Technology These Days

I used to think I was pretty good with technology and that I knew my way around a computer or other technologies but I was sadly mistaken. I’ve realized that over the years, I am so behind with the times.

I’m pretty sure I still used a Discman to workout with my freshman year of college. I saw people texting and thought that was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. I didn’t even own my own cell phone until Christmas after my freshman year. And then T9 was the extent of my fabulous texting. My junior year was when I first heard about Facebook and that became the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. I was pretty anti-Facebook for the longest time and finally signed up just before I got married. Then I noticed a lot of people started blogging. I eventually started that too but as you can see, not very well.

Now Facebook seems to change every other week and its reach the point that I don’t even know how to use it. Blogs seem to reach a whole new standard that I just cannot keep up with. What the heck is Twitter about? I don’t get it. I don’t own an IPHONE and don’t really want one. I barely use the phone I have now. I have Skype but I’ve used it once and Remi had to give me step-by-step instructions on what to do. And the other day, my mother-in-law had to explain to me what Pininterest was.

I don’t know where I’ve been but I feel like I’ve been living under a rock. I remember thinking that in 2011 we would for sure have flying cars and our homes would be more like the Jetson’s. For all I know that’s how people are living these days. Well, I better go to the library and sign out a book about new technologies… I mean upload one onto an e-reader or something.

SMITHFEST 2011

I'm extremely behind in my blogging. Usually I would just skip everything that has happened in the last while but there has been so much going on and I just have to document it all! First up...Smithfest.

Every two years my dad's side of the family has a family reunion. It's called SmithFest and its kind of a big deal! The location usually alternates between Calgary and Utah which is where the family lives. This year it was in Calgary with my Grandparents acreage acting as the home base. We've been doing these official reunions since 1999 and its been bitter sweet to accept all the changes that have happened over time.

It was a great weekend filled with this year's T-shirt reveal, Rolly-bat, fireworks, pancake breakfast, rafting, family jeopardy, dance party, and a wiener roast. It was soo good to see the family especially the ones we don't get to see that often. Until 2013...