Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Solution to a small problem, and quitting Facebook

I'm sitting in the sunshine this morning, outside in my front yard.

Our dog barks at me from inside the house (jealous) when I sit in the backyard on the deck.

She can't go into the backyard even though it's fenced because she is a killer of bunnies. And we are over run with bunnies.

Also because there is a gap under our deck that she can wiggle under and the bunnies have nested under there. Sigh. Wildlife. My mom has stone blocks we are going to place around the deck openings to keep Belle out (with room for the bunnies to roam) but we haven't had time to do that project yet bc of Covid.

Anyway, last week I moved two of my fancy plastic Adirondack chairs to the front door area. We don't have a porch, there's just enough room next to the picture window for the chairs. The window is North facing and tucked away a bit, so this morning when I woke up I got my coffee and pulled the chair out onto the walk into the sunshine.

I've sat here for an hour writing and then reading Vickie's blog and now writing this.

This reading and writing has mostly happened because I deleted the Facebook app from my phone. I was off FB for a long time. Then back on it the past few months. Now I'm done again.

There will be things I'll miss like friends' kids pictures and cute videos. But those don't outweigh the bad. I'm not equipped to deal with what is happening on FB anymore.

And I will take ownership that it's my problem. I just can't deal. There's too much information and too much negativity and too much positivity.

Since I'm an input junkie I have to find other outlets (and I don't follow enough people on Instagram yet, lol).

I already do books on tape—love Audible. And I read on my Kindle. I'll survive, ha. Yesterday was my first FB free day and I was 100% happier.