Facebook and Angry Tags

Today Alex and I shut down our Facebook accounts. It was a hard decision, we've both had our accounts for nearly seven years ( back when Facebook was only open to college students) and over the years it's been a great way to keep in touch with friends from high school, college, and work. Honestly though, it'd become something like an addiction, for me at least. "I can get rid of it anytime I want" and yet I never did. Then of course there were the ever growing privacy concerns and constantly changing settings, etc...It seemed like every time I turned on the news there was a new story about how Facebook was in the midst of a scandal for something. I finally had enough, and felt like I needed to take an active roll in keeping in touch with people. I can't talk for Alex but I'm guessing he was on the same page cause it really wasn't much of a discussion, I said I was gonna get rid of mine and he said "cool, me too." Then it was just a matter of actually doing it. As you can tell by the screen shot above if either of us fall back on the website wagon we can just sign in again, but I think we'll be ok. Not having it (going on five hours now) is going to force me to be a much better blogger and a better e-mail buddy! Not to mention I've taken up twitter too, it's what I loved about Facebook without all the extra crap! (Follow me at @beearly2 if your interested!)


In other news, I set up our Fischer Price napper/rocker yesterday and for the rest of the day the fur balls hadn't really cared much for it. It was surprising to us because it took Buff (pictured left) about two seconds to hop into the bouncy seat my sister got for us. And the pack-n-play...and the basket at the bottom of the stroller...and the changing table...He likes to jump in things.  Well today, Buff discovered the tags on the underside of the rocker, and as you can tell, decided that they must die. He spent about ten minutes attacking them before deciding (in true cat fashion) that it was nap time instead. I fully expect a re-attack later tonight.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Ben is practicing to become a super hero when he comes to outside world. Each day I feel more and more wiggles and jabs, and they're becoming stronger. It doesn't help that he'll have a ton of super hero related gear by the time he gets here too. I wont spoil all of it...but this kid is going to one well dressed super kid!