Life in the Dark Ages

My world has been somewhat isolated for the last year and a half. Internet and cable were two things that I decided were not a necessity for the girls and me so I had them disconnected in July '08. I don't know how many of you have ever been without those two things but there are times that not having them can even make carrying on a conversation hard. I always loved the looks I would get from people when they would talk about a tv show and ask if I watched it. Telling people you don't have cable must be about the same as telling them you don't shop at Walmart. Both of those comments will earn you looks that will make you wonder if you have just grown three more heads.
Fast forward to present and I am now a college student again. When the company that I worked for announced in September that they would be closing in December, I did what any single mother would do... I paniced! I was a wreck the entire first day and cried myself to sleep that night. But when I woke up the next morning, I decided to "Stand Back Up" and turn that misfortune into something positive. So I decided to be a nurse when I grow up and started making plans to turn that dream into a reality. Did you know that you can't even fill out a college application without internet? You can't apply for financial aid, register for classes, nothing. And so I was forced back into the land of tv shows and websites.
Coming out of my isolation has been a bit of a challenge for me. Not because I don't have anything to say (I could talk to a wall) but because I don't really know how all the sites work. One of my oldest and best friends couldn't wait for me to set up a Facebook page but I don't know anything about it. In fact, my question to everyone with a page has been "What do you do with it?" The funny thing is that of all the people I know who have a page, no one could tell me what you really do with it except "find old friends". I am now one of those people who have a page but no idea what it's for lol :) I signed up today and what I have found so far is that everything I say to people everyone in the world can see. I'm not sure I like that game too well. I'm sure there's a way to hide what is said but the cavemen didn't leave me any drawings to instuct me on that one.
Now that I am out of the dark, I wonder what I did to keep busy for that year and a half. I could still do without the cable, but I too wonder how I survived without internet. No wonder there were so many cave drawings, they didn't internet to entertain them either.