spring youth concert

Saturday afternoon was rainy and a bit cold for a spring day but we still went ahead with our Spring Youth Concert in the park. I had fun, especially hearing and meeting the other performers. Go here to see photos of me and some of my friends performing.

And yes, after lots of blog comments (by a certain 'anonymous' person) and being blackmailed with embarrassing photos on the 'Get Melinda onto Facebook' group, I've signed up for Facebook. There you go - I give in!

game over!

Not ONE voluntary mention of 'facebook' today! I waited and waited all day but no, no one talked about it. A friend did bring it up over Skype but just in response to this blog. I told him it didn't count and he said I would make a good politician cause I make up the rules as I go along!

So yeah...that didn't last very long. There goes my theory. We'll see when 'facebook' gets a mention again and how long that will last for. Maybe it won't happen for days in a row again...

On another note, I don't think I had three fall-in-love moments today but I definitely had at least one - when I was feeling my pregnant friend Aimee's tummy! What an amazing thing new life and childbirth is. It was so surreal thinking there was a whole other living being INSIDE her. Congratulations Tim and Aimee!!! I know you'll be wonderful parents.

book-keeping

I'm keeping a mental count of how often I hear someone talk about 'facebook'. So far it's been at least once a day for the last three days! I'm going to see how long this goes for before the series is broken. At about 9pm this evening, I was at a dinner party and realised that I hadn't heard the word 'facebook' once today. I thought to tell the other guests how amazed I was about this fact but I decided to wait out the evening and see if it would get a mention without me bringing it up and sure enough, it came up! Even on Monday when I was home all day and didn't interact with many people, it was on the news. Let's see how long this goes for...

Disclaimer: I don't have anything against facebook - I'm just not on it myself cause I don't need anymore distractions in my life :)

Other random thoughts related to technology:

• 'google' is a verb
• 'email' is in spellcheck ( I remember a time when it wasn't)