Day 2 of no Facebook!

Hello, all!! Well, it is day 2 of no Facebook for me! That's right, a full 48 hours! And I am happy to say that my withdrawal has started dissipating. Yes, it was difficult at first, not going to lie. But today was the day that I actually sat down and started getting some of my homework done for college. Yes, crazy Stephanie is doing her homework during spring break. I even started reading Stephen King: On Writing last night before bed and started to become absorbed in his words. I found his first ten, maybe fifteen pages (not sure exactly how much I read before passing out) stimulating to my brain. Today, I woke up and came upstairs to watch some TV, and then when my mom went to take a nap, I sat here and started to take notes on note cards for my informative speech that I'll be giving in two weeks. After that, I started to get ready to go to Brian's house for a movie night, and I also proofread my brother's research paper. He thought that he did a horrible job, but when I read through it, I hardly found any mistakes. It was amazing, considering that about a year ago I found myself completely re-writing his papers for him. I came upstairs and told my mom that he was developing the Stephanie gift of bullshitting papers the day before they were due, and my mother replied with, "Really?!" Ah, it's great to see him prosper as a student. He really is an intellectual boy. The problem is that he doesn't always want to apply himself. Of course, who does want to do that when they're in high school? Haha.

The movie night was a lot of fun to be at. Although it was only Brian, Eric, Allison, and I, we all had a blast together. We played Scene It on Brian's gaming system and made fun of my character who always did this puppy whimper when she lost, and I would refer to her as the prostitute bitch who wouldn't shut up. I was finally able to switch her out for someone else, and then the next round we played, Brian chose some gothic, creepy chick who we would make fun of. Brian kept beating us at the questions, so we started calling him names and talking bad about his creepy girl character. It was pretty fun, if I do say so myself. Brian decided that we were going to watch The Fourth Kind as well, but none of us really did watch it. We talked through most of the movie while Eric (who I refer to as my husband) gave me a neck, shoulder and back massage because he was antsy. Haha. After the movie, the boys played video games while Allison and I talked, and then we started watching music videos through Vevo. So the movie night ended up being 6 1/2 hours long. And now that I'm sitting here typing this, I'm realizing how much better I feel about not being on Facebook. It is no longer a top priority to log onto it so that I can check my notifications. Ed was 100% right when he told me that my decision to stay off of it for a week would be a release for me. It's not something that is on my mind 24/7 anymore, and it just goes to show that technology is only a necessity when we choose to make it a part of our daily lives. If we were forced to throw away our phones, computers, iPhones, iPads, etc., we may feel like it's killing us at first, but the longer we would be without these things, the more we would realize that we don't need them.

When I stopped using Facebook two days ago, it only took me a few hours to feel as though I had become disconnected from the world. But here I am two days later, still very much alive and not feeling the impulse to log on and see if anyone needs me or wants to talk. I have some "me time" to focus on more productive things. Allison told me Saturday night that I chose a bad time to decide to stay off of Facebook given that it was break, but I think that this is probably the best time to give it up. Why? It's not eating my time up. I'm actually getting out and doing things. Productive things. Things that won't make me feel like I spent the entire day being a bum. And when I do return to Facebook, if I become addicted once more (God help me if I do), I'll make sure to remind myself to take breaks. If I can survive this week, I'm sure that I can stay strong enough to keep myself from getting too sucked in again.

Well, it is almost two now, and I have to get up in the morning to take pictures with Allison. So I better be heading to bed. I think that I'll read some more of King's book before I retire for the night and get some more of it out of the way. I'll try to update tomorrow night if I'm not too wiped out.

Day two? I have slain you.