really I'm so impressed with his texting, and then there is me.

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 I consider myself to be very hip when it comes to technology except in the area of texting.

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The keyboard is so small and how do you make a letter capitalized, place a comma or the ever popular exclamation point? Why when I back space does the entire message disappear?  Here's the confession part, I've only been texting for about a year, even-though I've had the phone capability to do so for longer. Is what brought me out of the texting closet were my girlfriends. I considered myself to be so much more techno-hip than they were and I couldn't even text. So I succumbed to peer pressure. My girls complain that I write way too much stuff in a text message and hence my frustration with texting. Big girl Zuzu sent me this website yesterday called When parents text and now I understand. Yes I understand that I'm a bit wordy but at least my wit shines through and you get to read complete words.  So I guess that makes me Hip and Wordy. :0

So off I go into the frozen tundra……..back tomorrow. Be well everyone!

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10 responses to “The Text Files”

  1. Hej Valarie
    LOL! I am the opposite, everyone moans that I shorten my words toom much…
    Drive safely!
    LOVE PEACE enJOY your journey
    Julie
    x

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  2. I don’t text. But, of course my children aren’t quite that old yet…we’ll see. I did find a little box of my eye shadow in my daughter’s pants pocket yesterday. She is growing up! (She was a bit shy when I asked her about the make up – so I didn’t push it. I have got years of this dance to dance, don’t I?)

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  3. I love this! So funny….. I too get carried away with novel length texts…. and I still don’t know how to capitalize a letter that is not at the beginning of a sentence…. but guess what? My husband accidently put his text on all caps and refuses to figure how to change it…. so I always joke his texts are forever in a “yelling tone of voice”. Oh technology…. I love and abhor thee ๐Ÿ™‚

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  4. Good luck with your drive, it sounds a bit scary but I’m sure you’ll do great. Texting is horrid, I gave up years ago! It is the whole proper punctuation thing that gets me, I hate all the abbreviations! You are not alone in being texting Amish x

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  5. Safe journey. Our elder son’s university is an easy train ride away, but we had to drive him back with the 2 x 15kg dumbells he got from Santa ๐Ÿ™‚
    I hate texting. It is the spell corrector/predictive text that infuriates me!
    xx

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  6. sounds like a treacherous journey. Glad you made it back alive.
    As for texting: I am in love with testing. I think it cuts out all the jibber jabber and lets you get down to business. I am certain that one day my girls will gripe about my texting, but until then, I will go on thinking I am ever so hip and wordy. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  7. Looks like you are all having much fun in the snow. I was grateful to move to our farm in DR almost 5 years ago, no phones, no iphone/blackberry after living with so much of it in Miami.
    My husband still has his ipod charged and ready when he does take those Miami trips.. of course it’s for business.
    Safe Trip!

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  8. Glad you had a safe trip! Your winter photography is so very beautiful! Bet you’re picking up speed on your texting!

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  9. I am very much interested with this blog. Good luck with your drive, it sounds a bit scary but I’m sure you’ll do great. Texting is horrid. I gave up years ago! It is the whole proper punctuation thing that gets me, I hate all the abbreviations! You are not alone in being texting Amish x. glad that you’ll have a safe drive.

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