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I decided that it was time for a fresh start with my website and my blog. My old blog is archived but here is the new v 2.0 blog ready for posting.

As I launch into this year so much is new. Our family embarked on a bold experiment late last year. We said goodbye to Verizon. We all had cell phones but now we have no land line, just cell phones. We had FIOS Internet with Verizon and we still use their FIOS system but we pay someone else and it costs significantly less for the exact same thing. It was sort of scary to abandon a land line. Especially since I’m a diabetic, but so far so good and I’m planning to keep it that way!

We also said goodbye to DISH network. If you don’t live locally, that might not seem like a big deal, however, in the Mojave Desert, it is a big deal. There is no TV reception at all without cable or satellite. So what do we do for entertainment you might ask? We still watch TV, we just watch via the Internet. Now you are thinking we watch TV on itty bitty computer monitors, but you’d be wrong. We watch on our normal living room TV and in the kitchen and in the bedroom, all with the WiFi capabilities of the Wii and some existing coaxial cable from when this house had cable TV at some point. We do watch less TV and it is a good thing. 

If this sounds interesting to you, go take a look at Maximum TV. It is a very techie article but it will give you some options that you never knew existed when it comes to TV and how you watch it and how we all may watch it in the future. We (that being my husband Mark and I) started out very low tech and are progressing down the road gaining technology as we go and as we decide this really is working for us. It is interesting to be a part of a brave new world sometimes, maybe even fun.

Speaking of brave new world, I’m starting up a new website Upcycled Crafts. So I now have a new baby to raise. I started Scrapbooking.com so many years ago that I’ve forgotten how much work is involved in building a website, by yourself, from the ground up. It’s all coming back though as I go through the process and so much has changed that it is like a whole new world all over again. It is easier in many ways and harder in some ways.  When I started Scrapbooking.com I was essentially blogging, only we didn’t call it that back then. I called it daily website updates and I tried to have a new article about scrapbooking every few days and doing all the coding, etc to get it online as a webpage, creating thumbnails by hand and so many things that we now have tools, widgets and plug ins for.

Stand by and watch as I launch my new blog, new website and new business. It should be a lot of fun sprinkled generously with humor and creativity with a dash of nerdiness tossed in!

Jennia