Today is day 6 of
Artfully Wild Blog Along. Effy blogged about how the internet is her hometown. I have been trying all day to figure out what to blog about until I read hers.
I was born before TV. Yep, we used to listen to our stories on the radio. "The shadow knows..", Sky King, The Green Hornet.. We used our imaginations picturing what they were saying. It was fun, like reading a book and picturing the characters.
When we wanted to make a phone call we'd pick up our phone and wait until the operator said, "Number please." Sometimes we could hear a conversation because we shared party lines and had to wait until the other conversation was done to make our call. We were trapped in our homes if we had to wait for a call. Not anymore. We have our cell phones and can go anyplace and still get our important and unimportant calls.
In the late 1940s we got our first TV but there weren't many channels and they always signed off at midnight. I remember watching the Milton Berle show on Tuesday nights. Of course they were black and white. We didn't get a color TV until the 70s.
I've kept a diary since before I was married and during my high school years. But when I got married my stepfather and I burned them. Burned them? What was I thinking? I guess I didn't want my husband to find out. Ha ha, I sure was brainwashed. I started keeping a journal in 1963 before JFK was shot. I have 15 filled books and many are numbered, all are dated. I would love to do something with them but so many of my entries were fights between my mother and myself. Not sure the world needs to read these.
I was pretty agoraphobic during this time but in the 1970s Citizens Band Radio came along (CB) and I took to that like a duck out of water. My mother was an amatuer radio operator (Ham) and she wanted me to become one too. I wasn't interested and didn't have the money for all the equipment anyhow. But CB radio got me to be more social. I remember telling my husband that I didn't want to meet any of them and wasn't going to any of the get togethers, which they called "breaks." But I did and they were fun. I remember he and I dancing to Country music and wondering what happened because before we didn't like that kind of music. Hubby got involved in raising money for the Leukemia society and I was furious at him until I got involved too. I ended up staying up all night talking to the truckers kidding around and asking for donations. We raised a lot of money. I called myself The Confessor because I wrote and sold Confession stories to True Confessions and True Romance magazines.
Next came computers. I got the first color computer where we had to type in code to get a silly little program to run. I loved to type so it was fun for me but I wanted more. I had been writing stories on typewriters. Hubby was a typewriter repairman so I got to try out different models. But boy when I made a mistake on a story I wanted to submit it was either use white out or type the whole darned page again. Computers changed all that. I graduated to a more sophisticated computer called the Commodore 64. I had fun with it but it wasn't a writing machine.
I remember my brother had a program online called My Cozy Kitchen. These were bulletin boards where people could sign in and chat or play games. It was just before the internet became popular. I was logged into my brother's computer and saw a link leading to something called the internet and got curious. It took me to something that made no sense at all. Brother came home, saw me messing around and asked me what I was doing. I said "I don't know, I'm lost." LOL I am glad for my curiosity though, it keeps me from getting bored.
So my brother taught me how to create my own web page and I got my domain and started offering readings after taking a lot of courses. Then I got hired to work on a chat line that was a lot of fun. I made a lot of money too.
A few years later I discovered blogtalk radio and had my own radio program for 3 years. That was such fun. Now I go live on Facebook sometimes. I want to do more, learn more and have more fun.
So, like Effy, my hometown is also the internet. I have a dear online friend in Sweden and once a month she and I co create together an EFT/tapping call as Team Leaders on the Thriving Now site we belong to. We help others release some of their stuck energy. She was traveling in a car from where she lives in the southern part of Sweden to the northern part and I was chatting with her LIVE on Facebook! I was blown away by just thinking of what we were doing. Who would have thought when I was a child listening to my stories on the radio that 70+ years later I would be chatting live with an online friend in Sweden?
What's next? I don't know but I'm experimenting with creating an angel webinar or ... That's another blog.
